Czech, Polish, Slovak and Ukrainian experts will present their research on migration patterns in Ukraine after annexation of Crimea and start of military conflict in 2014.

They will focus in particular on the following questions:

1) How Crimea annexation and conflict in Eastern Ukraine has influenced mobility patterns of Ukrainian population?

2) What are the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of internally displaced persons and asylum seekers from Ukraine?

3) What are the main motives that drive internally displaced persons and asylum seekers to leave the conflict zone?

4) Has Crimea annexation and conflict in Eastern Ukraine influenced labour migration in Ukrainian society?

5) What is the legal and social situation of Ukrainian forced migrants?

6) What could be done to better address the needs of Ukrainian forced migrants? What policy changes could be implemented by Ukrainian government, governments of Visegrad countries and the EU?

Date and place:

13th September 2016, Warsaw (PL Centrum Konferencyjne KOPERNIKA,ul. Kopernika 30
at 9 am

14th September 2016, Bratislava (SK), Hotel Tatra, Námestie 1. mája 5, Salon Grand, at 9 am. 

Research conducted by:

Geographic Migration Center – GEOMIGRACE (CZE)

Research Centre of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (SK)

Centre for Eastern Studies (PL)

Europe without Barriers (UA)

with support of Visegrud Fund