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Poland: Detainees released

01 January 1997

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Within days of the Forschungsgesellschaft Flucht und Migration (FFM) report on Polish migrant detention centres being published in November last year, almost all detainees received a confirmation of their asylum application and were released after three months in detention (see Statewatch, vol 6 no 6). The director of the Refugee and Migration Office in Warsaw, Thomasz Kuba, explained that his office only registers asylum applications. In the meantime, Kuba had to resign from his post despite his connections with Bonn. The new director of the Refugee and Migration Office, Jaroslaw Mojsiejuk, referred explicitly to the political pressure, to adjust to EU refugee policy under which his office has to work. Since it has become more difficult for refugees to cross the border into Germany, Poland has had more and more 'temporary refugees" who would apply for asylum but disappear before a decision has been made. In 1996, this applied to two-third of 3200 applicants. Mojisiejuk hoped that "social measures" would counter the trend to migrate to Germany. One change in his office's practice has been the provision of more asylum hostels, from 3 to 9 (400 beds). DM120 million has been given by the German government to reinforce Polish border controls and to establish detention centres.

Forschungsgesellschaft Flucht und Migration, 27.1.1997.

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