European Immigration

by Triandafyllidou, Anna; Gropas, Ruby

• ISBN13: 9780754648949
• ISBN10: 075464894X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Summary

This book provides an up-to-date and often lively account of immigration in all 25 countries of the European Union. There are still enormous difficulties of comparison arising from the mutual unintelligibility of competing definitions and incommensurate statistics. However, the editors and authors have dealt with these problems confidently and imaginatively. The balance between established and emerging scholars is also impressive. The result is that in just about every country study including those I know well I discovered new insights and information.Professor Robin Cohen, Department of International Development, University of OxfordWho are Europe's immigrants? This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the immigration situation in all 25 EU countries. Each chapter is written by a national expert and follows a common structure, providing a clear focus in terms of methods used, data collected, literature reviewed and research questions addressed, and including reference to material not previously published in English. Issues covered include the following:* Who is defined as an immigrant in each country?* What are the policies on immigration of each country?* Is there a significant overlap between legal migration, undocumented migration, asylum- seeking and other forms of new migration such as 'suitcase trading' or 'shuttle migration'?* What is the state of migrant integration in each country? * How is migration discussed within the media and political discourses of each country?Each chapter concludes with a critical assessment of the present migration situation of the country in question and its future prospects. Substantive introductory and concluding chapters offer a general overview of immigration in Europe, which complements and contextualises the analytical and comparative insights on individual countries.While there is an extensive literature on migration in Europe, this is the first reference volume to provide comprehensive coverage of the EU. It will be an essential addition to library collections and to individual scholars and policy makers in the field. Contents: Introduction, Anna Triandafyllidou, Ruby Gropas and Dita Vogel; Austria, Albert Kraler and Karin Sohler; Belgium, Hassan Bousetta, Sonia Gsir and Dirk Jacobs; Cyprus, Nicos Trimikliniotis and Corina Demetriou; Czech Republic, Jan Cernik; Denmark, Marco Goli and Shahamak Rezaei; Estonia, Mikko Lagerspetz; Finland, Silvain Sagne, Sanna Saskela and Niklas Wilhelmsson; France, Ulrike Schuerkens; Germany, Norbert Cyrus and Dita Vogel; Greece, Ruby Gropas and Anna Triandafyllidou; Hungary, Andraacute;s Kovaacute;ts and Endre Sik; Ireland, Abel Ugba; Italy, Ankica Kosic and Anna Triandafyllidou; Latvia, Inese =upule; Lithuania, Rita Zukauskiene; Luxembourg, Serge Kollwelter; Malta, Katia Amore; The Netherlands, Jessika ter Wal; Poland, Krystyna Iglicka; Portugal, Ana Teixeira and Rosana Albuquerque; Slovakia, Boris Divinsk?; Slovenia, Svetlozar A. Andreev; Spain, Carmen Gonzaacute;lez Enriacute;quez; Sweden, Miguel Benito; United Kingdom, Franck Duuml;vell; Concluding remarks, Ruby Gropas and Anna Triandafyllidou; Index.About the Author: Anna Triandafyllidou is Senior Research Fellow at ELIAMEP,Greece, and Fellow of the Robert Schuman Centre of Advanced Studies, European University Institute in Florence. She has published widely in the field and has recently edited Contemporary Polish Immigration in Europe (2006) and co-edited Multiculturalism, Muslims and Citizenship: A European Approach (2006).Ruby Gropas is Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Greece. She is the author of Human Rights and Foreign Policy (2006) and has published in the field of European integration and immigration studies.

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction

Austria

Belgium

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

The Netherlands

Poland

Portugal

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

United Kingdom

Concluding remarks

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