EU Migration and the Economic Crisis: Concepts and Issues

[en] In this introductory chapter, we discuss the concept of “crisis migration” and its relevance to understanding the transformation of migratory flows within Europe as well as the transformation of migration and integration policies in the European Union. This introduction also presents the main issues discussed in this book and briefly introduces each of the chapters that compose this volume. In this chapter, we also underscore the different economic and political context in which this new Southern European migration is occurring in comparison with previous waves from the same area. In particular, we point out that successive enlargements of the EU and their associated migration waves have eroded the support of political elites for the principle of free movement within Northern EU Member States. This changing socio-political context has triggered different reactions among political elites towards these new flows in both sending and receiving countries.

Disciplines :

Sociology & social sciences

Author, co-author :

Lafleur, Jean-Michel ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences sociales > Centre d'études de l'ethnicité et des migrations (CEDEM)

Stanek, Mikolaj; Universidad de Salamanca

Language :

English

Title :

EU Migration and the Economic Crisis: Concepts and Issues

Publication date :

2017

Main work title :

South-North Migration of EU Citizens in Times of Crisis

Author, co-author :

Lafleur, Jean-Michel ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Institut de recherche en Sciences Sociales (IRSS) > IRSS: Centre d'Etudes de l'Ethnicité et des Migrations

Stanek, Mikolaj

Publisher :

Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands

ISBN/EAN :

978-3-319-39763-4

Collection name :

IMISCOE Research Series

Pages :

1-14

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

Additional URL :

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39763-4_1

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