The features, statistics and varietie of emigration processes in the countries of the Visegrad group

The article is devoted to analyzing the features, statistics and varieties of emigration processes in the countries of Visegrad Group, i.e. in Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The author argued that emigration processes from the countries of the region before and during their integration into the EU were conditioned primarily by differences in social and economic development. It is observed that before and after the collapse of the USSR and changes in the labor markets and societies of the Visegrad countries, they were economically and socially dependent on Western European countries, and therefore key emigration processes were (and still are) directed to them. At the same time, it is motivated that emigration processes from the countries of the region lead to a shortage of labor, but due to the fact that the more educated is a population of a country the higher is an emigration flow from a country. Accordingly, it is recorded that the emigration activity of immigrants from the Visegrad countries changed after their accession to the EU. It is concluded that the countries of the region are summed up by the “liquid” migration in the form of transnationalism and mobility, since emigrants leave the countries not forever and not for a long time, but for a short time. At the same time, it is found that emigration from the countries of the region has both positive and negative consequences for them.