Eastern Europe Feeds on a Shrinking Ukraine - Bloomberg
...The giveaway is that data from neighboring countries show that large numbers of Ukrainians are moving, especially to eastern Europe, and more have been tempted to do so since the EU introduced visa-free travel in June 2017.
... Eurostat says 662,000 Ukrainians, more than any other nationality, received EU residence permits in 2017. ...Most of the inflow went to Poland
...Ukrainians are already the biggest community of legally resident foreigners in the Czech Republic — 117,000 out of a total population of 10.5 million.
....Migrant remittances, which last year amounted to 13.8 percent of Ukraine’s economic output, according to the World Bank, are perhaps the best measure of the Ukrainian population outflow.
... a growing number of Ukrainians are working outside their home country, and their number is likely higher than the 5.9 million estimated by the United Nations in 2017.
...The eastern European resistance to accepting refugees isn’t anti-immigrant sentiment per se: it’s anti-Muslim and often racist, and it’s based on a common perception that immigrants from outside Europe won’t want to work or blend in.
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