Eurostars and eurocities: free movement and mobility in an integrating Europe

Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europeexamines 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. Based on 60 interviews in Amsterdam, London and Brussels, and featuring 13 in-depth portraits of resident foreign professionals. 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.

• ISBN: 978-1-4051-3404-0
• Editorial: Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 296
• Fecha Publicación: 02/01/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés