Donor: European Fund for Integration of Third Countries Nationals
Realization of the project: IOM Bratislava
Period: September – December 2009
IOM Bratislava worked on the project “Migration in the Slovak republic after the entry into the EU (2004-2008) – analysis of migration trends and public attitudes toward issues of migration and integration of migrants”.
The aim of the project has been to gather complex and updated information on developments, trends, and impacts of international migration after the entry of the Slovak republic into the EU.
Project has been divided into two research components. The first one, conducted by Dr. Boris Divínsky, was focused on legal and illegal migration, labor migration, emigration and naturalization within the period 2004 – 2008. The second one was run by the CVEK under the leadership of Dr. Michal Vašečka and was focused on realization of the representative public opinion survey “Attitudes of the public toward migrants and toward international migration”. CVEK conducted also focus groups and semi-structured interviews in order to gather also qualitative information.