Daniel Pipes - Why Ukrainian Refugees Are Different From Third-World Migrants

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MENU  SUBSCRIBE (/SUBSCRIBE/) one refugee said, while another added: “It is unbelievable how much they help.
LOGIN (/LOGIN?V=2) They give us everything they have.” Poles were also pleasantly impressed by
themselves: “I never thought we had this in us. Nobody knew we could be

mobilized like this.” Another Pole said: “In this critical situation, we gathered
together and, really, I don’t know anyone who is not helping.”
Nor were the Poles alone in their generous response to Ukrainian migrants.
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Why Ukrainian Refugees Are Different Bulgarians, Danes, Greeks, Hungarians, Italians, Moldovans, Romanians, Swiss,
and others responded similarly. An early March report found that “The number
From Third-World Migrants of Berliners offering to help has been so great that volunteers are being turned
The reception accorded Ukrainian refugees cannot become away.” Cyprus “warmly welcomed 6,000 Ukrainian refugees and provided
the template for all migrants. freezing weather so they feel at home.” Americans supported immigration from
by DANIEL PIPES July 8, 2022, 11:02 PM Ukraine as they had no other group since 1939 and taxpayers sent nearly $1
billion to aid refugees with housing, English language instruction, and trauma
support services. Japan opened its doors to foreigners as never before.
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borders have widely seized on the Ukrainian example to argue that any less
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generous response to migrants from Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia
fter the Russian invasion on Feb. 24, Ukrainian refugees arriving in
constitutes racism, xenophobia, or “Islamophobia.” While little noted at this
Poland reacted with delight and even shock to the warmth of their
moment of intense focus on Ukrainians, after the current crisis ends and non-
reception. “We have everything, really everything, even too much stuff.
Western migrants return to the spotlight, that line of reasoning will certainly
The people here are amazing, so generous, we didn’t expect so much sympathy,”
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prominently emerge and become a force. Now is the time to prepare for the the state-run railways, as well as a daily allowance to Poles hosting Ukrainians in
coming assault on borders and laws by recognizing the danger it poses and their homes. Warsaw’s population increased by nearly 20 percent in a matter of
readying a counterargument. weeks, yet the city continued to function and spirits remained high. A month into
the war, Poland had no refugee camps, due to an outpouring of aid from charities,
“Ukrainians Always Came First”
businesses, individuals, and local governments.
Poland in the past year has responded very differently to two large bodies of
“All those fleeing Putin’s bombs are welcome in Europe” announced President of
migrants on its eastern borders.
the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. In an unprecedented move, the
In late 2021, an estimated 15,000 migrants, mostly from the Middle East, flew European Union activated the “temporary protection mechanism” that gives
legally to Belarus where the authorities bussed them to the Polish border and Ukrainian refugees the right to live and work for at least one and up to three years
encouraged or sometimes even forced them across it as a way of putting pressure in all 27 member states, along with assurances of housing, healthcare, and
on the European Union. Poles responded severely, patrolling the zone with 13,000 education. The EU also came up with a novel way for Ukrainians to spend €300
security personnel and deploying tear gas water cannons, drones, infrared worth of their currency, the hryvnia. Bus, train, and airline companies moved
cameras, and helicopters. Poland’s prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, Ukrainians gratis to farther countries to relieve Ukraine’s immediate neighbors
emotionally pronounced that “This border is sacred. The border of the Polish from shouldering the entire refugee burden.
state is not just a line on the map. Generations of Poles shed their blood for this
Non-Westerners, however, tell a different story. Claiming to be turned out of
border.” His government passed a law enabling it to ignore the asylum claims of
shelters to make way for Ukrainians, an Afghan in Germany concluded that “The
illegal migrants and to repel them forcibly out of the country, multiple times if
Ukrainians are first-class refugees and we are only second-class.” Najeeb, an
need be. The Polish government continues to send away would-be illegal
interpreter formerly working for the U.S. government in Afghanistan, asked,
migrants and is building a €350 million 200-kilometer-long 5½-meter-high
“Ukraine’s people can go freely to European countries, but where do we flee?”
steel wall at its Belarus border.
The same Polish authorities who welcome Ukrainians wouldn’t even “offer us a
Just a few months later, Warsaw responded to Putin’s invasion in exactly the glass of water,” protested a Syrian. Africans complained that “the Ukrainians
opposite way. On the day of the invasion itself, Polish Interior Minister Mariusz always came first, even though we Africans would be there for days, sometimes
Kamiński announced that “Anyone fleeing from bombs, from Russian rifles, can three days with no food. Everyone was just exhausted. Any time Ukrainians came,
count on the support of the Polish state.” Although the number of Ukrainian they told us to go back [home]. They were shouting at us, ‘go back.’”
refugees involved, over 3.5 million, is over 200 times greater than the migrants in
Migrant experiences in Calais, France, on the English Channel, made for an
Belarus, the Polish government and people welcomed this traumatized
especially vivid contrast. One report found that “Hours after arriving in Calais, [a
population and stood resolutely with them against Putin.
young Ukrainian mother] and her child were welcomed by British immigration
Indeed, the government allowed in refugees lacking papers and quickly passed officials and put on a bus headed for the United Kingdom. Years after arriving in
legislation giving Ukrainians access to health care, education, and free rides on Calais, [Ahmed, a 41-year-old man from South Sudan] remained stuck. ‘They’re

