A Continent Moving West?: EU Enlargement and Labour Migration from Central and Eastern Europe
About this ebook
A Continent Moving West? argues that the conceptualization of migration as a one-way or long-term process is becoming increasingly wide of the mark. Rather, east-west labor migration in Europe, in common perhaps with other flows in and from other parts of the world, is diverse, fluid, and influenced by the dynamics of local and sector-specific labor markets and migration-related political regulations.
The papers in this book contribute to critical understanding of the east-west migration within the European Union after the 2004 enlargement, from the new to the old member states.
About the author
Richard Black is professor of human geography and head of the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. Godfried Engbersen is professor of sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Marek Okólski is professor of demography and economics at the University of Warsaw and director of the Centre of Migration Research. Cristina Pantîru is a Ph.D. candidate and research officer at the Sussex Centre for Migration Research at the University of Sussex.
