Despite Anti-migration Rhetoric, Poland Bows to Necessity and Opens Up to Foreign Workers

Anti-migration rhetoric of the Polish government stands in contrast with policies allowing thousands of badly needed workers from the east

22 June 2023

Paweł Marczewski

Marcin Król Fellow

Poland’s nationalist government has railed against EU asylum policy and migration from “culturally alien” countries but is, in fact, allowing thousands of Asian migrants in to keep the growing economy on track.

Poland and Hungary were the only two countries in the EU Council that voted against the reform of the Union’s asylum regulations on 8 June. At first glance, the Polish veto is not surprising and fully consistent with the anti-migration rhetoric of the Law and Justice (PiS) government.

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Shortly after the new asylum pact got approved by a majority at the Council, the government launched a propaganda campaign blaming Brussels for imposing “absurd solutions” on member states and forcing Poland to bear the burden of “failed migration policies of other countries.”

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Paweł Marczewski

Marcin Król Fellow

Marcin Król Fellow. Paweł Marczewski is head of the research unit Citizens at the ideaForum, think tank of the Batory Foundation, a member of the Carnegie Civic Research Network, and an affiliated researcher at the SWPS Youth Study Center. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Warsaw. His main areas of interest are relations between demographic changes and democracy, social movements, civil society organizations, and social justice. He is a contributing writer at the weekly Tygodnik Powszechny and a member of the editorial board of Przegląd Polityczny quarterly, his comments and articles appeared also in the Nation, Public Seminar, Eurozine, as well as major Polish dailies Gazeta Wyborcza and Rzeczpospolita. In the years 2011-2017, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Warsaw, in 2015-2017 also head of publications at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.

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