%0 Journal Article
%T Natives or strangers? The image of Poles evacuated from Donbas in 2015 in the perception of the contemporary Polish society on the example of social media
%A Lubicz Miszewski, Michał
%J Wschodnioznawstwo (Eastern Studies)
%V 2018
%N Volume 12
%P 323-337
%K Poles from Donbas, evacuation, adaptation, social perception
%@ 2082-7695
%D 2018
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/wschodnioznawstwo/article/svoi-ili-chuzhie-izobrazhenie-poliakov-evakuirovannykh-iz-donbassa-v-2015-g-v-vospriiatii-sovremennogo-polskogo-obshchestva-na-primere-sotsialnykh-setei
%X 
	
		The article concerns opinions on Poles evacuated from Donbass in 2015. To bring the above matter closer, press articles available online have been reviewed, and Internet users’ comments posted under them analyzed. Some of them strongly opposed the admission of refugees from eastern Ukraine and accepting them to their local communities. Defining them as refugees, they refused to help them, for example in providing housing while the indigenous people have to wait for years for the allocation of a communal flat. They also questioned the Polish nationality of the arrivals. Other comments were of quite the opposite nature. They expressed their conviction that the Polish state has obligations to Poles from the East and it should receive them, rather than migrants from other cultural backgrounds.