“There is no language barrier, any person who knows the Ukrainian language will speak Polish. With Germany it is more difficult, but at the same time they provide much greater economic support. We must understand that the governments of almost all countries are interested in our emigrants staying. As a demographer, I should be grateful to those countries that did not give asylum to our refugees,” she said.
Libanova described the demographic portrait of a Ukrainian migrant hiding from Russian aggression.
“More than 2/3 are women and children, there are relatively few elderly people, very few men. 70% of women have higher education. This figure is explained by the fact that mostly women from Kiev and Kharkov left, where the level of education is much higher than anywhere else in Ukraine. Fewer left from Chernigov, a little from Sumy and Zhytomyr,” says the expert.
She notes that the majority of those who left are from the middle class, non-poor people who are ready for entrepreneurship.
“The latest data from the Poles is such that a lot of Ukrainians opened enterprises in Poland. There were material and intellectual reasons for this,” Libanova summed up.
In the same interview, she said that since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, 12 million people have left the country.
Context
According to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, in Europe registered more than 5.33 million Ukrainians who left Ukraine due to the invasion of the aggressor country Russia.
On August 28, the head of the Office of Migration Policy Vasily Voskoboinik said that up to 70% of migrants may never return to Ukraine.
