Polska migracja do Szkocji po akcesji do Unii Europejskiej
The Polish Migration to Scotland after the Accession of Poland to the European Union

Summary/Abstract: The accession of Poland to the European Union and Tony Blair’s decision to immediately open the British labour market for people from the new member states and some other factors have initiated one of the biggest wave of migration in the history of Poland and Great Britain. A significant part of Polish migrants have settled down in Scotland, and quickly have become the most numerous ethnic minority in the region that differ substantially from the other parts of the United Kingdom and where pro-independence ambitions are quite strong. In most cases the Polish migrants to Scotland are below 35 years old, and the migration took place not more than ten years ago, and not less than five years before the latest census, which provided the most comprehensive data on the Polish community in Scotland. The migration strategies applied by the Poles in Scotland make some researchers formulate hypotheses of open or fluid migration.

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