Cognitive Dissonance in Stay-Leave Decisions of Ukrainian Forced Migrants

By Natalia Zaitseva The findings outlined in this text came as a surprise to me as a researcher. Since the beginning of the Russian war on Ukraine, I have been researching the motives for mobility/immobility among Ukrainian women during wartime. However, in the course of interviewing them, it became clear that the conclusions drawn from the collected material were quite predictable and had hardly changed in recent years. Instead, my attention was drawn to how Ukrainian women describe the adv...