Between closing borders to refugees and welcoming Ukrainian workers
Year: 2020

The ‘refugee crisis’ of 2015 was a watershed moment in Polish migration policy. It became one of the prominent issues of the 2015 election campaign and resulted in the win of the Law and Justice Party, one of the far-right political parties which withdrew Poland from the EU refugee relocation scheme. Although asylum law has not changed much in Poland, some of the regulations were toughened for ‘security reasons.’ As a result, Polish borders became practically closed to asylum seekers. Simultaneo