Anita Adamczyk
Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora, Vol. 1 (187), 2023 (XLIX), pp. 31-51
https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972SMPP.22.020.16379The aim of this article is to analyse the Polish migration policy. However, it is not about the content of the policy but about the gaps, paradoxes and stages of its creation. The thesis of the article is that the Polish migration policy created “from above” is full of paradoxes, which makes it internally incoherent. On the one hand, the economic logic of the market dictates that the policy should be open to foreigners, while the logic of the policy tends to be closed. In the phases of the migration policy-making cycle proposed in the article we cannot go beyond the second phase. “Policy on paper” is our domain. As it is constantly changing, we cannot move to the implementation and evaluation phase. This text is based on methods characteristic for political science and administration (institutional, systemic, decision-making) and legal science (legal-dogmatic).
Anita Adamczyk
Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora, Vol. 2 (172), 2019 (XLV), pp. 161-184
https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972SMPP.19.019.10845The aim of the article is to analyze the situation of economic immigrants on the West Pomeranian labor market. The data on immigration to Zachodniopomorskie Voivodship is related to the characteristics of the regional labor market. The authors refer to data from interviews with migrants and experts. On this basis, the analysis of the families and economic and social situation of economic immigration was made. The collected data indicate that the vast majority of economic migrants in the West Pomeranian Voivodship were Ukrainians. Their arrival in the West Pomeranian region was related with relatively high wages, and with the linguistic and cultural proximity of Poland (pull factors). The research shows that at the moment we are dealing with phenomena which are typical of first wave immigration in the West Pomeranian Voivodship. This stage is characterized by a more frequent change of place of employment, longer working hours and, among other, a smaller number of contacts between immigrants.