A national lecture tour with Ukrainian scholars in Norway, 23-27 March, addresses the topic of return migration to Ukraine.
As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine drags on, some 3.8 million people are displaced within Ukraine and nearly 5.9 million Ukrainians are refugees abroad. Ukraine’s recovery depends in part on their sustainable return and reintegration. Three leading Ukrainian scholars come to three cities in Norway during the period 23-27 March, 2026, to shed light on the evolving conditions for return and reintegration and what this means for Ukraine’s recovery needs and the Ukrainian diaspora, host states’ foreign and domestic policy, international security, and geopolitics.
- Iryna Lapshyna (Ukrainian Catholic University). Transnational practices among Ukrainian refugees in Germany
- Tetyana Panchenko (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University). Five ways of adapting to uncertain integration between stay and return. Tetyana Panchenko
- Victoria Vdovychenko (University of Cambridge). The Geopolitics of Ukrainian Return: Security Guarantees and Europe’s Post-War Security Order
The lecture tour is part of the project Ukrainian Returns (2021-2027), coordinated by the Institute for Social Research in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), The Norwegian Organization for Asylum Seekers (NOAS) and the Norwegian-Ukrainian Advocacy Hub (NUAH). The project is funded by the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills as part of the Nansen Support Programme for Ukraine.
For questions or comments, please contact Project Coordinator and Senior Researcher Erlend Paasche.
Oslo, Monday 23 March
Host: Thematic Group on Migration, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo
Time and place: 12:15-13:30, Domus Juridica, room 8113, level 8.
Registration required: Limited spaces available, but please register interest in attending to Özlem Güraker Skribeland at o.g.skribeland@jus.uio.no
Bergen, 25 March
Host: Bergen Global (University of Bergen and CMI – Chr. Michelsen Institute)
Time and place: 08:30 – 09:30, Jekteviksbakken 31.
Registration required: Please register here.
Trondheim, Friday 27 March
Host: NTNU Migration Hub, with NTNU researcher Celine Borge also presenting
Time and place: 11:30-14:15, room D154, Bygg 6B, NTNU – Dragvoll – MazeMap, building 6B, level 4.
Registration required: Please register here by Wednesday 25 March.
