Employment of Ukrainian Workers with Polish Visas in the Czech Republic: From the Main Patterns of Labour Exploitation towards Points of Intervention

Abstrakt

Despite the current favourable economic development in the Czech Republic and the demand for low-skilled Ukrainian workers, the opportunities to enter the Czech labour market are very limited. One of the options is the use of so-called Polish visas, which, however, has many problematic aspects.

Their use can be perceived both as a strategy for companies and intermediaries to ensure a sufficient number of employees or as an individual entry/residence strategy of the workers themselves. The use of so-called Polish visas can also lead to the formation of a specific category of ((Polish visa worker}} as a socio-political state characterised by the semi-legality of residence.