Poland's Kin-State Policies: Opportunities and Challenges

The increased engagement of states with their co-ethnics abroad has recently become one of the most contentious features of European politics. Poland's Kin-State Policies: Opportunities and Challenges examines Poland's fast-evolving relationship with Polish communities living beyond its borders, focusing on the Act on the Polish Card (Karta Polaka). It explores how the issue of co-ethnics abroad is increasingly being instrumentalised to attract labour migration and highlights how the volume situates Poland's engagement within broader conceptual and normative debates around kin-state and diaspora politics.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 158 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The heightened engagement of states with their co-ethnics residing abroad has emerged as a highly contentious aspect of European politics in recent times. While the issue had primarily been framed within the realm of international security, a comprehensive examination of the broader European landscape reveals that kin-state engagement can yield positive societal outcomes when it effectively addresses the concerns articulated by co-ethnic communities.

Poland's Kin-State Policies: Opportunities and Challenges provides fresh perspectives on this matter by delving into Poland's evolving relationship with Polish communities residing outside its borders. The book's central focus revolves around the Act on the Polish Card (commonly referred to as the "Karta Polaka"). By tracing the policymaking processes and the underlying political agendas that have shaped them, the volume situates Poland's engagement within broader conceptual and normative debates surrounding kin-state and diaspora politics, while also exploring its reception and impact in neighboring states such as Ukraine, Germany, and Lithuania.

The volume highlights how the issue of co-ethnics abroad is increasingly being utilized, particularly for the purpose of attracting labor migration to address Poland's demographic crisis. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of "Ethnopolitics."

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032040295