Are Polish immigrants in the UK really coming back home? Professor Krystyna Iglicka of the Warsaw-based Center for International Relations said in an interview for the BBC that no major outflux of Polish immigrants in the UK has been noted.
Joanna Najfeld reports
According to the Institute of Migration Policy, since the enlargement of the EU in 2004, about 1.5 million migrants from new EU states emigrated to the UK. Most of them are Polish. No institution, however, registers those who have left the UK and decided to resettle back home.
Contrary to press information that half of Polish emigrants are already back home, professor Iglicka says that throughout the year 2008, only 22 thousand people returning from the UK registered in Polish offices to transfer their UK welfare privileges.
According to professor Iglicka, there are still about a million Polish workers in the UK.