Migration and Mobility

People move, individually and collectively, for a combination of economic, social, political and cultural reasons. The impact of migration on the individuals concerned, their families, the countries they leave and the societies they join raises issues that are hotly contested by academics, policymakers and politicians. By using a wide variety of analytical approaches the contributors to this book reveal the complexity and significance of this increasingly important phenomenon in Western European countries, which links these societies to the wider world. They engage directly with the challenge which human mobility represents by examining the reasons for migration, the contribution and needs of those migrating, and the ways in which public debate about migration may be manipulated for political reasons.

FLOYA ANTHIAS Professor of Sociology and Head of Sociology, University of Greenwich, London VINCENT DALY Head of the School of Economics, Kingston University TIM HATTON Professor of Economics, University of Essex THOMAS KRICHEL Department of Economics, University of Surrey PAUL LEVINE Department of Economics, University of Surrey ELIZABETH MEEHAN Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Professor of European Social Policy, Queen's University of Belfast ANNIE PHIZACKLEA Professor of Sociology, Warwick University LIZA SCHUSTER Researcher, South Bank University, London PHILIP SPENCER Head of the School of Combined Studies, Faculty of Human Sciences, Kingston University BOB SUTCLIFFE Lecturer in Development Economics, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao