Migration rhetoric in the programs of Ukrainian political parties

According to Ukrainian politicians, in Ukraine the topic of migration became relevant at the parliamentary level during the Orange revolution of 2004, as “in the course of voting it suddenly turned out that some citizens who are in the voting lists in fact do not reside in Ukraine. And society (some people with horror, some with surprise) found out that the country is short of several – in fact many – million citizens”1Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM-East) is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Unio