Immigration and integration

1. IMMIGRATION AND INTEGRATION
IN POLAND

2. IMMIGRATION & INTEGRATIONinPoland:
LAWS and REGULATIONS
POLAND = ATRANSIT STATE,
A HOMOGENEOUS COUNTRY
At the Polish census of 2011,
almost 98% of the people
of Poland claimed Polish
nationality.
SINCE the 1st of May 2014 – there have been big
changes in rules and legislation :
 the simplification of procedures applying to permanent residence,
 one permit for residence and work,
 easier procedures for foreign students and graduates from Polish
universities and academies,
 the possibility of applying for permanent residence in Poland by the
owners of Karta Polaka (The Charter of the Polish Citizen)
 11 refugee camps – 1 549 people (431 vacancies
left)
 The Polish government is able to make emergency
camps:
( last year such was the case with the wave of Ukrainian
refugees)
A REFUGEE in a refugee camp gets: 210 zloty (about 50 euro
per month), free Polish lessons, free health and dental care.
Children have the right to go to school in the camp.
the details are on www.udsc.pl

3. IMMIGRATION & INTEGRATION inPoland:
theTRENDS over theyears
Since the second Chechen war in 1999, almost
15 000 Chechens have been refugees in
Poland. Some have settled here but most
Chechens see Poland as a transit country to
Western Europe. There seems to be an urgent
need for a coherent EU strategy on the matter.
 2 500 000 Polish citizens, repatriates,
Ukrainians of Polish origin and their families from
the East: Ukraine – Donbas, Donietzk, Mariupol,
Kazakhstan, Belarus and others are going to
settle in Poland.
Before WW2 - 1/3 of Poland's population was
composed of ethnic minorities.
After WW2 the population of Poland became
nearly ethnically homogeneous as a result of:
• the Nazi Holocaust,
• the deportations ordered by
the Soviet authorities, who wished to remove
the sizeable Polish minorities
from Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine
• the deportations of Ukrainians from Poland,
• the 1945 revision of borders.
• the extermination of Jews, by 1945, who were
the largest Jewish community in pre-war Europe
at about 3.3 million people,

4. ETHNIC MINORITIES IN POLAND
The rights of ethnic minorities in Poland
are guaranteed in article 35
of the 1997 Constitution:
1.The freedom to maintain and develop
their own language, to maintain
customs and traditions, and to
develop their own culture.
2.The right to establish educational and
cultural institutions, institutions
designed to protect religious
identity.
Population background in 2011 % Population[]
European 98.6 37,962,000
European Union 98.2 37,813,000
EthnicPolish (including Silesians and Kashub
ians)
97.7 37,602,000
Other EU member states (primarily German) 0.5 211,000
Other European
(primarily Ukrainian and Belarusian)
0.4 149,000
Others (primarily Vietnamese) <0.1 29,000
Mixed or unspecified background 1.4 521,000
Total population 100 38,512,000
The general population background in 2011 was as follows:
THE LARGEST ETHNIC MINORITIES in Poland:
Silesians (418 000) as the largest national-ethnic minority in the west
southern Poland and Kashubians as a regional linguistic minority in
the north central Poland (17 000).
Other minorities in Poland (0,3% of the population of Poland):
9 national minorities (49 000 Germans – 92% of whom live in Opole
and Silesian Province, 37 000 Belarusians, 36 000 Ukrainians,
Czechs, Lithuanians, Armenians, 8 000 Russians, Slovaks, Jews)
4 ethnic minorities (Karaites, 7 000 Lemkos, 12 000 Roma and
Tatars).
16 languages have
officially recognized
status of MINORITY
LANGUAGES in
Poland: 1 regional, 10
of national and 4 of
ethnic minorities

5. The ATTITUDE of the POLISH SOCIETY towards
IMMIGRATION & INTEGRATION inPoland:
 TODAY IMMIGRANTS,TOMORROWTERRORISTS!” Anti-
immigration protests like this one inWarsaw sprung up across
Poland on the 2nd October :
 A REFUGEE CAMP = A KIND OF GHETTO
 Christians from Syria and Iraq =THE MOST
PERSECUTED GROUPS INTHE WORLD
 The Polish society in general would
like to STOP WAR in Syria and Iraq, SEND
OUR HELP DIRECTLY TO REFUGEE CAMPS
ANDTOTHE COUNTRIES WITH NUMEROUS
REFUGEES, and to protect the Schengen
area borders.
 MULTI CULTI doesn’t exist in Poland
A new poll has found that one in every six
Poles (16 percent) thinks that Poland should
accept refugees without any conditions.
STOPWAR! „I AM Muslim, I AM Sunni,
I AM against ISIS” „No for ISIS”

6. Theway IMMIGRATION & INTEGRATION
ispresented inTHE MEDIA in Poland
 See more at:
http://www.middlee
asteye.net/news/cat
holic-poland-
reluctant-help-
muslim-refugees-
2091168202#sthash.
tLGUY2WI.dpuf „Remember Muslims hate
Muslims, Sunni hate Shiites …”
 „Europe should be a safe land for
Christians andYazidis fleeing
persecution…”
ISIS BARBARITY: How 100,000 Christians fled
Mosul in ONE NIGHT
A PRIEST who was captured and tortured by
Islamist terrorists has today lifted the lid on
Islamic State's (ISIS) horrific persecution of
Christians.

8. THE POSITIVE ANDNEGATIVE EXPERIENCES
Pope Francis asks „ONE REFUGEE FAMILY
PER ONE PARISH”
 HELP FOR REFUGEES IN POLAND:
Polish charity groups, churches and
businesses fully support the cause by
covering expenses: Catholic and
Evangelic Polish Charity Organisations
- CARITAS, DIAKONIA, HELP CHURCH
IN NEED, andTHE MUSLIM
ORGANISATION support the campaign
SOLIDARITYWITH IRAQAND SYRIA
In July 2015, ESTERA FUND organised, with
the approval of the Polish government, the
arrival of 50 families: over 150 Christian Syrian

9. IMMIGRATION &INTEGRATION inPoland:
PROBLEMS Polandmightface
 PROBLEMS with DISCRIMINATION
against immigrants and Polish nation in
own country:
 „We want repatriates, not immigrants”
 „We can’t afford immigrants”
 „In Rome do as Romans do”
 „We should respect others but first of all the country
should respect own citizens, their rights!”
 „SHARIA LAW cannot be accepted in Poland – we’re
afraid of Islam and Muslim culture”
“The problem of the current wave of migration,
serious and painful, has polarized Europe.Vast
majority of Polish society wishes to differentiate
between those persons who flee from
persecution of ISIS and should be offered
rational and effective assistance – and the
economic migrants”

10. The EFFECT of the CURRENT IMMIGRATION
CRISIS onPoland
 Poland – EU Refugee Quota Plan:
7 000 refugees in 2016 and 2017, no labour immigrants,
mainly Syrians and Eritreans placed in 11 refugees camps for about
half a year.
Obligatory registration and fingerprinting before entering Poland =
The country has to protect the interests of its own citizens claims
the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda
 1 MUNICIPALITY = 1 REFUGEE FAMILY (2 478 municipalities in
Poland = integration with Polish society)
 THE REFUGEES DON’TWANTTO STAY IN POLAND = low social
benefits, low salaries.TRANSIT STATETO GERMANY.
Poland can take in more refugees than EU
quota but on voluntary basis