title: Visegrad Group countries towards migration
abstract: This chapter introduces the readers to the context of the situation of Ukrainian refugees in the Visegrad countries by exploring pre-war migration policies of Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, discussing the situation of migrants in these states and the local societies’ attitudes towards migrants and migration. These policies determined the level of readiness of the Visegrad countries when refugees started coming in after the war started. The aim of this part of the book is also to present