TY - JOUR N2 - This paper examines migratory movements into Poland with a special emphasis on refugee mobility. In the past twenty years, almost 90 000 Chechen refugees have come to Poland, as it was the first safe country they reached. According to the Office for Foreigners data they constituted approximately 90 per cent of applicants for refugee status, 38 per cent of persons granted refugee status, 90 per cent of persons granted ‘tolerated status’ and 93 per cent of persons granted ‘subsidiary protection status’. However, a peculiarity of the Polish situation, confirmed by official statistics and research, is that ref-ugees treat Poland mainly as a transit country. The author focuses on the issue of integrating Chechen refugee children into the Polish education system, as well as Chechen children granted international protection or waiting to be granted such protection. The results of the study suggest that Polish immi-gration policy has no impact on the choice of destination of the refugees that were interviewed. None of the interviewees wanted to return to Chechnya, nor did they perceive Poland as a destination country. Children with refugee status, which enables them to stay legally in the Schengen area, ‘disappear’ not only from the Polish educational system but from Poland as a whole as well. This phenomenon hampers the possibility of achieving educational success when working with foreign children, and it challenges the immense efforts by Polish institutions to integrate refugee children into the school and the local community. Both official statistical data and research results were used in this paper. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/117588/PDF/Iglicka_Challenges_of_Integrating_Refugee_Children.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/117588 PY - 2017 IS - No 2 EP - 140 KW - Chechens KW - refugees KW - Poland KW - integration KW - schools KW - intercultural education KW - refugee crisis A1 - Iglicka, Krystyna PB - Polska Akademia Nauk, Ośrodek Badań nad Migracjami UW VL - vol. 6 DA - 2017 T1 - Chechen’s Lesson. Challenges of Integrating Refugee Children in a Transit Country: A Polish Case Study SP - 123 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/117588 T2 - Central and Eastern European Migration Review ER -