Polish migration to the UK compared to migration elsewhere in Europe: a review of the literature The migration of millions of Poles to other European countries since EU accession in 2004 has been researched intensively, but unevenly. The UK, which overtook Germany as the main receiving country after 2004, features in a high proportion of English and Polish language publications. 1 The last few years in particular have seen a spate of articles about Poles in Britain in international migration journals. These include an earlier special issue of Social Identities (2010: 16,3, ed. Rabikowska), with a literature review by Burrell. This attention is understandable, considering the sheer volume of new Polish migration to the UK, and the resulting transformations of both UK and Polish society: a mass Polish presence in the UK and mass absences of UK-based Poles from Poland. For researchers of contemporary migration trends, already interested in mobility and transnational social fields, this was a gift: a perfect case study. The attention now seems disproportionate, given that Poles have migrated across Europe from Iceland to Greece. With volume comes diversity. In just a few years, numerous West European towns and cities have acquired a Polish population which increasingly looks like a microcosm of Polish society in Poland. In other cities, such as Brussels and Rome, which already had large populations of Poles, that Polish society is becoming ever more heterogeneous.