POPULATION OF POLAND POLISH INHABITANTS IN 2004 City/ village SEX TOTALMALEFEMALE City 234700861111950512304235 Village 1470374973343507398965 TOTAL 381738351845385519703200.

POPULATION OF POLAND

POLISH INHABITANTS IN 2004

City/ village

SEX

TOTAL MALE FEMALE

City 23470086 11119505 12304235

Village 14703749 7334350 7398965

TOTAL 38173835 18453855 19703200

POLISH INHABITANTS IN 2005

City/ village

SEX

TOTAL MALE FEMALE

City 23423740 11119505 12304235

Village 14733315 7334350 7398965

TOTAL 38157055 18453855 19703200

POLISH INHABITANTS IN 2006

City/ village SEX

TOTAL MALE FEMALE

City 23368878 11083770 12285108

Village 14756601 7343005 7413596

TOTAL 38125479 18426775 19698704

EDUCATION SYSTEM OF POLAND

NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN DIFFERENT TYPES OF SCHOOLS IN THOUSANDS IN 2009

•PRIMARY SCHOOLS 2294•LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOLS 1381•BASIC VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS 247•GENERAL SECONDARY SCHOOLS 688•SPECIALIZED SECONDARY SCHOOLS 72•TECHNICAL SECONDARY SCHOOLS 568•POST-SECONDARY SCHOOLS 344•TERTIARY EDUCATION 1927

SYSTEM OF EDUCATION IN POLAND

THE MEANING OF „MIGRATION”

Migration, emigration, imigration- migration of people in order to change the place of a stay.

MOTIVES OF MIGRATION

pushing out factors pulling factorseconomic and demographic - poverty

- unemployment- low salary- high natural birth rate- lack of basic medical care- shortages in educational system

- perspectives of higher salary- perspectives of improvement in standard of living- personal or professional development

political - conflicts, danger, violence- corruption- breaking the rights of humans

- sense of security- political freedom

social and cultural - discrimination due to ethnical or religion reasons

- joining families- migration to the country of ancestors- lack of discrimination phenomenon

Source: Bank Światowy, Migration and Remittances, Easter Europe and Soviet Union, 2006

BALANCE OF MIGRATION

consequences (+) consequences (-)for migrants and their families - higher standard of living

- financing current expenses- investment activity- opportunity to take up a job- learning foreign language, culture - handing down mobility model

- job below the qualification- depression of human capital- psychological costs connected with parting with a family, relatives- break down of marriages, families- the escape of young people to bigger cities

for local society - better equipment of household- lower scale of poverty, lower expenses on social benefits- improvement of infrastructure- stimulating the local job market- lowering the pressure on the market place- development of mobile societies

- depopulation of outskirt regions- less or more permanent stagnation on the Polish job market- loss of job resources, problems with finding employees- ostentations consumption- pressure inflationary

THE PHENOMENON OF

MIGRATION IN

POLAND

MIGRATION OF POLES

Country Number of people

The US 1191Germany 431

Italy 341Canada 148

Great Britain 92Other 572Total 2775

Migration from Poland after 1st May 2004: Great Britain -> the estimated number of Poles before joining EU (AROUND 70 000 IN 2003) - Workers Registration Scheme data: the number of applicants between 1st May 2004 and the end of December 2006- 510,000, (307,670 Poles)

- 245,000 National Insurance numbers between 2003- 2005

Ireland -> Personal Public Service numbers system

- 289,814 PPS numbers given to EU8 citizens between 1st May 2004 and the end of October 2006

MIGRATION OF POLES AFTER 1ST MAY 2004 – WHAT IS NEW?

Austria- this country has adopted a great number of Poles for many years.

The legal employment of Poles doesn’t exceed 10,000 people a year and it has maintained at the similar

level for the last two yeras. Poles constitute the biggest group of employees from new members of EU

(around 40%). Hungarians are on the second position (around 30%). Slovaks and Czechs are on the

third and forth place (around 15%).

The Czech Republic is the only „new” country of EOG group which attracts a great numer of Polish

workers. In 2004 and 2005 the number of Poles working there didn’t exceed 10,000 people, however in

2006 it amounted over 13 thousand people. It prooves the inrease of the interest of Poles in taking up

jobs in The Czech Republic, especially in borderland. It is obvious that the biggest group of foreigners

working in the Czech Republic are Slovaks (around 100,000 people). There are also a few hundred

Hungarians working in the country.

Alike Czechs and Hungarians Poles work in the second segment of job market which doesn’t require a

good knowledge of the language of a certain country as well as high qualifications. The most popular

trades are: building, social services, simple office duties.

POLISH EMIGRATION TO EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

Country The number of Poles leaving in

2007

Main Polish population in foreign countries

Austria 55000 Wienna - 30.000, Graz, Linz, Löben

The Czech Republic 100000 Śląsk Cieszyński - 70.000

Slovakia 10000

Romania 10000 Bukovina and Bukareszt

Hungary 20000 Budapeszt, Tatabanya, Komarom, Derenk

FOREIGNERS IN POLAND

Trends of imigration to Poland

Basic Information

Registration data: 9,500 in 2004; including 1990-2004: 107,200 NSP 2002- foreigners who do not have Polish citizenships: 40,600 Repatriates (around 8,000 in 2005) Other categories- compare- the table

The most important features of contemporary imigration to Poland

• a small scale• cities as a main destinaion• domination of imigrants from Russia• domination of economical imigration• domination of temporary reemigration settlement due to mixed marriage• big number of irregular immigration Very low scale of immigration phenomenon (legal)

difficult to estimate meassures of illegal immigration statistical data indicating the decrease of interest in Poland as a destination:• decrease of number of permissions for settlement• decrease of the number of aplications for the temporary stay• decrease of the number of permissions for work• decrease of the number of refugees• decrease of the number of deportations the effect of migration policy or the real process

IMMIGRATION TO POLAND

2005 year

UE- 25: 1,579

• Germany - 518• USA - 452• Ukraine - 2,697• Belarus - 610• Russia - 486• Vietnam - 1067

Permissions for job- trends

TEMPORARY STAY OF IMIGRANTS IN POLAND

Year

ForeignersStudying in

PolandWith work permission

With permission

for settlement

With permission

for temporary

stay

Applying for refugee’s

status

1995 5202 11363 3067 - 8431996 5313 13668 2841 - 32111997 5443 17498 3973 - 35311998 5541 20759 1657 4893 34231999 6025 20618 551 16810 30612000 6563 19662 857 15037 46622001 7380 19793 690 20787 45292002 7608 24643 607 29636 51702003 8106 19832 1735 28579 69092004 8829 13179 4366 25427 80792005 10092 10304 3589 22626 6860

Source: Bijak i Koryś 2006, Kępińska 2007