DANYLIW RESEARCH SEMINAR ON CONTEMPORARY UKRAINE

Similar to many countries, Ukraine has been facing the challenges of population aging for decades, a cumulative result of socio-economic problems, shrinking childbirth and outmigration of the working-age population, described as “ageing from below”. The 2014 Donbas War accelerated the demographic changes, and even more since the 2022 Russian full-scale invasion. How do families navigate the existing care infrastructure under wartime conditions? 

 

Oksana Dutchak is a sociologist and social anthropologist at the Institute for the Systemic Alternatives in Kyiv (Ukraine).