Integration of Ukraine into the EU and the problems of self-identification of Ukrainian refugees

The section discusses the types of strategies for refugees' stay in the country of temporary resettlement and substantiates the phenomenon of transitivity of Ukrainian refugees' identities. The study used individual and group interviews. Twenty-four women aged 30 to 60 years took part in two stages of the study. The principles and methods of the so-called "grounded theory" were used to analyze the data. We identified and described four strategies for choosing a place of temporary resettlement: rational choice taking into account circumstances and opportunities, random or intuitive choice, largely rational choice, but under the influence of random factors, and largely random, intuitive choice, but with rational consideration of individual factors. We also identified two main categories of migrant identities - Ukrainian citizenship and gender identity. In addition, we described two groups of criteria for the personal self-categorization of refugees: resource criteria, such as material opportunities, linguistic and legal competence, and personal criteria, such as activity, independence and emotionality. We also considered the resource-personal basis of the transit self-categorization of Ukrainian refugees. Future research may provide a broader sample of the influence of social and autobiographical context on attitudes towards temporary resettlement to another country, as well as the direction and intensity of attitudes towards the integration of Ukrainian refugees into Latvian society.