“I sorely miss my home. There, everything is made by hand [...] Everything will have to be renewed”. Coping with the Crisis through the Eyes of Women War Refugees from Ukraine (Multidisciplinary Perspective) Cover Image

„Naprawdę tęsknię za moim domem. Tam wszystko jest zrobione własnymi rękoma [...] wszystko będzie musiało zostać odnowione”. Radzenie sobie w kryzysie oczami wojennych uchodźczyń z Ukrainy (perspektywa wielodyscyplinarna)
“I sorely miss my home. There, everything is made by hand [...] Everything will have to be renewed”. Coping with the Crisis through the Eyes of Women War Refugees from Ukraine (Multidisciplinary Perspective)

Author(s): Inga B. Kuźma, Emilia Pach, Tatiana Danilova
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Present Times (2010 - today), Migration Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields, Russian Aggression against Ukraine
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: war migration; refugees; crisis experience; herstory; the ethics of care; coping with crisis;

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the interviews with four Ukrainian women – war refugees, who came to Poland after February 24, 2022 (two of them were reinterviewed after a year of their stay in Poland). The authors were interested in the description of the crisis in which the respondents found themselves, as well as in their presentation of coping with crisis, thus, “coping with crisis” became the main interpretive category. The research aims to reveal the self-image of the women refugees and identify changes that have taken place in 2022 and 2023 (including the perception of themselves, war context, and living conditions to which they have adapted after fleeing). The authors used the multidisciplinary theoretical approach because, in addition to psychological concepts related to the main interpretative category, the reflection was based on the cultural anthropology of emotions, the anthropology of experience, as well as on the ethics of care, and autoethnography.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 107-132
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Polish