Marta Pachocka

• PhD
• Lecturer at SGH Warsaw School of Economics

The report presents findings on migration trajectories of various categories of migrants in Poland. The research focused on return as a result of a given person’s experience and aspirations. The primary data were obtained through qualitative analysis of 31 individual in-depth interviews with migrants. This research was conducted under the Horizon E...

The full‐scale aggression against Ukraine on 24 February 2022 caused an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. In Poland, most forced migrants settled in urban areas, turning cities into unique proving grounds for humanitarian assistance and testing their resilience capabilities. We explore this phenomenon using the case study of three medium‐sized cit...

This paper investigates the governance of emergencies in Lithuania and Poland from 2020 to 2023, focusing on how multiple crises, namely, the COVID-19 pandemic, the humanitarian crisis on the border with Belarus, and the influx of Ukrainians fleeing a full-scale Russian invasion were handled. In response to these events, both countries introduced mea...

This working paper aims to broaden our understanding of the cooperation mechanism between the EU and Georgia in the context of the EU’s externalisation of migration policies. This research was conducted under the Horizon Europe project ‘GAPS: De-centring the Study of Migrant Returns and Readmission Policies in Europe and Beyond’ (101094341). Cite a...

The existing literature points to securitisation as a dominant form of emergency governance emerging in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, also in relation to migration. However, another important way of framing migration during the pandemic is in terms of economisation. This article aims to analyse the rationale underpinning Polish immigration pol...

In this report on Poland’s return policy, developed under Horizon Europe GAPs project, we analysed the legal, institutional, and infrastructure framework of the country’s return procedures for foreigners covering the years 2015-2023 (in some cases also early 2024). This research was conducted under the Horizon Europe project ‘GAPS: De-centring the...

Before full‐scale war broke out in 2022, over 1 million Ukrainians resided legally in Poland. Within weeks of Russia's aggression, around 1.5 million new Ukrainian forced migrants had arrived, many of whom remain in Poland. As of September 2023, 970,000 Ukrainian refugees were still in Poland, where they enjoyed temporary protection status. This pa...

The presence of migration in non-urban areas is mainly related to the paradoxical coexistence of both restrictive migration policies and a proliferation of welcoming initiatives. These initiatives are aimed at (co-)creating “welcoming spaces” and are often driven by older residents and migrant people but can equally be the outcome of initiatives by...

In diesem Kapitel wird die Einwanderungs- und Integrationspolitik in Polen in den letzten Jahren unter verschiedenen Aspekten – institutionell, politisch und sozial – dargestellt. Es untersucht die Fragen der Einwanderung nach Polen, die Situation von Ausländern und Zuwanderern und ihre Integration in die polnische Gesellschaft. Der Schwerpunkt lie...

Research on flight and refugees has been experiencing a boom in the German-speaking regions since about 2015. This handbook opens up the field in all its breadth and at the same time critically reflects the state of research. Part I of the volume discusses on a theoretical level the historical development of the field, its (trans-)disciplinary appr...

This report aims to present findings of the research conducted in Poland within the Work Package 1 of the Welcoming Spaces project, namely “Welcoming spaces” in relation to economic viability, social wellbeing and political stability in shrinking regions. The main aim of the mentioned research was to examine how welcoming initiatives are organised...

In recent years, the issues of integration – related on the one hand to people referred to as foreigners, immigrants, newcomers, etc. – and on the other hand to host societies – have been gaining importance in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, including Poland. Before the political and socio-economic transformation at the turn of th...

In this special issue of CMR Spotlight, a team of CMR researchers describes the most important facts about forced migrations caused by the Russian aggression on Ukraine, its effects, the reaction of the EU, the Polish state and Polish society. Also some recommendations for further actions to mitigate the effects of the crisis are proposed.

Against the backdrop of disintegrative tendencies in the EU, where Brexit perhaps most profoundly captures the spirit of current developments in the EU, this book offers a detailed understanding of the key issues, challenges, and opportunities that educators across Europe and beyond encounter on a daily basis when teaching EU-related course content...

