Migration Governance in Central and Eastern European Cities Post-2015 (IMISCOE Research Series)

This open-access book provides a thorough overview of migration trends and governance in Central and Eastern European (CEE) cities since 2015.For decades, CEE cities were primarily shaped by emigration.However, more than a decade of unprecedented change-from the 2015 European refugee reception crisis to the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which triggered the largest forced displacement in Europe since World War II-has transformed the region into one of Europe’s most dynamic new immigrant destinations.This volume offers the first comprehensive account of how nine diverse CEE cities across Poland, Czechia, Hungary, and Romania are navigating this new reality.Moving beyond traditional Western-centric models, the book explores the ‘local turn’ in migration studies through the experiences of capital cities such as Warsaw, Prague, and Budapest.It also examines rapidly diversifying second-tier cities like Kraków and Brno, as well as border and shrinking cities including Lublin, O