Flow of refugees from Georgia falls on Poland

[elilize]

Plenty of refugees from Georgia seek asylum in Poland now. Since May the refugee flow has gone up drastically. Over four months more than 3000 Georgian citizens applied to the Polish authorities for asylum. Remarkably, over the past 8 years there were only 400 applications ( georgiatimes . info / en/article/21262 . htm l). Friendly speaking, it is not surprising, as the joys of Western salaries, prices and unemployment benefits are tempting Georgians and make them to leave impoverished “Caucasian democracy”. But, as I know, they are not treated very well in Poland. Polish authorities try to block the entry for Georgians by all means. According to Aliens Authority in Warsaw Polish border guards send back from 50 to 100 Georgian citizens every day. You know, all these make me think that Poland intentionally tries to attract European community’s attention to the problem with these refugees and to get some financial aid for provision of the necessary amenities for them. I say, Poland actively uses its buffering role between the former USSR countries and Europe to re-establish own economy, which has seriously suffered from current crisis.

[Laurentine]

I believe your government is behaving unreasonably by allowing those refugees into Poland. It's crisis time, and Poland is not an exception in this context. Moreover, Poland is one of the countries most hit by the economic crisis, thereby spending sources on things like accomadating refugees is not clever enough,

[Lear]

which has seriously suffered from current crisis.

Hi,
Recent polish macroaggregate figures:

dynamic of GDP (2009, second quarter) : 1.1 - Poland - becouse its economy doesn't base on export - is one of the most slump - proof country in Europe. Even if its (static) GDP is not as good as in western Europe.
unemployment (08, 2009) : 10.8% which is huge. Probably Poland cannot provide a full help and shelter for immigrants.
And of course any immigrant would stay in Poland. Its rather obvious that it would be for them just a station-change. And I'm pretty shure, nobody would give a financial aid.

[Benn]

And I'm pretty shure, nobody would give a financial aid.

I agree with you totally.. And you know why? Because those people run away from their country, taking advantages that it is after war, and European countries must provide them help; but in fact they can manage to live in their country cause the war ended and they must help to establish economics roots.. .