Migrant and refugee women from former USSR countries at the Crossroads of Sociopolitical Crises, Russian War in Ukraine and Intersectional State Violence
Journal: Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny
Year: 2025

Women from former USSR countries with migration histories who arrived in Poland in recent years have faced complex challenges resulting from the recent poly-crises in the Eastern European region. This empirical article, based on 39 in-depth narrative interviews with Belarusian, Chechen, Russian and Ukrainian migrant and refugee women, hears and retells their narratives of fleeing, migration, trauma and marginalisation. Particularly, it shows the diverse experiences of the multiple wounds related