Rola ośrodka adaptacyjnego w przystosowaniu się Polaków ze Wschodu do życia w Polsce

The article looks at the people of Polish descent that have arrived in Poland from Ukraine in 2015 in the aftermath of the war in Donbass. The author discusses two semi-annual adaptation programmes involving the Poles and their family members. The experience gained from these adaptation programmes was then used in order to amend the Repatriation Act and, as a result, to improve the performance of repatriation scheme. The article is based on the research conducted among the evacuees in 2017, which consisted of in-depth interviews with the members of 19 families which settled in Poland.