Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has resulted in the largest wave of forced migration since the end of World War II. In response to the mass influx of Ukrainians, the Council of the EU activated the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) for the first time since its adoption in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars. While the TPD establishes minimum standards of rights for beneficiaries of collective protection, its implementation varies significantly across member states.

This seminar applies a multilevel governance (MLG) perspective to analyse such variations at the EU, national, and subnational levels. Drawing on examples from Poland, Germany, and Sweden — each representing different models of governance and benefit allocation — the presentation will explore how these differences shape the life trajectories of those who have settled in the respective countries. Selected examples from the UK will also be included. The talk will examine divergences in TPD implementation regarding settlement allocation, benefit provision, housing, and healthcare. Furthermore, it will reflect on the differences between protection regimes in the broader context of debates on racialised double standards and selective solidarity.

Comentator: Pavlo Kravchuk | Moderator: Cristiano Gianolla (CES)


Bio note

Valeria Lazarenko (PhD in Social Psychology) is Postdoctoral researcher at the Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin, and an affiliated researcher with the "Affective Societies" network at Freie Universität Berlin. In her doctoral thesis, she examined psychogeographic narratives and identity formation among internally displaced persons in Ukraine. Her recent research focuses on the subjective experiences of displacement from Ukraine to Berlin. Her work has been published in journals such as Urban Research and Practice, Journal of International Migration and Integration, Nationalities Papers, and Emotion, Space and Society, as well as in several edited volumes.

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