10.26180/5e4f2ae689646
OLHA SHMIHELSKA
OLHA
SHMIHELSKA
Understanding Skilled Migration: Ukrainians in Germany and Australia
Monash University
2020
Ukrainian migration
skilled migrants
precarious migrant status
diaspora
social capital
national identity
Law
Labour Economics
Sociology
Migration
2020-02-21 00:57:08
Thesis
https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/Understanding_Skilled_Migration_Ukrainians_in_Germany_and_Australia/11879739
This thesis demonstrates that relatively privileged, skilled Ukrainian migrants faced different degrees of precariousness in Germany and Australia in the period beginning in 2013. Their disadvantageous circumstances were connected to their visa statuses, which determined their length of stay, limited their access to a social safety net, and imposed gender dynamics often unfavourable to women. Social capital created within the networks of the Ukrainian diaspora communities and based on a shared sense of a Ukrainian national identity accepting of linguistic difference were partly able to assist newcomers in improving these situations.