Emigration from Ukraine

1. Emigration from Ukraine and Czech Republic

2. 2. Migration between Ukraine and CIS and Baltic states in 1990-2005, th.

3. 3. Net migration between Ukraine and CIS and Baltic states in 1990-2005, th.

4. 4. Net migration in 1991-2005, th.

5. 5. Emigration from Ukraineto the countries, which were not the part of the USSR, in 1990-2005, th.

6. 6. Ethnic structure of emigrants going to the countries, which were not the part of the USSR, in 1990-2005, %

7. 7. Ethnic structure of emigrants to Czech Republic in 2000-2005

8. 8. International labor migration according the statistics of official mediators, th.

9. 9. The estimates of the volume of Ukrainian labor migration abroad from different sources • Survey of the State Committee of Statistics of Ukraine (2001) – at least 1.2 M • Estimates of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine – over 2 M • Estimates based on the national sociological monitoring of the Institute of Sociology of the NASU – 2.3 M • Estimates of the Ministry of Labor of Ukraine – 2.5 M • Estimates of the Institute of Demography and Social Research of the NASU -2.7 M • Estimates of the Ukrainian politicians – 5-9 M

10. 10. Last trip of migrants by main occupation in destination, %

11. 11. Last trip of migrants by length,%

12. 12. The educational level of migrants, %

13. 13. The main occupation of migrants at home, %

14. 14. Destinations of Ukrainian labor migrants according to estimates of Ukrainian embassies abroad, th.

15. 15. Destinations of Ukrainian labor migrants according to survey data, %

16. 16. Destinations of different groups of Ukrainian labor migrants according to survey data, %

17. 17. Shares of respondents who worked abroad for over three months • Czech Republic – 59.7% • Russia – 27.7% • Poland – 10.7%

18. 18. Employment Structure of Ukrainian Labor Migrants in Czech Republic, %

19. 19. Employment abroad with the help of Ukrainian official mediators

20. 20. Share of respondents who emigrated with the assistance of the employer • Czech Republic – 16% • Russia – 5.1% • Poland – 1.5%

21. 21. Respondents’ Assessment of Their Work in Czech Republic • Wages were unfair– 50% • Lacked security – 63,9% • Lacked legal support in protecting their rights – 77% • lacked protection from robbery and blackmail – 85%

22. 22. Providing of households with some household equipment and cars

23. 23. Main pillars of migration policy of Ukraine according the President’s Decree of 1977 • Support for repatriations of ethnic Ukrainians; • Return of deported people; • Help to refugees and asylum-seekers; • Regulation of immigration of foreigners and stateless persons to Ukraine.

24. 24. The main directions of the migration policy of Ukraine added in 2000 • 1) protection of social and economic interests and rights of the Ukrainian labor migrants; • 2) preservation of labor and intellectual potential of the state; • 3) elaboration of legal, social and economic principles of regulation of external labor migration of the citizens of Ukraine

25. 25. The main gaps of Ukrainian labor migration policy • Absence of conceptual documents on national migration policy; • Declarative nature of the documents and absence of effective mechanisms of implementation the policy; • Priorities of activity, specified by documents, are mainly in the area of law and did not cover social and economic aspects of labor migration; • The little coordination between different governmental agencies in the field; • Lack of the effective system of collecting, processing and analyzing statistical and other information on migration; • Legal protection of Ukrainians abroad is still defined narrowly in the sense that it is provided by diplomatic officials.