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

Autorentext
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.

Klappentext
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. In an integrating Europe built on economic theories, they appeared to face none of the discrimination and limitations on work and settlement that still restrict other migrants in Europe. And nowhere was the cosmopolitan promise of European free movement more in evidence than in Amsterdam, London, and Brussels three classic 'Eurocities'. Yet there is a human dimension to European integration. Even with all formal legal barriers down, things are not always so simple. 60 in-depth interviews and more than five years of ethnographic and documentary research unearth some startling revelations and contradictions about life in a Europe supposedly without frontiers. A book about real people and real places, Eurostars and Eurocities is a rare combination of literary style and scholarly analysis. At its core lie the intimate stories of some remarkable individuals and families, who left their comfortable local career paths and family lives to embark on an uncertain European future.

Zusammenfassung
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

Inhalt
Series Editors' Preface. Preface.