European,’ Ahmed said of the Ukrainian refugees, rolling up the sleeves of his “Ukrainian refugees are experiencing war in a country that borders the European
hoodie and pointing at his skin. ‘Africa — that’s different.’” The report finds that Union,” while many other migrants enter the bloc “illegally” and “7 out of 10 [of
non-Europeans fill tent camps while the authorities house Ukrainians in a hostel the latter] are deemed not to be refugees” by the Greek government. A
on the beach. Another report from Calais tells of Ukrainians being welcomed by spokesman for Éric Zemmour, then a candidate for president of France, focused
the town’s mayor and provided with free lodging and a meal of roast chicken and on excluding Muslim migrants, explained that he “differentiates between
chocolate mousse, treats unimaginable for non-Western migrants. displaced European and Christian Ukrainian refugees and economic migrants
from the Arab-Muslim world.”
Journalists ran with this implicit theme of European superiority:
Charlie D’Agata, a CBS News senior foreign correspondent: Kyiv “isn’t a

place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict
raging for decades. This is a relatively civilized, relatively European – I have
to choose those words carefully, too — city, one where you wouldn’t expect
that, or hope that it’s going to happen.”
Daniel Hannan, a prominent British journalist: “They seem so like us. That
is what makes it so shocking. Ukraine is a European country. Its people
watch Netflix and have Instagram accounts, vote in free elections and read
“Blue Eyes and Blond Hair”
uncensored newspapers. War is no longer something visited upon
Confronted with this gap, politicians and journalists offered awkward and impoverished and remote populations. It can happen to anyone.”
embarrassing explanations. Lucy Watson, an ITV reporter: “Now the unthinkable has happened to them.
And this is not a developing, third world nation; this is Europe!”
Ukraine’s former deputy chief prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze led the way with Peter Dobbie, an Al Jazeera English anchor: “What’s compelling is just
his comment that watching the situation in Ukraine is “very emotional for me looking at them, the way they’re dressed. These are prosperous … middle-
class people, these are not obviously refugees trying to get away from areas
because I see European people with blue eyes and blond hair being killed … every
in the Middle East that are still in a big state of war. These are not people
day.” Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov observed that Ukrainians “are
trying to get away from areas in North Africa. They look like any European
Europeans,” adding that “These people are intelligent, they are educated people family that you would live next door to.”
… This is not the refugee wave we have been used to, people we were not sure Phillipe Corbé, a French journalist: “We’re not talking here about Syrians
about their identity, people with unclear pasts, who could have been even who flee the bombing of the Putin-backed Syrian regime, we’re talking
about Europeans taking off in cars that look like our cars, to save their
terrorists. In other words, there is not a single European country now which is
lives.”
afraid of the current wave of refugees.”
Ulysse Gosset, French journalist: “We are in the 21st century, in a European
city, and cruise missile are fired as though we were in Iraq or Afghanistan —
Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi likewise noted a “great difference”
imagine that!”
between the Ukrainians coming to Greece and the migrants from farther away:

