Pioneers of European integration. Citizenship and mobility in the EU

Abstract:
The free movement of EU citizens is the most visible sociological consequence of the remarkable process of European integration that has transformed the continent since the Second World War. Pioneers of European Integration offers the first systematic analysis of the small but symbolically potent number of Europeans who have chosen to live and work as foreigners in another member state of the EU.

Based on an original survey of 5000 people moving to and from the EU’s five largest countries, the book documents the demographic profile, migration choices, cultural adaptation, social mobility, political participation and media use of these pioneers of a transnational Europe, as well as opening a window to the new waves of intra-EU East–West migrations.

Students and scholars of sociology, political science, human geography, anthropology, migration studies and European studies will appreciate the volume. Civil servants and policymakers will also find this book useful in coming to terms with the implications of EU citizenship and the transformative effects of this unprecedented European integration ‘from below’.

Contents:
1. Pioneers of European Integration: An Introduction - Adrian Favell & Ettore Recchi
2. The Demographics of Movers and Stayers in the European Union - Michael Braun & Camelia Arsene
3. Deciding to Move: Migration Projects in an Integrating Europe - Óscar Santacreu, Emiliana Baldoni & María Carmen Albert
4. The Social Mobility of Mobile Europeans - Ettore Recchi
5. Living Across Cultures in a Transnational Europe - Antonio Alaminos & Oscar A. Santacreu
6. More Mobile, More European? Free Movement and EU Identity - Nina Rother & Tina M. Nebe
7. EU Movers and Politics: Towards a Fully-Fledged European Citizenship? - Anne Muxel
8. A Common Information Space? The Media Use of EU Movers - Damian Tambini & Nina Rother
9. Internal and External Movers: East-West Migration and the Impact of EU Enlargement - Adrian Favell & Tina M. Nebe