Migrating for Conflict. (c2022)
Year: 2022

This thesis explores the motivations of foreign fighters involved in the Eastern Ukraine conflict between 2014 and 2021. After examining the literature on foreign fighters and recruitment strategies in general as well as literature specific to the Donbass conflict and its foreign fighter involvement, the study analyzes interviews and articles quoting 42 foreign fighters who had traveled to Donbass in order to support the pro-separatist or pro-Ukrainian forces, using the migration theory of push-