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From Enthusiasm to Polarisation: A Generational Perspective on Attitudes Toward Ukrainian Refugees in Poland 从热情到两极分化：对波兰乌克兰难民态度的代际视角

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Population Space and Place Pub Date : 2026-04-24 DOI: 10.1002/psp.70266

Sabina Kubiciel – Lodzińska, Anna Chwastyk, Aneta Grzegocka, Rafał Gasz

{"title":"From Enthusiasm to Polarisation: A Generational Perspective on Attitudes Toward Ukrainian Refugees in Poland","authors":"Sabina Kubiciel – Lodzińska, Anna Chwastyk, Aneta Grzegocka, Rafał Gasz","doi":"10.1002/psp.70266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70266","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores generational differences in Polish public attitudes towards Ukrainian refugees, focusing on how these attitudes evolved between 2022 and 2025. It examines the role of age in shaping acceptance of refugees, perceptions of Poland's preparedness, evaluations of assistance, and views on the possibility of refugees settling permanently after the war. The analysis is based on four waves of nationally distributed online surveys (total N = 6293) conducted annually between 2022 and 2025. Respondents were recruited from a professional research panel. Attitudes were measured using Likert‐type scales and comparative evaluations, and results were analysed to capture both temporal changes and age‐related differences across cohorts. The results indicate that age strongly differentiates both the level and trajectory of acceptance. Younger respondents (under 30 and 31–40) were initially the most supportive, but over time recorded the sharpest declines in acceptance, coupled with rising polarisation and growth in strong opposition. Middle‐aged groups (41–60) also showed a decreasing acceptance, but this trend was accompanied by higher levels of neutrality, suggesting ambivalence rather than outright rejection. Older respondents (60 years and older) consistently expressed the highest level of support and demonstrated the greatest stability, with only modest declines throughout the study period. Overall, public opinion shifted from strongly positive to more neutral and critical positions, particularly regarding state assistance to refugees compared with assistance to Polish citizens. This study challenges the assumption that younger generations are systematically more pro‐immigrant, revealing a greater acceptance among older cohorts instead. By situating these findings in debates on generational value change, resource competition, and social polarisation, the study offers novel insights into how host societies respond to large‐scale humanitarian crises.","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147743941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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‘Mobile Consumers’: Interpreting the Consumption Perceptions, Practices and Experiences of Mobile Brazilian International Students in London “移动消费者”：解读在伦敦的移动巴西留学生的消费观念、实践和经历

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Population Space and Place Pub Date : 2026-04-24 DOI: 10.1002/psp.70264

Leonardo Rodrigues, Mark Holton

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Breaking the Binary: Population Trajectories of German Small‐ and Medium‐Sized Towns From 2001–2022 打破二元：2001-2022年德国中小城镇的人口轨迹

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Population Space and Place Pub Date : 2026-04-24 DOI: 10.1002/psp.70256

Jonathan Gescher, Tim Leibert

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Hybrid Spaces of Nonselection in World Society: Camps as Global Infrastructure 世界社会非选择的混合空间：作为全球基础设施的营地

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Population Space and Place Pub Date : 2026-04-22 DOI: 10.1002/psp.70267

Annett Bochmann

{"title":"Hybrid Spaces of Nonselection in World Society: Camps as Global Infrastructure","authors":"Annett Bochmann","doi":"10.1002/psp.70267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70267","url":null,"abstract":"Borders are often understood as mechanisms of selecting and ordering. Camps, however, are sites where nonselection is materialised – a condition in which people are neither selected nor rejected, but held in indefinite suspension. This article argues that camps are integral components of the global border infrastructure rather than exceptional or temporary responses to crises. They reveal a border logic that systematically produces permanent interim spaces where people live, navigate, and contest this condition. The article brings theoretical frameworks of camp studies across diverse global contexts into dialogue. Rather than treating these as competing perspectives, the article argues that their combination reveals how global structures become situated through the interplay of legal suspension, institutional norms, temporality, material infrastructures, and local practices. The common denominator of all theoretical approaches is that camps are understood as deeply problematic by design. Yet, camps are and will remain products of a global order while they are shaped by local microstructures and the everyday practices of those who live and work within them. Therefore, camps are a paradigmatic case for how bordering not only produces order but systematically produces conditions of indeterminacy. Every border drawn produces what cannot be contained by it.","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147733744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Camp as a Site of Re‐Subjectivation: Reclaiming Kurdish Identity in an Iraqi Kurdish Refugee Camp 作为再主体化场所的营地：伊拉克库尔德难民营中库尔德人身份的重新确立

