Forecasting migration between the EU, V4 and Eastern Europe. Impact of visa abolition. OSW Report, July 2014

Dušan Drbohlav, Dušan Drbohlav and Jaroszewicz, Marta and Strielkowski, Wadim and Parusel, Bernd and Brunarska, Zuzanna and Čermáková, Dita and Soltész,, Béla and Zimmerer, Gábor and Benč, Vladimír and Betliy, Oleksandra and Całus, Kamil and Yeliseyeu, Andrei and Kaźmierkiewicz, Piotr (2014) Forecasting migration between the EU, V4 and Eastern Europe. Impact of visa abolition. OSW Report, July 2014. UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

This book is the result of one year of solid work among a multinational research team assembled from seven states (Poland, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova). It aims at a detailed analysis of migration patterns and migration forecasts from Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova to the EU/V4. In particular, the nexus between EU visa policy and migration dynamics as well as the impact of economic, political and institutional factors on migration from Eastern Europe have been investigated. The importance of migration policy must be stressed here. Together with demand for the foreign labour force (labour market needs, level of wages, existing work opportunities) and migration networks (including ethnic links), migration policy has a powerful influence on the scale, directions and characteristics of human flows.

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