A Tale of Two Borders: Compassion and Repression Revisited.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- FOLLIS, KAROLINA
- Source
- Social Anthropology / Anthropologie Sociale; 2023, Vol. 31 Issue 2, p132-134, 3p
- Subject
- REFUGEES
INVOLUNTARY relocation
RUSSIAN invasion of Ukraine, 2022-
DISCRIMINATION (Sociology)
UKRAINIANS
MIDDLE Easterners
- Language
- ISSN
- 09640282
The article discusses the contrasting responses to Ukrainian and Middle Eastern refugees at the borders of Poland. Topics include the mass displacement of people due to the war in Ukraine; the compassionate welcome of Ukrainian refugees and the violent response to Middle Eastern refugees; and the tension between politics of compassion and repression in the treatment of displaced people.