How do citizens of Kyiv cope with the sleep deprivation and stress from Russia’s war on Ukraine? Some push it down, some try yoga or dancing.that have gone begging, especially since the country has come out of the pandemic.
Immigrants make up an especially big part of the workforce at hotels and restaurants. Marriott International says it has hired more than 550 refugees in the U.S. since last year. It is one of a dozen companies in lodging, manufacturing, cleaning and other services that have pledged to hire 20,000 refugees over three years.
Economic pressures also are pushing traditional immigrant households to put stay-at-home moms into outside work, especially given the last couple of years of high inflation. Experts don’t expect such big increases in immigration in the years ahead because of caps under U.S. law, but various humanitarian programs allowinga month from Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua are likely to continue to boost the numbers.
Just how many of the refugees will reside in the U.S. and work beyond two years is unknown. Viktoriia Gorbachevska, 29, who quickly found work as a business analyst in Raleigh, N.C., since arriving from Ukraine in November through the sponsoring organization“This country is good for educated young people starting work here,” said Gorbachevska, who has a master’s degree and is married with two young children.
“That day was hard for me,” Zakira said as she recalled working at a hospital as panic swept her family. “My dad called me. ‘Where are you? Why are you at work?’”