Before the war launched by Russia, the country was the fifth privileged destination of young people on the continent, which accounted for three out of ten international students.
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The war in Ukraine and its proposals of evacuation of civilians revealed, in early March, a strong presence of African students in the country. Of the 76,000 young international young people living in Kiev, Kharkiv, Lviv, Odessa, Donetsk, Kherson or Soumy when Russia launched hostilities on February 24, nearly 23,000 were from the continent, according to Consular Censuses of African States. concerned and the statistical data of UNESCO.
A figure in progress for three years and makes Ukraine the fifth privileged destination for Africans after France, the United States, the United Kingdom and Malaysia. Morocco, Nigeria, Egypt, Tunisia or Ghana are the largest providers and organize since the beginning of the conflict of all-round repatisals from Romania, Poland and Hungary, where many young people arrived after have fled disaster bombardments.
The reasons for this attraction first look at the geographical location of Ukraine, a real cultural, economic and political entrance door for Europe. In a very competitive globalized academic context, the country has highlighted its reception and integration facilities by targeting a student population from intermediate-income regions such as India, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and States Maghreb.
On the Internet, Ukrainian academic recruitment agencies invite future students to take the best “path to a European education” by promoting a democratic state of “racial tolerance, religious and interethnic in a multicultural environment” which “Respect all the opinions”.
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“Between sending documents and receipt of my visa and my admission to the university, it happened only one month!”, says Alexander Somto, a 25-year-old Nigerian come from the beginning 2021 Study management in Kiev. On February 27, after fling the Ukrainian capital and when he was trying to rally Warsaw by train to join Mannheim, Germany, where he has the family, the young man was verbally attacked by a Ukrainian policeman who Treaty of “monkey”: “This is the intentional thing of an individual and the situation on the border was very stressful. This is the only time I was confronted with racism in almost a year.”
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