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8 - Ukrainian Refugees to Europe in 2022

Multiple Sources of Deservingness

from Part IV - Inclusionary Migrations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2024

Linda J. Cook
Affiliation:
Brown University, Rhode Island
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Chapter 8 concludes the book with a study of Ukrainian refugees’ migration to Europe after Russia’s brutal attack on their country in February 2022. It shows that publics and elites across Europe’s political spectrum sustained extraordinary levels of support for the refugees’ inclusion, and deploys the book’s analytical framework to explain why. The EU’s Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) provided Ukrainian citizens with immediate and collective protection and full social rights in EU member states. Public opinion data and political parties’ (including populists’) programs are used to account for positive reception of the refugees, based on their multiple sources of deservingness. Relying on UNHCR, OECD, and other studies of refugees’ reported experiences the chapter assesses progress in their social inclusion as well as deficiencies. It considers welfare nationalist grievances that have arisen in Europe and shows that governments have responded to them as ‘normal politics’ rather than by scapegoating the refugees. The chapter ends by comparing European responses to the MENA and Ukrainian refugee migrations, and externalization agreements to address the continuing problem of migration to Europe from MENA and other third countries.

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Welfare Nationalism in Europe and Russia
The Politics of 21st Century Exclusionary and Inclusionary Migrations
, pp. 235 - 268
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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