Migration and Mobility

The European Context

S. Ghatak, A. Sassoon, S. Ghatak, A. Sassoon

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2001
• Print ISBN:
  9781349424504
  9780333920367
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230523128
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Migration and Mobility
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on the Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 The Age of Mass Migration: What We Can and Can’t Explain
• 2 East–West European Migration: Questions and Some Answers
• 3 The Economic Impact of Labour Mobility in an Enlarged European Union
• 4 Migration and Citizenship Why Can Birds, Whales, Butterflies and Ants Cross International Frontiers More Easily than Cows, Dogs and Human Beings?
• 5 Civic Nationalism, Civic Nations and the Problem of Migration
• 6 Liza Schuster
• 7 Freedom of Movement: the Common Travel Area between Ireland and Britain and the Treaty of Amsterdam
• 8 Gendering Migration: the Case of Southern Europe
• 9 Women’s Work and Contemporary Migration Flows
• Index