Department of Migration

Staff Members of the Department:

	Oleksii Volodymyrovych Pozniak, Head of the Sector, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Senior Research Fellow
	Iryna Petrivna Maidanik, Leading Research Fellow, Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Senior Research Fellow
	Oleksii Kostiantynovych Havryliuk, Junior Research Fellow, Doctor of Philosophy
	Bohdan Oleksandrovych Martyshchenko, Postgraduate Student, Leading Economist
	Olena Anatoliivna Malynovska, Chief Research Fellow, Doctor of Sciences in Public Administration, Senior Research Fellow

Main Research Areas of the Sector

comprehensive analysis of the migration situation in contemporary Ukraine and analysis of the situation of migrant population groups;
identification of the impact of migration on demographic and demo-economic development;
study of external and internal forced migration associated with the military invasion by the aggressor state;
study of labour migration from Ukraine;
study of immigration to Ukraine and immigrant integration;
assessment of the migration situation in large cities;
development of recommendations for improving state migration policy;
study of state policy on combating human trafficking and of human-trafficking risks;
forecasting population migration;
study of migration resilience;
study of the ethnic composition of the population and the factors shaping its dynamics.

Scientific Results of the Sector’s Activities

risks and threats to Ukraine’s national security caused by armed aggression have been identified;
data sources on the forced external migration of Ukrainians during the full-scale war have been assessed; the reasons for the substantial discrepancy between the number of persons who left Ukraine through the western border during the war according to the balance of border crossings of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (1.8 million as of the end of October 2023) and the number of registered forced migrants in foreign European and North American countries (4.9 million) have been identified on the basis of both confirmed facts and the authors’ assumptions;
the transfer behaviour of the population from Ukraine abroad after the full-scale invasion has been assessed;
proposals for migration-policy measures during the war and post-war periods have been developed;
a comprehensive migration zoning of the territory of Ukraine has been carried out, taking into account trends in both permanent and labour migration;
the concept of a “migration group” has been substantiated, and a system of criteria for identifying migration groups has been formed;
the system of state migration statistics has been assessed in terms of its conformity with the needs of migration-process analysis;
the situation of internally displaced persons has been studied, and their actual number has been estimated;
the impact of the settlement of internally displaced persons on the functioning of local markets has been assessed, including the food market, the non-food goods market, the real-estate market, the labour market, the market for educational services, the healthcare-services market, the transport-services market, and the development of small and medium-sized business;
a methodology has been developed for assessing the level of integration of immigrants, returning labour migrants, and internally displaced persons into local communities;
the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the course of migration processes has been determined;
a scientifically substantiated assessment of the scale of external labour migration has been carried out, and its trends have been analysed;
specific features of the external labour migration of young people have been identified;
processes related to the issuance of passports of citizens of Ukraine for travel abroad have been studied;
a classification of the areas of use of remittances has been developed according to their degree of usefulness for the country’s economic development;
a methodology has been developed for assessing the impact of migration on transformations in the sex and age composition of the population;
