Forced labour migration as a threat to social and economic human rights and a factor of influence on the national labour market and business entities

Abstract

The full-scale military invasion of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine led to the emergence of a number of substantial destabilising processes and phenomena of a socio-economic nature, one of which is the strengthening of forced emigration of a substantial number of the economically active population of Ukraine. The purpose of the study is a comprehensive review and analysis of the current scientific legacy of papers devoted to the examination of the features, state, and problems of forced labour migration and identifying its impact on the national labour market and economic entities. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study is made up of general scientific heuristic methods, historiographic analysis and synthesis, comparison, and systematisation. Based on the results of the study, it is established that in the modern scientific discourse, the essence of forced labour migration is defined as a complex and dangerous socio-economic phenomenon that manifests itself in the uncontrolled movement of the population for the purpose of employment within the country and extends to other countries of the world. It is determined that most of the researchers are inclined to argue that the scale of forced labour migration has acquired threatening importance, the threatening trends of which were particularly acute during the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine in 2022-2023, during which there is a critical increase in the volume of forced labour migration from Ukraine to European countries. There is an opinion among the scientific community that the processes of forced labour migration cause substantial problems in the national and international labour market. Most of the researchers argue that the most substantial problem caused by forced labour migration is the increase in the unemployment rate, which in Ukraine during the war reached 35% of the economically active population, which substantially unbalances the international and European labour markets, causing it to increase competition for highly paid jobs. Based on the assessment of researchers' opinions, the main ways to reduce imbalances in the development of the labour market in Ukraine and methods for minimising the risks of unemployment growth are proposed. The obtained research results can be used to create generalising reviews and more effectively work with the bibliography on the subject.