title: Preface
abstract: Although debates over international migration, migrants' lives and their integration have been ongoing for many decades (De Haas et al., 2020), migration concerns in Central and Eastern European (CEE) 1 countries have not been thoroughly investigated yet. Poverty and political oppression had prompted emigration in these countries for years (Bielewska, 2019; Okólski, 2021), and immigration was a minor phenomenon. The fall of the Soviet Union and the war in former Yugoslavia in the 1990s resulted 