Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324465 
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Year of Publication: 
2025
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Revised Version: August 2025
Publisher: 
Center for Open Science, Washington, DC
Abstract: 
The objective of this research synthesis is to collect and summarize the research literature on Ukrainian refugees in Switzerland. This is done through a systematic review, mostly in the form of a narrative review and with statistical indicators that are synthesized. A graphical summary (evidence gap map) is provided to better identify the nature of evidence available. There is a wide range of evidence on Ukrainian refugees in Switzerland and their integration, although substantive and systematic gaps remain. The review provides a brief historical background, looks at the demographic composition of Ukrainian refugees in Switzerland, discusses economic integration, housing, education, social integration, crime and safety, health and well-being, and attitudes to Ukrainian refugees. The demographic profile of Ukrainian refugees (many women, many children and elderly people, highly educated) is well documents, as are challenges to economic integration. Much less is known about cultural integration and political participation, for example. Given the size of the population and the ongoing war in Ukraine, more research on Ukrainian refugees is warranted, particularly in the direction of successful integration in a context where return in the near future seems increasingly unlikely — although so-called dual-intent remains the official focus —, and in areas beyond economic integration that affect well-being and intentions to return.
Subjects: 
Ukraine
Switzerland
attitudes
demographics
economics
education
health
housing
integration
media
participation
literature review
refugees
JEL: 
F22
O15
J15
J61
K37
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