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This book examines how Ukrainian refugees experience learning, transition, and transformation as they adapt to life after displacement. Drawing on interviews and photographic data, it follows the journeys of 21 women forced to flee their homes after the 2022 Russian invasion.

The text explores the practical and emotional challenges that refugees face: navigating language barriers, processing trauma, finding new ways to work and care for family, and integrating into unfamiliar cultures. These narratives are elicited from personal objects the women brought with them as they fled―physical items that serve as tools for memory, reflection, and learning. By focusing on material culture, the book shows how the objects that surround us are tied to our social and cultural identities. They are more than just possessions; they act as symbolic connections to home, security, loss, and the ongoing process of change.

This collection will be highly valuable for researchers in Adult and Continuing Education, Transformative Learning, Migration Studies, Trauma-Informed Education, and Comparative Education, as well as professionals and policymakers working with refugees.

Chad Hoggan is Professor of Adult and Lifelong Education at North Carolina State University, USA. He is a co-editor of The Good Society: A Journal of Civic Studies and a co-director of the Institute of Civic Studies and Learning for Democracy. His research addresses the learning processes involved during major life changes, with a focus on migrants, military veterans, and historically underserved college students.

Tetyana Hoggan-Kloubert is Akademische Rätin (Associate Professor) of Adult Education at the University of Augsburg, Germany. She is a co-editor of the International Journal of Lifelong Education and The Good Society: A Journal of Civic Studies, as well as a co-director of the Institute of Civic Studies and Learning for Democracy. Having migrated from Ukraine to Germany, she researches adult and civic education in diverse migration societies and in post-totalitarian contexts.