Educational Strategies of Displaced Ukrainians in Berlin and Warsaw: The Role of Transnational Opportunity Structure

IF 2.6 2区社会学 Q1 DEMOGRAPHY

Population Space and Place Pub Date : 2025-04-07 DOI:10.1002/psp.70032

Céline Teney

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This paper investigates the educational strategies of displaced Ukrainian parents regarding their school-age children who fled to Poland and Germany after the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion. The study is based on an abductive analysis of a unique longitudinal qualitative panel data set of 82 semi-structured interviews with displaced Ukrainians with school-age children in Berlin and Warsaw in summer 2022, as well as 60 and 44 follow-up interviews in spring 2023 and spring 2024, respectively. Three distinct educational strategies are identified: (1) online enrolment in the Ukrainian school system while living in the destination country; (2) exclusive incorporation into the education system of the destination country; (3) return to Ukraine and continuing the Ukrainian school curriculum on site. The extent to which interviewees endorse one strategy over the others varies between Warsaw and Berlin and between the three interview waves. The paper highlights the relevance of “transnational opportunity structure” to better understand migrant's agency and strategies of action. This is conceptualised as the set of opportunities and constraints provided by the contexts in which migrants navigate.

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柏林和华沙流离失所的乌克兰人的教育策略：跨国机会结构的作用

本文调查了在2022年俄罗斯全面入侵后逃往波兰和德国的流离失所的乌克兰父母对其学龄儿童的教育策略。该研究基于对一项独特的纵向定性面板数据集的溯因分析，该数据集包括2022年夏季对柏林和华沙有学龄儿童的流离失所的乌克兰人进行的82次半结构化访谈，以及分别在2023年春季和2024年春季进行的60次和44次后续访谈。确定了三种不同的教育策略：(1)在目的地国家生活时在线注册乌克兰学校系统；（二）完全纳入目的国教育体系；(3)返回乌克兰，在现场继续乌克兰学校的课程。受访者对其中一种策略的支持程度在华沙和柏林以及三次采访期间有所不同。本文强调了“跨国机会结构”对更好地理解移民的能动性和行动策略的相关性。这被概念化为移民所处环境所提供的一系列机会和限制。

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