Great Uehling
Great Uehling - FACULTY Q&A More than 2 million people, so far, have fled Ukraine for other European countries since the beginning of the Russian invasion, according to the United Nations. The UN Refugee Agency is expecting around 4 million refugees this week, while the Red Cross estimates that about 7 million are displaced internally. "This is a very intense flow on the international community,” said Greta Uehling , an anthropologist and lecturer in international and comparative studies at the University of Michigan. "We're looking at a humanitarian population of somewhere around 11 million people displaced from their homes. And that doesn't include military casualties or other people that are going to need assistance. For Uehling, who studies the subjective experience of military conflict and forced displacement in Ukraine, "this is a story about continuity, not change. These are people who will do everything in their ability to nurture and sustain a livable world with the people that they love.
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