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Eurostars and Eurocities

A Favell (Autor)

Software / Digital Media
296 Seiten
2008
Wiley-Blackwell (Hersteller)
978-0-470-71281-8 (ISBN)
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The European Union is founded on the idea of free movement. A generation of West European citizens - referred to by the author as 'Eurostars' - have pioneered a new kind of highly skilled and educated migration.
Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe examines intra-European Union migration in the cities of Amsterdam, London and Brussels. Based on sixty in-depth interviews of free moving European citizens, and more than five years of ethnographic and documentary research, it uncovers the rarely studied human dimension of European integration Examines the mobility, lifestyle and career opportunities created by the borderless society of the European Union, as well as the barriers that still persist Analyses the new migration trends, challenges to the welfare state, and forms of urban cosmopolitanism linked to processes of European integration

Adrian Favell is Associate Professor of Sociology at UCLA. He is the author of Philosophies of Integration: Immigration and the Idea of Citizenship in France and Britain , and (with Michael Peter Smith) The Human Face of Global Mobility: International Highly Skilled Migration in Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific.

Series Editors' Preface. Preface. 1. FREEDOM-VRIJHEID-LIBERTE. A Management Consultant's Tale. 2. NEW AMSTERDAM. A Logistics Manager's Tale. 3. LONDON CALLS. A Data Analyst's Tale. 4. BRUSSELS-BRUSSEL-BRUXELLES. An Architect's Tale. 5. MIGRATION. An Estate Agent's Tale. 6. MOBILITY (1). A Social Worker's Tale. 7. MOBILITY (2). A Landlady's Tale. 8. SETTLEMENT. A Businessman's Tale. 9. INTEGRATION (1). A Graphic Designer's Tale. 10. INTEGRATION (2). A Media Manager's Tale. 11. LONDON LOVES. A City Broker's Tale. 12. OLD AMSTERDAM. A Journalist's Tale. 13. ANOMIE. An IT Consultant's Tale. 14. EUROPA. Postface. Appendix 1: Summary of interviews. Appendix 2: A note on methodology. Notes. Bibliographical essay. Index of interviewees. Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 9.5.2008
Verlagsort Hoboken
Sprache englisch
Maße 164 x 237 mm
Gewicht 556 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10 0-470-71281-3 / 0470712813
ISBN-13 978-0-470-71281-8 / 9780470712818
Zustand Neuware
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