This chapter uses a model to dissect Ukrainian migration, which basically sets out on the premise that migration is a process that can be divided into four phases for analytical purposes to sort out the complexity of the matter. As the phases may well flow into each other, they are not to be interpreted as hard and fast sections of the process; on the contrary, the process of migration is understood in terms of every migrant being on an individual journey, may have setbacks, experience twists and turns, also returns. The model suggests four analytical phases: (1) the starting phase looking into migration drivers; (2) the mobility/travelling phase; (3) the arrival phase; and (4) the sojournal phase. Thus, the setting for Ukrainians fleeing the war and coming to Germany is described within this framework, emphasising phases (3) and (4). The chapter discusses questions such as the legal bases, economic and social as well as societal conditions, e.g. the EU’s Temporary Protection Directive and the German legal base; social security and other forms of support; integration into the labour and education systems. With the war going on for more than 3 years and little prospect of stopping, people take roots and build new connections while old ones dim, as a consequence of which returning may become more difficult. Losing contact with home and country may not be wished for, yet the process of detachment does go on, what with increasing numbers of Ukrainians having learned German, found jobs or apprenticeships or had their degrees recognised. Consequently, the number of people wishing to or deciding to stay in Germany is increasing with ongoing integration into German life, work, and study.

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War-Related Ukrainian Migration to Germany, 2022–2024

  • Andreas Demuth

摘要

This chapter uses a model to dissect Ukrainian migration, which basically sets out on the premise that migration is a process that can be divided into four phases for analytical purposes to sort out the complexity of the matter. As the phases may well flow into each other, they are not to be interpreted as hard and fast sections of the process; on the contrary, the process of migration is understood in terms of every migrant being on an individual journey, may have setbacks, experience twists and turns, also returns. The model suggests four analytical phases: (1) the starting phase looking into migration drivers; (2) the mobility/travelling phase; (3) the arrival phase; and (4) the sojournal phase. Thus, the setting for Ukrainians fleeing the war and coming to Germany is described within this framework, emphasising phases (3) and (4). The chapter discusses questions such as the legal bases, economic and social as well as societal conditions, e.g. the EU’s Temporary Protection Directive and the German legal base; social security and other forms of support; integration into the labour and education systems. With the war going on for more than 3 years and little prospect of stopping, people take roots and build new connections while old ones dim, as a consequence of which returning may become more difficult. Losing contact with home and country may not be wished for, yet the process of detachment does go on, what with increasing numbers of Ukrainians having learned German, found jobs or apprenticeships or had their degrees recognised. Consequently, the number of people wishing to or deciding to stay in Germany is increasing with ongoing integration into German life, work, and study.