Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating EuropeISBN: 978-1-4051-3405-7
Hardcover
296 pages
February 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an
Integrating Europe examines 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
- 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