Multinational Migration Trajectories: Ukrainians Displaced After 2022.
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Multinational Migration Trajectories: Ukrainians Displaced after 2022

About the Project

This project is an interactive digital mapping initiative that documents the journeys of Ukrainians who have been displaced after Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Through personal stories, memories, and spatial narratives, this project explores displacement as a multidirectional and multiscalar experience.

Using an interactive map, participants can tell their own migration stories by adding cities in sequence and sharing their memories about each place. These stories help create a collective archive of transnational migration experiences that maps personal trajectories across time and space.

The project combines digital storytelling, participatory mapping, and migration research. It aims to better understand how people experience displacement, resilience, and agency in times of crisis, while also creating a public-facing resource that helps visualize the diversity and complexity of displacement across local, national, and regional boundaries.

Research Team

Sophia Jewell

Sophia Jewell, Lead Researcher

Sophia Jewell is a PhD student in Geoscience, Geography & Planning at the University of Alberta. Her work focuses on the geopolitical and cultural implications of forced migration with a particular focus on human rights, displacement, and the experiences of political refugees. She is passionate about participatory and community-centered methods as a critical cartographic practice and form of knowledge mobilization. Sophia received her Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Modern Languages and Cultural Studies from the University of Alberta in 2021, and a Master of Arts in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Toronto in 2022.