UKRAINETT – Norwegian Network for Research on Ukraine, The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (KS) and The Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR) invite you to a mini-seminar.
Time: 13 March 2023, 14:00 – 15:30
Venue: KS Conference Centre, Haakon VIIs g. 9, 0161 Oslo (by the National Theatre train station)
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While there has been considerable attention devoted to Ukrainians fleeing to European countries, much less is known about the situation with IDPs who have been forced to move from their native city, town or village to a different part of Ukraine as a result of Russia’s invasion and annexation of Ukrainian territories.
Professor Oksana Mikheieva, herself having been forcibly displaced in 2014 by the war in eastern Ukraine from her native city of Donetsk, has worked extensively on social integration and adaptation of internally displaced people from war-torn regions in Ukraine. In her presentation she will talk about the problems of registration and counting the real number of IDPs in Ukraine, about the main challenges of forced migration related to employment, housing and health issues, and about agency of Ukrainian IDPs who have not remained at the level of aid recipients, but have themselves become involved in various activities aimed at addressing the problems of IDPs, the population of the ‘grey zone’, as well as those who have remained in the occupied territories.
Oksana Mikheieva is a professor of the Sociology Department at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. Currently she is a visiting scholar at the Viadrina Institute for European Studies (IFES).