While 5 million Ukrainians left their country, only 57,000 of them are installed in the hexagon.
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Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, February 24, nearly five million Ukrainians have left their country. From this unprecedented exodus in Europe since the Second World War, a tiny share of them turned to France.
As of April 18, according to the data from the French Office for Immigration and Integration (OFII), 57,000 Ukrainians perceived the subsistence allowance granted by the State, which gives an idea Fine enough of the number of Ukrainians who have requested temporary protection in France, as well as children who accompany them. A figure that leads to relativising the power of attraction of the country, at a time when the theme of migratory submersion or the excessive generosity of social benefits is agitated on the far right.
“The attractiveness of a country is a number of factors and in particular the preliminary existence or not a community, Analysis Didier Leschi, the Director of OFII. Or, France was not a country where the Ukrainian community was important. “In 2021, a little less than 19,000 Ukrainians had a residence permit on the territory.
Conversely, 1.5 million Ukrainians resided in Poland before the war, including a majority of migrant workers. Poland is today and without surprise the first host country of Ukraine refugees. According to data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the country has seen 2.8 million Ukrainians estimated that 70% to 80% remained. In addition to the fact that the existence of a diaspora represents the possibility of help to find housing or fit into the economic fabric, “80% of refugees are women and children who want to stay in neighboring countries for Return to the earliest, “says Leschi. The Voluntary Refugee Distribution Program set up at the end of March by the European Commission to relieve Moldova – which hosted nearly half a million Ukrainians – does not meet a great success. “People do not seize all the offers, far from it,” says Leschi, while France has promised to welcome through 2,500 Ukrainians.
In Europe, it is in Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Spain or Italy, that Ukrainian refugees go, and where were the most important diasporas. A reality that refers in particular to economic migration in the 1990s and 2000s. “On the 286,000 Ukrainians present in Italy, there are 183,000 women, for example, Didier Leschi. These are the” bady “, who make the Home help for the elderly. ”
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