POST-SOVIET MIGRATION IN EUROPE OF THE ADVANCED CATEGORY: TOLERANCE OF THE HOST EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND MIGRANTS’ OPINION ON TOLERANCE

Abstract

The current research focuses on the concept of tolerance level, both on behalf of the local residents of European countries accepting migrants, and the migrants themselves towards local population. The surveys were conducted in focus groups in Belgium, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Poland, while the expert interviews were collected in Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The surveys led by the IMAGRI Institute in Europe in December 2021 – January 2022 and compelled to be continued in the form of expert interviews after February 24, 2022, allow us to answer the question about the attitude of post-Soviet migrants to European values and the prospects of Europe and Europeans in the light of “force majeure” migration, that is the avalanche-like resettlement of millions of Ukrainian residents to Europe. IMAGRI has been working in Brussels since 2009 studying migration from post-Soviet countries emerged on the territory of the collapsed USSR, in particular, the WMA category, or “advanced migration” previously concentrating on women, and in the latest study expanded to all educated migrants of both sexes. Highly educated migrants, who are placed in the center of IMAGRI’s attention, possess well-developed intercultural communication skills, but in about half of the cases this does not solve the problems of their self-actualisation in career and society.Key words: category ―Definiteness / Indefiniteness,‖ comparative typological method, article, classification of languages, co-study of languages.

Keywords

• tolerance level
• wma (“advanced migration”)
• highly educated migration
• post- soviet migration
• intercultural communication skills
• questionnaire
• focus sampling
• expert opinion