The phenomenon of East-West European migration was largely neglected in the past by researchers and policy makers, but it has recently become a controversial and important topic for the international community. This volume is the first comprehensive, combined socio-economic and political analysis of the trends and mechanisms of international migration from and into Poland since 1945, from the point of view of the forthcoming enlargement of the European Union. The author describes in-depth the mechanisms of population processes in the period before the collapse of communism and during the transition period that followed. Special emphasis is placed on the movement of people into Poland, people who after EU enlargement would be excluded from the expanded Western European migration system. The author examines how major political and social events such as the collapse of communist rule and political and economic transformation have affected population phenomena and in a relatively short space of time, have reversed stabilized migration trends. Contents: Introduction; Patterns of emigration; Mobility from Poland's "East"; Patterns of immigration; Summary; Bibliography; Index.
Author Biography: Krystyna Iglicka is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw. She received both her Ph.D (Warsaw School of Economics) and M.Sc (University in Warsaw) in Economics, specialising in Social Demography. She was a Research Fellow i.e. at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Minnesota and at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.
