Female Ukrainian war refugees: two years in Poland

Female Ukrainian war refugees: two years in Poland It will soon be the second anniversary of the outbreak of the war between Russia and Ukraine. The conflict has forced millions of Ukrainian citizens to seek shelter beyond their country’s borders. Part of the war refugees have arrived in Poland. In this context, within the framework of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for War Research in Ukraine, we conducted survey research to examine how refugees in Poland are coping and whether they are integrating with the Polish society. This is the second research conducted among war refugees. The first study was conducted in April/May 2022. Based on this study, a publication titled „War Refugees from Ukraine-Life in Poland and Plans for the Future” was issued. https://omp.academicon.pl/wa/catalog/book/uchodzcy-ukraina In the study at hand, the focus is exclusively on female refugees, as they constitute the vast majority of the refugee population in Poland. Socio-demographic characteristics In the studied group of women, three-quarters (¾) lived in large cities (over 500,000 inhabitants) before the war, with only 6% residing in rural areas. The majority of refugees originate from the Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Kiev Oblasts. The average age was 44. More than half of the surveyed group was aged between 35 and 44 (46%). The majority of the respondents had higher education (83%). The refugees originate from families which were financially well-off before the outbreak of the war (65%). Children Among the surveyed women, 66% were married, and 53% arrived in Poland alone with their children. Of these women, 38% ….READ MORE