Migration and adaptation capabilities, aspirations and strategies of displaced Ukrainians in Berlin, Budapest and Warsaw: A longitudinal qualitative panel analysis
©Kateryna Chornenka
This project investigates the migration and adaptation capabilities, aspirations, and strategies of Ukrainians who fled from their home country to Berlin, Budapest or Warsaw after the full-scaled Russian invasion on the 24 February 2022 over time. The aim of this project is to conduct every year semi-structured interviews with the same sample of displaced Ukrainians who fled to Berlin, Budapest and Warsaw. The first interview wave started in spring and summer 2022 with a sample of 100 displaced Ukrainians in Berlin, 55 in Budapest and 100 in Warsaw. We plan to continue the yearly interviews until 2027. The interviews cover the topics of displaced Ukrainians' migration experience, their further migration plans and expectations, their adaptation experiences, aspirations, and strategies in multiple social and economic aspects, and the resources they can draw on for navigating as displaced migrants in their place of residence.
The overall project's goal is to understand the capabilities, aspirations, and strategies of displaced Ukrainians regarding migration and adaptation under the constraints of their forced migration and the origin and host contexts. The longitudinal qualitative panel design of our study (repeated semi-structured interviews over seven years with the sample of displaced Ukrainians in three destination countries) will enable us to analyse time dynamics in the migration and adaptation capabilities, aspirations and strategies of displaced migrants.
The team is composed of three PhD students (Larissa Kokonowskyj; Daria Potapova; Kseniia Shvets) and of Céline Teney as project leader. Furthermore, several Ukrainian research assistants support us in the conduction of interviews in the three cities. This project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and by the Free University of Berlin.
- Presentation entitled „Adaptation experiences of displaced Ukrainian families in Berlin” given at a workshop organized by the Wissenschaftliches Beirat für Familienfragen and by the Bundesinstituts für Bevölkerungsforschung, November 2023. Link to DE version | UA version
- Posters prepared for the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin, June 2023
Link to EN version | UA version