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Ukraine: Labor Migration

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Ukraine, Economics & Business, Governance, International Relations, Labor, Media & Journalism, Migration & Immigration, Politics

Ukrainiana explains [1] why a social ad against labor migration currently being aired in Ukraine is actually no good: “Forget it, say millions of skilled blue-collar and thousands of white-collar Ukrainians who work abroad. Known as zarobitchany, they sent an estimated $8.4 billion worth of remittances [2] to Ukraine in 2006, a figure twice as high as the country’s FDI [foreign direct investment] for that year.”