It bears noting that such comments made up an infinitesimal percentage of the Sarah Dadouch: “People in crisis-ridden countries such as Syria,
Afghanistan and Iraq have been angered by some media coverage painting
commentary about Ukrainian refugees. Nonetheless, they stand out for their
the Ukrainian conflict as wholly different from the bloodshed experienced in
candor; how many more observers think like them but are discreet?
their own countries.”
Sarah Ellison and Travis M. Andrews: They quote critics who denounce
“Orientalist and Racist Implications”
“Orientalist concepts of ‘civilization’” and “the casual racism.”
This combination of contrasting receptions and inept explanations spurred
In a similar spirit, the New York Times reported that empathy for Ukrainians
accusations of bias, bigotry, discrimination, and “orientalism.” For example, the
“was tinged with bitterness” from those Middle Easterners who saw Poles and
Washington Post hammered unrelentingly away at this point in article after
other Westerners “taking a more compassionate stance toward the Ukrainians
article.
than they had in recent years toward Arab and Muslim migrants trying
Abigail Hauslohner: “President Biden’s aggressive push to admit up to desperately to reach safety on Europe’s shores.” The Economist noted that
100,000 Ukrainian refugees has generated resentment among those
“Many Europeans feel more comfortable welcoming large numbers of Ukrainians
clamoring for his administration to help extract the tens of thousands of
than they do Syrians or Afghans” and deemed racism “surely a factor”
Afghan citizens desperate to escape Taliban rule.”
Chico Harlan and Piotr Zakowiecki: They quote a Polish woman who asks, accounting for this difference.
“Ukrainians are considered war refugees and Yemenis are considered

