Using the lens of emotions: Exploring Ukrainian refugee women’s anchoring processes in Berlin

Katarina Mozetič; Karolina Lebek; Nora Ratzmann

doi:10.5771/2566-7742-2023-2-238

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- 153–165 Forced migration to Germany: Bordering practices and lived experiences. Introduction to the special issue Christine Barwick-Gross, Stefanie Börner, Daniel Drewski, Nadja Milewski Christine Barwick-Gross, Stefanie Börner, Daniel Drewski, Nadja Milewski 153–165
- 166–263 Articles and essays 166–263
  - 166–182 Search and rescue NGOs as a focal point in debates on the reception of refugees in the EU: Research essay on an Italian and German case study Lena Laube, Maria Ullrich Lena Laube, Maria Ullrich 166–182
  - 183–203 Exclaves in the Externalisation Society: Accommodation, provisions and care for refugees in Germany Judith Vey Judith Vey 183–203
  - 204–225 Accommodation centres for asylum seekers as sites of conflict and collaboration: Strategies for the prevention of violence Noa Milman, Sifka Etlar Frederiksen Noa Milman, Sifka Etlar Frederiksen 204–225
  - 226–237 A comparative analysis of Syrian refugee family integration in France and Germany Liyun Wan Liyun Wan 226–237
  - 238–249 Using the lens of emotions: Exploring Ukrainian refugee women’s anchoring processes in Berlin Katarina Mozetič, Karolina Lebek, Nora Ratzmann Katarina Mozetič, Karolina Lebek, Nora Ratzmann 238–249
  - 250–263 Gendered flight constellations and family-reunion intentions of female refugees from Ukraine: Evidence from a representative survey in Germany Nadja Milewski, Jean Philippe Décieux, Andreas Ette, Martin Bujard Nadja Milewski, Jean Philippe Décieux, Andreas Ette, Martin Bujard 250–263
- 264–266 Rezensionsaufsatz 264–266
  - Beyond their years: Unaccompanied minors and the social construction of categories Emily Frank Emily Frank
- 267–267 Impressum 267–267
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Culture, Practice & Europeanization , page 238 - 249

Using the lens of emotions: Exploring Ukrainian refugee women’s anchoring processes in Berlin

Autoren

Katarina Mozetič Karolina Lebek Nora Ratzmann

DOI
- doi.org/10.5771/2566-7742-2023-2-238
- ISSN online: 2566-7742
Abstract

Drawing on a series of interviews with four Ukrainian refugee women in Berlin, this essay employs the lens of emotions to discern which integration opportunity structures shape their settlement, and how they do so. To capture the latter, we approach settlement as a process of anchoring. The prism of emotions enables us to grasp Ukrainian refugee women’s subjective and often contradictory orientations towards their settlement trajectories in Berlin, all while discerning how these are informed by social as well as policy- and place-related opportunity structures. The German implementation of the EU Temporary Protection Directive is relevant here, as well as familial relations. Though integration opportunity structures on the local, national and transnational levels all play into these refugees’ settlement, we observe that these structures do not either facilitate or hinder the refugees’ anchoring, but that anchoring processes are tightly interwoven with un-anchoring ones, and that both can change over time. This exploratory essay highlights both the non-instrumental role of familial relations in refugee settlement as well as the malleable, multi-layered, and multi-directional character of settlement processes.
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