Since the start of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, there have been enormous statistical and sociological data sets accumulated by the UN Refugee Agency, European and national statistical offices and concerned governmental and non-governmental institutions, with the intention to shed light on the Ukrainian refugee situation and its dynamics, but sometimes with the opposite effect because of the different classification units and methodologies used. The citizens who left Ukraine after the beginning of the war are accounted under different categories such as “refugees”, “asylum applicants” and “beneficiaries of the temporary protection mechanism”. The statistics are further aggravated because of the “multiple migration routes” of refugees changing several different countries before settling down or returning home, thus the data provided by various national and international statistical offices and institutes overlap, twist, and inflate, sometimes considerably. Although the Ukrainian refuges represent only 0.935% of all European populations, the presumably accurate statistics can exert a negative echo effect on European public opinion, misled into thinking that Ukrainians are a considerable mass, threatening the other European nations’ resources and social funds. The chapter intends to take stock and make secondary analysis of the existing statistical and sociological information on the Ukrainian refugees in Europe in order to raise questions of more general character: with the extension of the war and increase of the aid fatigue among EU countries, how adequate and effective remains the European policy towards the Ukrainian refuges and what amendments should be done to increase its efficiency?

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The Ukrainian Refugees in the EU: Measuring the European Hospitality

  • Svetlana Hristova

摘要

Since the start of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, there have been enormous statistical and sociological data sets accumulated by the UN Refugee Agency, European and national statistical offices and concerned governmental and non-governmental institutions, with the intention to shed light on the Ukrainian refugee situation and its dynamics, but sometimes with the opposite effect because of the different classification units and methodologies used. The citizens who left Ukraine after the beginning of the war are accounted under different categories such as “refugees”, “asylum applicants” and “beneficiaries of the temporary protection mechanism”. The statistics are further aggravated because of the “multiple migration routes” of refugees changing several different countries before settling down or returning home, thus the data provided by various national and international statistical offices and institutes overlap, twist, and inflate, sometimes considerably. Although the Ukrainian refuges represent only 0.935% of all European populations, the presumably accurate statistics can exert a negative echo effect on European public opinion, misled into thinking that Ukrainians are a considerable mass, threatening the other European nations’ resources and social funds. The chapter intends to take stock and make secondary analysis of the existing statistical and sociological information on the Ukrainian refugees in Europe in order to raise questions of more general character: with the extension of the war and increase of the aid fatigue among EU countries, how adequate and effective remains the European policy towards the Ukrainian refuges and what amendments should be done to increase its efficiency?