Migration and Mobility The European Context

People move, individually and collectively, for a combination of economic, social, political and cultural reasons. The impact of migration on the individuals concerned, their families, the countries they leave and the societies they join raises issues that are hotly contested by academics, policymakers and politicians. By using a wide variety of analytical approaches the contributors to this book reveal the complexity and significance of this increasingly important phenomenon in Western European countries, which links these societies to the wider world. They engage directly with the challenge which human mobility represents by examining the reasons for migration, the contribution and needs of those migrating, and the ways in which public debate about migration may be manipulated for political reasons.

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; S.Ghatak & A.S.Sassoon The Age of Migration: What We Can and Can't Explain; T.Hatton East-West Migration: Questions and Some Answers; S.Ghatak & V.Daly The Economic Impact of Labour Mobility in an Enlarged European Union; T.Krichel & P. Levine Migration and Citizenship: Why Can Birds, Whales, Butterflies and Ants Cross International Frontiers More Easily than Cows, Dogs and Human Beings?; B.Sutcliffe Civic Nationalism, Civic Nations and the Problem of Migration; P.Spencer Political Asylum in Germany and Britain; L.Schuster Freedom of Movement: The Common Travel Area Between Ireland and Britain and the Treaty of Amsterdam; E. Meehan Gendering Migration: The Case of Southern Europe; F.Anthias Women's Work and Contemporary Migration Flows; A.Phizacklea Index

FLOYA ANTHIAS Professor of Sociology and Head of Sociology, University of Greenwich, London VINCENT DALY Head of the School of Economics, Kingston University TIM HATTON Professor of Economics, University of Essex THOMAS KRICHEL Department of Economics, University of Surrey PAUL LEVINE Department of Economics, University of Surrey ELIZABETH MEEHAN Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Professor of European Social Policy, Queen's University of Belfast ANNIE PHIZACKLEA Professor of Sociology, Warwick University LIZA SCHUSTER Researcher, South Bank University, London PHILIP SPENCER Head of the School of Combined Studies, Faculty of Human Sciences, Kingston University BOB SUTCLIFFE Lecturer in Development Economics, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao