Labour Migration in Europe

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.

GEORG MENZ is Reader in Political Economy at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. His publications include The Political Economy of Managed Migration, Varieties of Capitalism and Europeanization and Internalizing Globalization: The Rise of Neoliberalism and the Decline of National Varieties of Capitalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

ALEXANDER CAVIEDES is Assistant Professor in Political Science at the State University of New York at Fredonia, USA. His previous publications include Prying open Fortress Europe: The Turn to Sectoral Labor Migration.

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