ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of the impact of migration on Eastern European sending countries by addressing its benefits and challenges. The most important benefit of international migration is represented by the remittances that migrants send home, while its challenges include the loss of human capital, negotiating the family care for youth, and human trafficking. After years of being primarily emigration countries, Eastern European countries become transit or immigration countries, and as such the last section of the chapter presents the issues brought by this new phenomenon.
