Tomasz Wiskulski

Abstract

This study examines how the use of registered accommodation changed across Eastern Poland during the first year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It combines daily Polish–Ukrainian border-crossing flows with monthly county-level accommodation data for 2021-2022 and applies a synthetic index based on registered user intensity, foreign-user intensity and average length of stay. Results reveal spatially differentiated rather than uniform changes, with stronger relative positions in selected urban and corridor counties and weaker outcomes in peripheral areas. Although the longer-stay signatures emerge in some counties, they do not directly identify refugee accommodation, stay purpose or establishment-level functional conversion.

Keywords: crisis accommodation, temporary accommodation, transport corridors, mobility regimes, uneven resilience, Eastern Poland, Russian–Ukrainian war

Tomasz Wiskulski [tomasz.wiskulski@awf.gda.pl], Faculty of Physical Culture Gdansk University of Physical Education and Sport 1 Górskiego Str., 80336 Gdańsk: Poland
Jan A. Wendt [jan.wendt@ug.edu.pl], Faculty of Social Science Gdansk University prof. Marii Janion 3, 80-309 Gdańsk: Poland
Agnieszka Bógdał-Brzezińska [bogdal@uw.edu.pl], Faculty of Political Science and International Studies University of Warsaw Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-927 Warsaw: Poland
Grigore Vasile Herman [gherman@uoradea.ro], Faculty of Geography, Turism and Sport, Department of Geography, Tourism and Territorial Planning University of Oradea Str. Universitatii nr. 1, Oradea, Jud. Bihor: Romania