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Negotiating temporariness through action, re-action and non-action : Ukrainian women under TPD in Germany
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Journal of international migration and integration, 2025, OnlineFirst
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LASHCHUK, Iuliia, Negotiating temporariness through action, re-action and non-action : Ukrainian women under TPD in Germany, Journal of international migration and integration, 2025, OnlineFirst - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/94080
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This study explores the agentic strategies employed by Ukrainian women Temporary Protection holders in Germany as they negotiate the temporariness caused by their displacement due to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Drawing on fieldwork with Ukrainian women in Germany and building on a broader comparative study of labour market integration among women TPD holders in Germany, Italy, and Poland, the article proposes a more nuanced understanding of agency under conditions of temporariness. The article frames temporariness as a legal and personal context, showing how it conditions the forms and limits of agency. The article identifies three key spheres where women assert agency: geographical (mobility and place-making), occupational (work and economic engagement), and relational (social and emotional ties). The article focuses on three case studies which show that, within these domains, women can express agency through three forms—action, re-action or non-action—strategies shaped by personal and structural constraints in the face of temporariness that threatens to become permanent. Ultimately, the article calls for a rethinking of agency in forced refugee studies, moving beyond liberal, goal-oriented models to include situated, constrained, and diverse forms of action, and also suggests policy changes to temporary protections.
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Published online: 23 November 2025
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This article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - Springer Transformative Agreement (2025-2029).