Safety Management of National and Ethnic Minorities in Poland – Efficiency Assessment

Abstract

The issues of national and ethnic minorities are one of the elements of the state‘s security policy as well as the determinant of security on an international scale. This is a particularly important issue at the time of increased migration on the European continent. The purpose of this article is to present the assumptions of the management for Polish national and ethnic minorities‘ safety system, define its legal and institutional framework, as well as assess the effectiveness of this system, taking into account indicators and statistical data developed by the Ministry of the Interior in confrontation with the demands raised by the minority communities. The purpose of the publication is to identify the weakest elements of this system and to indicate their possible causes.