Transit Migration in Poland [antikvár]

FOREWORD The Working Party on Information of the Vienna Group, at its meeting of 17 February 1993, discussed the Feasibility Study on the Establishment of a Migration Information System submitted by IOM and recommended that IOM should start implementing such a programme. The Governments of Austria, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland responded positively to the joint appeal sent out for this purpose by IOM and the Council of Europe, providing financial contributions so that IOM could start implementing its Migration Information Programme (MIP) on a step-by-step basis. Two main activities were defined for MIP in the short term. The first was to carry out rapid, targeted research on the profile of migrants and potential migrants in the region, determining, through the application of specialized methodologies, their individual motives, attitudes and perceptions vis-a-vis migration. The second was to establish a Migration Alert function to ensure provision of advance notice to governments on situations which could trigger large-scale migratory flows. In recent months, it has become clear that one of the most pressing subjects for research in the region was the changing trends in migrant flows through Central and Eastern European countries. Migrants from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Newly Independent States (NIS), who used to transit this region on their way to Western Europe, are now finding themselves stranded owing to more restrictive admission policies in most Western countries. Consequently, IOM decided to focus the first efforts of its Migration Information Programme on analyzing this issue and in this way, provide original and research-based information to concerned governments. The result is a series of reports, of which this is one, on Transit Migration in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia and Ukraine. It is published with the aim of furthering understanding of migration issues, in order to facilitate the task of Governments and institutions and to contribute to orderly migration.