Migrant Workers’ Perspective
Migrant Worker’s Perspective in Hungary, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria
This research project aims to understand more about policies on migrants’ employment and integration in four Central-Eastern European countries, as well as to identify effective policies which are encouraging migrants to stay in these countries (and not to go further to Western Europe). The project achieves these through learning more about possible entry points for legal immigration with a particular emphasis on migrants’ perspective – motives for immigrating, working conditions, relationship to the new country and community etc.
The research aims to provide relevant information and guidance for policy recommendations: the chosen countries are all struggling with serious labour market shortage while simultaneously their governments are proposing a rather repressive stance on immigration – What could be those immigration policies that address the increasing labour demand while also respecting the sensitivity of the issue.
The results will be presented in a country report for each country and a concluding study, policy recommendations will be prepared both on the national and EU level.
Principal investigator: Mikołaj Pawlak
Key investigator: Iuliia Lashchuk
Implementing institution: Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Resocialisation – University of Warsaw
Duration: 2019-2020
Funded by: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Budapest
Field reports:
Pawlak, Mikołaj, Iuliia Lashchuk. 2020. Entry to a market, not to a state: Situation of migrant workers in Poland. Budapest: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
Pawlak, Mikołaj, Iuliia Lashchuk. 2020. Dostęp do rynku pracy, ale nie do państwa: Sytuacja pracowników migrujących w Polsce. Budapest: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.