Impact of Migration on Poland : EU Mobility and Social Change

How has the international mobility of Polish citizens intertwined with other influences to shape society, culture, politics, and economics in contemporary Poland?

The Impact of Migration on Poland offers a new approach for understanding how migration affects sending countries and provides a wide-ranging analysis of how Poland has changed, and continues to change, since accession to the European Union in 2004. The authors explore an array of social trends and their causes before using in-depth interview data to illustrate how migration contributes to those causes. They address fundamental questions about whether and how Polish society is becoming more equal and more cosmopolitan, arguing that for particular segments of society migration does make a difference. While the book focuses mainly on those who have stayed in Poland, and their contacts with Poles in other countries, it also analyzes Polish society abroad, a concept that is a far more accurate description than “community” in countries such as the UK.
 

Anne White is Professor of Polish Studies and Social and Political Science at UCL's School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Izabela Grabowska is a sociologist and economist at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw (SWPS). Pawel Kaczmarczyk is an economist and demographer, and Director of the University of Warsaw Centre of Migration Research. Krystyna Slany is Professor of Sociology at Jagiellonian University Kraków, and specialises in family and gender research.