At home in Poland
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
24.07.2015 15:55
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Making immigrants more welcome in Poland
Poland's involvement in accepting refugees from Syria and Eritrea has become a hot subject in the media.
A migrant from Iraq lights a cigarette in a crowded the hallway of the train that runs on the north from the southern Serbian city of Presevo to Subotica. Photo: EPA/DJORDJE SAVIC
As Michał Owczarek reports, in contrast with a noticeable wave of reticence towards immigrants and prospective refugees, this Saturday an association is staging a happening in the centre of Warsaw to send a message that, despite all appearances, immigrants are welcome in Poland as well as to try to fight xenophobia and islamophobia.
"Clearly, the group that Poles dislike and are even afraid of is Arabs; inversely, the foreigners coming from Western Europe or the US and Canada may count on a really warm welcome and trust," says Paweł Kaczmarczyk of the University of Warsaw Centre of Migration Research.