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

Abstract : 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 (...).