ABSTRACT
Governance of migration is an institutionalised approach to regulating immigration and its consequences in social and economic spheres across the European Union (EU). However, for the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries that accessed the EU in 2004 and 2007, the governance of migration is a new concept that they have not entirely incorporated into their institutional and political systems. Ignorance studies are a useful frame for understanding migration governance in Eastern Europe: they explore how strategic ignorance and social unknowing are used in maintaining and disrupting social and political orders by 'allowing both governors and the governed to deny awareness of things it is not in their interest to acknowledge'. The West-East disconnect is clearest when it comes to actual knowledge production in the area of migration governance in CEE countries.
