Olena Fedyuk

University of Strathclyde · Department of Human Resource Management

The aim of this report is to analyse the support provided to Ukrainian women in Poland and Italy displaced as a result of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The analysis focuses on the actions taken by social actors in the agriculture and domestic services sectors. Both countries have been facing labour shortages in these sectors f...

This volume addresses the main underlying causes of care migration and aims to draw attention to the increasing inequalities in provision and access to care on a European scale. The book focuses on care migra- tion from and to central and eastern European countries and contains chapters on migration to and from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia,...

The interview in its various forms, applications and methods of analysing data remains a central tool in qualitative research. For migration studies, this method has proved indispensable, especially when researching vulnerable groups of people on the move, and collecting data about various aspects of irregularity, grey economic activities, and the...

Research on post-independence Ukrainian migration to the EU has seen a proliferation of qualitative works on women in migration. In Ukraine gendered analysis often bears a very narrow interpretation, in which gendered stands for female, while female stands for familial or emotional. Thus the migration debate is hijacked by a narrow understanding of...

While migration to Italy constitutes only the second largest migration stream from Ukraine, it has surpassed in volume the migration flows to Russia, Czech Republic, and Poland in terms of its visibility. Media and political discourses, academics and civic organizations, as well as in the Ukrainian vernacular, often refer to it as “mothers’ migrati...

ver the last 15 years, since the entry into force of the Amsterdam Treaty, migration policy in the European Union has principally focused on security-related issues of migration, such as border management, visa policy and readmission agreements. In the field of legal migration, the EU directives have, next to creating a right to family reunificatio...

The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between female employment and gender equality, with a special focus on care and family policies shaping women's potential labour market participation in ageing European societies. The paper maps how different care regimes, family policy constellations and gender equality policies directly and ind...

Photographs occupy a special place among the tokens of love and care that glue together transnational families: they fill in the absences, compensate for the lack of intimacy and serve as a reminder of the ‘other life’ that was disrupted by migration. Through examining the photos that circulate between Ukrainian migrant mothers in Italy and their f...