A Continent Moving West? : : EU Enlargement and Labour Migration from Central and Eastern Europe / / ed. by Marek Okólski, Richard Black, Godfried Engbersen, Cristina Pantîru.

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• MitwirkendeR: Anacka, Marta,; Black, Richard,; Boom, Jan de,; Boshnakov, Venelin,; Csedő, Krisztina,; Drinkwater, Stephen,; Eade, John,; Engbersen, Godfried,; Friberg, Jon Horgen,; Garapich, Michal,; Grabowska-Lusinska, Izabela,; Kaczmarczyk, Paweł,; Markova, Eugenia,; Mintchev, Vesselin,; Napierała, Joanna,; Nowaczek, Krzysztof,; Ochel, Wolfgang,; Okólski, Marek,; Panţîru, Cristina,; Potot, Swanie,; Sandu, Dumitru,; Snel, Erik,; Trevena, Paulina,
• HerausgeberIn: Black, Richard,; Engbersen, Godfried,; Okólski, Marek,; Pantîru, Cristina,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2012]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: IMISCOE Research
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of contents
• 1. Introduction. Working out a way from East to West: EU enlargement and labour migration from Central and Eastern Europe
• 2. Working conditions for Polish construction workers and domestic cleaners in Oslo: Segmentation, inclusion and the role of policy
• 3. Patterns and determinants of sub-regional migration: A case study of Polish construction workers in Norway
• 4. What's behind the figures? An investigation into recent Polish migration to the UK
• 5. Markets and networks: Channels towards the employment of Eastern European professionals and graduates in London
• 6. 'A van full of Poles': Liquid migration from Central and Eastern Europe
• 7. Direct demographic consequences of post-accession migration for Poland
• 8. Brains on the move? Recent migration of the highly skilled from Poland and its consequences
• 9. Skills shortage, emigration and unemployment in Poland: Causes and implications of disequilibrium in the Polish labour market
• 10. Optimising migration effects: A perspective from Bulgaria
• 11. Return migration and development prospects after EU integration: Empirical evidence from Bulgaria
• 12. Transitioning strategies of economic survival: Romanian migration during the transition process
• 13. Modernising Romanian society through temporary work abroad
• 14. Pressure of migration on social protection systems in the enlarged EU
• 15 The EU Directive on Free Movement: A challenge for the European welfare state?
• Notes on contributors