It seems so hard for them to build a peer network in exile.
Why is that? Language skills, skills to market their competence, networking skills.
How do I get to my conclusions? It is a rather scientific approach based on:
- experience (that comes with lifetime and openness to news and opinions)
- speculating starting with brain storming
- comparing
- discussing and arguing with peers and “elements in the field of research”
So here are the theses:
- refugees are anxious and afraid, because they underestimate their own skills
- because they are not used to market themselves (life never forced them to. they should be helped to develop these skills)
- and therefore because they are easily embarrassed, because there are mistakes and failures to be handled appropriately
- they are not building a network here, because they think it’s not worth the time and the energy, because they will return in a couple of months only
- but quite possibly it will take a couple of years for the Ukraine to allow the refugees to return
- quite possibly the Ukraine will exist in the future only as a “virtual network in exile”, quite similar to the approach or concept “The portable / portative fatherland”
From a social-darwinistic point of view the process will result in the survival of the fittest. It will hurt the 95% less than extremely fit.