Ukraine: Forced Migration Information Hub

Information sources

Here, we list a select range of websites that provide up-to-date information on the Russian attack on Ukraine, links to a selection of key documents and analyses, and podcasts of academic events. The documents and links are limited to the topics of "forced migration," "integration," "legal situation," and "war." The information provided on the websites and the reports consists of primarily analytical and/or scholarly information, as well as some relevant primary sources. We deliberately focus on essential sources to provide a short and thus user-friendly list. 

Topics:
Forcible Transfer of Ukrainians to Russia
  • Human Rights Watch

  • Forced migration
Webseite
Exploring Refugees’ Intentions to Return to Ukraine
  • Ravenna Sohst
  • Tino Tirado
  • Lucia Salgado
  • Jasmijn Slootjes

  • Forced migration
Webseite
Displacement Tracking Matrix
  • IOM

  • Forced migration
Webseite
Intentions and perspectives of refugees from Ukraine in Switzerland
  • UNHCR Switzerland

  • Forced migration
Webseite
Migration Intentions of Ukrainians in Ukraine and Abroad
  • Gradus Research Company

  • Forced migration
Webseite
Geflüchtete aus der Ukraine: Knapp die Hälfte beabsichtigt längerfristig in Deutschland zu bleiben
  • Herbert Brücker
  • Andreas Ette
  • Markus Grabka
  • Yuliya Kosyakova
  • Wenke Niehues
  • Nina Rother
  • Katharina Spieß
  • Sabine Zinn
  • Martin Bujard
  • Jean Decieux
  • Amrei Maddox
  • Sophia Schmitz
  • Silvia Schwanhäuser
  • Manuel Siegert
  • Hans Steinhauer

  • Forced migration
Webseite
How (Not) to Study a War-Affected Society: Challenges of Knowledge Production in Ukraine and Elsewhere
  • Viktoriya Sereda
  • Oksana Mikheieva

  • Forced migration
Webseite
Internally displaced and immobile people in Ukraine between 2014 and 2022: Older age and disabilities as factors of vulnerability.
  • Oksana Mikheieva
  • Irina Kuznetsova

  • Forced migration
Webseite
Scenarios of War and Forced Migration from Ukraine: How many more Ukrainians could flee if Russia wins?
  • Franck Düvell

  • Forced migration
Webseite
Rückkehr oder Integration – welche Perspektiven haben Geflüchtete aus der Ukraine?
  • Joop Adema
  • Yvonne Giesing
  • Panu Poutvaara

  • Forced migration
Webseite
Daueraufenthalt, Rückkehr oder zirkuläre Mobilität? Optionen für ukrainische Kriegsflüchtlinge nach dem vorübergehenden Schutz.
  • Jan Schneider

  • Forced migration
Webseite
National Monitoring System Report on the Situation of Internally Displaced Persons

Report on the situation of 1.4 million internally displaced people before the war.

  • Forced migration
IOM
Protection Monitoring. In selected settlements along the contact line in eastern Ukraine

Latest report on the security situation and forced displacement along the front line in Donbas.

  • Forced migration
UNHCR
EUAA Response to the War in Ukraine

Analyses, politics and information.

  • Forced migration
European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA)
Operational Data Portal

Daily number of displaced people in other countries, country reports.

  • Forced migration
UNHCR
Do Russian attacks reduce Ukrainian support for continuing the war?
  • Philipp Chapkovski
  • Ivan Grigoriev

January 20, 2025

  • Forced migration
Webseite
Forced migration, uncertainty and transnationalism of Ukrainians in Germany.
  • Iryna Lapshyna

January 3, 2025

  • Forced migration
Webseite
Surveys with Arriving Migrants from Ukraine: Movements and Returns
  • EUAA

December 3, 2024

  • Forced migration
Webseite
Warmth, laughter and the smell of bread rolls: what ‘home’ means for involuntary migrants from Ukraine (in German)
  • Oksana Mikheieva

July 18, 2024

  • Forced migration
Webseite
Return intentions among Ukrainian refugees in Europe: A Cross-National Study
  • Frank van Tubergen
  • Gusta Wachter
  • Yuliya Kosyakova
  • Irena Kogan

June 22, 2024

  • Forced migration
Webseite
Forced Migration from Ukraine: migration scenarios 2.0
  • Franck Düvell

January 30, 2024

  • Forced migration
Prague Process
Wartime (im)mobilities: effects of aspirations-capabilities on displaced Ukrainians in Canada and Germany and their viewpoints on those who remain in Ukraine
  • Aryan Karimi
  • Yuliya Byelikova

January 28, 2024

In war times, what differentiates those who manage to flee from those who remain behind? Based on 468 qualitative interview and survey responses with displaced Ukrainians’ in Canada and Germany, and the aspirations-capabilities framework, we identify how macro-level policies and individual resources and aspirations combine to shape wartime (im)mobility outcomes.

