Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society 50: 21-34, doi: 10.3897/jbgs.e115315
Migration and challenges arising from the Russian armed conflict in 2022: The case of Zakarpattia
Rossen Koroutchev‡‡ Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain
Corresponding author: Rossen Koroutchev ( rkoroutchev@yahoo.es ) Academic editor: Boris Kazakov © Rossen Koroutchev. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Koroutchev R (2024) Migration and challenges arising from the Russian armed conflict in 2022: The case of Zakarpattia. Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society 50: 21-34. https://doi.org/10.3897/jbgs.e115315 |  |
Abstract
The current study delves into the contemporary challenges within the Zakarpattia region of Western Ukraine. It accomplishes this by examining the circumstances of the local populace and the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) hailing from Eastern Ukraine who arrived following the onset of the armed conflict in February 2022. Official statistics were employed to scrutinize the social and economic characteristics of the IDPs, as well as their influence on local development in Zakarpattia. These findings were then compared to the on-site research conducted by the author in the region during August 2023. The primary conclusions drawn from this research affirm the amelioration of the local economic status and job prospects in Zakarpattia as well as the adaptation of the IDPs to the new life in the region.
Keywords
Internally displaced persons, local development, migration, Ukraine