Bulgaria - The social impact of seasonal migration

Sharing Experience…
Accession to the EU is expected to bring about changes in migratory routes
and destinations, as well as societal changes in the future EU member states.
How do new migration trends affect the local societies of these countries?
How is the integration of migrants possible in societies marked mostly by
emigration throughout the 1990ies? Which approaches do governments
envisage in the different countries? Are they becoming countries of
immigration – what can be expected after May 2004?
This booklet is part of a product of comprehensive research and analysis
of migration trends in each of six participating EU accession countries.
The research project has been supported by the European Commission,
DG Employment and Social Affairs, under the European Social Fund budget
line “Analysis of and research on the social situation, demography and
the family” and has been managed by IOM Vienna.
Under the title “Migration Trends in Selected Applicant Countries”, the
following volumes are available:
Volume I – Bulgaria: The Social Impact of Seasonal Migration.
Volume II – The Czech Republic: The Times They Are A-Changin.
Volume III – Poland: Dilemmas of a Sending and Receiving Country.
Volume IV – Romania: More ‘Out’ than ‘In’ at the Crossroads between
Europe and the Balkans.
Volume V – Slovakia: An Acceleration of Challenges for Society.
Volume VI – Slovenia: The perspective of a Country on the ‘Schengen
Periphery’.
The reader may expect comprehensive information on the situation of
migrants both, in and out of the countries, and the countries’ migration
management approaches, with the main purpose to illustrate the impact of
migration trends on the local society and the social situation in the country.