OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE & SOROS FOUNDATIONS NETWORK East East Program: Partnership Beyond Borders The program supports <strong>in</strong>ternational exchanges that br<strong>in</strong>g together civil society actors to share ideas, <strong>in</strong>formation, knowledge, experiences, <strong>and</strong> expertise as well as the practical actions that result from such network<strong>in</strong>g. The East East: Partnership Beyond Borders Program is implemented by the Soros foundation <strong>in</strong> the follow<strong>in</strong>g countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia <strong>and</strong> Herzegov<strong>in</strong>a, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Pol<strong>and</strong>, Romania, Russia, Serbia <strong>and</strong> Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan <strong>and</strong> Ukra<strong>in</strong>e. The East East: Partnership Beyond Borders Program provides f<strong>in</strong>ancial <strong>and</strong> human resources that enable civil society actors to: •• build <strong>and</strong>/or strengthen resources <strong>and</strong> expertise; •• share best practices/lessons learned <strong>in</strong> social transformation; •• collaborate on <strong>in</strong>novative solutions to common challenges; •• create <strong>and</strong>/or strengthen <strong>in</strong>ternational advocacy coalitions. The program gives priority to long-term <strong>in</strong>itiatives with clear goals <strong>and</strong> realistic potential for effect<strong>in</strong>g positive change, for example, by: •• empower<strong>in</strong>g marg<strong>in</strong>alised <strong>and</strong>/or vulnerable sectors of society; •• promot<strong>in</strong>g cultural, ethnic, <strong>and</strong> social diversity; •• manag<strong>in</strong>g the impact of social, economic, <strong>and</strong> political change; •• mak<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>formation accessible <strong>and</strong> available to the public; •• encourag<strong>in</strong>g public engagement <strong>and</strong> empowerment <strong>in</strong> civic dialogue. The program responds to the needs of people <strong>in</strong> many diverse societies <strong>and</strong> empowers them to work beyond borders to achieve shared goals <strong>and</strong> leverage <strong>in</strong>ternational experiences <strong>and</strong> perspectives to promote an <strong>in</strong>novative social agenda. In 2005 the East East: Partnership Beyond Borders Program launched a Subprogram for <strong>Europe</strong>an Integration. This subprogram will prioritise cooperation among new EU member states, c<strong>and</strong>idate <strong>and</strong> potential c<strong>and</strong>idate countries, <strong>and</strong> the EU's eastern neighbors. Specifically, the subprogram seeks to leverage <strong>and</strong> maximize EU accession experiences <strong>in</strong> <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Europe</strong> to help future EU member countries <strong>and</strong> EU eastern neighbors. The subprogram will seek to discover <strong>and</strong> <strong>in</strong>spire the new vision <strong>and</strong> energy required to address civil society collaboration among new EU member states, future member states, <strong>and</strong> the EU's eastern neighborhood. The subprogram is open to: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia <strong>and</strong> Herzegov<strong>in</strong>a, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Pol<strong>and</strong>, Romania, Russia, Serbia <strong>and</strong> Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, <strong>and</strong> Ukra<strong>in</strong>e. For more <strong>in</strong>formation, please contact the appropriate East East Program coord<strong>in</strong>ator <strong>in</strong> your country. 83 More details about the program is available on: http://www.soros.org/<strong>in</strong>itiatives/east/about <strong>Migration</strong> <strong>Processes</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Central</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Eastern</strong> <strong>Europe</strong>: Unpack<strong>in</strong>g the Diversity
The <strong>in</strong>stitutional <strong>and</strong> policy developments <strong>in</strong> the field of migration <strong>and</strong> asylum have been shaped by the expansion of the <strong>Europe</strong>an Union towards the East as well as by the dynamics of migration <strong>and</strong> refugee flows, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g their perceptions, <strong>in</strong> respective nation-states. Diverse strategies <strong>and</strong> practices both on the part of migrants <strong>and</strong> local populations have emerged <strong>in</strong> response to the efforts to control <strong>and</strong> organise migration <strong>in</strong> the region. This publication attempts to unpack the diversity of the various, previously unexplored aspects of migration processes <strong>in</strong> the context of <strong>Central</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Eastern</strong> <strong>Europe</strong>, mak<strong>in</strong>g them available to an Englishread<strong>in</strong>g audience. It orig<strong>in</strong>ated from a series of papers presented at the Workshop on Developments <strong>and</strong> Patterns of <strong>Migration</strong> <strong>Processes</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Central</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Eastern</strong> <strong>Europe</strong> organised <strong>in</strong> Prague <strong>in</strong> August 2005. Ma<strong>in</strong> organiser: Co-organiser: Faculty of Humanities, Charles University www.mkc.cz www.migrationonl<strong>in</strong>e.cz www.fhs.cuni.cz With k<strong>in</strong>d support of: www.osf.cz UNHCR Prague www.unhcr.cz