From the end of the 1980s Central and Eastern European countries (CEEc) have been going through a process of transition/transformation of its former discredited system. The ultimate aim was to build a developed, democratic, pluralistic and parliamentary society based on a free-market economy.
The transformation processes have affected all spheres of society (on macro as well as micro level) and to some extent, lead to the development of one of the new phenomena – international migration. CEEc became a “buffer zone” between the West and the East that is composed by the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary.