The following report is an attempt at analysing the situation of Polish immigrants on the Italian labour market prior to and after Poland’s accession to the European Union. The relatively short period that has elapsed since May 1st 2004 and, consequently, a scarce number of materials and...

Throughout the history of the European Union quite a few cases of transformation of typical emigration countries into countries of both emigration and immigration have been noted. This regards Italy (end of 60s/beginning of 70s), Ireland (end of 80s/beginning of 90s), Greece (in the 80s) and...

During last decade Poland has been experiencing large outflow of Polish people intensified after 1 May 2004. This paper contains an in-depth analysis of latest migration from Poland with major focus on the accession of Poland to the European Union and its effect on propensity to migrate. Three...

The aim of this Working Paper (WP) was to collect existing knowledge both theoretical and methodological on the most contemporary, predominantly post-accession return migration of Poles and also to present their socio-economic portraits through the prism of their attitudes, strategies. This...