This report is based on a meta-analysis of nine national reports on integration from countries along the so-called Eastern Mediterranean Route. It includes two countries beyond the EU, Turkey and Iraq, which have played an important role as source and transit countries of refugees, the transit countries of Greece, Italy and Poland, and the destinat...

Migrant integration is usually studied in four dimensions: economic, political, social and cultural. The cultural sphere seems to be the most ambiguous, but also the one that induces various interpretations as it touches upon core norms and values held both by migrants and by the receiving society. This paper aims to reconstruct research approaches...

Cite this chapter as: Molęda-Zdziech M., Pachocka M., Wach D. (2021) Immigration and Integration Policies in Poland: Institutional, Political and Social Perspectives. In: Franzke J., Ruano de la Fuente J.M. (eds) Local Integration of Migrants Policy. Palgrave Studies in Sub-National Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-...

To cite/refer to: Paweł Strzelecki, Marta Pachocka, Procesy migracyjne w krajach Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej – transformacja od państw emigracji netto do imigracji netto, in: Raport SGH i Forum Ekonomicznego 2020, eds. Hanna Godlewska-Majkowska, Piotr Wachowiak, Mariusz Strojny, Bartosz Majewski, Oficyna Wydawnicza SGH, Warszawa 2020, pp. 254-289....

This report focuses on integration policies towards beneficiaries of international protection in Poland in the period of 2011-2019. It also sheds light on the experiences of integration of the beneficiaries of such protection. The findings of our research indicate that the case of Poland is characterised by lack of official integration strategy. Se...

In recent years, the EU has experienced different integration ‘crises’ in its policy domains. Some policy fields such as the environment have been driven by an integration process of consensus among the Member States while others, such as migration and asylum policy, have not reached a high level of integration because of differences between the st...

To cite: Pachocka, M., Pędziwiatr, K., Sobczak-Szelc, K., Szałańska, J. (2020). ‘Reception Policies, Practices and Responses. Poland – Country Report’, Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond Project (#770564, Horizon2020) Report Series, Available at: https://www.respondmigration.com/wp-blog/. This country research report, pre...

Written from a pan­European perspective, this book examines the decision­ making processes in immigration and integration policies in Europe across decades, focusing on several key moments of Europe's postwar history. The analysis of factors taken into consideration by states in key moments of immigration policy (re)formulation shows that Europe is...

This work is the country research report prepared within Work Package 3, focused on refugee protection and asylum policy in Poland, delivered under the H2020 project RESPOND—Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond. The main aims of this report are: • to analyse policies and practices in the field of international protection imp...

Connecting the European Union of shared aims, freedoms, values and responsibilities. European Union and its values: freedom, solidarity, democracy, eds. Agnieszka Kłos, Jan Misiuna, Marta Pachocka, Aleksandra Szczerba-Zawada, CEDEWU, Warsaw 2020. Recent years have seen numerous challenges to the European Union and its functioning. These have conce...

To cite: Pachocka Marta, Proczek Magdalena, Osuch-Rak Ewa, Design thinking as a framework for identifying, examining, and addressing wicked problems and challenges related to migration, in: Right to the City, Performing Arts and Migration, eds. R. Paltrinieri, P. Parmiggiani, P. Musarò, M. Moralli, Franco Angeli, Milan 2020, pp. 142-158 Recent deca...

To cite/refer: Paweł Strzelecki, Marta Pachocka, Migration processes in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe – transformation from net emigration to net immigration countries, in: Report of SGH Warsaw School of Economics and the Economic Forum 2020, eds. Hanna Godlewska-Majkowska, Piotr Wachowiak, Mariusz Strojny, Bartosz Majewski, SGH Publi...

Migration and its diverse forms, including economic migration, irregular migration, forced migration, as well as the plethora of factors that drive people’s decisions to leave their habitat and seek fortune in new places, occupy a dominant position in contemporary research and political debate. Academic literature today brims with contributions ela...

The debate on migration is bound to be tough and uneasy, and yet it is necessary to ask the difficult questions and listen to arguments that we may not like. Only in this way, it will be possible to have a solid and healthy discussion on the prospect of an efficient global migration governance regime. This Special Section addresses this imperative...

