New Trends in Intra-European Union Mobilities
Mobilities within the European Union (EU) have changed significantly since the classical intra-regional migrations of the 1950s1970s. After a period of reduced, less visible flows in the 21st-century mobilities increased again, first linked to EU expansion towards the East, and from 2008, with renewed South-North flows following the impact of the Great Recession on Southern European countries. It is in this context that the current volume explores how these recent migrations reflect new and more complex patterns of mobility, increasingly uncertain and unstable, involving both natives and naturalised migrants. It also seeks to unpack the multiple connections between these new migration systems and other systems affecting social protection, gender and citizenship, and how these intersect with other factors such as class, age, race and ethnicity.
The different chapters of the book examine this covering a wide variety of cases, including intra-EU flows from Portugal and Spain, recent Spanish and Latin American migrants in London, Paris and Brussels, and Romanian migration to the UK and France, thus adding to its richness. This book will be of interest to academics, researchers and advanced students of Sociology, Anthropology, Geography, Gender Studies, Public Policy and Politics.
It was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Anastasia Bermudez is Ramn y Cajal Senior Researcher (Department of Anthropology, Universidad de Sevilla) and Scientific Associate at CEDEM (Universit de Lige). She holds a PhD and MSc in Geography and an MA in Area Studies (University of London). Her research focuses on Latin American migration, migrant politics, and intra-European mobilities.
Laura Oso is Catedrtica de Universidad (Full Professor) at the Universidade da Corua (Spain), where she coordinates ESOMI (Societies in Motion Research Team). With a PhD in Sociology from the Universit de Paris I-Panthon Sorbonne, her research focuses on gender and migration, social and spatial mobility, migration, and development.
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Series editor: John Solomos, University of Warwick, UK
The journal Ethnic and Racial Studies was founded in 1978 by John Stone to provide an international forum for high-quality research on race, ethnicity, nationalism and ethnic conflict. At the time the study of race and ethnicity was still a relatively marginal sub-field of sociology, anthropology and political science. In the intervening period, the journal has provided a space for the discussion of core theoretical issues, key developments and trends, and for the dissemination of the latest empirical research.
It is now the leading journal in its field and has helped to shape the development of scholarly research agendas. Ethnic and Racial Studies attracts submissions from scholars in a diverse range of countries and fields of scholarship and crosses disciplinary boundaries. It is now available in both printed and electronic forms. Since 2015, it has published 15 issues per year, three of which are dedicated to Ethnic and Racial Studies Review offering expert guidance to the latest research through the publication of book reviews, symposia and discussion pieces, including reviews of work in languages other than English.
The Ethnic and Racial Studies book series contains a wide range of the journals special issues. These special issues are an important contribution to the work of the journal, where leading social science academics bring together articles on specific themes and issues that are linked to the broad intellectual concerns of Ethnic and Racial Studies. The series editors work closely with the guest editors of the special issues to ensure that they meet the highest quality standards possible. Through publishing these special issues as a series of books, we hope to allow a wider audience of both scholars and students from across the social science disciplines to engage with the work of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Most recent titles in the series include:
The End of Compassion
Children of Immigrants in the Age of Deportation
Edited by Alejandro Portes and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly
Diversity in Local Political Practice
Edited by Karen Schnwlder
New Trends in Intra-European Union Mobilities
Beyond Socio-Economic and Political Factors
Edited by Anastasia Bermudez and Laura Oso
Race and Ethnicity in Pandemic Times
Edited by John Solomos
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INTRODUCTION
Recent trends in intra-EU mobilities: the articulation between migration, social protection, gender and citizenship systems
Anastasia Bermudez
and Laura Oso
ABSTRACT
Recent intra-European mobilities can be analysed from the perspective of transformations in the European migration system, especially following the 2008 Great Recession, which requires moving beyond portrayals of such flows as problem-free mobilities resembling liquid migration. These include renewed (semi)peripherycore movements involving both natives and naturalized migrants that interlink with other migration systems reaching beyond Europe and produce more complex mobilities. Analysis of these mobilities need to consider as well the connections with changes in social protection, gender and citizenship systems, and their intersection with other factors such as class, age, race and ethnicity. The articles in this Special Issue do so by focusing on a variety of cases that encompass quantitative analysis of demographic data for Portugal and Spain as well as qualitative studies of the experiences of recent Spanish, Latin American and Romanian migrants in London, Paris and Brussels, thus providing new insights into current intra-EU mobilities.