The Migratory Impact of the War in Ukraine on Russia and the Receiving States: The Case of North America

• In Event: The War's Impact on Russian Science: The Brain Drain Dimension

Abstract

The war in Ukraine has led to the formation of new migration flows, marked by the high shares of the representatives of various professional, business, cultural, athletic, and academic elites. Mostly professionally and economically motivated, this flow also included people opposing the war on the principled grounds. The academic component of this flow is visibly different from those that dominated the brain drain in the previous thirty years. The new academic migration is frequently directed towards the relatively smaller and weaker economically and academically countries, including those in Eastern Europe, the post Soviet space (Central Asia, the Caucasus), and other regions.
Considering these ongoing changes in the direction of the migration flow, the author pays special attention to the changing role of North America – the region that served as one of two major hubs for the Russian academic migration in 1991-2021.

Author

• Andrei Vladimir Korobkov, Middle Tennessee State U