Ukraine: Forced Migration Information Hub

Ethnic composition of the Ukrainian population before the war (2001).

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

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

Report on asylum seekers and refugees in Ukraine before the crisis. Already naturalised groups, such as Afghans and Chechens who arrived in the 1990s, are not included. Neither are Russians and Belarusians who do not apply for asylum. In this respect, the report is incomplete.

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.

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.

Findings of the fifth wave research

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Analyses, politics and information.

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.

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

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