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EDITED BY AGNIESZKA PIKULICKA-WILCZEWSKA & GRETA UEHLING Migration and the Ukraine Crisis A Two-Country Perspective This e-book is provided without charge via free download by E-International Relations (www.E-IR.info). It is not permitted to be sold in electronic format under any circumstances. If you enjoy our free e-books, please consider leaving a small donation to allow us to continue investing in open access publications: http://www.e-ir.info/about/donate/ i Migration and the Ukraine Crisis A Two-Country Perspective EDITED BY AGNIESZKA PIKULICKA-WILCZEWSKA & GRETA UEHLING ii E-International Relations www.E-IR.info Bristol, England 2017 ISBN 978-1-910814-27-7 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-910814-28-4 (e-book) This book is published under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 license. 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Production: Michael Tang Cover Image: jarin13 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library iii E-IR Edited Collections Series Editors: Stephen McGlinchey, Marianna Karakoulaki and Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska Editorial assistance: Mariam Ali, Konstantina Bandutova, Naomi McMillen, Nicholas Saffari & Patricia Salas Sanchez E-IR’s Edited Collections are open access scholarly books presented in a format that preferences brevity and accessibility while retaining academic conventions. Each book is available in print and e-book, and is published under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 license. As E-International Relations is committed to open access in the fullest sense, free electronic versions of all of our books, including this one, are available on the E-International Relations website. Find out more at: http://www.e-ir.info/publications About the E-International Relations website E-International Relations (www.E-IR.info) is the world’s leading open access website for students and scholars of international politics, reaching over 3 million unique readers. E-IR’s daily publications feature expert articles, blogs, reviews and interviews – as well as student learning resources. The website is run by a registered non-profit organisation based in Bristol, England and staffed with an all-volunteer team of students and scholars. iv Abstract Since the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the beginning of the war in Donbas, Eastern Europe has been facing a migration crisis. Several million Ukrainians are internally displaced or have fled the country and now face an uncertain future. At the same time, Western-imposed sanctions and the creation of the Eurasian Economic Union have affected Russia’s migration policies. These largely ignored processes have a potential to change the social landscape of the region for many years to come. The aim of this collection is to shed light on the forgotten migrant crisis at the European Union’s doorstep and make sense of the various migration processes in and out of Ukraine and Russia. Editors Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska is an Editor-at-large and Editorial Board Member of E-International Relations, and an editor with New Eastern Europe. She was a co-editor (with Richard Sakwa) of Ukraine and Russia: People, Politics, Propaganda and Perspectives (E-International Relations, 2015). Greta Uehling teaches at the Program on International and Comparative Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she is also an Associate Faculty Member with the Center for Russian and East European Studies. Currently, she has a Fulbright grant to study internal displacement within Ukraine and is hosted by the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. Her first book, Beyond Memory: The Deportation and Return of the Crimean Tatars (2004), is based on ethnographic fieldwork in former Soviet areas. v Contributors Tania Bulakh is a PhD student in Socio-Cultural Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington (USA) with a minor in Russian and East European Studies. Her research interests include post-socialist transformations, displacement, citizenship, state and power. She also worked as a senior project manager for an international PR agency and as a journalist for several Ukrainian publications. Mikhail Denisenko is a Deputy Director at the Institute of Demography, National Research University – Higher School of Economics (NRU-HSE, Russia). For over ten years he worked as a professor and researcher at the Population Studies Centre at Lomonosov Moscow State University. Between 1998 and 2000 he worked at the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) of the United Nations Secretariat. He has participated in various research projects including ‘Replacement migration’ (UN Population Division, 2000), ‘Population analysis and projection for the Russian Federation’ (the World Bank, 2008), ‘Mortality in Central Asia’ (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, USA, 2007- 2012), ‘Migration and remittances in Central Asia and South Caucasia’ (UN ESCAP, 2010), ‘Population development and prospects of Kyrgyzstan’ (UNFPA, 2011-2012), and ‘Population Development in the post-Soviet states’ (Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation, 2015-2016). Joanna Fomina is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2007-2008 she worked and conducted research as a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Bradford. She has taken part in a number of research projects including ‘The Perception of Poles in Ukraine and Ukrainians in Poland’ (Institute of Public Affairs, Warsaw 2013 and 2010); ‘Bilingualism, Identity and Media’ (University of Helsinki, 2008-2011); ‘Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe’ (University of Bergen, 2007-2011); ‘The Image of Polish Migrants in the British Press’ (Institute of Public Affairs, 2006). In 2010-2013 she also coordinated the Europe without Barriers international coalition of NGOs working towards the EU visa liberalisation for the Eastern Partnership countries. She authored and co-authored two book publications: Immigration and Diversity in Europe: Lessons from British Multiculturalism (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2010) and Lived Diversities: Space and Identities in the Multi-Ethnic City (Policy Press, 2010), and a number of articles in peer-reviewed journals and research reports. Michael Gentile is Professor of Human Geography at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo. He has conducted research in different countries of the former Soviet Union and has published vi extensively on various aspects of these countries’ urban social geographies. His recent work has touched upon residential segregation, gentrification, geopolitical identities, labour migration, and socialist-era housing allocation practice, with his latest publications figuring in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Post-Soviet Affairs, Urban Geography and in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Until very recently, his research field base was in the Ukrainian city of Luhansk, which is one of the epicentres of the ongoing Donbas conflict. Kateryna Ivashchenko-Stadnik is a Research Fellow at the Department of Methodology and Methods of Social Research at the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences – an institutional partner of the European Social Survey in Ukraine. She previously worked as a Social Policy Advisor for the United Nations Development Programme (Ukraine) and as a cultural curator (Arthouse Traffic, SOTA Cinema Group). She has extensive experience in cross-national studies and has acted as a Ukrainian country expert within a number of international research schemes with a focus on social change, migration and mobility. Her recent publications include: ’The Impact of the Current Military Conflict on Migration and Mobility in Ukraine’ (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies & Journal of Social Science Research Network) and ‘Ukraine one year on: the challenge of preventing a new migration crisis in central Europe’ (Migration Policy Centre Blog). Marina A. Kingsbury is Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Alabama A&M University. She earned her PhD in Political Science from the University of New Mexico in 2015. She specialises in Comparative Politics with an emphasis on comparative social welfare policy and International Relations. Her main research interests are xenophobia in post-communist European countries, radical right politics and its influence on public policies, and Russian domestic and foreign policy. She has recently participated in a collaborative project aimed at investigating the problems of migrant integration in Russia which was funded by the Eurasia Foundation’s US- Russia Social Expertise Exchange Program. Her most recent project focuses on issues of integration of migrant families with children at the point of access to education.