The resilience of the Warsaw metropolis to future migration inflows in the opinion of local government authorities

The main goal of this article is to assess whether the Warsaw metropolis is prepared for possible future large inflows of immigrants in the reception stage. As a result of the Russian attack on Ukraine (24.02.2022), about 350,000 forced migrants

In this article, we focus on the reception of migrants fleeing Ukraine after the Russian attack and the outbreak of war on 24 February 2022. According to the literature, it is not correct to use the term “refugees” (Duszczyk & Kaczmarczyk 2022); however, the term “forced migrants” is commonly used in relation to this group (Wach & Pachocka 2022; Szelc et al. 2023; Łukasiewicz et al. 2024; Staniszewski 2023). As we also refer to other experiences of receiving numerous groups of migrants, as described in the literature, the terms “immigrants” or “refugees” are also used in this article. We refer to preparedness for “increased migration inflow” in the future, the nature of which we cannot predict. The data on the first weeks of increased inflow of forced migrants comes from Warsaw City Hall (2024).