@article{2023:mozeti:using_the_,
title = {Using the lens of emotions: Exploring Ukrainian refugee women’s anchoring processes in Berlin},
year = {2023},
note = {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.},
journal = {Culture, Practice & Europeanization},
pages = {238--249},
author = {Mozetič, Katarina and Lebek, Karolina and Ratzmann, Nora},
volume = {8},
number = {2}
}