Núm. 84. Migrations and transnational networks: Immigrant communities from Central and Eastern Europe in Spain.
In 2004 and 2007, the European Union's enlargements toward Eastern Europe sparked an interesting debate on the challenges that the Union's newly-incorporated population could represent for the job markets of the other Member States. Just like with Spain and Portugal's entry into Europe in 1986, EU countries were afraid that the resulting free circulation would bring about an “avalanche” of workers from “new” Europe in search of better employment opportunities. The existence of East-to-West migration flows would take on (after years when the political and ideological dimension had had a substantial importance) a new economic dimension up until the present that is by no means representative. But furthermore, the attention paid to the migration phenomenon in the countries of the East highlighted the existence of a specific migration model in these countries, which are transforming from countries of emigration to ones of immigration, and in which temporary, circular and return immigration have a greater importance than in other European scenarios. The latest issue of CIDOB magazine Afers Internacionals is made up of different perspectives on this phenomenon, as well as on the participation of immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe in Spain's society and job market.
ISSN: 1133-6595
VV.AA. Gemma Pinyol (coord.)
Date of publication: 01/2009
Issue price: 10 €
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Introduction
Gemma Pinyol Jiménez
Europe in Movement: Challenges and Prospects for the Enlarged Europe
Europe in Movement: Migration from and into Eastern and Central Europe
Marek Okólski
The Migration of Polish Labour to Western Europe: Trends and Prospects
Piotr Kaźmierkiewicz
Immigrant Communities from Eastern Europe in Spain: A Panoramic View
The Other Europe which is comming: East Europeans in Spain
Ruth Ferrero Turrión
Immigrant Communities from Eastern Europe: The Case of the Romanian Community in Spain
Miguel Pajares Alonso
Eastern Communities and their Participation on the Job Market
East Europeans on the Spanish Job Market: A Geographical Approach
Rafael Viruela Martínez
Migration Processes from Eastern and Central Europe in Spain: Legal Status, Social Identity and Job Placement
Mónica Ibáñez Angulo
Bulgarian Workers in Madrid: Legal Position and Performance on the Job Market
Eugenia Markova
Others Articles
Democracy and Islamism: An Impossible Marriage?
Ricard Gonzalez Samaranch
Spain’s New Foreign and Cooperation Policy with the Continent of Africa: Plan Africa and its Interested Associationism
Jokin Alberdi Bidaguren and Eduardo Bidaurratzaga Aurre
Bibliographical Selection of CIDOB’s Library on Migrations and Transnational Networks (pdf 399kB)
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