And so it went. The Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association, a U.S.
migrants. Why? What is the difference?”
Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff et al.: “While Europe is relatively united in its desire to organization, rejected “orientalist and racist implications” that any population
help Ukrainians, some have questioned why similar temporary protection or country is “uncivilized,” saying these “dehumanize” non-Westerners.
was not offered to fleeing Afghans, for instance, or to assist other asylum Moustafa Bayoumi, an American academic, bemoaned that providing refuge
seekers reaching Europe’s shores.” “based on factors such as physical proximity or skin color,” or sympathy only for
Isaac Stanley-Becker et al: “As the scale of the crisis became clear, European
those “who look like us or pray like us” reflects “narrow, ignorant nationalism.”
leaders forged [a] political consensus absent from prior humanitarian
disasters, setting aside procedures still being used to block other asylum In Israel, the immigration and absorption minister, Pnina Tamano-Shata, who is
seekers in a discrepancy shaped by race, geography and geopolitics.”
of Ethiopian origins, called out colleagues for the “hypocrisy of white people”
Marc Stern: “Countries [in Europe] that just a few years ago rose up in
regarding the government’s treatment of refugees from Ukraine versus those
protest over the arrival of migrants fleeing wars and extremism in the
Middle East and North Africa are suddenly welcoming hundreds of from Ethiopia.
thousands of refugees.”
A Nigerian in Athens added, “I hear people say, ‘All lives matter,’ but no, they
Rick Noack: “whereas prior waves of refugees and migrants faced lengthy
and often unsuccessful asylum procedures, European governments have don’t all matter the same. Black lives matter less.” Ayo Sogunro, a Nigerian
rushed to bend and suspend existing rules to host Ukrainians. While others writer, tweeted that he “Can’t get it out of my head that Europe cried about a
paid smugglers to cross the Mediterranean, European railway companies ‘migrant crisis’ in 2015 against 1.4m refugees fleeing war in Syria and yet quickly
have waived ticket fees for Ukrainian refugees.”
absorbed some 2m Ukrainians within days, complete with flags and piano music.
Europe never had a migrant crisis. It has a racism crisis.”
“Everyone in Need” This sounds reasonable enough until one recalls that in UN-speak, refugee
includes virtually all migrants, so its appeal refers to most anyone beyond his
Such criticisms have a clear purpose: to make Westerners feel guilty, and thereby
country’s borders.
turn the Ukrainian experience into the template for the whole world. All
migrants, without exception, must be welcomed as those from Ukraine. Immigrant advocacy groups predictably jumped on this bandwagon. As the
Washington Post sympathetically reported, they “applaud the more welcoming
Thus did Qatar’s Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani
treatment of Ukrainians, yet they want to see others be granted the same degree
thunder about Ukrainians faring better than Syrians, Palestinians, Libyans,
of humanity.” Their statements repeated this same point in varying words:
Iraqis, and Afghans, then demand that the Ukraine crisis serve as “a wake-up
call” for Middle East issues to be handled “with the same level of commitment.” Andy Hewett of the UK’s Refugee Council: “There is no difference between
President Emmanuel Macron of France made the same point more obliquely, the risks facing Ukrainian refugees and the risks facing refugees from other
conflict zones across the world. And the response from the U.K. government
pointing out how “This crisis reminds some around the table who showed less
needs to be consistent. They can’t have an open door for one group, and at
solidarity when the migratory pressure came from other borders of Europe that it
the same time, be slamming the door shut on another group.”
is good Europe is totally supportive and responsible together.” François Guennoc of L’Auberge des Migrants: “It is great to see all this being
put in place [for Ukrainians]. But we would like everyone fleeing war to be
Academics like Lamis Abdelaaty of Syracuse University, a specialist on political
treated like this.… A refugee is a refugee. There should be no
responses to refugees, concurred. “The very welcoming response to Ukrainians is discrimination.”
wonderful to observe. My hope is that this sort of response will be carried over to Jenny Yang of World Relief: “Without a doubt, we need to resettle large
other refugee groups who are fleeing very similar situations and who are equally numbers of Ukrainians through various means, but I hope our commitment
worthy of our compassion and our assistance. Hopefully, this moment will really to Ukrainians also deepens our commitment to other groups of refugees who
are in need of protection.”
lead people to critically reflect on why it is that they think some people are
Nikolai Posner of Utopia 56: the difference in reception is “goodwill versus
worthy of protection, and others are not.”
mistreatment.”
Judith Sunderland of Human Rights Watch: the “tremendous empathy and
ReliefWeb, a service provided by the UN Office for the Coordination of
solidarity [for Ukrainians] should stretch to everyone in need.”
Humanitarian Affairs, immediately hailed the treatment of Ukrainian refugees as
“how the international refugee protection regime should work.” In its view, Note the wording: “everyone in need.” This defines a potentially limitless group
countries should keep their borders open to those fleeing wars and conflict; of people. Stated semantically, refugee = asylum seeker = migrant = everyone in
unnecessary identity and security checks are avoided; those fleeing warfare are need.
not penalized for arriving without valid identity and travel documents; detention
These statements signal the extent of what migrant-advocating politicians,
measures are not used; refugees are able to freely join family members in other
international institutions, non-governmental organizations, intellectuals, and
countries; and communities and their leaders welcome refugees with generosity
activists have in mind. One example: were these new rules applied to Melilla and
and solidarity.
Ceuta, two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, anyone who reaches Morocco could walk

