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The literature on migration realities in Europe is usually centered around the role played by the EU on member states migration policies. In order to offer a comparative cross-country approach, previous research often allows too much to fall through the cracks. Facets of Migration in Contemporary Europe: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Specific Challenges directly addresses this issue. Through its multidisciplinary approach, it includes contributions ranging from policy-oriented chapters dedicated to the role of low-skilled and 'illegal' migrants to the securitization of migration in Europe as well as the role of Diasporas and language policies for the integration of migrants. The central theme of the volume is that experiences of migration in Western European countries can help the emerging countries of immigration in Central and Eastern Europe to improve their migration policies and living conditions.
About the author
Irina Angelescu is a PhD candidate in international history and politics at the Graduate Institute of Geneva, Switzerland and a Research Assistant at the Brookings Institution's Center on the United States and Europe. She most recently contributed to the volume The European Union Foreign Policy, edited by Federiga Bindi and published by the Brookings Institution Press in 2009. Her areas of expertise include: migration policies of the United States and Europe and the EU enlargement and foreign policies.
Sergiu Gherghina is a PhD researcher at the Department of Political Science, University of Leiden. He got his MA in Political Science from Central European University in Budapest and a MPhil in Institutional Analysis from the Department of Political Science, University of Leiden. His major fields of interest are political parties (party organizations) in new democracies, legislative behavior, and democratization.
Paul Flather is Secretary General of the Europaeum and a Fellow at Oxford University for over a decade. He was the Founding Chief Executive, Secretary General and member of the Senate of the Central European University and co-founder of the Open Society Fund s Civic Education Forum. He was formerly a journalist working for the BBC, Times newspapers and the New Statesman where he was deputy editor and was elected to many national education bodies.
