According to Natalya Parkhomenko, an expert at the Center for Peace, Conversion and Foreign Policy of Ukraine, Ukrainian publications very rarely publish high-quality analytics on this topic, and journalists prefer the assessments of politicians over those of experts.
Experts, however, do not consider labor migration a negative phenomenon and call it a global and multifaceted phenomenon.
Within the framework of the project, 20 interviews were conducted with experts representing executive authorities and their analytical centers, institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and international migration organizations.
Experts consider the positive consequences of labor migration to be the employment opportunities for residents of economically depressed regions of the country, as well as the stimulation of processes to create more attractive working conditions in Ukraine.
Experts consider the negative aspects of labor migration to be 'the stripping of Ukraine's labor market, which will lead to these places being filled by representatives of third world countries.'
As part of the study, 20 labor migrants from different regions of the country were also interviewed, the majority of whom believe that Ukraine's entry into the EU is in Ukraine's interests and will accelerate the process of reforms in the country.
According to the study results, a total of 713 publications on this topic were recorded over 11 months. The main topics for publications in February-March 2007 were the possible consequences of restrictions on the labor market for foreigners in the Russian Federation, in May-June - the parliament's amendments to electoral legislation and related problems of organizing voting for Ukrainian citizens abroad. In September, the media became active around the topic of election fraud in parliament in regions whose residents are most actively involved in labor migration.
Over the past month, according to the study results, the media most actively discussed the signing of an agreement on a simplified visa regime between Ukraine and the European Union and the possible quantitative increase in Ukrainian labor migrants.
The study was conducted by the Center for Peace, Conversion and Foreign Policy of Ukraine with the support of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ukraine.
• It is not for nothing that experts believe that migration is a multifaceted phenomenon and, besides negative aspects, brings positive moments to the economic and political life of the country. Let us recall at least such 'migration' countries as the USA or Canada, whose development without the participation of a multi-million army of migrants is simply unimaginable.
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