ABSTRACT
This chapter overviews the book's key theoretical contributions, main findings, and the policy implications. It also revisits the term ‘inconvenient people’ and addresses the feminist geopolitical call for the inclusion of the embodied experiences of civilians in war-related studies. Furthermore, it amplifies the critical border and feminist geography perspective which considers borders as constantly under construction both as physical and discursive spaces, including everyday life across both sides of the checkpoints, and in occupied territories and government-controlled areas. Combined, this enables a new perspective in the reflexive turn of ‘de-migratisation’ research, adding the perspectives of internal displacement and immobility. It also fills a critical gap in the understandings of experiences of older internally displaced and ‘immobile’ people as they are constantly overlooked in studies not only in Ukraine but worldwide. The policy implications of the study include the amplification of the voices of internally displaced people and supporting their agency; providing durable solutions for people with disabilities and older adults in the context of war and displacement; supporting the safe mobility of people from occupied areas; and providing reflection about vulnerabilities related to the secondary displacement.
