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Introduction: Labour migration in Europe: Changing policies – changing organizations – changing people
Author(s) -
Laubenthal Barbara
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international migration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.681
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1468-2435
pISSN - 0020-7985
DOI - 10.1111/imig.12408
Subject(s) - immigration , liberalization , field (mathematics) , politics , human migration , political economy , political science , economic geography , economic system , economics , sociology , population , market economy , law , demography , mathematics , pure mathematics
Under which circumstances do labour migration policies change? When do organizations become agents of change? And what triggers significant transformation in labour migration flows? We start from the assumption that, during the last years, change in the field of labour migration has intensified. In some countries, paradigmatic changes towards more liberal immigration regimes have taken place; new organizations have emerged; and the profile of intra‐European workers’ mobility has changed. The articles assembled in this volume shed light on developments in the field of labour migration by using the notion of change as their conceptual lens. They show that changes can best be captured with a multi‐level model and an interdisciplinary approach that connects labour migration issues to broader political science and sociological theories. Such an analysis shows that recent changes are paradigmatic, multi‐layered and ambiguous with regard to a further liberalization of the European labour migration regime.