108

urn:lsid:arphahub.com:pub:ee3d5236-fccc-5ca1-bc10-ed5cb324dde0

Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society

JBGS

2738-8107 2738-8115

Bulgarian Geographical Society

10.3897/jbgs.e67249

67249

Research Article

Demography & Migration Human Geography

Contemporary Bulgarian migration to the countries of the Visegrad Group (V4)

Koroutchev

Rossen

rkoroutchev@yahoo.es https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1105-156X 1 Novotný

Ladislav

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2012-1347 2

Group of Mediterranean Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Group of Mediterranean Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Madrid

Spain 2

Institute of Geography, Facutly of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Košice, Slovakia

Institute of Geography, Facutly of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice

Košice

Slovakia

Corresponding author: Rossen Koroutchev (rkoroutchev@yahoo.es).

Academic editor: Georgi Burdarov

2021

30 06 2021

44 15 20 C13FA779-4152-5898-BEAF-E959F4D99CF7 12 04 2021 08 06 2021

Rossen Koroutchev, Ladislav Novotný

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

The paper studies the contemporary migration of Bulgarians to countries of the Visegrad Group (V4) – the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland. After making a short historical overview of this phenomenon since the 19th century and the contemporary migration of Bulgarians in the years following 1989, the paper analyses the evolution of Bulgarian migration to the V4 countries in the recent years. The authors conclude that there are important migration flows of Bulgarian citizens towards these countries, due to job perspectives, similar social economic systems and the Bulgarian diaspora already living there.