  • Forced migration
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
War-time volunteering and population displacement: from spontaneous help to organised volunteering in post-2014 Ukraine
  • Oksana Mikheieva
  • Irina Kuznetsova

January 11, 2024

  • Forced migration
Webseite
Self-selection of Ukrainian refugees and displaced persons in Europe
  • Frank van Tubergen
  • Irena Kogan
  • Yuliya Kosyakova
  • Steffen Pötzschke

December 6, 2023

  • Forced migration
Webseite
Surveys with Arriving Migrants from Ukraine
  • EUAA

October 9, 2023

  • Forced migration
Webseite
MRS No. 77 - Internally displaced and immobile people in Ukraine between 2014 and 2022: Older age and disabilities as factors of vulnerability
  • Irina Kuznetsova
  • Oksana Mikheieva

August 24, 2023

Authored by Irina Kuznetsova and Oksana Mikheieva, this Migration Research Series paper explores the impacts of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine on the individuals that were displaced before 2022. The authors argue that the pre-existing vulnerabilities of those stranded in occupied areas since February 2022 have been exacerbated, particularly at the intersections of displacement and immobility, and disability, older ag, and housing.

  • Forced migration
International Organization for Migration
Editorial Introduction: Migration Dynamics, Trajectories and Policies in the Context of Russian Full-Scale Aggression against Ukraine
  • Oksana Mikheieva
  • Marta Jaroszewicz

July 28, 2023

  • Forced migration
Webseite
Poland Intention Survey Results: Intentions and Perspectives of Refugees from Ukraine (April - May 2023)

July 7, 2023

  • Forced migration
UNHCR
Ukraine - Internal Displacement Report - General Population Survey Round 13

July 3, 2023

  • Forced migration
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Ukraine’s Demography in the Second Year of the Full-Fledged War
  • Ella Libanova

June 27, 2023

  • Forced migration
Webseite
Spatial Patterns of Recent Ukrainian Refugees in Germany: Administrative Dispersal and Existing Ethnic Networks
  • Lenore Sauer
  • Andreas Ette
  • Hans Walter Steinhauer
  • Manuel Siegert
  • Kerstin Tanis

June 27, 2023

  • Integration
  • Forced migration
Comparative Population Studies
A year of full-scale war in Ukraine: thoughts, feelings, actions
  • Alina Khelashvili
  • Anastasiia Bobrova
  • Yelyzaveta Khassi
  • Olena Syrbu
  • Natalia Lomonosova
  • Yulia Nazarenko

June 20, 2023

Findings of the fifth wave research

  • Forced migration
Cedos
Displacement in War-Torn Ukraine
  • Viktoriya Sereda

June 16, 2023

  • Forced migration
Cambridge University Press
Feminized forced migration: Ukrainian war refugees
  • Josephine Andrews
  • Jakub Isański
  • Marek Nowak
  • Victoriya Sereda
  • Alexandra Vacroux
  • Hanna Vakhitova

May 25, 2023

This paper looks at war-induced migration flows from Ukraine to Poland and Germany in 2022 to understand who is migrating and the challenges they face. Data were collected in the spring and summer of 2022 through survey questionnaires and interviews. The results of the research reveal that a) this wave of migration from Ukraine is overwhelmingly female; b) women are often migrating with children, which makes arranging appropriate childcare and school placement essential to their entry into the destination workforce; c) Ukrainian labor migration patterns before the war have had a significant impact on current flows; d) Ukrainian refugees to Poland and Germany often want to be able to travel regularly back to Ukraine; this affects their willingness to apply for temporary protection schemes that oblige them to remain in destination countries, which in turn makes it difficult to precisely quantify the number of refugees in a given country.

  • Forced migration
Women's Studies International Forum
Education and Displacement: Ukrainian Families in Germany
  • Irina Mützelburg
  • Félix Krawatzek

April 1, 2023

An online survey was conducted among displaced Ukrainian parents in Germany in the summer of 2022 as well as numerous qualitative interviews with both parents and pupils. The findings show the extent to which pursuing their education in parallel in Germany and Ukraine is placing a double burden on young Ukrainians. At the same time, the research sheds light on the reasons for educational choices and how families navigate this new situation.

  • Forced migration
  • Integration
Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien ZOIS
Mental health outcomes and quality of life of Ukrainian refugees in Germany
  • Johanna Buchcik
  • Viktoriia Kovach
  • Abekunle Adedeji

March 9, 2023

The war in Ukraine has generated an increase in the number of refugees. As one of the top recipients of refugees, Germany has introduced policies to ease the integration of Ukrainians. The current study explores mental health outcomes and their association with quality of life among a sample of Ukrainian refugees in Germany.

  • Forced migration
  • Other
Health and Quality of Life Coutcomes
What the Telegram Channels of Ukrainian Migrants in Germany ‘Talk’ and ‘Keep Silent’ About
  • Taisiia Ratushna

March 9, 2023

  • Forced migration
TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research
Fleeing Ukraine: Displaced people’s experiences in the EU

February 28, 2023

This report presents the findings of FRA’s 2022 online survey of displaced people from Ukraine. It covers the 10 EU countries that host a large number of people under temporary protection – Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Spain. Some 14,685 respondents shared their views of arriving and settling in the EU. These provide a unique insight into their experiences and feelings, including those of violence.

