Are diverse societies our future? Conversation between Eliza Michalik and prof. Paul Kaczmarczyk

Another 3rd talk by Eliza Michalik from the educational cycle on migration, which we carry out as part of the social task of the NNO. Our guest is Prof. Paweł Kaczmarczyk, who explains, among others, what freedom of mobility is, whether and how migration affects the labour marketplace and besides differences between assimilation and integration. Welcome

About migration in the context of the past of humanity and the world; the first migration laws, what people's displacement erstwhile looked like and how far we have moved on in the perception of migration and crossing borders since the 19th century. What is freedom of mobility?

Looking at migration from the labour marketplace – is the influx of foreigners a threat to the labour marketplace and what solutions to make and implement so that they are beneficial to the people who come in and the native society?

On the migration of Poles after Poland's accession to the UK and how this issue was utilized during Brexit

Why should we talk about integration and not assimilation and whether diverse societies are our future?

Paul Kaczmarczyk is simply a prof. at the Faculty of economical Sciences of the University of Warsaw (Cathedral of Economics of Population and Demography) and since 2016 has been head of the UW Migration investigation Centre, to which he has been associated with the Centre since 1997. The beginning of his cooperation is connected with the groundbreaking ethnosondazes carried out in selected regions of Poland. The current areas of interest are: the broad economics of migration, in peculiar the causes and consequences of global labour migration, the relation between mobility and the labour marketplace and migration policy. He examines migration reality and tries to participate in the political debate on mobility (in the past he was a associate of the strategical Advisors squad of the president of RM). Prof. Kaczmarczyk is besides a associate or co-worker of groups dealing with mobility and migration (e.g. the Committee for Migration investigation of the Polish Academy of Sciences, IMISCOE) as well as many national and global institutions, including IZA, planet Bank, OECD.