02340nas a2200193   4500008004100000022001400041245016600055210006900221300001000290490000700300520156700307653003701874653002101911653002101932653003301953653001801986100002202004856012002026       2024                        eng d  a2300-168200aChanges in the Involvement of Polish Local Governments in Public Policies Addressing Involuntary Migration Following the 2022 Inflow of Ukrainian Forced Migrants0 aChanges in the Involvement of Polish Local Governments in Public  a47-680 v133 a<p>This paper analyses the changes in the involvement of Polish local governments in the system of public policies addressing the needs of forced migrants in Poland. The driver of such changes was the humanitarian emergency connected to the influx of Ukrainian forced migrants in 2022, which followed the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In a multi-level governance context, the article unpacks the policy-change process, discussing the interplay between the Polish public-policy system, the political context, the state polity, and local governments&rsquo; activity. During the humanitarian emergency, the external circumstances for local governments&rsquo; operations altered. Many local authorities attempted to expand their involvement, while sometimes questioning the inter-institutional power balance. The functional role &ndash; the scope of their responsibility and the activities that they undertake &ndash; of local governments in the discussed policy system was temporarily extended. Moreover, in the context of power relations between the&nbsp; actors of the policy system, their structural position vis-à-vis other stakeholders was redefined, as their agency and political impact increased. This article concludes that the above, mostly temporary, changes will have implications for the broader development of the Polish migration-policy system, resulting in Polish local governments inflicting greater political impact on such a system in the future, while also maintaining increased activity around policies addressing forced migrants.</p>10a2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine10aforced migration10alocal government10amulti-level governance (MLG)10apolicy change1 aMagdziarz, Wiktor  uhttps://ceemr.uw.edu.pl/content/changes-involvement-polish-local-governments-public-policies-addressing-involuntary