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Polands mechanisms to sustain the reintegration
of expatriates
Justyna Frelak Institute of Public Affairs
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• a non governmental
• and non-partisan
• public policy think tank

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• Plan of the presentation
• Polish emigration after May 1, 2004
• The impact of Polish migration
• Phenomena of returns
• Polands return and reintegration policies

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• Polish emigration after May 1, 2004

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• Background joining the EU
• Labour market liberalisation
• The debate on opening the labour market
• Polish government policy

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• The scale of post-enlargement migration
• approximately 80 of all migrants went in 2007 to
  six countries the United Kingdom, Germany,
  Ireland, Italy, the United States and the
  Netherlands
• in 2006 Poles were the third largest immigrant
  group in the UK (318,600), after migrants from
  India and Ireland
• CBOS approx. 1 million of Polish citizens
  working abroad in 2008

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• Profile of post-enlargement migrants
• typical Polish migrant worker is young and
  childless
• migrant community has more men (53) then women
• dominates 25-44 age group
• less urbanised regions are particularly
  susceptible to emigration
• UK Poles that have recently arrived earn less
  than immigrants in the same jobs who came before
  2000

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• 2. The impact of Polish migration

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• Receiving countries
• Workers from the EU-8 supplemented the shortage
  of labour force in the EU-15
• Polish migrants did not cause a reduction in wage
  levels
• EU-8 immigrants do not cheat the local social
  security system

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• Poland
• growing labour market shortages
• brain drain or brain waste?
• remittance flows
• immigration policy

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• 3. Phenomena of returns

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• Factors influencing peoples decisions to return
• Polish economic situation
• wages
• family situation
• social and professional advancement (closed/open)

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Source IPA, IPPR
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• The vast majority of Polish migrants emigrate
  because of economic reasons, but return because
  they miss home or want to be with their friends
  and family in Poland.

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• 4. Polands return and reintegration policies

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• Return policies
• Information campaign
• Tax abolition
• Incentives for professionals and businessmen
• Assistance for families and children
• Promotion of Poland
• Reintegration on the labour market

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• Other initiatives
• www.wracajdopolski.pl (return to Poland)
• regional projects