Internal and external movers: East-West migration and the impact of EU enlargement

Adrian Favell (1) , Tina Nebe (2)

1 CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (Sciences Po, CNRS)
2 UNRISD - Institut de recherche des Nations unies pour le développement social

The growing intra-EU mobility of West Europeans, that is the principle focus of this book, has been a largely unremarked - if not almost invisible - phenomenon in most countries of residence. This is decisively not the case with migrants and movers from East and Central Europe. In the run-up to the two EU accessions of 2004 and 2007, there was a great deal of media coverage of these other 'pioneers of European integration', in often very hostile terms (...).

Domaines: Science politique

Adrian Favell, Tina Nebe. Internal and external movers: East-West migration and the impact of EU enlargement. Favell Adrian, Recchi Ettore. Pioneers of European Integration: Citizenship and Mobility in the EU, Edward Elgar, pp.205-223, 2009, 9781848446595. ⟨hal-01053997⟩