Using 2023 Eurobarometer data combined with Eurostat, World Bank, and OECD data, we conducted multilevel analyses to examine how realistic and symbolic group threats explain public support for EU's decision to accept Ukrainian refugees. Higher GDP per capita predicted support, as did a positive household financial situation at the individual level. Support was higher among unemployed, while manual worker status was insignificant, suggesting limited labour market competition concerns. Perceived threat from Russia increased support, whereas domestic security concerns lowered it. Stronger national and European identities and perceived cultural proximity to Eastern neighbours were also positively associated with support.
This article examines how war-driven displacement reshapes migrant civil society and ethnic positioning. Focusing on Ukrainian associations in Turkey after Russia's 2022 invasion, it draws on in-depth interviews across six provinces. Building on diaspora mobilization and social movement theory, the study advances the concept of "diasporic SMOization" to explain organizational transformation during crises. Findings reveal that Ukrainian associations shifted from cultural groups to hybrid actors combining humanitarian aid, advocacy, and political protest. This evolution, embedded in a constrained civic space, demonstrates how crisis-induced mobilization reconfigures collective identity and organizational repertoires under conditions of legal hierarchy and geopolitical conflict.
This paper explores the experiences of native volunteers in buddy scheme programs with refugees in Italy. The paper addresses the following questions: to what extent and how does native volunteers' engagement assume political significance for them? If so, in what terms and in what phase of the buddy scheme? Drawing on qualitative research conducted between May and December 2024, we argue that buddies' understandings of their experience is political, resulting in: deconstruction of stereotypes associated with refugees; increased awareness of power asymmetries; more critical understanding of migration policies; ri-signification of urban public spaces; fostering of more egalitarian social relations.
