%0 Journal Article
%T New Media and the Reconstruction of Ukrainian Migrants’ Social Capital on the Polish Labour Market
%A Galanciak, Sylwia
%A Huriy, Bohdana
%J Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora
%V 2020 (XLVI)
%R 10.4467/25444972SMPP.20.014.12330
%N Vol. 2 (176)
%P 153-175
%K immigrants, Ukraine, Polish labour market, social capital, social media, e-learning
%@ 2081-4488
%D 2020
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/smpp/article/nowe-media-a-rekonstrukcja-kapitalu-spolecznego-migrantow-ukrainskich-na-polskim-rynku-pracy
%X 
	Since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2014 and political and economic crisis caused by that situation, Poland has remained the main direction of Ukrainian citizens’ migration (OECD 2018, Jaroszewicz 2018). New immigrants arrive with varied linguistic, legal and social preparation (NBP 2018). Meanwhile, studies of the relationship between the intangible capital of citizens and the development of the economy clearly show the significant role of social and cultural capital in building a steadily developing economy (Czapiński 2008). The work presents the results of research conducted in 2019 on the needs of Ukrainian migrants seeking employment in Poland. An analysis of the content of Ukrainians’ posts on social network platform Facebook and partially structured, in-depth expert interviews have resulted in the construction of a set of five categories of information that immigrants are looking for on the Internet (legal provision and documents, work, place of residence and accommodation, access to services as well as leisure and leisure activities). The study has also identified social media as an important tool of reducing the social capital deficit affecting migrants in the host country.