A clamore spento. Evoluzioni, esiti, criticità e punti aperti nei progetti di accoglienza ai profughi ucraini a Reggio Emilia

The paper intends to offer a reflection on the outcomes of the TRIZUB research project: Trajectories, Meeting Networks and Actions from Ukraine to Bologna and Reggio Emilia, which began in autumn 2022, a few months after the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine and from the beginning of the resulting migrations and concluded in spring 2024. By carrying out semi-structured interviews first with 30 reception and housing service operators, then with 30 Ukrainian refugees, the project aimed to investigate both the impact that Ukrainian refugees have had on the human contexts in which they received hospitality, and the effectiveness of the reception strategies and initiatives. Here we intend to propose an analysis which, starting from the main results obtained with the interviews, extends to what emerged, more than a year later, in the feedback meetings that we held with some of the operators and refugees interviewed at the time. What emerges is a picture not only of existential trajectories and plans - those of migrants - in some cases overturned, but also of changes in the operators’ worldviews, attitudes and ways of practicing their profession.