The Challenge Of East-west Migration For Poland (studies In Russia And East Europe)

One of the major features of the social landscape of the new states of Eastern Europe and the former USSR is migration, whether voluntary or coerced. The decline of communism in both East and Central Europe, as well as the fall of the Soviet empire has created new population and ethnic problems. The recent exodus has proved to be the largest migration wave reported in Europe in over 40 years. The problem of foreigners in Poland is a subject scarcely studied and insufficiently described. This volume has been compiled on the basis of papers prepared for a Social Sciences Seminar series at the School of Slavonic Studies, London, which was devoted to migratory movements in Poland since 1989. This volume thus contains the latest data and results of research (quantitative as well as qualitative) on the movement of foreigners into Poland. It is a groundbreaking work. Front Matter....Pages i-xix Introduction....Pages 1-14 Recent Migration in Poland: Trends and Causes....Pages 15-44 Migration Flows in the 1990s: Challenges for Entry, Asylum and Integration Policy in Poland....Pages 45-65 ‘Guarded welcome’ A Review of New Legislation and Institutions Dealing with Migration and Foreigners....Pages 66-89 Straz Graniczna: The Mission, Structure and Operations of Poland’ s Border Guard....Pages 90-103 Patterns of Spatial Mobility of Citizens of the Former Soviet Union....Pages 105-119 The Economics of Petty Trade on the Eastern Polish Border....Pages 120-144 Cross-Border ‘Suitcase Trade’ and the Role of Foreigners in Polish Informal Markets....Pages 145-167 The Return of Emigrants from Germany to Upper Silesia: Reality and Prospects....Pages 168-205 The Attitudes and Patterns of Behaviour of Poles towards Foreigners in the Light of Recent Studies....Pages 206-223 Back Matter....Pages 224-237 One of the major features of the social landscape of the new states of Eastern Europe and the former USSR is migration, whether voluntary or coerced. The decline of communism in both East and Central Europe and the fall of the Soviet empire have created new population and ethnic problems. The recent exodus has proved to be the largest migration wave reported in Europe in over 40 years. The problem of foreigners in Poland is a subject scarcely studied and insufficiently described. This groundbreaking work contains the latest data and results of research (quantitative as well as qualitative) on the movement of foreigners into Poland.
Focusing on the crucial relationship between education and civic culture, this text provides up-to-date coverage with translations of work by Finnish, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Czech and Russian specialists