The Location of Asylum Seekers in Europe Before and Afer Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
(2022) CES-IFO Forum : a quarterly journal on economic trends in the Federal Republic of Germany — Vol. 23, n° 4, p. 21-27 (2022)
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- Three months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, more than 4.7 million asylum seekers from Ukraine were recorded across Europe (including Russia) and close to 7 million crossings were registered at the country’s borders by the end of May (UNHCR 2022). The number of forcibly displaced is approaching the worldwide Ukrainian diaspora recorded at the end of June 2020 (6.1 million; UNDESA 2022). It exceeds the total number of asylum applications observed between 2016 and 2020 in EU27 countries (3.4 million; UNHCR 2021). A large share of the displaced population, estimated at around 58 percent at the end of May 2022, is hosted in one of Ukraine’s neighboring countries, including 25 percent in Russia and Belarus. This is consistent with the fact that geographical distance is the main determinant of asylum location choices (Beine et al. 2021; World Bank 2018). In fact, before the onset of the Ukrainian war, 70 percent of refugees worldwide were hosted in a region bordering their origin country (UNHCR 2021).
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Guichard, L., Machado, J., & Maystadt, J.-F. (2022). The Location of Asylum Seekers in Europe Before and Afer Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine. CES-IFO Forum : a quarterly journal on economic trends in the Federal Republic of Germany, 23(4), 21-27. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/103015 (Original work published 2022)