Recent Trends in Ukrainian Migration to Poland
Recent Trends in Ukrainian Migration to Poland

Author(s): Marta Jaroszewicz
Subject(s): Labor relations, Migration Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)
Keywords: Ukrainian Migration; Poland; labour visas;
Summary/Abstract: Poland is first of all an emigration country, albeit its transformation from an emigration into an emigration-immigration country has been steadily progressing. The size of the foreign population in Poland is still marginal in comparison with other European Union member states; however, it is slowly growing. In the last national census, conducted in Poland in 2011, foreigners constituted less than 1% of the resident population. At the end of 2013, 121,000 foreigners with different kinds of residence permits were registered in Poland. On 1 November 2015, this number totalled as many as 194,000. However, these numbers do not illustrate the full picture of immigration flows into Poland. Foreigners who obtain a residence permit in Poland are usually permanent migrants who stay in Poland for a year or longer, while immigration to Poland has mainly a temporary (often seasonal) character not captured by residence permit statistics. According to Eurostat, which recognizes long-term national visas as residence permits, there were at the end of 2014 as many as 364,652 different residence permits issued in Poland, including labour visas for longer than 3 months.

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