Conference

Polish Migration Policy: Historical Outline and the Challenges for Today

Monday, 23 November 2009

The final conference of the project "Polish Migration Policy: Its Principles and Legal Aspects" was held in the Łazienkowski Hotel, Warsaw on 23 November 2009. The conference titled "Polish Migration Policy: Historical Outline and the Challenges for Today" gathered policy-makers and representatives of the academic society. The conference was co-organised by the International Organization for Migration (Warsaw Office), the Ministry of Interior and Administration and the Central European Forum for Migration and Population Research.

During the first panel of the conference, the results of the research project on the development of Polish migration policy since 1918 were presented by Anna Kicinger (CEFMR). The commentary to the presentation was made by dr hab. Dariusz Stola (Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences). The results of the project fuelled a vivid discussion on the role of the history in the contemporary migration policy and politics in Poland.

The second panel of the conference was devoted to the contemporary challenges for Polish migration policy. The progress of the work on the migration strategy for Poland was presented by Krzysztof Lewandowski (Ministry of Interior and Administration). The presentation evoked questions and comments from the audience.

Conference materials:

• Agenda (pdf 210 KB);

• Anna Kicinger, "Polish migration policy 1918-2004" Overheads in Polish (pdf 7386 KB);

• Monika Prus, "Migration Strategy for Poland: State of the Work and Challenges" Overheads in Polish (pdf 157 KB);