Authors: Anna Kosińska, Paweł Wojtasik, Tomasz Sieniow (ed.)

This publication is a trial to compile the information about the institutions working for foreigners and to make them accessible for those who are interested in them in a clear and legible way. In this handbook you will find contact details and the extent of the main actions of state bodies and agencies of state administration, local government entities as well as of higher education institutions, international and non-governmental organizations. We hope that the information given in this handbook will help foreigners who, making life choices, stop at the Polish territory for a longer time, and whose stay in Poland is only a short stage in their migrations.

This handbook was published within the “Lublin Regional Immigrant Support Network” co-financed from the European Fund for the Integration of Third-country Nationals and from the state budget. The aim of the project is to create the institutional support for individuals and institutions dealing with the  problems of foreigners in our region. The network members regularly meet during working meetings and trainings, so that they can better solve problems emerging during the increase of migration. In addition, within the project Migration Library  was created,  with resources used by the institutions working with migrants, and a newsletter of network and website – www.migrant.lublin.pl – are edited. We hope that our actions will provide a new quality of integration in our region.

The brochure has been prepared in four languages: Polish, Ukrainian, English and Russian.