ABSTRACT
From the end of the Second World War, Lithuania was annexed to the Soviet Union and underwent rapid, large-scale industrialization, urbanization and colonization. Until the late 1980s, international migration in Lithuania was both intensive and stable. At that time, there were almost no migration relations with other foreign countries except the Soviet Union. However, after 1989, as a result of political, social and economic changes in Lithuania, the migration situation started to change, with some migration flows even reversing their direction. Over the last decade, Lithuania has a negative migration balance 1 (Table 16.1).
