Migration in the new Europe. East-west revisited

Abstract:

This work addresses the issue of the enlarged European migration space and the disappearing concept of the East-West divide. It examines the interrelation of policy developments and migratory flows.

The book is organised in four parts. Part one deals with the present and future East-West migratory trends in the enlarged European Union, featuring chapters on migration patterns in Central and Eastern Europe, Ukrainian and Russian migration to the Czech Republic and the westward migration from Poland. Part two turns to the integration of migrant and ethnic minorities in European countries, addressing issues such as multiculturalism and political integration, French citizenship, ethnic minorities and the European agenda and the revival of ethnic consciousness in Poland. The third part explores the differing stages of development of migration policies between national and European level through country studies on Poland, Italy and the United Kingdom. The common interests and shared values of the countries of the European Union are the subject of part four, which features commentary on European identity and the response to growing US assertiveness, and the need to review migration management policy in the light of the new role of Russia in the East-West migration process. The work closes with a chapter devoted to the prospects for a common EU immigration policy.

Agata Górny is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, and Research Fellow at the Centre of Migration Research, Warsaw University.

Paolo Ruspini is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations at the University of Warwick, and Researcher at the ISMU Foundation, Milan.