The issue has become a hot topic amid the campaign for next month’s Polish presidential election.
Immigrants
Presidential candidate pledges law to ensure “Poles can’t be treated worse than immigrants”
PiS-backed candidate Karol Nawrocki wants Poles to have priority over immigrants in healthcare and education.
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85% of Poland’s eastern migrant workers not going to homeland for Christmas
The most common reason for remaining in Poland over the holidays was to work.
Number of resident foreigners in Poland rises to highest ever level despite pandemic
Almost half a million foreigners now have residence permits.
“It’s easier to find work and a good life here”: Poland attracts immigrants from Western Europe
Veronica Snoj
The number of foreign EU residents has tripled in a decade.
Polish city helps migrant workers left jobless, homeless and stranded by employer during crisis
A number of local communities have sought to help migrant workers hit by the crisis.
Work permits for immigrants up 35% in Poland, with rising numbers from Ukraine and Asia
Polish employers continue to address gaps in the labour market by looking east.
Record number of firms registered by foreigners in Poland
The number of new firms registered by foreigners rose 12% last year, and has doubled since 201
“This isn’t my birthplace but it’s where I belong”: Poles face future in Britain’s most pro-Brexit town
Juliette Bretan
Boston has the UK’s highest proportion of immigrants from eastern EU member states and of Leave voters.
As Germany opens its labour market, should Poland be worried about losing Ukrainian workers?
Katarzyna Michalska
Germany’s new Skilled Immigration Act goes into force in March this year.
Foreign visitors spend record amount in Poland
Germans were the biggest spenders overall, followed by Ukrainians, Czechs, Slovaks, Belarusians and Russians.
“I speak Polish in school and Vietnamese at home”. Stories of the Vietnamese diaspora in Poland
Zula Rabikowska
A photographic project documents the lives and identities of Poland’s largest non-European immigrant community.
Billboard campaigns welcome Ukrainian immigrants to Polish cities
The billboards welcome Ukrainian immigrants to Poland and teach local residents a few phrases in Ukrainian because “integration is a two-way process”.
No sign of Polish “Brexodus” from UK in latest migration data
New ONS data show that Poles remain the UK’s largest group of foreign nationals, with no notable decline in numbers.
