Alina Penkala
Biographic Data
| ID | 5815321 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alina Penkala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alina |
| FAMILY NAME | Penkala |
| SIGNATURE | PENKALA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-8294-5391 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Halfway Home
The chapter examines how the trans-local embeddedness of displaced Ukrainian mothers, shaped by im/mobility, social relations, and symbolic ties to Poland and Ukraine, impacts their caregiving and future aspirations. Drawing on biographical interviews, it explores their struggles with self-reliance, transnational caregiving, and emotional strain during the ongoing war. While return migration remains largely unavailable, it serves as a mental fram…
Caring Across Time and Borders
The migration of Ukrainian women to Italy over the last three decades has been portrayed in diverse ways, with many narratives emphasising their vital economic and social contributions both in Italy and back home, whilst others cast these women, many of them mothers, as threats to Ukrainian families and the nation. However, as these migrants return to Ukraine in retirement, they renegotiate their sense of belonging to a new life and a changed pla…
Armed to the Tweet
The Ukrainian divide
Ukraine is usually portrayed as a cleft country with a determining internal East–West divide. However, critical researchers in Ukrainian scholarship emphasize that the East–West paradigm fails to adequately reflect the complex reality of the Ukrainian society and its historical, linguistic, economic, and political mixture. This article deconstructs the origins and evolution of the eastern and western Ukrainian identities and argues that the curre…
The Ukrainian divide
Ukraine is usually portrayed as a cleft country with a determining internal East–West divide. However, critical researchers in Ukrainian scholarship emphasize that the East–West paradigm fails to adequately reflect the complex reality of the Ukrainian society and its historical, linguistic, economic, and political mixture. This article deconstructs the origins and evolution of the eastern and western Ukrainian identities and argues that the curre…
The Ukrainian divide
Ukraine is usually portrayed as a cleft country with a determining internal East–West divide. However, critical researchers in Ukrainian scholarship emphasize that the East–West paradigm fails to adequately reflect the complex reality of the Ukrainian society and its historical, linguistic, economic, and political mixture. This article deconstructs the origins and evolution of the eastern and western Ukrainian identities and argues that the curre…
Armed to the Tweet
Caring Across Time and Borders
The migration of Ukrainian women to Italy over the last three decades has been portrayed in diverse ways, with many narratives emphasising their vital economic and social contributions both in Italy and back home, whilst others cast these women, many of them mothers, as threats to Ukrainian families and the nation. However, as these migrants return to Ukraine in retirement, they renegotiate their sense of belonging to a new life and a changed pla…
Halfway Home
The chapter examines how the trans-local embeddedness of displaced Ukrainian mothers, shaped by im/mobility, social relations, and symbolic ties to Poland and Ukraine, impacts their caregiving and future aspirations. Drawing on biographical interviews, it explores their struggles with self-reliance, transnational caregiving, and emotional strain during the ongoing war. While return migration remains largely unavailable, it serves as a mental fram…
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ukrainian (3 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)