a new methodological approach has been formed for estimating the amount of labour migrants’ income and remittances on the basis of combining domestic and foreign statistical data;
the financial effect of the possible implementation of entrepreneurial intentions by returning labour migrants has been substantiated and assessed;
the main directions for the theoretical substantiation of the study of the influence of infrastructural factors on the course of migration processes have been developed on the basis of an in-depth analysis of domestic and foreign scholarly approaches;
an indicator of the ratio between the number of conditional consumers and conditional producers, calculated on the basis of age-specific production and consumption levels, has been introduced into scholarly circulation as a generalised characteristic of the economic value of the population age structure; the contribution of migration to the dynamics of this indicator has been assessed;
the situation in the field of human trafficking has been analysed;
the risks of labour exploitation of Ukrainian citizens abroad have been assessed;
Ukraine’s state policy on preventing and combating human trafficking has been analysed, and ways to improve it have been proposed;
a methodology for migration forecasting has been developed, with estimation of prospective parameters of arrivals and departures, as well as the sex and age structure of migrants, depending on the type and geographical direction of movements;
a variant forecast of population migration in Ukraine and its regions, as a component of the demographic forecast, is being carried out on the basis of regular updating, including under martial law;
a classification of ethnic groups has been formed according to the nature of their settlement and the period of residence on the territory of Ukraine;
dictionaries of nationalities and languages have been developed for use in processing the materials of the All-Ukrainian Population Census;
prospective indicators of fertility, mortality, and migration have been assessed in terms of ethnic differentiation;
the methodology for forecasting ethno-demographic development has been improved;
a number of special sample surveys of students of Ukrainian higher education institutions have been conducted regarding their attitudes toward persons from developing countries, and the results have been analysed and summarised;
on the basis of a special survey of international students studying in higher education institutions in Kyiv, their motives for migrating to Ukraine, as well as problems of adaptation and integration into Ukrainian society, have been identified;
the amount of replacement immigration required to maintain a stable population size in Ukraine has been estimated;
a methodology has been developed for calculating the daily cost of maintaining one foreigner or stateless person in a temporary-stay facility for foreigners and stateless persons who are unlawfully staying in Ukraine;
the number of migrants with irregular status in Ukraine has been estimated;
recommendations have been developed for shaping policy in the field of migration and immigrant integration;
the situation of non-resident labour in the labour market of the city of Kyiv has been assessed on the basis of a specially conducted survey;
a sample survey of students of Kyiv higher education institutions concerning relations between Kyiv residents and newcomers in the student environment has been conducted, and the survey results have been analysed and summarised;
a methodology has been developed and a scientifically substantiated estimate of the population of the city of Kyiv has been carried out, based both on state statistical data on the permanent population of the capital and on information from other sources;
the role of megacities in the formation of migration flows has been identified;
a forecast of trends in the migration of megacity populations has been developed;
the concept of “migration resilience” as a component of demographic resilience has been defined, and a system of migration criteria for demographic resilience has been developed;
approaches to assessing migration dividends have been improved;
approaches to assessing climate migration in Ukraine have been developed.