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Population Space and Place Pub Date : 2026-04-20 DOI: 10.1002/psp.70259

Charlotte Watelet

{"title":"The Camp as a Site of Re‐Subjectivation: Reclaiming Kurdish Identity in an Iraqi Kurdish Refugee Camp","authors":"Charlotte Watelet","doi":"10.1002/psp.70259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70259","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes the intertwined evolution of a humanitarian camp and the lived experience of its inhabitants, Syrian Kurds who sought refuge in Iraqi Kurdistan after fleeing the war. Based on intermittent immersive fieldwork conducted between 2014 and 2019, this article describes the various phases of the camp's construction—initially conceived as an open space, connected to its surrounding environment, the Iraqi Kurdistan—and analyzes the emergence of a relationship between the host society, Iraqi Kurdish, and the exiled population, Syrian Kurdish. In response to global security policies and regional challenges, this space subsequently is transformed into a site of control and marginalization, triggering a process of extraterritorialization. This critical phase confronts individuals with their historical trajectory and reveals an experience of ongoing violence, from which they redefine their relationship to both the camp and exile. Encampment is thus analyzed as an experience of subjectivation through which individuals reconstruct a shared history, enabling them to resist the exclusion inherent in humanitarian identification and the practice of encampment. By mobilizing their past in this way, Syrian Kurds not only give meaning to their asylum situation but also develop a paradoxical relationship to the camp, which emerges as a space that is simultaneously repressive and enabling.","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"172 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147719916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Spaces of Surveillance, Sites of Subversion: Queer Subjectivities and Intimate Geopolitics in Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon 监视空间、颠覆场所：黎巴嫩巴勒斯坦难民营中的酷儿主体性与亲密地缘政治

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Population Space and Place Pub Date : 2026-04-20 DOI: 10.1002/psp.70262

Jasmin Lilian Diab, Yara El‐Zakka

{"title":"Spaces of Surveillance, Sites of Subversion: Queer Subjectivities and Intimate Geopolitics in Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon","authors":"Jasmin Lilian Diab, Yara El‐Zakka","doi":"10.1002/psp.70262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70262","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines how gender identity and queer subjectivities are shaped, surveilled and subverted within the geopolitical confines of Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. Drawing from 30 in‐depth interviews with queer Palestinian refugees and 21 key informant interviews with humanitarian and UN agency personnel, the study adopts a qualitative, trauma‐informed methodology that centres lived experience and spatial negotiation. Anchored in feminist and critical geopolitical theory, alongside concepts from gender performativity, queer temporalities, intersectionality and spatial theory, the paper conceptualizes camps not merely as humanitarian spaces but as dense sites of legal, social and spatial governance that regulate non‐normative identities. Through thematic analysis, the study reveals how spatial confinement, legal liminality and intimate surveillance regimes operate in tandem to produce hypervisibility, moral policing and exclusion for queer camp residents. Yet, within these constraints, queer individuals enact complex forms of resistance, reclaiming symbolic spaces, forging informal networks and tactically navigating both temporal and spatial regimes. By foregrounding these practices, the paper offers a multi‐scalar account of resilience and refusal in the margins of protracted displacement. It advances queer refugee studies by integrating critical geopolitical perspectives with localized, intersectional analysis and calls for more inclusive humanitarian responses that reckon with the spatial and temporal dimensions of queer refugee life.","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147719914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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From Rent Gap to Network Rent Gap: Metro Network Spillovers and Gentrification in Shanghai 从租金差距到网络租金差距：上海地铁网络溢出与士绅化

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Population Space and Place Pub Date : 2026-04-20 DOI: 10.1002/psp.70260

