Table Of ContentIMISCOE Research Series
Jean-Michel Lafleur
Mikolaj Stanek Editors
South-North
Migration of
EU Citizens in
Times of Crisis
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Jean-Michel Lafleur • Mikolaj Stanek
Editors
South-North Migration
of EU Citizens in Times
of Crisis
Editors
Jean-Michel Lafleur Mikolaj Stanek
Centre for Ethnic and Migration Department of Sociology
Studies (CEDEM) and Communication
Université de Liège University of Salamanca
Liège, Belgium Salamanca, Spain
ISSN 2364-4087 ISSN 2364-4095 (electronic)
IMISCOE Research Series
ISBN 978-3-319-39761-0 ISBN 978-3-319-39763-4 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-39763-4
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Foreword
The financial and economic crisis has been a challenge for the European integration
process, and, in many respects, the study of South-North EU migration in times of
crisis reveals as much about contemporary mobilities in the EU as it does on
Member States’ willingness to build solidarity across borders.
To study this phenomenon, we considered the involvement of scholars and insti-
tutions from both Southern and Northern Europe as the only possible option. This
edited volume is thus the result of true collective work involving many different
actors whom we wish to sincerely thank for their support and dedication throughout
this project.
We first wish to thank the IMISCOE Research Network and Universidad
Pontificia Comillas in Madrid to have hosted our first workshop on South-North EU
migration in August 2014, during which the idea of this book was initially dis-
cussed. Second, different Belgian institutions have allowed this idea to be trans-
formed into a fully fledged publication project. We hereby wish to thank the
University of Liège, which granted us a special research fund to support this book,
as well as its Social Science Faculty (FaSS) and its Centre for Ethnic and Migration
Studies (CEDEM). We would also like to thank the Belgian National Fund for
Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS), for financing and hosting our second conference
in December 2014 at the University of Liège. Third, we’d like to thank warmly
Warda Belabas from the IMISCOE editorial board and Bernadette Deelen from
Springer for their support and dedication throughout the publication process. Lastly,
as the joint editors of this volume were based in Portugal, Spain and Belgium, we
can confirm that this book’s manuscript has itself been continuously moving
between Southern and Northern Europe. However, a few institutions have given us
the necessary stability to work comfortably on the manuscript. We would thus also
like to thank the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, which financed
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Mikolaj Stanek’s postdoctoral fellowship at the time this volume was prepared
(SFRH/BDP/84148/2012), the Centre of Social Studies at the University of Coimbra
in Portugal, the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Library of the
Belgian Royal Academy.
Liège, Belgium Jean-Michel Lafleur
Salamanca, Spain Mikolaj Stanek
March 10, 2016
Contents
1 EU Migration and the Economic Crisis: Concepts
and Issues ................................................................................................. 1
Jean-Michel Lafleur and Mikolaj Stanek
2 From International Migration to Freedom of Movement
and Back? Southern Europeans Moving North in the Era
of Retrenchment of Freedom of Movement Rights .............................. 15
Roxana Barbulescu
3 Immobility in Times of Crisis? The Case of Greece ............................ 33
Georgia Mavrodi and Michalis Moutselos
4 Emigration from Italy After the Crisis: The Shortcomings
of the Brain Drain Narrative.................................................................. 49
Guido Tintori and Valentina Romei
5 Structural Emigration: The Revival of Portuguese Outflows ............. 65
José Carlos Marques and Pedro Góis
6 Is Spain Becoming a Country of Emigration Again?
Data Evidence and Public Responses .................................................... 83
Anastasia Bermudez and Elisa Brey
7 Restrictions on Access to Social Protection by New
Southern European Migrants in Belgium ............................................. 99
Jean-Michel Lafleur and Mikolaj Stanek
8 Southern Europeans in France: Invisible Migrants? .......................... 123
Tatiana Eremenko, Nora El Qadim, and Elsa Steichen
9 Gastarbeiter Migration Revisited: Consolidating Germany’s
Position as an Immigration Country ..................................................... 149
Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels and Jutta Höhne
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10 UK: Large-Scale European Migration and the Challenge
to EU Free Movement ............................................................................. 175
Alessio D’Angelo and Eleonore Kofman
11 South-North Labour Migration Within the Crisis-Affected
European Union: New Patterns, New Contexts and New
Challenges ................................................................................................ 193
Jean-Michel Lafleur, Mikolaj Stanek, and Alberto Veira
12 Lessons from the South-North Migration of EU
Citizens in Times of Crisis ...................................................................... 215
Jean-Michel Lafleur and Mikolaj Stanek
Contributors
Roxana Barbulescu ESRC Centre for Population Change and Department of
Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Southampton and College
of Europe (Natolin Campus), Warsaw, Poland
Anastasia Bermudez Department of Social Anthropology, Universidad de Sevilla,
Sevilla, Spain
CEDEM, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium
Elisa Brey CEDEM, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium
GEMI, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Alessio D’Angelo Social Policy Research Centre, Middlesex University, London,
UK
Nora El Qadim CRESPPA-LabTop, Université Paris 8, Paris, France
Tatiana Eremenko Institut National d’Études Démographiques (INED), Paris,
France
Pedro Góis Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra and Centre for Social
Studies, Coimbra, Portugal
Jutta Höhne Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI), Düsseldorf,
Germany
Eleonore Kofman Social Policy Research Centre, Middlesex University, London,
UK
Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels Brussels School of International Studies,
University of Kent, Brussels, Belgium
Jean-Michel Lafleur FRS-FRNS, Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies
(CEDEM), University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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