Key Scholarly Works and Publications

Pozniak O. (2023). The Situation of Forced Migrants from Ukraine in Europe after Russian Military Aggression and the Problems of Ukraine’s Migration Policy in These New Conditions. Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 12(1), 159–181. DOI: 10.54667/ceemr.2023.17 (SCOPUS, Q3 in Demography).
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ueffing, P., Adhikari, S., Goujon, A., Kc, S., Poznyak, O., & Natale, F. (2023). Ukraine’s Population Future after the Russian Invasion: The Role of Migration for Demographic Change. Publications Office of the European Union. DOI: 10.2760/607962.
Maidanik, I. (2023). The forced migration from Ukraine after the full-scale Russian invasion: dynamics and decision-making drivers. European Societies. DOI: 10.1080/14616696.2023.2268150 (SCOPUS, Q1 in Demography). Kurylo, I., Aksyonova, S., Dumanska, V., Korniychuk, O., Krimer, B., Levchuk, N., Ryngach, N., Slyusar, L., Shevchuk, P., Pozniak, O., Maidanik, I., Hnatyuk, T., & Havryliuk, O. (2023). Population of Ukraine. Demographic Situation during the First Thirty Years of Independence. Kyiv: Naukova Dumka. 166 p. DOI: 10.15407/978-966-00-1899-0.
Libanova E., & Pozniak O. (2023). War-driven wave of Ukrainian emigration to Europe: an attempt to evaluate the scale and consequences (the view of Ukrainian researchers). Statistics in Transition: New Series and Statistics of Ukraine, A New Role for Statistics: Joint Special Issue, 24(1), 259–276. DOI: 10.59170/stattrans-2023-014 (SCOPUS, Q4 in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty).
Boychenko, S. G., Voloshyn, S. M., Kuchma, T. L., Pozniak, O. V., & Khlobystov, Ye. V. (2022). Ecological and Climatic Discrimination in the Occupied Crimea: Measurements and Threats. Crimean Tatar Resource Center, Kyiv. 115 p.
Policy Brief: “Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Ukraine”. Kyiv: IOM Mission in Ukraine, 2022. 4 p.
Havryliuk, O. (2022). Spaces of internal displacement: Understanding the hidden urban geographies of armed conflict in Ukraine. Moravian Geographical Reports, 30(1), 2–21. DOI: 10.2478/mgr-2022-0001 (SCOPUS, Q2).
Havryliuk, O. (2022). Neighbourhood (dis)satisfaction in a former closed Soviet city: the case of Dnipro(petrovsk), Ukraine. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 57, 23–44. DOI: 10.12775/bgss-2022-0021 (SCOPUS, Q1 in Cultural Studies and Q2 in Demography).
Havryliuk, O. (2021). Differential and non-differential urbanisation in Ukraine in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras. Visnyk of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Series “Geology. Geography. Ecology”, 55, 141–158. DOI: 10.26565/2410-7360-2021-55-11.
Migrants with Irregular Status in Ukraine. Analytical Summary. Kyiv: IOM Mission in Ukraine, 2020. Libanova, E., & Pozniak, O. (2020). External labour migration from Ukraine: the impact of COVID-19. Demography and Social Economy, 4(42), 25–40. DOI: 10.15407/dse2020.04.025.
Maidanik, I. P. (2020). Temporal Characteristics of External Labour Migration in Ukraine. Ptoukha Institute for Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kyiv: Sochinskyi M. M. 270 p. ISBN 978-966-02-9314-4.
Ukrainian Society: The Migration Dimension. National Report. Ptoukha Institute for Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Kyiv, 2018.
Lenoël, A., Cerrutti, M., Croitoru, A., Hnatyuk, T., Maguid, A., Maidanik, I., et al., & Vandenbunder, A. (2018). Report on Non-Economic Impacts of Temporary, Circular and Permanent Migration. TEMPER EU Project.
Obućina, O., Beauchemin, C., Cerrutti, M., Deliu, A., Havryliuk, O., Lenoël, A., et al., & Vandenbunder, A. (2018). Report on the Economic Integration of Return Migrants. TEMPER EU Project.
Lenoël, A., Beauchemin, C., Cerrutti, M., Deliu, A., Hnatyuk, T., Maguid, A., et al., & Vandenbunder, A. (2018). Report on Economic Contributions of Migrants Upon Return. TEMPER EU Project.
Characteristics of Households of Internally Displaced Persons Benefiting from Assistance of the International Charitable Foundation “Caritas Ukraine”. Edited by O. Pozniak. Kyiv, 2018.
Ukrainian Migration in Time of Crisis: Forced and Labour Mobility. Dušan Drbohlav and Marta Jaroszewich (eds.). Prague, 2016.
Analytical Report to the Annual Address of the President of Ukraine to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine “On the Internal and External Situation of Ukraine in 2015”. Kyiv: National Institute for Strategic Studies, 2015.
Assessment of the Procedure for Collecting, Distributing, Storing and Analysing Information in the Field of Migration. International Organization for Migration, Mission in Ukraine, 2015.
Study on Integration, Hate Crimes and Discrimination against Different Categories of Migrants. International Organization for Migration, Mission in Ukraine, 2014.
Report on the Methodology, Organisation and Results of the Modular Sample Survey on Labour Migration in Ukraine. International Labour Organization, Decent Work Technical Support Team and ILO Country Office for Central and Eastern Europe. Budapest: ILO, 2013.
Pozniak O. Problems of Migrant Integration in Ukraine.
Pozniak O. (2012). Social Consequences of Ukraine’s European Integration. International Migration. Kyiv: Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
Maidanik I. P. (2010). Ukrainian Youth in Labour Markets of Foreign Countries. Kyiv: Ptoukha Institute for Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. 176 p.
Migration Processes in Ukraine: Current State and Prospects. Edited by O. V. Pozniak. Uman, 2007.