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Migration Policies in the European Union: Espoused Perspectives and Practices-In-Use
Migration Policies in the European Union: Espoused Perspectives and Practices-In-Use

Author(s): Alexandra Porumbescu
Subject(s): Migration Studies
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: policy; migration; mobility; nationality; citizenship;

Summary/Abstract: The importance of the migration phenomenon in the social and economic European space rose along with the eastern expansion, freedom of movement of citizens and labor force being part of the internal European Union market, along and correlated to the freedom of movement of financial capital, products and services. The issues generated by this uprising of the international migration phenomenon required policies able to manage the continuously growing amounts of people and resources movement, both on the European scale, as well as on the national one. The aim of this article is to present current and past European approaches on international migration, as well as to estimate the way in which European citizens are affected by this policies.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 46
  • Page Range: 165-175
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English