Ukraine-Poland

For the past nine months, in the center of Europe, just over Poland’s eastern border, Ukraine has been fighting for sovereignty and freedom. We must understand, though, that Ukraine is not only fighting for survival, integrity or the right to live with dignity for its citizens.

A distance of 400 km and 82 years separates Bucha from Katyn. Only a little more divides Mariupol from Warsaw.

Many of the factors identified by social scientists as driving anti-immigration attitudes – unfamiliarity, security concerns, “non-deservingness” – simply do not apply to the current case of Ukrainian refugees