Abstract (may include machine translation)
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, millions have been displaced. Although Czechia initially demonstrated “unprecedented solidarity” toward displaced people from Ukraine, rising inflation and economic precarity soon fueled welfare chauvinism and anti-migration rhetoric from far-right parties and anti-establishment movements. Within this context, displaced Ukrainians in Prague became politically active, countering this rhetoric alongside local activists in solidarity. Drawing on ethnographic research, this article examines Prague’s battleground of migration politics, focusing on the mobilization and counter-mobilization over displaced persons’ (political) presence and rights amid broader struggles to frame and respond to the (poly)crisis.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 436-449 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 30 Jul 2025 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- (poly)crisis
- battleground
- contestation
- displacement
- migration politics
- refugees
