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
Spis treści
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
O autorze
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.