As we are quickly approaching the third anniversary of forced displacement from Ukraine due to the Russian full-scale invasion, we invite all interested members of the audience to a discussion dedicated to the impact of forced displacement from Ukraine on home and host societies with a particular focus on Germany and Austria.
Ukrainian displacement is a complex and entangled puzzle with a lot of uncertainties for individuals, institutions, societies. At the heart of it are fragmented lives of 6.7mln Ukrainians currently displaced abroad, including around 1mln in Germany. Their lives are punctuated not only by the fact of displacement per se, but also by the changing policies and attitudes of their host and home countries and societies, by strained cross-border family dynamics and blurred future aspirations. Most of all, they are fragmented by the unknowns of what comes next: in a year, when the war ends, when the life can become ‘whole again’.