The case of Ukraine has exposed old problems that migrant and refugee women have long faced. Since there is ample evidence that international migration policies are not adapted to the needs of migrant women, today we have the opportunity to change this by demanding a gender-sensitive approach in the formulation of these policies. Such policies must also be inclusive, covering all migrant women regardless of their origin, legal status, skin color, religion, social class, or sexual orientation.

5 reasons why Ukrainian female migration is a feminist issue

5 reasons why Ukrainian female migration is a feminist issue.

„[T]he problems of Moldovan history are the problems of Eastern European history writ small”, states [Rebecca Haynes](https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/moldova-9781788318129/). What is meant by this, and which factors or developments speak for this argument, are the subject of this post. 

Graffiti in Chişinău (Transnistria – Moldovan soil!), summer 2018

Moldova, and why it matters

Seit der russischen Invasion im Februar 2022 sind zahlreiche ukrainische Rom*nja  auf der Flucht. Angehörigen der Minderheit wird die Ausreise aus der Ukraine aber oft erschwert. Für diejenigen, die es trotzdem schaffen in den vermeintlich sicheren Westen zu fliehen, geht die Diskriminierung aufgrund ihrer ethnischen Zugehörigkeit aber weiter. Dabei sind fehlende Ausweispapiere ein ebenso großes Hindernis wie ungarisch-ukrainische Doppelstaatsbürgerschaften.

Seit der russischen Invasion der Ukraine fliehen nun auch viele Rom*nja in die Nachbarländer, insbesondere nach Moldawien und in die angrenzenden EU-Staaten Tschechien, Ungarn oder Polen.

Die Flucht der "Anderen" 

Why the Ukrainian flag in the window matters

Da secoli, guerre, persecuzioni e, sempre più spesso, i disastri naturali spingono le persone a fuggire dal proprio paese e a migrare in cerca di rifugio e protezione, ma anche di condizioni di vita sicure. Nonostante ciò, prima della fine degli anni ‘90, l’Italia non rappresentava una delle principali mete migratorie, né per i migranti economici che per i rifugiati. È per questo che ancora oggi tanto i politici quanto l’opinione pubblica difficilmente definiscono l’Italia una nazione di immigrazione.

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I rifugiati ucraini in Italia: dove sono e quanto conta la comunità ucraina preesistente

[Ten million people living in Ukraine have fled](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60555472#:~:text=Ten%20million%20people%20have%20now,the%20war%2Dtorn%20country%20itself.) to the European Union since the Russian invasion. Legally speaking, there is [little doubt that these persons can be classified as asylum-seekers.](https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/news/ukraine-invasion-these-are-the-procedures-that-await-ukrainian-asylum-seekers-in-eu/) So far, the main destination countries have been those which border Ukraine: Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary. Poland, Slovakia and Hungary are members of the so-called [Visegrad Group](https://www.visegradgroup.eu/about), also commonly known as V4 which is made up by 4 members: the aforementioned as well as the  Czech Republic. The sudden mass influx of asylum-seekers is a test for the V4 and is disrupting the approach to migration and solidarity they have been pursuing so far, to such an extent that about it can even be described as a veritable – and [somehow unexpected – “U-turn”](https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/visegrad-countries-u-turn-on-migration-over-ukraine-welcome-refugees/).

The sudden mass influx of asylum-seekers is a test for the V4 and is disrupting the approach to migration and solidarity they have been pursuing so far.

Visegrad countries U-turn on migration: fresh impetus for EU asylum policy?

“Kyiv is under siege and so is democracy!“ Ukraine as a new EU member? The return of politics to EU integration

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