Politics, Identity and Civic Engagement

Comparing the Protest Participation of Ukrainian Migrants in the Home and Host Countries

Bibliographic Data

ID11048883
AuthorsYuliya Biletska (0000-0001-7496-1881, Karabük University), Gherghina (0000-0002-6627-5598, University of Glasgow, corresponding author)
Year2025
Pages1-16
Publication date2025-02-10
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/nps.2025.7
OpenAlexW4407341758
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited48

Migrant protest activity has been often analyzed from the perspectives of the protest nature and issues it addressed. A comparison of protest behaviour before and after migration is largely missing. It remains unclear whether people who were actively protesting in their home country continue to be engaged in protests after migration and why. This article addresses this gap in the literature and aims to explain what made the Ukrainian migrants protest before leaving their home country and in Turkey as a host country. The analysis uses individual data from an original survey conducted in May 2023 among 935 Ukrainian migrants living in Turkey. The findings show that there are different migrants who participate in the protests organized in the two countries, and the strongest predictor for political protest is civic engagement. Protest in Ukraine is rooted in the orientation towards domestic politics, while protests abroad are driven by identitarian dimensions

Civic engagement · Identity (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Survey data collection · Ukrainian · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social Media and Politics

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