Elusive privilege: class, race and gender in Ukrainian war migrants' (un)employment in France

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dc.contributor.authorGorbach, Denysen_US
dc.contributor.authorPolshchykova, Yevheniia en_US
dc.contributor.authorRyabchuk, Anastasiyaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-17T06:56:59Z
dc.date.available2021-06-17T06:56:59Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractWhat happens when the state removes the usual obstacles preventing refugees to ‘integrate’? Our article analyses the case of Ukrainians who fled the war to settle in France. Their legal status is different from that of ‘classic’ refugees: the EU directive on temporary protection gives them the freedom to move and the right to work. Moreover, they benefit from a rather positive attitude of the general public. The absence of racist stereotypes and institutional barriers, however, does not translate into easy integration into the labour market: 2 years after the beginning of the Ukrainian exile, two thirds of the refugees in Western Europe remain unemployed. Based on our fieldwork made in three French regions from February to August 2023, we analyse the predicament of Ukrainian war migrants. We conclude that granting formal access to jobs and putting racist discrimination on pause is not enough to overcome other handicaps: lack of language and other ‘soft’ skills; lack of social capital that would allow insertion into formal and informal labour markets; the burden of social reproduction magnified by forced single motherhood; and the temporary nature of one’s supposedly generous legal status. The latter turns the perceived privilege into a handicap: Ukrainians are tolerated temporarily and being increasingly differentiated into ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’, ‘productive’ and ‘unproductive’ migrants. While those deemed ‘productive’ may be encouraged to remain in the EU, those who fail to integrate into the labour market are likely to gradually be cut off from social support and forced to return to Ukraine. en_US
dc.identifier.citationGorbach D. Elusive privilege: class, race and gender in Ukrainian war migrants' (un)employment in France / Denys Gorbach, Yevheniia Polshchykova, Anastasiya Ryabchuk // Dialectical Anthropology. - 2024. - [17] p.. - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-024-09754-8en_US
dc.identifier.issn1573-0786
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-024-09754-8
dc.identifier.urihttps://ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/handle/123456789/20118
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.sourceDialectical Anthropologyen_US
dc.statusfirst publisheden_US
dc.subjectdeservingnessen_US
dc.subjectFranceen_US
dc.subjectmigrant labouren_US
dc.subjectrefugeesen_US
dc.subjectUkraineen_US
dc.subjectwar migrantsen_US
dc.subjectarticleen_US
dc.titleElusive privilege: class, race and gender in Ukrainian war migrants' (un)employment in France en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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