CRISIS ON THE POLISH-BELARUSIAN BORDER IN LIGHT OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE V4 MIGRATION POLICY

Abstract

Abstract. The author undertakes the attempt to trace in development and diversity the approaches of the Visegrad Group countries to the problem of refugees and migrants from the beginning of transformational processes in this part of Europe to the latest crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border. In this perspective, the study of the problem is being undertaken for the first time. The novelty of the study is the comparison of not only approaches, but also the typology of migration problems that the region faced during the «post-socialist period» and the initial stage of reforms. The study of the problem in this perspective helps to understand the causes and features of the approach of such countries as Hungary, Poland, Czechia and Slovakia to the current migration crisis and the reasons for contradictions with the EU’s general policy on this issue. Intraregional migration of the late 1980’s was gradually replaced at the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century by the problem of inocultural migration, which could not be combined with the tasks of transforming societies and, in itself, along with the usual ones, required new approaches from these countries, which are discussed in this study.