Migration and Mobility in Europe: Trends, Patterns, and Control

Abstract

Over the past half-century, Europe has experienced an enormous expansion of "internal" (within Europe) crossborder migration and mobility. This book-consisting mostly of edited versions of the best papers presented in a 2007 conference-provides a welcome update on overall patterns and emerging issues. Fifteen individually authored chapters (in total, 296 pages plus an index) cover the motivation of the migrants, who wins and who loses from migration, the main countries of origin and destination, integration issues, and state migration controls in an era of globalized crime and terrorism. The authors include sociologists, regional planners, political scientists, demographers, and economists from European nations and Turkey, a nation aspiring to become a member of the European Economic Union.