No. 109 - 'Foreign migration in the context of development and regional migration policy’

Institute for Western Affairs' Bulletin (No. 109/2012) Dr. Brygida Solga, ‘Foreign migration in the context of development and regional migration policy'

After almost a decade of membership in the European Union and the opening of the European job markets for the Poles, the importance of foreign migration and its influence on the development of individual regions grew significantly. The representatives of local (all communes of the Opolskie Voivodeship) and regional (all voivodeships in the country) authorities unambiguously declare the need to create networks of institutional cooperation for the tasks related to foreign migration. This means that shaping the migration policy and identifying the instruments allowing for the effective use of opportunities and reduction of losses resulting from international mobility constitute an important challenge at the regional level.