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Crisis accommodation at the EU's eastern frontier: Relative reconfiguration of registered accommodation use in Eastern Poland during the Russian-Ukrainian war

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: This study examines how the use of registered accommodation changed across Eastern Poland during the first year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It combines daily Polish–Ukrainian border-crossing flows with monthly county-level accommodation data for 2021-2022 and applies a synthetic index based on registered-user intensity, foreign-user intensity and average length of stay. Results reveal spatially differentiated rather than uniform changes, with stronger relative positions in selected urban and corridor counties and weaker outcomes in peripheral areas. Although the longer-stay signatures emerge in some counties, they do not directly identify refugee accommodation, stay purpose or establishment-level functional conversion.

Source: Geographia Polonica

DOI: 10.7163/gpol.0336

Authors: Tomasz Wiskulski, Jan A. Wendt, Agnieszka Bógdał-Brzezińska, Grigore Vasile Herman

Institutions: Gdansk University of Physical Education and Sport, University of Gdańsk, University of Warsaw, University of Oradea

Language: English

Topic: Migration and Exile Studies

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Sustainable cities and communities, Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W7224812496

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