Post- accession returns to Poland

Aims of the project

  1. Exploration of character, scale and socio-demographic profile of post-accession return migration to Poland in order to prepare recommendations to the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development in relation to eventual support of return migrants in doing own business in Poland
  2. Analysis of policy tools addressing return migration in selected countries
  3. Analysis of reintegration patterns of return migrants in the Polish labour market.

Research

  1. Secondary data analysis of Census 2002 and Labour Force Survey (BAEL) 2002-2008
  2. Exploratory in-depth interviews with selected return migrants
  3. Analysis of historical data in relation to migration and return to Poland in the 19th and 20th Centuries
  4. Policy analysis addressing return migration in key countries: Poland, Spain, Ireland.

Project team
Izabela Grabowska-coordiantor
Marta Anacka
Agnieszka Fihel
Magdalena Lesinska
Joanna Nestorowicz
Ewa Matejko

Publications connected to the project

Fihel A., Grabowska-Lusinska I. (2014). Labour Market Behaviours of Back-and-Forth Migrants From Poland, International Migration, 52(1), 22–35.

Fihel A., Grabowska-Lusińska I. (2010). Płynność powrotów do Polski, Studia Migracyjne- Przegląd Polonijny, 4, 107-130.

Grabowska-Lusinska I. (red.) (2010). Poakcesyjne powroty do Polski, CMR Working Papers 43(101)

Grabowska-Lusinska I. (2010). Analiza polityk panstwa wobec migracji powrotnych. Przypadek Irlandii. [In:] Lesinska M. (eds.). Polityka panstwa wobec migracji powrotnych wlasnych obywateli. Teoria i praktyka, CMR Working Papers, 44(102).

Duration
2008-2009

Funding institution
Polish Agency for Enterprise Development [http://en.parp.gov.pl/]

Connected Events
XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, 11-17 July 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden
Research Committee on Sociology of Migration, RC 31
Session 2: Return Migration to the Homeland
Paper: Post-accession ‘intentionally unpredictable’ returns to Poland and their selectivity.

Polska Agencja Rozwoju Przedsiebiorczosci, seminarium: Poakcesyjne powroty Polakow, Warszawa, 4 marca 2010
Referat: Poakcesyjne powroty Polakow.

Trinity College Dublin Conference: After the Party’s Over: The Implications of Polish Post-Accession to Ireland, 17th September 2010
Paper: Return migrants to Poland: Labour Market Transitions and Career Patterns

IMISCOE 6th Annual Conference, Bilbao, 9-12th October 2008
Paper: Position paper. Return migration: mechanisms, causes, factors, implication (with Birgit Glorius)