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Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · 11d

We talked at the annual conference of Committee on Migration Research of Polish Academy of Science abt ongoing humanitarian crisis on Poland-Belarus border, especially after the suspension of right to asylum, introduced by the pro-european & liberal Civic Coalition. All quiet on the Eastern border.

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Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · Aug 22

💜✊ Human rights defender #IevaRaubiško has been sentenced to 200 hours of community service—for helping 5 asylum seekers survive at the Latvia–Belarus border. 🌍💔
Compassion is not a crime. Solidarity with Ieva!

#SolidarityWithIeva #HumanRights

👉 shorturl.at/na8lZ

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Dr. Lucy Mayblin @mayblin.bsky.social · May 23

I'm having a very interesting week at the Polish/Belarus border learning about the border wall, the suspension of asylum, and the work of activists in the forests. Researchers at the border made this brilliant map which can be used as a tool for teaching on this borderzone mapa.bbng.org/en

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Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · Jun 28

We also screened short award-winning animation of #SzymonRuczyński from Łódź Film School, „There are people in the forest”: www.polishanimations.pl/en/films/2509/ Thank you all for joining us today!

POLISH ANIMATIONS: W LESIE SĄ LUDZIE - international promotion of Polish animations

Do samotnego, kulejącego człowieka podjeżdża ciężarówka. Wyskakują z niej uzbrojeni mężczyźni. Chwytają go i wywożą do lasu. Jedynymi świadkami zajścia są ludzie z pobliskiej wioski. Od 2021 roku taki...

www.polishanimations.pl

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Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · Jun 28

We brought the discussion abt the EU-Belarus border to @associationruta.bsky.social annual conference, where we shared the reflections on hostile environment & whiteness on the border during the ongoing humanitarian crisis and ethnographic walk in the borderland as a research method

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Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · May 17

Niezmiennie zachęcamy do zgłoszeń do naszej sesji!

Termin --> 20 maja

Szczegóły w poście poniżej!

Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · Apr 18

Nadchodzi termin zgłoszeń na kolejną konferencję Komitetu Badań nad Migracjami - 13.05. Zapraszamy do zgłoszeń i refleksji dot. kolejnego roku trwania kryzysu humanitarnego na granicy polsko-białoruskiej, szczegóły poniżej 👇 i pod linkiem: www.umcs.pl/pl/aktualnos...

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Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · Apr 18

Nadchodzi termin zgłoszeń na kolejną konferencję Komitetu Badań nad Migracjami - 13.05. Zapraszamy do zgłoszeń i refleksji dot. kolejnego roku trwania kryzysu humanitarnego na granicy polsko-białoruskiej, szczegóły poniżej 👇 i pod linkiem: www.umcs.pl/pl/aktualnos...

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Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · Apr 13

We are thankful to all presenters bringing their unique perspectives and knowledges!

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Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · Apr 13

25. Seminar on the Border is coming to a close. Our discussion unfolded against the backdrop of the suspension of the right to asylum in PL. Research on the border, discursive militarisation & hidden racism, East–West inequalities, and Europeanisation as violence remains more important than ever.

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Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · Mar 16

Check this map and wander on the border area discovering 20 places defining the humanitarian crisis on Poland’s border with Belarus: mapa.bbng.org/en The map is an idea and creation of #IngaHajdarowicz in cooperation with the team, see photo:

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Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · Mar 2

The event is part of the project "ReActMem: Rescue Memory - Activism, Arts and Public Remembrance," org by the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences with twelve partners from Europe, supported by the European Union under the Citizens, Equality, Rights & Values (CERV) program.

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Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · Mar 2

Yesterday, within our 3rd International Seminar, we participated in a guided tour to Białowieża forest to see how militarisation of this UNESCO heritage site destroys nature and wildlife there. Photo by Mateusz Krępa showing the sign of no-go zone next to the border with Belarus.

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Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · Mar 2

The idea for the workshop came from both selma banich (Zagreb Solidarity City, Solidarityline Balkans, and For BREAD) and Marijana Hameršak (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb), to work together on embroidery in memoriam of people who lost their lives on PL-BY border

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Maciej Grześkowiak @mgrzeskowiak.bsky.social · Mar 1

Discussing borders, migration, asylum, and engaged research in the unique setting of the Polish-Belarusian borderlands—huge thanks to @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social for hosting this one-of-a-kind international seminar!

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Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · Mar 1

Second day of our meeting continues, with participants listening to researchers entanglements and ethical challenges in the fieldwork & continuing their solidarity work started yesterday during the textile workshop „Strenght of Threads”, initiated by Marijana Hameršak

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Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · Feb 28

The event is a part of the project "ReActMem: Rescue Memory - Activism, Arts and Public Remembrance," run by the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences with 12 partners with support from the EU under the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values program.

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Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · Feb 28

Today, we started presentations and discussions during sessions & over food provided by our local friends from Białowieża. Great opportunity to discuss research informed also by the scholar's own experience of migration. You can join us on-line (link in previous posts). Phot. Piotr Winiarczyk.

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Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · Feb 27

And here we are! Soon our seminar space will be full of people, and those of you who want to join us online - please register, the link is below 👇

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Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · Feb 15

Can't wait to meet and engage with all the amazing speakers!

We want to welcome you in Podlasie, to engage, discuss and observe what #europeanisation of #border #regime means.

Every seminar is special for us, because it's all quiet on the so called #EasternBordersRoute!

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Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · Feb 15

This is exciting! Our 3rd international seminar is taking place in two weeks, in Podlasie.

The theme is: Researching, Archiving, Memory-Making. Methodologies and Ethics of Research (and Activism) on the Border.

Registration: uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · Jan 28

Five people who provide humanitarian aid on PL-BY border face criminal charges. The trial continues today.

More information in Eng. about the #h5: szpila.blackblogs.org

#humanitarianaid is nor a criminal act!
#h5poland
#bordercrisis #humanitariancrisis

SZPIL(A)

szpila.blackblogs.org

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Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · Jan 21

Published now, with a chapter on Polish-Belarusian border, #migration #asylum #hostileenvironment #border #crisis. Congrats to @kamilafialkowska.bsky.social and #NataliaJudzińska! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

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Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · Jan 16

Finally, #NikaKnez talked us through her work on #refugee #species - European bisons. More effective conservation strategies are necessary, but they are limited by the militarisation of the border, among other factors.

Thank you to all presenters & audience - full room today! 🫶

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Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · Jan 16

After lunch, #KatarzynaNowak and #NuriaSelva talked abt socio-ecological footprint of state border #militarisation, from the onset of the militarisation of the border in 2021, using various methods: questionnaires, road surveys,transects, camera traps, acoustic devices, and snow tracking

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Researchers on the Border @badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social · Jan 16

#JustynaStraczuk in her work moved from the question of how #securitisation of #borders affects the environment and people, to the question of how the Bialowieza Forest environment - understood as an assemblage, a hybrid collective - co-shapes the
the reality of the crisis

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