Polish Migrant and Its Impact in UK

Abstract

Unlike a birth or a death, a "migration" is not a discrete natural event, one of a series that can be counted and classified with little or no ambiguity. Whether someone who moves is a "migrant" depends or more less arbitrary criteria concerning the distance covered, the relative permanence of the move, and its seeming importance. This lack of conceptual clarity has been aggravated by the fact that data are typically collected following legal, political, or other ad hoc definitions, most of what we think we know about migration derives from these inadequate statistics. The paper juxtaposes legal analysis of the UK's free movement policy with pragmatic perspectives taken from in-depth interviews with Polish migrants.