into one or other of them, be sent no questions asked and gratis to the Spanish without work. People don’t want to be refugees. We don’t want to start a new life
mainland, receive financial, housing, educational, and medical benefits, and abroad. I want to be in my place, my country. All that we have in our lives is
remain for years or forever. there.” Or, in the words of a tearful 70-year-old Ukrainian: “We want to go
home. A foreign land will always be foreign. We thank everyone in different
If a faster, more efficient way exists to collapse Europe and Western civilization, I
countries, but we will always want to go home. As soon as the bombing stops, we
cannot think of it.
will go back.” In contrast, non-Westerners voluntarily leave their homelands,
Explaining the Difference sometimes with festive send-offs, and hope to settle permanently in the West.
Focusing uniquely on bias, however, ignores a multitude of reasons that explain Proximity vs. distance: Ukrainians are geographic neighbors or near-neighbors.
the difference in the reception given to Ukrainian and non-Western migrants: Their hosts may have visited Ukraine, know people there, speak a similar
language, or have other links. This gives them a personal interest in Ukraine of a
Refugees vs. economic migrants: Ukrainians are plainly fleeing war while non-
sort usually lacking in remote places. As the Scottish economist Adam Smith
Westerners mostly seek a better life. Ukrainians on the move primarily include
pointed out in 1817, if a humane European has no personal connections to China,
females and those males under 16 or over 60 (Ukraine’s government bans males
he would “be willing to sacrifice the lives of a hundred millions of his brethren”
between those ages from leaving the country); non-Westerners are largely the
in China rather than lose a finger of his own. Coming generally from further
opposite — military-age males — with precious few women, children, and
away, non-Westerners win less sympathy.
elderly. In the mass migration of 2015, for example, 73 percent of the migrants
were male and 42 percent were between 18 and 34. (These numbers include 17 Solidarity vs. discord: Westerners share a political commonality with Ukrainians,
percent migrants from Europe, so the non-Western percentage is appreciably an instant and emotional connection to the suffering of an innocent people.
higher.) Nor it is just demographics; that non-Westerners rarely stop in the first Kurds and Somalis may have comparable stories but these remain largely obscure
EU country they enter, as the Dublin Regulation requires, but keep traveling to to Westerners. The extreme moral ambiguity of a country like Syria exacerbates
such favored destinations as Germany and Sweden, confirms their economic this indifference.
motivations.
Invasion vs. domestic issues: The outpouring of concern for Ukrainians calls to
Reluctance vs. eagerness: Ukrainians leave home under duress and see their exile mind a similar response to Kuwaitis’ plight in 1990-91; in each case, a bellicose
as emergency and temporary, not as permanent settlement. Indeed, so many of larger power invaded and tried to swallow its neighbor. These cases — and
them return home that Poland on some days sees more Ukrainians leave than possible future ones concerning Taiwan, Bahrain, or Israel — inspire far more
arrive, leading to long wait times at the border. A mother with five children in tow sympathy than the more widespread problems of civil unrest and tyranny.
said: “Every European country gave us free food, free shelter. We owe them so
Self-interest vs. indifference: In Putin, the West shares an enemy with Ukraine
much and are so grateful. But we want to go home.” A young woman left her
and urgently wants him defeated before he can cause further tragedy. A Polish
grandmother in Italy, explaining that “Every day my grandmother is trying to
foreign policy specialist notes the “wide understanding that Ukrainians are
convince us to stay, but it’s hard to live in a foreign country without our money,
fighting not only for themselves but for our goals. Putin’s aspirations don’t end
in Ukraine.… If he succeeds in Ukraine, he will go farther.” While Western similarities and the Enlightenment. In contrast, many non-Westerners retain
governments will argue for security interests in a place like Somalia or Iraq, few hostile attitudes toward Western civilization.
citizens feel much concern when countries are not democracies.
Assimilation vs. separatism: Ukrainians see themselves as similar to their
Viable skills vs. unemployability: Ukrainians have greater economic capabilities neighbors, unlike many non-Western migrants, especially Muslims, who set up
than most non-Western migrants, making them more likely to become their own communities. Macron calls this “Islamist separatism.” Western hosts
