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<p>This article draws on semi-structured interviews with Ukrainians in Arizona to examine the lived experiences of migrants arriving after 2014, with particular focus on those admitted through humanitarian parole—primarily under the 2022 private sponsorship program Uniting for Ukraine (U4U)—and those holding Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Extending scholarship on conditional belonging, which has largely centered on long-term TPS holders from Central America, this study situates Ukrainians’ shorter-lived experiences of precarity within newer private sponsorship programs rooted in temporary protections. Findings show that even under comparatively favorable policies than other sponsorship-based parole programs introduced between 2021 and 2023, Ukrainians remained embedded in systemic precarity that shaped not only return intentions and transnational mobility, as documented in TPS research, but also family formation and community integration. Dependence on fragile networks of private sponsors and overlapping community ties both fostered solidarity and reinforced generational and status-based divides within an already fragmented diaspora lacking strong institutions. By situating Ukrainian experiences within debates on temporary protections, the article demonstrates how sponsorship-based parole produces legal vulnerability and has the potential to&#xa0;weaken community cohesion, underscoring the urgent need for durable pathways to residency and fuller immigrant incorporation.</p>

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“They Let Us In but They Don’t Know What to Do with Us”: Ukrainian Migrants under Temporary Protections, Private Sponsorship, and U.S. Diaspora Dynamics

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    2025年12月5日

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  • Claudia Sadowski-Smith

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This article draws on semi-structured interviews with Ukrainians in Arizona to examine the lived experiences of migrants arriving after 2014, with particular focus on those admitted through humanitarian parole—primarily under the 2022 private sponsorship program Uniting for Ukraine (U4U)—and those holding Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Extending scholarship on conditional belonging, which has largely centered on long-term TPS holders from Central America, this study situates Ukrainians’ shorter-lived experiences of precarity within newer private sponsorship programs rooted in temporary protections. Findings show that even under comparatively favorable policies than other sponsorship-based parole programs introduced between 2021 and 2023, Ukrainians remained embedded in systemic precarity that shaped not only return intentions and transnational mobility, as documented in TPS research, but also family formation and community integration. Dependence on fragile networks of private sponsors and overlapping community ties both fostered solidarity and reinforced generational and status-based divides within an already fragmented diaspora lacking strong institutions. By situating Ukrainian experiences within debates on temporary protections, the article demonstrates how sponsorship-based parole produces legal vulnerability and has the potential to weaken community cohesion, underscoring the urgent need for durable pathways to residency and fuller immigrant incorporation.