According to a fresh survey by the employment agency Gremi individual conducted among citizens Ukraine in Poland, the number of Ukrainians planning to stay in our country is expected to fall twice compared to last year. According to the results, 25 percent of Ukrainians who arrived in Poland about 2 years ago were refugees who left their country under the appearance of a threat of life in connection with the escalation of the conflict.
The survey besides showed that 43 percent of the Ukrainians surveyed are presently experiencing difficulties in deciding to return to Ukraine. However, 19% of them plan to stay in Poland for longer, at least until the end of the armed conflict.
As for the prospects for the future, 15% of respondents do not anticipate to return to their homeland in the next 5 years, 13% intend to return within six months, and 10% plan to return within a year.
Lega artis AppIt is worth noting that last year, according to data from the erstwhile survey, 38 percent of Ukrainians planned to stay in Poland, 7 percent considered emigrating to another country, and 55 percent planned to return to Ukraine.
– Our investigation shows that the number of people who powerfully plan to stay in Poland has fallen by half compared to last year. That's a immense number, given the number of Ukrainians surviving on the Vistula River., who are the largest group of foreigners, stressed president Gremi individual Evgeny Kirichenko.
At the end of January, ZUS recalled that the number of Ukrainian citizens registered for insurance was almost 756,000.
The return of a large number of people is good news for Ukraine – Kirichenko, however, said.
The question was whether and how the Polish government plans to encourage 43 percent of respondents to stay in Poland.
In the study:
- 36% of respondents said they came to Poland little than a year ago,
- 25 percent have been in Poland for 2 years,
- 15 percent between a year and 2 years,
- 10 percent have been here for over a year,
- 7% have been here for over 4 and 5 years.
To ask for motivation to arrive:
- 30% pointed to their attracting higher level of pay,
- 27 percent said they didn't feel safe in Ukraine,
- 24 percent refused to answer that question,
- 10 percent said it was their friends who convinced them,
- 9 percent wanted to join the family.
Refugees and labour migrants. "They have another priorities"
Yuri Grygorenko, the chief analyst of the Gremi individual Analyst Centre, pointed out that 1 4th of Ukrainians who arrived in Poland about 2 years ago were refugees who left Ukraine immediately after the outbreak of the large-scale war.
– In public debate, refugees are put on the same footing as economical migrants, and they should not, due to the fact that these people have completely different life prioritiesAnd plans for the future. The decision on emigration is an individual matter, but countries have many mechanisms to encourage settlement in a given country, for example, specified solutions have late been adopted by Germany, shortening the number of years required to get citizenship whether Canada, which attracts mainly specialized talents, indicated Grygorenko.
As he stressed, the public in Poland is waiting for the government to introduce the alleged "Migrant Bible", which is to take all these issues into account.
The survey conducted by the Gremi individual Analyst Centre was carried out utilizing an electronic questionnaire from 15 December 2023 to 15 March 2024, with the participation of 1150 Ukrainians residing in Poland.
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