Examining the new realities of economic immigration to Europe, this book focuses on new trends and developments, including the rediscovery of economic migration, legalization measures, irregular migration, East-West flows, the role of business and employer associations, new positions amongst trade unions, and service sector liberalization.

'The volume is a must for all scholars of migration. It answers many questions and it poses new ones. And this adds to its value, because it shows that political economy of labour migration is a field whose depth and width we just begin to grasp.' - Romana Careja, University of Cologne

'Overall the book comprehensively weds comparative political economy and migration studies from a range of different angles and empirical grounds, and duly ends the often silent co-existence of an 'age of migration' (Castles and Miller, 2009) and an age of economic globalization. As such, it is highly recommended for migration experts and political economy scholars alike.' - Regine Paul, Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, Journal of European Social Policy

Autorentext
VASSILIS HATZOPOUlOS is an Associate Professor at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium, and a Special (Honorary) Lecturer at the University of Nottingham, UK HOLGER KOLB is Research Officer at the Scientific Council of German Foundations for Integration and Migration, Germany TORBEN KRINGS is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Employment Research Centre at Trinity College in Dublin, Republic of Ireland WILLEM MAAS is Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration and Associate Professor of Political Science and Public and International Affairs, York University in Toronto, Canada ETTORE RECCHI is a Full Professor of Political Sociology in the University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy MICHAEL SAMERS is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Kentucky, USA ANNA TRIANDAFYLLIDOU is part-time Professor at the European University Institute (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies), Florence, Italy and Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy in Athens, Greece

Inhalt
Introduction: Patterns, Trends and (Ir)Regularities in the Politics and Economics of Labour Migration in Europe; G.Menz & A.Caviedes PART ONE: LABOUR MIGRATION AND EUROPEAN CAPITALISMS Employers, Trade Unions, Varieties of Capitalism and Labour Migration Policies; G.Menz The Sectoral Turn in Labour Migration Policy; A.Caviedes Emigration, Immigration and the Quality of Membership: On the Political Economy of Highly Skilled Immigration Politics; H.Kolb Trade Unions and Migrant Labour in the 'Global Age': New Alliances or Old Antagonisms?; T.Krings PART TWO: THE EFFECTS OF EUROPEANIZATION Crossing Over, Heading West and South: Mobility, Citizenship and Employment in the Enlarged Europe; E.Recchi & A.Triandafillidou Labour Immigration in the EU through the Back Door? The Free Provision of Services as a Facilitator of Migration Flows; V.Hatzopoulos PART THREE: THE OUTSOURCING OF MIGRATION MANAGEMENT The Privatization and Outsourcing of Migration Management; G.Menz PART FOUR: UNAUTHORISED LABOUR MIGRATION Strange Castle Walls and Courtyards: Explaining the Political Economy of Undocumented Immigration and Undeclared Employment; M.Samers Unauthorized Migration and the Politics of Regularization, Legalization, and Amnesty; W.Maas