Anti-migrant feelings helped propel a sweeping win for Poland’s right-wing PiS in recent elections. Even so, activists are hopeful that a new, tolerant future lies ahead. Isabelle de Pommereau reports from Wroclaw.
There’s a place in this young, dynamic southwest Polish metropolis called Kamienskiego Street that hardly anybody sets foot in. Except, perhaps, for Olimpia Swist and her friends from the non-profit Nomada – as well as the 100 Romanian Roma families who call the cluster of makeshift sheds in this forgotten spot their home.
When the refugee debate hit Poland like an emotional bombshell this fall, dividing families and fuelling populist …read more
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