After 1990, the Muslim Turks and Tatars in Dobruja (Romania), the region where the community is concentrated demographically, as other Muslim communities in the Balkans, became the environment of interaction and confrontation between ranges of transnational actors. The objective of my research is to determine the influence and effects of transnatio...

The aim of this paper is to present and discuss the approaches of the European Union and the United States of America towards the phenomenon of irregular immigration after 2010. Our analysis is based on official documents and other works published by the EU and U.S. federal government as well as on the literature in this field. This study is a cont...

In this paper we focus on adapting the concept of push – pull factors to forced migration by proposing a “push out – push back” approach that underlines two most crucial elements of forced migrants’ experience. On the one hand, it stresses the reasons for leaving countries of origin or of temporary refuge that are not dependant on the will of peopl...

To cite: Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska, Jan Misiuna, Marta Pachocka, Preface, in: Muslim Minorities and the Refugee Crisis in Europe, eds. Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska, Jan Misiuna, Marta Pachocka, SGH Publishing House, Warsaw 2019.

The aim of this paper is to discuss how the Muslim Other has been invented and still is in contemporary Poland. We argue that it is framed into a different narrative and 'logic' than in the case of many Western European countries. While Poles also need their Muslim 'enemy' , they use him or her not only to strengthen their national identity, but al...

To cite: Muslim Minorities and the Refugee Crisis in Europe, eds. Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska, Jan Misiuna, Marta Pachocka, SGH Publishing House, Warsaw 2019.

The European integration process has already played an important role in reducing the negative consequences of territorial, legal, and administrative discontinuities in border regions and in developing the socio-economic potential of cross-border areas in the EU. This is primarily within the scope of cohesion policy and is well reflected in financi...

To cite: Pachocka M., Velez D. C., Understanding EU Member States cooperation within the asylum regime during the migration and refugee crisis from an IR perspective, in: Promoting values, stability and economic prosperity in the changing world in the global context. EU facing current challenges, opportunities, crisis & conflicts, eds. A. Kłos, M....

Recent years have seen a growing interest in international migrations and migration policy in the EU and its Member States, in particular following what is referred to as the migration and refugee crisis in Europe. This has resulted partly from the intensification of migration processes in the EU and its neighbourhood (mainly in the south), and par...

Zainteresowanie zagadnieniem migracji międzynarodowych i polityką migracyjną w UE i jej państwach członkowskich znacząco wzrosło w ostatnich latach, w szczególności w związku z sytuacją określaną mianem kryzysu migracyjnego i uchodźczego w Europie. Częściowo wynikało to z nasilania się procesów migracyjnych w UE i jej sąsiedztwie (głównie południow...

A Polish Context report within the Atlas of Transitions. New Geographies for a Cross-Cultural Europe (2017- 2020) project. The report contains following sections: Political, economic and social background of the country\local area and general current challenges; Migration and refugee situation and measures taken by the government, NGOs and other or...

Celem niniejszego opracowania jest wprowadzenie do problematyki migracji (zwłaszcza międzynarodowych) i integracji imigrantów w kontekście doświadczeń Unii Europejskiej (UE) i jej państw członkowskich wraz z prowadzonymi w tym zakresie politykami. Migracje i integracja są tu traktowane jako dwa oddzielne zagadnienia, jednak blisko ze sobą powiązane...

Książka „Unia Europejska: istota, szanse, wyzwania” stanowi głos w dyskusji na temat złożoności i specyfiki systemu Unii Europejskiej, stojących przed nim wyzwań oraz szans, jakie stwarza członkostwo w tej organizacji. Celem podjętego przez autorów wysiłku twórczego było krytyczne prześledzenie genezy, dynamiki i zasad procesów integracyjnych w Uni...

The history of immigration to and emigration from contemporary Poland as a social phenomenon dates back to 1989. Geopolitical changes in the region brought the ‘opening’ of Poland’s borders, which in turn contributed to the growing scale of mobility both from and to Poland. Moreover, Poland, as a country on the way from the East to the West also be...

This paper queries the EU’s response to the 2015-2016 waves of large-scale migration through the lens of safety and security. By applying this conceptual framework, it is argued that the concepts of safety and security in the EU-level discourse on migration have been largely conflated, thus fuelling a biased debate on migration in which the latter...

