Challenges, Opportunities and Risks of Migration from Ukraine to Slovakia (and the V4)
Challenges, Opportunities and Risks of Migration from Ukraine to Slovakia (and the V4)

Author(s): Vladimír Benč
Subject(s): Sociology, Migration Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)
Keywords: Challenges; Opportunities; Risks; Migration; Ukraine; Slovakia;
Summary/Abstract: Slovakia is not yet a traditional destination country for migrants – it has one of the lowest proportions of migrants in the population among EU Member States. However, because of economic growth in the last two decades and catching up economically with older EU Member States, as well as the inflow of foreign direct investments (Slovakia converged to 73% of the GDP per capita compared with the EU27 average in 2012, while this was 47% in 1995; at the same time the Bratislava region became the 5th richest region in the EU), Slovakia, and the Bratislava region in particular, is slowly becoming a destination for economic migrants. Moreover, migration is becoming a very important part of population growth in Slovakia, and if there had not been a positive balance in international migration Slovakia would have experienced in the years 2001–2002 its first drop in population in 70 years (see Chart 1).

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