The present paper consists of an extensive description of recent migration in the 8 new European Union member countries which accessed the EU on May 1st, 2004. Since 1989 all of these countries experience an unique shift from socialist to market economy. The paper attempts to capture an...

This study explores the expansion of migration from countries of Eastern Europe in the period following their accession to the European Union in 2004-07. It includes new empirical case studies of migration patterns based on recent field research, as well as analysis of existing statistical data

Despite the abundance of studies of Polish migration to the UK immediately before and in the aftermath of accession to the EU in 2004, one fundamental question has never been clearly answered: why did so many Poles move to the UK? We sought general explanations rather than inquiring into the...