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.