This book is a collection of selected papers, being presented by scholars and practitioners during the international conference “The European Union and the Eastern Partnership: Security Challenges”, April 26-27, 2018, Chișinău, Moldova, in the framework of the Jean Monnet action 564725-EPP-1-2015-1-MD-EPPJMO-SUPPA “Deepening Understanding, Informat...

Cytowanie/To cite: M. Pachocka, K. Sobczak-Szelc, Migracje przymusowe [Forced migration], w: red. M. Lesińska, M. Okólski, 25 wykładów o migracjach [25 lectures on migrations], Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warszawa 2018, s. 34-351. FULL PAPER: http://scholar.com.pl/sklep.php?md=products&id_p=2773 Abstrakt (Wprowadzenie)/Abstract (Introduction): M...

To cite: Olga Czeranowska, Paweł Kaczmarczyk, Marta Pachocka, Anna Rosińska, Justyna Salamońska, Aleksandra Szczerba-Zawada, Dominik Wach, Atlas of Transitions. New Geographies for a Cross-Cultural Europe. Context analysis – Warsaw, Poland, Centre of Migration Research – University of Warsaw, Warsaw 2018, Project „Atlas of Transitions. New Geograph...

To cite: Jan Misiuna, Marta Pachocka, Who counts as a forced migrant? The EU and U.S. perspectives, "Studia Ekonomiczne. Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Katowicach" 2018, vol. 361/18, p. 33-42: https://www.ue.katowice.pl/jednostki/wydawnictwo/czasopisma-naukowe/studia-ekonomiczne-zeszyty-naukowe/biezace-numery/2018/2018/se-36118.html...

To cite: Jan Misiuna, Marta Pachocka, The EU and U.S. approaches towards irregular immigration, Studia Ekonomiczne. Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Katowicach, 2018, vol. 372, p. 220-234: https://www.ue.katowice.pl/fileadmin/user_upload/wydawnictwo/SE_ Artyku%C5%82y_361_380/SE_372/17.pdf The aim of this paper is to present and discuss...

This book is a collection of selected papers that were presented by scholars and practitioners during the international conference “EU Association Agreements with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine: Through Cooperation Towards Integration”, April 26-27, 2017, Tbilisi, Georgia, in the framework of the Jean Monnet action 564725-EPP-1-2015-1-MD-EPPJMO-SUPPA...

Centre ou peripherie ? En choisissant tel ou tel positionnement de la Pologne en Europe, les gouvernements successifs determinaient – parfois inconsciemment – la forme de la politique exterieure, et souvent celle de la politique interieure, y compris de la politique economique. La question de la perspective, qui determine les agissements au plan in...

More than 25 years after the fall of communism, Poland, until recently considered Eastern European systematic transformation success story, seems to stand at the crossroads. The 2015 general elections gave power to the populist Law and Justice party (PiS), which immediately embarked on an ambitious project to completely transform Poland's foreign p...

The objective of this article is twofold, i.e. to discuss the migrant and refugee crisis in Europe/the EU as a key frame of reference for further considerations and to analyse what are, so far, the consequences of this crisis for the Eastern Partnership (EaP) and the EU cooperation with the EaP countries. Thus, the paper consists of two main parts....

With 11 million illegal aliens living in the United States, according to the 2010 US Census Data, it seems justified that illegal immigration is considered one of the most important problems of US immigration policy reform debate. Similarly, irregular immigration should also be considered a key challenge in the immigration policy debate in the Euro...

The purpose of this review paper is to briefly examine why and to what extent the demographic factor is important for the process of the reunification of a divided country, and what the current state of the art in the subject literature with respect to this field is available in English. The analysis is carried out on the example of the German case...

Opracowania naukowe na temat globalnych dóbr publicznych (GDP) powstają od przełomu lat 60. i 70. XX w. Zagadnienie to stało się również przedmiotem zainteresowania organizacji międzynarodowych, takich jak Organizacja Narodów Zjednoczonych (ONZ) i podmioty tworzące system ONZ, Bank Światowy (BŚ), Organizacja Współpracy Gospodarczej i Rozwoju (OECD)...

