Mobility in Transition: Migration Patterns after EU Enlargement

edited by Birgit Glorius, Izabela Grabowska and Aimee Kuvik

Amsterdam University Press, 2013
eISBN: 978-90-485-1549-3 | Paper: 978-90-8964-392-6
Library of Congress Classification JV7590.M6293 2013

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Ten central and eastern European countries, along with Cyprus and Malta, joined the European Union in two waves between 2004 and 2007. This volume presents new research on the patterns of migration that resulted from the EU’s enlargement.

The contributors identify and analyze several new groups of migrants, notably young people without family obligations or clear plans for the future. Including case studies on migrants from Poland, Romania, Hungary, and Latvia—as well as on destination countries such as the United Kingdom and Germany—the resulting collection insightfully points towards future migration trends and sets guidelines for further research.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Birgit Glorius is associate professor of human geography of central eastern Europe at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. Izabela Grabowska-Lusinska is a research fellow at the Center of Migration Research at the University of Warsaw and director of the Institute of Sociology at the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Aimee Kuvik is a doctoral student at the University of Amsterdam.

REVIEWS

“This book provides new, competent insights into the changing patterns, aims, and strategies of skilled migrants circulating between old and new EU member states. Important reading not only for European migration specialists, but also scholars and policy makers in the wider field.”

— Heinz Fassmann, University of Vienna

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Introduction
Birgit Glorius, Izabela Grabowska-Lusinska and Aimee Kuvik

Part I: Studying migration from Central and Eastern Europe: Concepts, dynamics and changing patterns

2 Liquid migration: Dynamic and fluid patterns of post-accession migration flows

Godfried Engbersen and Erik Snel

3 Anatomy of post-accession migration, methodological approach:

How to measure ‘liquidity’ and other patterns of post-accession migration flows?

Izabela Grabowska-Lusinska

4 Diverging or converging communities? Stages of international migration from rural Romania

Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu

5 Post-accession migration from the Baltic states: The case of Latvia

Zaiga Krisjane, Maris Berzins and Elina Apsite

Part II: Post-accession migration, labour market integration and migration strategies

6 The race for global talent, EU enlargement and the implications for migration policies and processes in European labour markets

Aimee Kuvik

7 ‘I know that I have a university diploma and I’m working as a driver’: Explaining the EU post-enlargement movement of highly skilled Polish migrant workers to Glasgow

Emilia Pietka, Colin Clark and Noah Canton

8 Transnational social networks, human capital and economic resources of Polish immigrants in Scotland

Marta Moskal

9 Why highly educated migrants go for low-skilled jobs: A case study of Polish graduates working in London

Paulina Trevena

10 Changes in tertiary education and new face of students’ mobility in Hungary

Irina Molodikova

Part III: Return migration

11 Understanding the counter-flow: Theoretical and methodological aspects in studying remigration processes in the expanded EU

Birgit Glorius

12 Regional selectivity of return migration: The locational choice of high-skilled return migrants in Poland

Katrin Klein-Hitpaß

13 Translators of knowledge? Labour market positioning of young Poles returning from studies abroad in Germany

Nina Wolfeil

14 Ready to move: Liquid return to Poland

Marta Anacka, Ewa Matejko and Joanna Nestorowicz

15 Concluding remarks

Birgit Glorius, Izabela Grabowska-Lusinska and Aimee Kuvik

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