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Lidia Zessin-Jurek

Lidia Zessin-Jurek
Historian, Researcher of Memory and Refugee Movement, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Migration

Held Hostage to One’s Values

On the responsibility to refugees at the Belarusian-Polish border

April 25, 2023 • by Lidia Zessin-Jurek
The Polish-Belarusian border crossing has been, since mid-2021, one of the world’s many border zones where people get sick and die under the watchful eye of the state....

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