Understanding international migration in Europe: evolution of flows and types of immigrants

22 Fevereiro 2022, 15:00 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.