Labour Migration in Europe

Examining the new realities of economic immigration to Europe, this book focuses on new trends and developments, including the rediscovery of economic migration, legalization measures, irregular migration, East-West flows, the role of business and employer associations, new positions amongst trade unions, and service sector liberalization.

VASSILIS HATZOPOUlOS is an Associate Professor at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium, and a Special (Honorary) Lecturer at the University of Nottingham, UK HOLGER KOLB is Research Officer at the Scientific Council of German Foundations for Integration and Migration, Germany TORBEN KRINGS is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Employment Research Centre at Trinity College in Dublin, Republic of Ireland WILLEM MAAS is Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration and Associate Professor of Political Science and Public and International Affairs, York University in Toronto, Canada ETTORE RECCHI is a Full Professor of Political Sociology in the University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy MICHAEL SAMERS is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Kentucky, USA ANNA TRIANDAFYLLIDOU is part-time Professor at the European University Institute (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies), Florence, Italy and Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy in Athens, Greece