productive members of society, and not welfare recipients. This, obviously, can rest assured that Ukrainians and their progeny will not burn police cars, blast
enhances their welcome. out their Eastern Orthodox services over loudspeakers, march for Hamas, or
behead a teacher who displayed a cartoon in class.
Work vs. welfare: Ukrainians voiced a strong work ethic along with a sense of
work’s dignity. In the simple eloquence of a 42-year-old disabled painter, “I do Limited vs unlimited numbers: Pre-invasion Ukraine had a population of 44
not want to be a burden. I want to continue earning my living, so I can contribute million; were even every Ukrainian to leave and move to (non-Russian) Europe
money to the war effort, and eventually rebuild my life in Ukraine.” Many non- and North America, this could readily be absorbed by a population of about 900
Western migrants, to the contrary, prefer to live as wards of the state, in some million. As Africa’s population grows from 1.4 billion to an estimated 4 billion in
notorious cases with multiple wives and large numbers of children. 2100, it can overwhelm and even replace Westerners.
Good citizenship vs. criminality: At the time of writing, 5.8 million Ukrainians In sum, the contrast is stark. On the one side stand the Ukrainians, a neighboring
had left their country; a diligent search through media in several languages finds people of limited size and similar culture, language, religion, and skills fleeing an
not a single report of a crime wave. In contrast, the non-Western migrants have external, genocidal assault. On the other, peoples of alien cultures, alien
not only vastly increased the crime rates wherever they go, but they have even languages, often a historically rival religion, harboring various forms of hostility,
devised novel forms of criminality that require new names, such as grooming arriving in huge numbers without permission for their personal economic self-
gangs, taharrush (mass sexual assault), and förnedringsrån (humiliation betterment despite a generally low level of skills.
robberies).
Looking Ahead
Moderation vs. Islamism: Ukraine harbors no home-grown groups of jihadis or
This analysis leads to three conclusions. First, it is unsurprising that Western
other Islamists. Its small Muslim population has not engaged in violence or other
responses to Ukrainian and non-Western migrants vary as widely as do the two
forms of supremacy in the name of Islam, contrary to so many Muslim migrants.
groups themselves and should not prompt embarrassment. Race and religion
(To the extent that jihad exists in Ukraine, it consists mainly of foreigners
undeniably play some role in the West’s differing reactions, but multiple other
coming to battle with or against Russian forces.)
factors of greater importance explain the easier acceptance of Ukrainian
Cultural similarity vs. difference: Peoples seek those similar to themselves, migrants. Rather than flagellate themselves for welcoming Ukrainians,
making cultural proclivities a powerful force. Ukrainians share a civilization with Europeans and Americans ought to take pride in this munificence.
other Westerners, from ancient Rome and the Christian religion to linguistic

Second, the reception accorded Ukrainian refugees cannot become the template them in.
for all migrants from all places in all circumstances at all times. To remind, it is
truly exceptional: Ukrainians can enter foreign countries without documents
where, thanks to the EU’s “temporary protection mechanism,” they do not end
up in refugee camps but have automatic access to housing, health care, and
education. They can access free bus, train, and airline transportation. They can
spend €300 worth of their home currency. Such privileges must not become the
standard for all foreigners, premised on the false idea that a migrant is a migrant,
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and that all should be treated alike, regardless of culture, language, religion, and
skills, regardless of legal status, numbers, motives, and ideology. Distinctions
must continue to be made. To succumb to pressures that return Europe to its

lawless immigration of 2015-16, when anyone from anywhere could enter, is to
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zones, each of which accepts its own peoples. Middle Easterners and Africans
generally should stay in their own regions, Europeans in theirs. What could be
more natural? Middle Easterners who seek a better life can look to their Arab and
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themselves: “I never thought we had this in us. Nobody knew we could be

together and, really, I don’t know anyone who is not helping.”

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