Ukrainian refugees earned an immigration goodwill denied to Arab and Muslim refugees.

Evidence

The narrative of the besieged Ukrainian underdog was indelible and undeniable. It shaped the chorus of Western media support for the Ukrainian resistance and the millions of refugees flooding neighboring nations and those beyond. It dissolved traditional divides on immigration across the continent and in the United States; immigration was no longer a wedge issue, at least for Ukrainians. However, it remained virulently divisive when the refugees were Arabs or Muslims, Black or Brown immigrants washed from their homelands by Western war or economic despair. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1195

Categorization

• SEED: Angle for an essay: the Ukraine refugee crisis as a natural experiment exposing the racial conditionality of Western humanitarianism.
• ADDENDUM: Supports the earlier article on moral panics over immodesty as cross-cultural identity signaling — here immigration itself is shown as racialized identity signaling.