The survey findings also illustrate the challenges inherent in applying an instrument of temporary protection to a situation that is likely to have a long-term impact on people and our societies.

  • Forced migration
Address European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
Surveys of Arriving Migrants from Ukraine (SAM - UKR)

February 2, 2023

On 11 April 2022, the EUAA in partnership with OECD launched the Surveys of Arriving Migrants from Ukraine (SAM - UKR). The goal of this project is to collect data directly from displaced people fleeing the war in Ukraine into the EU, on their journey, vulnerability, needs, future aspirations, registration process, family situation and current situation.

  • Forced migration
Webseite
Between Ukraine and Poland. Ukrainian migrants in Poland during the war
  • Agata Gorny
  • Pawel Kaczmarczyk

February 1, 2023

  • Forced migration
Centre of Migration Research
War refugees from Ukraine in Poland – one year after the Russian aggression. Socioeconomic consequences and challenges
  • Maciej Duszczyk
  • Agata Górny
  • Paweł Kaczmarczyk
  • Andrzej Kubisiak

January 24, 2023

  • Forced migration
Webseite
Who will Stay and Who Will Return? Divergent Trajectories of Ukrainian War Refugees in the EU
  • Anastasiya Ryabchuk

January 17, 2023

  • Forced migration
Lefteast
Geflüchtete Frauen aus der Ukraine. Zwischen Ankommen und Rückkehr (in German)
  • Jonna Rock
  • Zeynep Yanaşmayan
  • Ramona Rischke
  • Agnès Bouché
  • Polina Semyonova

December 1, 2022

Since February 2022, more than 7.5 million people have already fled Ukraine. According to UNHCR, one million of them had arrived in Germany by November 2022. The DeZIM project "Refugee Women from Ukraine" conducted in-depth qualitative interviews with 32 women currently living with their children in Berlin and Frankfurt/Oder. The interviews shed light on the challenges the women currently face and the factors that determine whether they intend to stay here or return to Ukraine.

  • Forced migration
  • Integration
Deutsches Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung
Forced displacement from and within Ukraine: Profiles, experiences, and aspirations of affected populations

October 28, 2022

  • Forced migration
EUAA, IOM, OECD
The war in Ukraine: Post-war scenarios and migration repercussions
  • Franck Düvell

June 13, 2022

  • Forced migration
Webseite
The War in Ukraine and Migration to Poland: Outlook and Challenges
  • Maciej Duszczyk
  • Pawel Kaczmarczyk

June 7, 2022

  • Forced migration
Webseite
Geflüchtete aus der Ukraine – Erste deskriptive Ergebnisse einer Onlinebefragung in Deutschland und Polen, Mai 2022 (in German)

May 18, 2022

  • Forced migration
GESIS
Preliminary findings from an online survey of Ukrainian refugees in Germany and Poland (shorter Version)
  • Steffen Pötzschke
  • Bernd Weiß
  • Anna Hebel
  • Joachim G. Piepenburg
  • Oleksandra Popek

May 12, 2022

  • Forced migration
Webseite
Geflüchtete aus der Ukraine - BMI-Pressegespräch, 4.4.2022 (in German)

April 4, 2022

Outcome of a first survey amongst displaced Ukrainian citizens in Germany.

  • Forced migration
Bundesministerium des Innern und für Heimat
Spaces of internal displacement: Understanding the hidden urban geographies of armed conflict in Ukraine
  • Oleksii Havryliuk

March 31, 2022

  • Forced migration
Webseite
93% of Ukrainian refugees plan to return to their home town after the war – poll

March 26, 2022

Representative survey of Ukrainians in March 2022. The results show the extent of internal displacement as well as migration and return aspirations.

  • Forced migration
Rating Group (on Euromaidan Press)
How large will the Ukrainian refugee flow be, and which EU countries will they seek refuge in?
  • Mikael Elinder
  • Oscar Erixson
  • Olle Hammar

March 23, 2022

The report is based on annuals surveys and shows decreasing migration aspirations since 2014, 2015.

  • Forced migration
Delegation for Migration Studies (Delmi)
Ukrainian Labour Migration to the EU. State of Play, Challenges and Solutions
  • Lesia Dubenko
  • Pavlo Kravchuk

March 15, 2022

  • Forced migration
Webseite
International Organization for Migration

Current surveys and reports.

Representative survey of Ukrainians in March 2022 . The outcome shows the degree of internal displacement. However, this conflicts with the actual registrations which are significantly lower.

  • Forced migration
International Organization for Migration
Situation Reports

Updates on an almost daily basis.
Humanitarian situation in Ukraine, internally displaced people (IDPs).

  • Forced migration
OCHA – United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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