Ukrayna'dan Toplu Göç Dalgasının Göç-Çatışma Modeli Açısından Değerlendirilmesi
Long Term View of Refugee Flow from Ukraine: War, Migration and Insecurities

Summary/Abstract: This article employs the Conflict-migration model to shed light on the mass immigration from Ukraine that emerged in the context of Russian invasion by showing its connection with the past waves of immigration from the country. Ukraine can be described as an environment of insecurity since its independence, despite the heightened insecurity with the start of the Russian invasion. Ukraine witnessed several types of migration triggered by this environment including labour migration, ethnic resettlement, asylum seeking, internal displacement and student migration. Although these refer to differing categories in legal terms, they all involve a common underlying premise – that, they are all motivated by one or another form of human insecurity. According to the Migration-conflict model, human insecurity is formed at the intricate intersection of economic, social, political and cultural conflict situations. Although the recent Ukrainian migration has been introduced as a big crisis, from a conflict model, this migration can only be seen as a continuation of human insecurity, only being enhanced by the recent armed conflict. International migration from Ukraine, triggered by the democratic, economic and demographic deficits (3Ds), has in time expanded the social networks and the Ukrainian diaspora abroad. Immigration of Ukrainians in the context of Russian invasion were moderated by this existing culture of migration as well as by various types of capital including social, financial, human and physical capability (4Cs). Surely, the welcoming attitude of Europe, which was not displayed towards other refugee groups outside Europe, had made a distinctive contribution to the safe and fast exodus of Ukrainians.

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