Challenge of East-West Migration for Poland

KRYSTIAN HEFFNER Professor of Geography, and Director (until 1996) of the Siesian Institute in Opole.MAREK JERCZYNSKI Research worker, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of SciencesTOMASZ KUBA KOZLOWSKI Director, Office for Migration and Refugee Affairs (OMRA), Ministry of the Interior (till 1997)WOJCIECH LUKOWSKI Social Anthropologist and a member of the Center for Migration Studies, Warsaw UniversityMAREK OKOLSKI Professor of Demography, Faculty of Economics and Head of Migration Research Center, Warsaw UniversityKRYSTYNA SLANY Doctor of Sociology, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University

• Notes on the Contributors Introduction; K. Iglicka and K. Sword Migration Flows in the 1990s - Challenges for Entry, Asylum and Integration Policy in Poland; T.K. Kozlowski The Causes and Consequences of Recent Migration; M. Okolski Poland - Between East and West - The New Migration Space; M. Jerezynski The Economics of Petty Trade on the Eastern Polish Frontier; K. Iglicka The Emerging Communities of Foreigners in Poland; W. Lukowski The Return of Silesian Migrants from Germany to Silesia: Reality and Prospects; K. Heffner The Attitudes and Patterns of Behaviour of Poles Towards Foreigners in the Light of Recent Studies; K. Slany Index