New Special Issue of Topos is Out!

This issue brings together interdisciplinary research exploring migration, displacement, gender inequality, and the transformation of everyday life in times of crisis. The contributions focus on experiences from Belarus, Ukraine, and the broader Central and Eastern European region, reflecting on how migration reshapes work, care, solidarity, and belonging under conditions of forced mobility.

The articles engage with deeply personal and often fragile experiences of living in new and unfamiliar contexts, sometimes without the possibility of returning home. In this sense, home itself becomes one of the themes of the issue, as memory, loss, aspiration, and ongoing negotiation.

Among other topics, the issue explores:

• psychological support for Belarusian refugees,

• social and economic deprivation among migrant women,

• the experiences of single migrant mothers and new forms of precarity,

• migration and professional identity,

• women’s NGOs responding to wartime displacement,

• feminist reflections on knowledge production in exile,

• solidarity and community-building in migration contexts.

Bringing together perspectives from feminist theory, migration studies, and social philosophy, this issue highlights how gender-sensitive research helps us better understand the profound social transformations taking place across Central and Eastern Europe today.

As a peer-reviewed open-access journal in philosophy and cultural studies, Topos continues to provide a space for critical reflection on urgent regional questions.