Is it true that all sensible people want to go abroad? Bashny.Net

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, 5 million people have left Ukraine. 90% of refugees abroad are women, children and the elderly. Of these, 3 million have been sheltered by Poland and 2 million have already returned home. There are about 3.5 million Ukrainians in Europe. But sociologists and anthropologists say there will be a second wave of emigration. This is due to several factors. According to polls, 20% of refugees in Poland plan to stay here forever. Sociologists say that society after the war in Ukraine will still go abroad with the prospect of staying there for life.



The main reason people decided to leave their homes is security. Mothers want their children to walk in the safe forest and not hear the sound of sounding sirens and rockets exploding at night. Some areas in Ukraine are still not safe. No one knows if their house is still intact. People don’t know where to go back. Even if the entire infrastructure is built up sooner or later, it will take years.

Over the years, Ukrainians will learn a foreign language and find work, and their children will go to school and find friends. Everyone is gradually integrated into society. When martial law in Ukraine is lifted, husbands and sons will come to reunite with their families.



There are pros and cons in Europe, but at the moment there is a better infrastructure for people with disabilities, they are also likely to want to stay there. Not everyone has the means to move to a safer region in Ukraine. The money runs out and people go abroad, where they get minimal help. Abroad, refugees from Ukraine find a free place to live, draw up benefits and help in finding work.



The main danger for Ukraine is the departure of promising young specialists. Working youth will have more opportunities in Europe for their development. This, of course, will have a deplorable impact on the economy and demographic situation of Ukraine.

General Director of the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology Vladimir Paniotto suggests that the Ukrainian society after the war will lose another 5 million people due to emigration. Although the figure may be quite different: "It all depends on how long the war lasts, whether the Ukrainians will return to where they will go." Now even those who want to return can not say for sure whether they will return home or not, says Vladimir Paniotto.



About 7% of people who will not return to Ukraine are people who planned to move before the war, but for some reason could not do it sooner. At the moment, 80 percent of respondents in Europe want to return home. People will come back. However, the longer the war lasts, the fewer want to return. And yet Ukrainians have reasons to return.



Ukrainian women want to give birth to children not abroad, but in their own country. They want to raise and educate heirs surrounded by relatives and friends, influenced by cultural achievements and Ukrainian traditions. Not everyone can take root in another country. It is more difficult for an adult to learn a foreign language and master a foreign society with a different mentality than for children. Most Ukrainians did not leave their homes voluntarily. Many left their relatives, jobs, and homes in Ukraine, fleeing bombing in their hometown.



Sociologist Vladimir Paniotto expressed concern about the people who remained in Ukraine and began to condemn IDPs. He believes that this trend is dangerous for Ukraine. Feeling outcast, refugees will not want to return or stay in Ukraine. People are important to a country's prosperity. Now Ukraine is losing a lot of people at the front, and if the refugees from Europe do not return, there will be no one to rebuild the state.

We will have to simplify the procedure for the entry of refugees from countries in which the situation in the country is even worse. It will be people with other religions, traditions, moral values. However, according to the sociologist, Ukraine will face problems. The same problems that countries with large numbers of refugees have. And this is unemployment, rising housing prices and its shortage, problems with social security for all residents of the country and so on.



Vital wisdom and editorial advice Ukraine is a resource-rich country where brave and kind people live. No matter how many people leave Ukraine, true patriots will return to rebuild their state and make it even better than it was before the war. In every country there are advantages and disadvantages. But you can not even for a few years get used to other people who speak an unfamiliar language, and feel yourself among them. If 3 months ago there were those who condemned the problems in the country, now Ukrainians are rallying against the aggressor. People who fight on their land for their country cannot afford defeat.

Many refugees now want to return home. Europe was not ready for the influx of refugees and the problems that many people faced because of the invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine. Hunger for 1.7 billion people in the world is an important problem. The situation is critical because Ukraine is unable to export 25 million tons of grain abroad.

The war, including the information war, concerns those who do not consider themselves involved in this tragedy. Foreigners are already feeling rising prices for food, housing and fuel, with many expressing discontent. People still don’t understand why they’re uncomfortable. The whole world should trumpet the war in Ukraine until it ends. Society after the war in Ukraine will not be the same, neither abroad nor in Ukraine.



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