Hong Li, Yang Xiao

{"title":"From Rent Gap to Network Rent Gap: Metro Network Spillovers and Gentrification in Shanghai","authors":"Hong Li, Yang Xiao","doi":"10.1002/psp.70260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70260","url":null,"abstract":"Although metro investment is intended to improve accessibility and promote spatial equity, it may also induce gentrification through physical upgrading and social replacement. Classical rent gap theory explains transit‐induced gentrification primarily through the proximity effects of newly built stations as individual nodes. However, infrastructure nodes are embedded in networks, especially in metro systems, where spillover effects frequently extend beyond directly invested locations. This study, therefore, asks whether rent gaps can also trigger gentrification through network spillovers. To address this question, we extend traditional rent gap theory to a network context by introducing the concept of the network rent gap and applying it to Shanghai's metro system. Using a dual perspective on nodes and the network, we employ a propensity score matching difference‐in‐differences (PSM‐DID) model to examine the gentrification effects of metro expansion from 2011 to 2020. The results confirm that node‐based metro investment contributes to local gentrification. More importantly, we identify a network rent gap mechanism: node‐based metro investment generates stronger gentrification effects in both local and non‐local areas where network centrality increases, including places served only by pre‐existing metro stations. Moreover, gentrification in central urban areas depends more on metro proximity and transfer functions, whereas suburban gentrification is more strongly associated with gains in network centrality. These findings suggest that transport policy should integrate both node‐based and network‐wide perspectives to address spatial equity more effectively.","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147719915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Stayers' Choice: Motivations for Voluntary Immobility in Wartime: A Comparative Case Study of Kosovo and Ukraine 驻军者的选择：战时自愿不动的动机：科索沃和乌克兰的比较案例研究

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Population Space and Place Pub Date : 2026-04-17 DOI: 10.1002/psp.70265

Klement R. Camaj, Anna McKeever

{"title":"The Stayers' Choice: Motivations for Voluntary Immobility in Wartime: A Comparative Case Study of Kosovo and Ukraine","authors":"Klement R. Camaj, Anna McKeever","doi":"10.1002/psp.70265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70265","url":null,"abstract":"This research examines immobility (staying) in the context of war, focusing on Ukrainian stayers during the ongoing Russian invasion and on the Albanian stayers during Kosovo's 1998–1999‐armed conflict. The study explores voluntary immobility (choosing to remain) in armed conflict, challenging traditional narratives that predominantly focus on forced migration and displacement. Using semi‐structured interviews analysed through thematic analysis, the research identified overlapping reasons for staying across both contexts: symbolic resistance to aggression, deep‐rooted place attachment, cultural identity preservation, aversion to refugee status and fear of social status decline. The findings also show some differences in motivations, including focus on familial obligations and economic reasons in the case of Albanian stayers and remoteness to the frontlines for Ukrainians. Our findings contribute to the research on voluntary immobility by elucidating individual, social and structural factors that underpin the decision to stay in the context of war and armed conflict. This research demonstrates that decisions to remain are as significant as decisions to flee, offering valuable insights into how people navigate the challenging choice of immobility during war and military conflict.","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147719909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Rural Retrenchment and Marginalization in Sweden? Evidence From Employment Registers and Survey Data 瑞典的农村紧缩和边缘化？来自就业登记和调查数据的证据

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Population Space and Place Pub Date : 2026-04-17 DOI: 10.1002/psp.70250

Andreas Bergh, David Sandberg, Emanuel Wittberg

{"title":"Rural Retrenchment and Marginalization in Sweden? Evidence From Employment Registers and Survey Data","authors":"Andreas Bergh, David Sandberg, Emanuel Wittberg","doi":"10.1002/psp.70250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.70250","url":null,"abstract":"Debates about spatial inequality and rural discontent often invoke cutbacks of the public sector as a key factor in explaining political and social divides. Covering the period from 1993 to 2023, we use register‐based employment data and citizen surveys to study public employment, as well as trust in and satisfaction with public services across five types of municipalities, ranging from metropolitan to very sparse rural areas. By combining data on education and employer, we maximize comparability over time despite changing classification and the growth of private, publicly funded providers of welfare services. While total public employment has declined, the decline is not greater in rural municipalities. Employment per capita in healthcare and education has grown, more so in rural municipalities. The latter trend is partly but not entirely explained by population decline. On the other hand, functions of the night‐watchman state have contracted, disproportionately affecting sparsely populated regions. Survey evidence indicates that trust and satisfaction with public services have held steady or improved in rural municipalities, diverging from downward trends in metropolitan areas. These results complicate dominant narratives of rural marginalization and retrenchment.","PeriodicalId":48067,"journal":{"name":"Population Space and Place","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147719917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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“Keep or Push?” The Retention of Canadian Postsecondary Graduates in Their Study Cities “保持还是推动？”加拿大高等教育毕业生留在留学城市的问题

IF 2.4 2区社会学

Population Space and Place Pub Date : 2026-04-16 DOI: 10.1002/psp.70261

Isaac Mpinda, Michael Haan

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