We invite you to watch the next video in the series "University conversations about sustainable development" prepared by the Centre for Sustainable Development of the University of Gdańsk. Within the framework of the programme, the Centre popularises research results as well as teaching and project activities related to the sustainable development of scientists, teachers, PhD students and students of the University of Gdańsk. The project is carried out based on interviews, presentations, popular science articles with the indication of source materials. 

This time dr hab. Anna Mazurkiewicz, prof. UG, historian, professor of the University of Gdańsk, Vice-Dean for Scientific Research and International Cooperation and Head of the Department of Modern History at the Faculty of History talks about migrations from a historical perspective and in the context of the current situation in the war-stricken Ukraine. The interview was conducted by Aleksander Piskorz, a CZR UG intern.

What were the characteristics of migration movements during the Cold War and what distinguishes them from the current ones? What are the challenges posed by the wave of refugees from Ukraine to European Union countries? Answers to these and many other questions can be found here.

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