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“These are the faces of refugees in the community sharing their story,” Fatima explains while standing in front of a series of photos of newly resettled refugees who now call Utah home. Image credit: on Wikimedia (edited). Ukrainian refugees crossing into Poland in February 2022.Take a walk through City Hall in Salt Lake City on any given day and you’re likely to run into Fatima Dirie.

Please note this will be an online event. Dr Kateryna Ivashenko (Institute of Sociology, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, currently in Krakow).Professor Franck Düvell (Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück University).Dr Yana Leontiyeva (Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences).

Dr Olena Fedyuk (Central European University, Budapest).

Dr Karolina Łukasiewicz (Centre for Migration Research, Warsaw University).

What are the similarities and what are the differences in the way Eastern European countries are responding to this humanitarian crisis? How prepared are we? How are the countries that do not share immediate borders with Ukraine likely to react to this displacement? How might matters of gender and age shape the broader discursive responses to this refugee crisis in Europe? The aim of this panel discussion is to put current events unfolding in Ukraine in the context of other mass population displacements from an Eastern European perspective. Yet this is not the first ‘refugee crisis’ that Europe has seen in the last decade. Over two million people have fled Ukraine so far as a result of the Russian invasion, which has caused destruction of civilian infrastructure, led to civilian casualties and has forced people to leave their homes seeking safety, protection and humanitarian assistance.

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