Immigration

June: The different global reactions to the missing Titan submersible vs the Messenia migrant boat disaster raises questions about the changing shape of inequality

This research, conducted by Ipsos in Switzerland for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), explores the plans, perspectives and intentions of Ukrainian refugees across Europe, and internally displaced persons (IDPs) within Ukraine.

A global country average of 74% of people, in the 29 countries surveyed, agreed in principle that people should be able to take refuge in other countries, including their own, to escape war or persecution.

Ipsos has worked closely with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to understand the experiences and support given in neighbouring countries and across Europe to people fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Excluding Turkey, Colombia and the US, who are the actual top 3, this means that 3 in 10 in the rest of the countries surveyed incorrectly overstate the true position of their country, according to data from the UNHCR for 2021.

New Ipsos survey shows greater compassion for forcibly displaced as war in Ukraine wears on.

Our new global survey shows that there is strong support for the principle of people seeking refuge from war and persecution but in practice few are open to accepting more refugees into their country

Nations’ reputations are largely related to that of their neighbors’; however, nations should never write off the effect that other countries around the globe can have on their image.

New global study shows increasing support for the principle of people seeking refuge from war or persecution but concerns about Coronavirus mean that half of those surveyed want their country to be less open to welcoming refugees.