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Recent trends in international migration - Poland 2003
Kepinska, Ewa |
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| This paper looks at the recent major changes and amendments to migration laws in Poland. It provides data on the various types of emigration and immigration, the sex, age marital status and educational attainment where the migrants come from and where they are going to, foreigners married to Polish citizens and temporary immigrants. 2003 saw important developments in an increasingly complex set of laws on migration in Poland going back to the Aliens Act of 1963. The new act includes, principles and conditions for extending various forms of protection for foreigners, refugee status, asylum status and, a new concept, tolerated status, which deals with the large number of asylum seekers, who do not meet the requirements for refugee status, but who cannot return to their country of origin. Tolerated status gives foreigners the right to work, without a work permit and access to social assistance medical care and education in Poland. Asylum seekers in Poland are predominantly Russians of Chechen nationality. It notes that illegal migrants from the Ukraine and Moldova tend not to use the services of traffickers, while the opposite was the case with migrants from China, India, Afghanistan and Vietnam. |
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