Accessing migration infrastructure and employment strategies in a time of crisis: Ukraine female war refugees and migrants in Poland and Italy.
As a result of Russian military aggression on Ukraine, with the invasion on the 24th of February 2022, there are currently over 7 million asylum seekers from this country, mainly women and children, in the EU – this constitutes the largest humanitarian crisis in Europe since WWII. This project assesses legal and institutional solutions of entering the labour market by forced migrant women in Poland and Italy . This comparative study adopts the analytical framework of migration infrastructure (Xiang and Lindquist 2014), and is based on analysis of legal documents, statistical data and qualitative data analysis (expert and refugees in-depth interviews). It focuses on two sectors – domestic work and agriculture – both of importance when it comes to the presence of migrants from Ukraine in the two countries. The project answers the following research questions:
- How do existing and newly introduced legal regulations affect the forced migrant women’s inclusion in the labour market?
- How institutional solutions affect working conditions of forced and labour migrants in domestic work and agriculture?
- What employment strategies do women from Ukraine adopt in these legal and institutional contexts?
The study is conducted in consultation with the actors of civil society and proposes a new policy model, which places emphasis on migrants skills, qualifications and aspirations.
On 13.02.2024, a seminar was held in Florence entitled. ‘Temporary protection and economic participation of Ukrainian women forced migrants. Lessons from Italy and Poland’ and an episode of the OBM podcast S03E04 Ukrainki w Polsce. Co zmieniło się po 24. lutego 2022? – Migrostacja | Podcast on Spotify
Duration
2022 - 2023
Source of funding
NAWA Urgency Grant Programme
Partners
European University Institute