In the light of the intensifying migration and refugee crises in Europe, various international stakeholders such as the UNHCR, the IOM and the EU have taken a stance in the debate. Among them, the OECD is the organization that stands out with its pragmatic policy-oriented approach rooted in its vast advisory experience, global outlook and socio-eco...

The objective of this paper is to explore and stress the place and importance of the migration and asylum issues in the context of the Eastern Partnership policy initiative. Existing since 2009 the Eastern Partnership currently covers relations between the 28 EU members, three Eastern European countries (Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine) and three Sout...

Several international stakeholders made their voice heard in the debate on the migration and refugee crises in Europe that peaked in 2014–2015. Frequently their arguments would reduce the challenge of migration to moral and legal obligation of the host countries. In contrast, the OECD, drawing on its vast advisory experience, global outlook and soc...

OECD wobec kryzysu migracyjnego i uchodźczego w Europie Od wybuchu kryzysu migracyjnego i uchodźczego w Europie w 2014 r. wielu aktorów międzynarodowych, zarówno organizacji międzyrządowych jak i państw, zabrało głos w dyskusji nad jego przebiegiem i możliwymi kierunkami rozwiązań. Ich uwaga często koncentrowała się na moralnych i prawnych aspektac...

Power Point presentation on ”Understanding the Visegrad Group states’ response to the migrant and refugee crises 2014+ in the European Union” prepared for 13th IMISCOE Annual Conference 30.06-02.07.2016, Prague, https://www.imiscoe.org/what-imiscoe-does/events/508-13th-imiscoe-annual-conference-prague-june-30-july-2-2016

The article attempts to answer question whether the immigration policy of the only state with economic and social potential comparable to the EU's can inspire EU's solutions to the immigrant crisis. The interdisciplinary paper is based on analysis of statistical data, official documents and acts of law. We conclude that further integration of the E...

The volume includes selected papers that were presented at the international conference “EU Relations with Eastern Partnership: Strategy, Opportunities and Challenges”, April 20-21, 2016, Chernivtsi, Ukraine, in the framework of the Jean Monnet action 564725-EPP-1-2015-1-MD-EPPJMO-SUPPA “Deepening Understanding, Information and Communication of the...

Publikacja zawiera opracowania dotyczące gospodarczych, społecznych, kulturalnych i politycznych uwarunkowań procesu realizacji zrównoważonego i sprzyjającego włączeniu społecznemu wzrostu w UE. Odzwierciedlają one kierunki badań prowadzonych w ramach studiów europejskich z dziedziny ekonomii oraz nauk społecznych, podejmujących tematykę związaną z...

Following Poland’s accession to the EU its borders with non-EU Member States became at the same time the EU’s external borders. In the east Poland borders Belarus and Ukraine. The length of Poland–Belarus border is 418.24 km and of Poland-Ukraine border – 535.18 km, which totals 953.42 km, and constitutes 27% of the whole length of Polish borders....

Rezumat În lucrare sunt prezentate două crize importante-migranţi şi refu-giaţi-cele care au fost întâmpinate de către UE şi statele sale membre, cel puţin începând cu 2014. Acestea sunt diferite, dar ele coexistă şi se influ-enţează reciproc. Scopul acestui articol este de a descrie succinct situaţia actuală din Europa a migranţilor şi refugiaţilo...

Wstęp Od 2014 r. Unia Europejska naznaczona jest gwałtownie rosnącą liczbą ludności migrującej zwłaszcza z Afryki Północnej jak i Bliskiego Wschodu, a jednocześnie liczbą przyjezdnych do UE formalnie wnioskujących o różne formy ochrony międzynarodowej lub nieformalnie określających siebie mianem uchodźców i azylantów. W przekazach medialnych, debat...

Pachocka M., Understanding the Visegrad Group states’ response to the migrant and refugee crises 2014+ in the European Union, „Yearbook of Polish European Studies” 2016, vol. 19, p. 101-132. At least since 2014 the European Union (EU) has been facing the migrant and refugee crises, which have become an important test of solidarity of the Member St...