Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society 44: 15-20, doi: 10.3897/jbgs.e67249
Contemporary Bulgarian migration to the countries of the Visegrad Group (V4)
expand article infoRossen Koroutchev‡, Ladislav Novotný§
‡ Group of Mediterranean Studies, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain§ 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
© Rossen Koroutchev, Ladislav Novotný.
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Citation: Koroutchev R, Novotný L (2021) Contemporary Bulgarian migration to the countries of the Visegrad Group (V4). Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society 44: 15-20. https://doi.org/10.3897/jbgs.e67249
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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.

Keywords
Bulgaria, Migration, Visegrad countries