Perplexities of solidarity: host society relations to displaced people from Ukraine in Czech Republic, Germany Hungary, and Poland

December 15, 2022

 

Organized by 

Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest (CSS), 

Centre for Migration Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (AMU), 

Deutsches Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung, Berlin (DeZIM), 

ELTE Pop-up School, Budapest, CEU Democracy Institute (CEU), 

Association for Migration and Integration, Prag (AMI)

 

ZOOM

https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/93283310734?pwd=TlRlcGxXNEtrVUNGcGF4MGFQM0VwQT09

Meeting ID: 932 8331 0734, Passcode: 035402

Budapest CEU, Hanák Room, Nádor utca 9

 

Aims:

The investigation of social reactions to the arrival of displaced people due to the war in Ukraine has begun within national frameworks, although the phenomenon itself is deeply transnational. The purpose of the workshop is to shed a comparative light on the responses to the arrival of displaced people due to the war in Ukraine by state, local governments, and civil society actors as well as individuals in four countries, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, and Poland. In addition to knowledge exchange between researchers, practitioners and activists, our aim is to discuss options for a conceptual framework, master questions and methodological tools for a longer-term collaboration in academia and other domains involved.

In the following, initial questions are proposed for relating the country specific research endeavours on two related agendas in the workshop discussions and beyond.

 

The social perceptions and political conditions of solidarity

What are the social and political contexts in which current policies of refugee support are formed and how are these experienced by practitioners, policy experts, and those targeted by these policies? What do population surveys and qualitative methods reveal about citizens’ attitudes and practices of solidarity?

How do the recipients experience solidarity in their host country? How do official political narratives of securitization of transnational migration and the war against Ukraine influence societal imaginaries of differential welcoming?

 

Civic spaces of solidarity

How is solidarity organized and how are the helping rationales framed by humanitarian organizations, state, and charity actors? What infrastructures of different scales (domestic, local) are built or revamped by NGOs, civic actors, formal and informal networks of concerned people on the move?

How do civic actors manoeuvre in the shrinking civic space? How can their activities be extended beyond the major cities to rural areas of the CEE region? How do discursive practices by which various categories of migrants are included in or excluded from local/national welfare services produce a differential deservingness in solidarity spaces?

 

Program

9:00 - 10:30

The social perceptions and political conditions of solidarity

Presentations: Ildikó Zakariás (CSS), Nora Ratzmann (DeZIM), Izabella Main (AMU), Natalia Dziadyk (CEU, DSPS),

Discussion

Convener: Violetta Zentai (CEU)

Short presentation from each country (max. 10 minutes) followed by discussion (40 -50 minutes)

 

10:40 - 12:00

Civic spaces of solidarity

Presentations: András Kováts (CSS, Menedék), Magda Faltova (AMI), Robert Rydzewski (AMU),

Discussion

Convener: Margit Feischmidt (CSS)/ Izabella Main (AMU)

Short presentation from each country (max. 10 minutes) followed by discussion (40 -50 minutes)