Развитие на миграцията в България след 1990 г. и предизвикателства пред провежданата миграционна политика
Migration Evolution in Bulgaria since 1990s and Challenges before the On-going Migration Policy

Summary/Abstract: This article’s focuses are the results of studies on internal and external migration’s evolution over the past two and a half decades in the country and on legal framework of migration policies at a national level. This research is aimed at the possibilities to make accurate assessment of trends in migration processes evolution nationally and their impacts on demographic reproduction and country’s development. Furthermore, the results of the analysis of the Demographic Strategy, which is the baseline instrument applicable to migration policy in Bulgaria, are also highlighted and this is the background for mapping out the major areas of focus in terms of how to modify or supplement the 2030 Demographic Strategy in force. Both internal and external migrations are analysed and these have proved to be instrumental for an assessment of their size, direction and significance for the population development in the context of contracted demographic reproduction. The study covers a period of 25 years so as to study the long-standing trends of processes evolution and their developments and this is the platform to be used for an assessment of the realism of the on-going policies. Moreover, post-1990 governments’ migration policies were completely liberalised. This potentiates making a comparison between the period covering the 1990s, when there was no governmental instrument tackling with migration policy’s aims and goals, on the one hand, and the period covering the last 10 years, i.e. when the Demographic Strategy was adopted and enforced. For the purposes of this study, official current statistical information on migration as published by NSI and Eurostat and data from the population censuses conducted over the reference period and population statistics was used.

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