Інтелектуальна міграція громадян України до Польщі.

Abstract

In the past 4 years the ongoing process of intellectual migration from Ukraine was dramatically enhanced by armed conflict in the Eastern part of the state. It is also significantly influenced by socioeconomic and political crisis and by other internal and external reasons. Despite critical predictions of several researches, visa-free regime did not influence significantly the flow of emigrants from Ukraine to Poland and EU-countries in general. However, there are other numerous factors, which reinforced the process of leaving the country by highly educated citizen. Such a problem is only aggravated by the fact that neighboring countries have a clear strategy for attracting migrants who will help to develop and enrich these states and to stop the negative trend connected to the demographic issues. In Poland the problem of highly-qualified workers shortage is rising each year, as more and more people are trying to leave the country and migrate to Western Europe, that is why state’s government tries to encourage young people form the neighbor countries, such as Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine to immigrate to this EasternEuropean Republic.This article discusses causes and consequences of the intellectual migration from Ukraine to Poland in the period from Ukraine’s revolution of Dignity till nowadays, and considers Ukraine as a donor country and Poland as a recipient one. As the trend of «brain drain» during this period is only continuing to grow, it is extremely important to analyze all aspects of it in order to create a stronger Ukrainian strategy and in future to implement all possible actions to stop the ongoing demographic crisis.The main aims of this article are: to highlight new tendencies in the migration of highly-educated Ukrainians during the period from 2014 to nowadays; to find new reasons of «brain drain» according to a newly introduced way of receiving data on migration – analysis of the blog-posts of Ukrainians in the social-networking websites; to verify or to deny the fact of the overall increased number of migrants who moved form Ukraine to Poland during the 4-year period.