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If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Ukraine, see [[Ukraine Finding Town of Origin|'''Ukraine Finding Town of Origin''']] for additional research strategies. | If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Ukraine, see [[Ukraine Finding Town of Origin|'''Ukraine Finding Town of Origin''']] for additional research strategies. | ||
==Ukraine Emigration and Immigration== | ==Ukraine Emigration and Immigration== | ||
'''Emigration''' refers to moving from a country or place. '''Immigration''' refers to moving into a country or place. Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups. | |||
Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups. | |||
==Immigration to Ukraine== | ==Immigration to Ukraine== | ||
Immigration into Ukraine (post-independence 1991) has been mainly ethnic Ukrainians already living in nearby countries; other immigrants were mostly Crimean Tatars and people '''fleeing wars in Azerbaijan, Transnistria and Chechnya (a region in Russia)'''. After the start of the War in Donbas in 2014 several hundreds foreigners (mostly '''Russians and Belarusians''') migrated to Ukraine to join its territorial defense battalions and army.<ref>"Immigration to Ukraine," in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Ukraine, accessed 12 Juuly 2021.</ref> | Immigration into Ukraine (post-independence 1991) has been mainly ethnic Ukrainians already living in nearby countries; other immigrants were mostly Crimean Tatars and people '''fleeing wars in Azerbaijan, Transnistria and Chechnya (a region in Russia)'''. After the start of the War in Donbas in 2014 several hundreds foreigners (mostly '''Russians and Belarusians''') migrated to Ukraine to join its territorial defense battalions and army.<ref>"Immigration to Ukraine," in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Ukraine, accessed 12 Juuly 2021.</ref> | ||