Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. EU Migration and the Economic Crisis: Concepts and Issues: Jean-Michel Lafleur and Mikolaj Stanek -- Chapter 2. From international migration to freedom of movement and back? Southern Europeans moving North in the era of retrenchment of freedom of movement rights: Roxana Barbulescu -- Chapter 3. Immobility in Times of Crisis? The Case of Greece: Georgia Mavrodi and Michalis Moutselos -- Chapter 4. Emigration from Italy after the Crisis: The Shortcomings of the Brain Drain Narrative: Guido Tintori and Valentina Romei -- Chapter 5. Structural emigration: the revival of Portuguese outflows: José Carlos Marques and Pedro Góis -- Chapter 6. Is Spain Becoming a Country of Emigration Again? Data Evidence and Public Responses: Anastasia Bermudez and Elisa Brey -- Chapter 7. Restrictions on Access to Social Protection by New Southern European Migrants in Belgium: Jean-Michel Lafleur and Mikolaj Stanek -- Chapter 8. Southern Europeans in France: invisible immigrants?: Tatiana Eremenko, Nora El Qadim and Elsa Steichen -- Chapter 9. Gastarbeiter Migration Revisited: Consolidating Germany’s Position as an Immigration Country : Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels and Jutta Höhne -- Chapter 10. UK: large-scale European migration and the challenge to EU free movement: Alessio D’Angelo and Eleonore Kofman -- Chapter 11. South-North Labour Migration within the Crisis-Affected European Union: New Patterns, New Contexts and New Challenges: Jean-Michel Lafleur, Mikolaj Stanek and Alberto Veira -- Chapter 12. Five Lessons from the South-North Migration of EU Citizens in Times of Crisis: Jean-Michel Lafleur and Mikolaj Stanek. .

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This open access book looks at the migration of Southern European EU citizens (from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece) who move to Northern European Member States (Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom) in response to the global economic crisis.Its objective is twofold. First, it identifies the scale and nature of this new Southern European emigration and examines these migrants’ socio-economic integration in Northern European destination countries. This is achieved through an analysis of the most recent data on flows and profiles of this new labour force using sending-country and receiving-country databases. Second, it looks at the politics and policies of immigration, both from the perspective of the sending- and receiving-countries. Analysing the policies and debates about these new flows in the home and host countries’ this book shows how contentious the issue of intra-EU mobility has recently become in the context of the crisis when the right for EU citizens to move within the EU had previously not been questioned for decades. Overall, the strength of this edited volume is that it compiles in a systematic way quantitative and qualitative analysis of these renewed Southern European migration flows and draws the lessons from this changing climate on EU migration. “This is the book that the new South-North European migrations of the turbulent crisis years were demanding. It is timely, geographically and contextually comprehensive, empirically rich, and conceptually and analytically ambitious. A true tour de force.” Joaquín Arango, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain “The retrenchment of rights of freedom of movement, and the ongoing re-nationalisation of European space, poses crucial issues for the future of Europe. In this well-conceived collection of new research on South-North intra-EU migration, we understand how and why these migrants are some of the pioneers of a more integrated and equal continent. Yet, in the re-surfacing South-isms and East-isms of national politics – including growing hostility to Romanians, Greeks, Turks, or even Spanish and Italians – we may be witnessing the end of the idea of Europe as a united geo-political project.” Adrian Favell, University of Leeds, UK.