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Eurostars and Eurocities Adrian Favell (University of California)

Eurostars and Eurocities By Adrian Favell (University of California)

Eurostars and Eurocities by Adrian Favell (University of California)

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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.

Eurostars and Eurocities Summary

Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe by Adrian Favell (University of California)

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

Eurostars and Eurocities Reviews

The book is well written and holds ones attention in the analysis as well as the firsthand accounts. (The Delta Intercultural Academy, 1 September 2011)

Self-consciously and by design not a conventional social science product, Favell's book propels the reader much as a novel would into the private lives of 60 'pioneers of European integration,' educated and highly skilled trailblazers representing the 'small but symbolically powerful population' who have voluntarily left their 'nation-state society' to reap the rewards of denizenship in a big, rich Eurocity in northwest Europe. (American Journal of Sociology, September 2009)

Favell analyses the new migration trends, challenges to the welfare state, and forms of urban cosmopolitanism linked to processes of European integration. (European Urban Knowledge Network Research & Practice Review, February 2009)

In his new book, sociologist Adrian Favell challenges the belief that 'Eurostars' or high-flying expat Europeans, can live successfully anywhere in the EU. (Time Out Amsterdam, January 2009)

About Adrian Favell (University of California)

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.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface.

Preface.

1. FREEDOM-VRIJHEID-LIBERTE.

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

Additional information

GOR006665064
9781405134040
1405134046
Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe by Adrian Favell (University of California)
Adrian Favell (University of California)
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
2008-01-16
296
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