{"p"=>"Since the full-scale Russian aggression on Ukraine started, Poland, as a border country, has become one of the natural escape corridors. Only during the first two weeks after the 24th of February 2022, more than 1 million people fleeing Ukraine crossed the Polish border, and this number reached 6.8 million by the end of this year. Poland was highly praised as a very open country, generous to their neighbours in need. But such a welcoming attitude was quite selective. While some were welcomed (mostly Ukrainian women with children), others were not. In this paper, we focus specifically on the second group—those who were left behind and either did not receive any help (like non-Ukrainian fugitives, mostly of colour students escaping Ukraine) or the support was quite scarce (like for the Ukrainian Roma community). The paper is built on a secondary analysis of 22 expert interviews collected during different research projects over the last two years. The analysis is guided by the literature on selective hospitality and empathy, and by the notion of ‘guests’. It builds on historical comparisons with the Polish refugees in British colonies in Africa during the 1940s and the Turkish response to Syrian refugees from 2014 onwards. It also refers to other selective and xenophobic border policies of the Polish authorities and the “invisibilisation” of certain groups, especially the Roma."}