Understanding international migration in Europe: evolution of flows and types of immigrants.
19 Fevereiro 2021, 16:00 • Jennifer Leigh Mcgarrigle Montezuma de Carvalho
Understanding international migration in Europe: evolution of flows and types of immigrants.
Main questions:
What are the main ways of classifying and measuring migrants and migration?
Migration in numbers: what are the main trends in Europe? How did we get here?
What are the main factors that resulted in the transformation of Europe into a multi-ethnic continent?
A historical overview of migration patterns in Europe
Pre-war: 1. Emigration to the New World
2. Intra-European flows Post-war
1.Refugees
2. Colonial migration
3. Guestworker systems
Castles, S. (1986) The Guestworker in Western Europe: An obituary, International Migration Review, Vol. 20, No.4, pp. 761-778.
Hansen, R. (2003) –“Migration to Europe since 1945: its history and its lessons “, in Spencer, S. (ed.), The politics of migration: managing opportunity, conflict and change, pp. 150-162. Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell.
Chapter Four in CASTLES, S. and MILLER, M.J. (2009) The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World. (fourth revised edition) Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave-Macmillan and Guilford Books.
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