Main entry:

Favell, Adrian.

Title & Author:

Eurostars and Eurocities : free movement and mobility in an integrating Europe / Adrian Favell.

Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.

Description:

xvi, 279 pages ; 23 cm

Series:

Studies in urban and social change

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-263) and indexes.
Freedom-vrijheid-liberté : a management consultant's tale -- New Amsterdam : a logistics manager's tale -- London calls : a data analyst's tale -- Brussels-Brussel-Bruxelles : an architect's tale -- Migration : an estate agent's tale -- Mobility (1) : a social worker's tale -- Mobility (2) : a landlady's tale -- Settlement : a businessman's tale -- Integration (1) : a graphic designer's tale -- Integration (2) : a media manager's tale -- London loves : a city broker's tale -- Old Amsterdam : a journalist's tale -- Anomie : an IT consultant's tale -- Europa.

Summary:

"The European Union is founded on the idea of free movement. A generation of West European citizens - referred to by the author as "Eurostars"--Have pioneered a new kind of highly skilled and educated migration. In an integrating Europe built on economic theories, they appeared to face none of the discrimination and limitations on work and settlement that still restrict other migrants in Europe. And nowhere was the cosmopolitan promise of European free movement more in evidence than in Amsterdam, London, and Brussels - three classic "Eurocities". Yet there is a human dimension to European integration. Even with all formal legal barriers down, things are not always so simple. 60 in-depth interviews and more than five years of ethnographic and documentary research unearth some startling revelations - and contradictions - about life in a Europe supposedly without frontiers. A book about real people and real places, Eurostars and Eurocities is a rare combination of literary style and scholarly analysis. At its core lie the intimate stories of some remarkable individuals and families, who left their comfortable local career paths and family lives to embark on an uncertain European future."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
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Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
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ISBN:

9781405134040 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1405134046 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781405134057 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1405134054 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Emigration and immigration Research Case studies.
Nationalism Europe.
Transnationalism.
Émigration et immigration Recherche Études de cas.
Nationalisme Europe.
Transnationalisme.
Mobilité des travailleurs.
Libre circulation des travailleurs.
Libre circulation des personnes.
Villes.
Conditions sociales.
Intégration culturelle.
Européanisation.
Etudes de cas.
Analyse comparative.
UE/CE Etats membres.
Emigration and immigration Research
Nationalism
Migration forskning fallstudier.
Nationalism Europa.
Internationalisering.
Europe
Europa emigration och immigration forskning fallstudier.

Form/genre:

Case studies.
Études de cas.

Added entries:

Studies in urban and social change.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 255905
Call No.: BIB 186181
Status: Available