Homes for Ukraine’ and the politics of private humanitarian hospitality

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ID6449232
AuthorsGabrielle Daoust (0000-0002-6668-5407, University of Northern British Columbia), Synne L Dyvik (0000-0002-4887-7376, University of Sussex, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume51
Issue3
Pages390-408
Publication date2024-11-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReview of International Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0260-2105 • E-ISSN: 1469-9044
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0260210524000470
OpenAlexW4404020878
LanguageEN
Citations received5

Within weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, millions of people had fled to neighbouring countries and across Europe. People throughout Europe were mobilised into action, and from the outset, the response to the unfolding humanitarian emergency in Ukraine was a complex and often messy web of private and public initiatives. In this article, we focus on the unique British humanitarian response to the greatest movement of refugees in Europe since the Second World War, known as ‘Homes for Ukraine’ (HfU). We develop our argument in three steps. First, we situate HfU within existing scholarship on ‘everyday humanitarianism’ and private refugee hosting in Europe, locating these within longer histories of private humanitarian action. Secondly, we show how HfU shifts the humanitarian space into the private and domestic sphere, a move reliant on particular conceptions of the ‘home’ as a space of sanctuary and safety. Finally, we unpack the gendered and racialised conceptions of the home and humanitarian hospitality more broadly, and how HfU sits within and outside of the broader bordering practices of the United Kingdom’s refugee response

Hospitality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Tourism · Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism · Law · Political and Social Issues · Public Administration

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