Europe and Internal Migration

Europe and Internal Migration

PUBLISHER'S BLURB: "Since the endof the cold war, internal migration has become to be seen as one of the most pressing issues facing Europe in theb 1990's. This study takes as its starting point the growing concern among policy makers and the public throughout Western Europe over the issue of migration. The author places the current migration debate within a comparative perspective, in its global and historical context, outlining current broad trends in 'economic' migration, and providing some pointers to how these trends have affected Western Europe in recent decades. CONTENTS: 1. Intro 2. Western Europe in a world of international migration 3. From Babylon to Berlin: a historical perspective 4. Immigration policy in postwar Europe 5. The sending countries 6. Immigrant and ethnic minorities 7. Europe's receiving states in the 1990's: towards a harmonization of policy 8. conclusion

Collinson Sarah

Pinter publishers Ltd 1993, 183pp, index

SR E 45