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Migrants' Calibration of Social Ties Under Double War: Relational Dynamics and Network Reconfiguration

Svetlana Chachashvili‐Bolotin & Ravit Talmi‐Cohn

International Migration2026https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70141article
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This article examines how social ties are actively constructed, recalibrated or severed by migrants navigating a reality of double war, defined as the simultaneous exposure to war in both their countries of origin and destination. The study draws on thirty‐seven in‐depth interviews with migrants from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus who immigrated to Israel between 2022 and 2024 following Russia's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and later experienced renewed insecurity during the Israel–Hamas War. Engaging three main bodies of literature, transnationalism, social network theory and migration in contexts of war and displacement, this study explores how migrants manage ties across a geo‐social triangle: the origin country, the host country and third countries. The analysis identifies two relational phases: an initial overload and triage of social ties, followed by a phase of relational calibration, in which migrants make strategic and emotionally and morally charged decisions about with whom to connect, support or withdraw from. These findings offer a conceptual understanding of social ties as dynamic and ethically negotiated responses to instability. By positioning migrants' agency under conditions of insecurity, the study contributes new analytic tools for examining how war reshapes relational life across transnational space.

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@article{svetlana2026,
  title        = {{Migrants' Calibration of Social Ties Under Double War: Relational Dynamics and Network Reconfiguration}},
  author       = {Svetlana Chachashvili‐Bolotin & Ravit Talmi‐Cohn},
  journal      = {International Migration},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.70141},
}

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