Adrian Favell

Eurostars and Eurocities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Studies in Urban and Social Change
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9781405134040
• ISBN-10: 1405134046
• Artikelnr.: 23513805

Autorenporträt

Adrian Favell is Associate Professor of Sociology at UCLA. He is the author of Philosophies of Integration: Immigration and the Idea of Citizenship in France and Britain, and (with Michael Peter Smith) The Human Face of Global Mobility: International Highly Skilled Migration in Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editors' Preface. Preface. 1. FREEDOM-VRIJHEID-LIBERTÉ. A Management
Consultant's Tale. 2. NEW AMSTERDAM. A Logistics Manager's Tale. 3. LONDON
CALLS. A Data Analyst's Tale. 4. BRUSSELS-BRUSSEL-BRUXELLES. An Architect's
Tale. 5. MIGRATION. An Estate Agent's Tale. 6. MOBILITY (1). A Social
Worker's Tale. 7. MOBILITY (2). A Landlady's Tale. 8. SETTLEMENT. A
Businessman's Tale. 9. INTEGRATION (1). A Graphic Designer's Tale. 10.
INTEGRATION (2). A Media Manager's Tale. 11. LONDON LOVES. A City Broker's
Tale. 12. OLD AMSTERDAM. A Journalist's Tale. 13. ANOMIE. An IT
Consultant's Tale. 14. EUROPA. Postface. Appendix 1: Summary of interviews.
Appendix 2: A note on methodology. Notes. Bibliographical essay. Index of
interviewees. Index