„Discovering migration between Eastern partners and Visegrad countries”
conference programme.

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Date: 13 th December 2013, 9.30-15.00
Venue: Hotel Novotel Danube, H-1027 Budapest, Bem rakpart 33-34.

In former socialist countries migration was strongly controlled by the state, border crossing was limited by strict administrative measures and even militarized along the iron curtain. After 1990 mobility has rapidly increased in the region generating mass (out)migration, and contributing to the evolvement of the lately described phenomena of circular migration. While the main direction of the migration is from Central and Eastern European countries to the older member states of the EU, V4 countries have also been effected as target (partly due to certain historic and ethnic linkages) and transit countries. EU integration of Visegrad counties, especially the implementation of Schengen border control system has installed new boundaries between the EU member V4 countries and their Eastern partners, hampering free movement and already existing personal, institutional and economic relations. Moreover, the global crisis has also redrawn the migratory processes in the region, inducing novel movements, some of them difficult to catch by statistics.

The aim of the conference is to offer possibility to experts from the Visegrad countries, Ukraine and Georgia to meet and share their knowledge and experiences about recent trends and social background of migration in given countries.

The Organizers



Venue: Hotel Novotel Danube, H-1027 Budapest, Bem rakpart 33-34.
(“Batthyány tér ” M2, H5, tram 19, 41)

9.30 – 12.30 Panel session

9.30 – 9.40
Károly Kocsis (director of MTA RCAES Geographical Institute) - Welcome address

9.40 – 10.00
Edit Szilágyiné Bátorfi (Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) – Priorities of Hungarian
V4 presidency in relation with the Eastern Partnership

10.00 – 10.20
László Dux (Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) – Migratory challenges faced by the
EU

10.20 – 10.40
Attila Melegh (Demographic Research Institute, Budapest) – Introduction of SEEMIG
project

10.40 – 11.00
Béla Soltész (Demographic Research Institute, Budapest) – Forecasting migration between
the EU, V4 and Eastern Europe: impact of visa abolition – project introduction

11.00 – 11.20
Discussion

11.20 – 11.40
Coffee break

11.40 – 12.30

Session 1.
In focus: Social background of migration in Eastern Partners


11.40 – 12.00
Oleksii Poznyak (Head of Migration Studies Department of Ptoukha Institute for
Demography and Social Studies of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) –Socio-Economic
preconditions for migration in Ukraine

12.00 – 12.20
Giorgi Meladze (associate professor Department of Geography, Faculty of Natural
Sciences, Tbilisi State University) – Socioeconomic consequences of migration processes in
Georgia

12.20 – 12.30
Discussion

12.30 – 13.30
Lunch break

13.30 – 15.00

Session 2.
Visegrad countries: recent trends on outmigration and immigration



13.30 – 13.50
Yana Leontyieva (Institute of Sociology of Academy of Science of the Czech Republic) –
Recent trends in migration in the Czech Republic, with special attention to economic
migration

13.50 – 14.10
Zuzanna Brunarska (Centre for Migration Research, University of Warsaw) – Migration of
Belarusians to Poland - determinants and newest trends

14.10 – 14.30
Dóra Bálint (IOM Budapest Office) - Assistance to Victims of Trafficking Returning to
Hungary

14.30 – 14.50
Miloslav Bahna (Institute for Sociology of Slovak Academy of Sciences) - Diverse profiles,
diverse strategies: Lessons from Slovak migration to the UK and Austria

14.50 – 15.10
Discussion

15.10
Conference closing, buffet

 



Workshop - project discussion. 12.12.2013.