The Impact of Immigration to Poland on Hate Crimes in Recent Years
Absztrakt :
The Republic of Poland with more than 37 million inhabitants is considered
to be one of the most homogeneous states in the world,1
inhabited by about
2–3% of representatives of ethnic and national minority groups.2
Although Poland refused to accept immigrants and refugees who arrived
to Europe during the European migrant crisis, for the last 3 years the number
of immigrants in Poland has been consistently increasing. In 2017, Eurostat
pointed out that Poland was the second European Union member state, after
the UK, that in 2016 admitted the largest number of immigrants from outside
the European Union. As Eurostat indicated, they were mostly the citizens of
Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova, who are considered to be migrant workers.3
In fact, in 2017, the number of migrant workers only from Ukraine in this
country was about 2 million.4
The main aim of the article is to outline the impact of the increased number
of immigrants on their coexistence in a homogenous society, especially in the
times in which the number of hate crimes has been increasing
