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European Union has had a quiet, but dramatic effect on forms of migration in Europe. Where once the dominant mode of migration was immigration and refugee migration from far flung ex-colonial lands, in the wake of closer union and (especially) EU enlargement to the East, migration in Europe has become increasing regional in nature. Based on recent research on forms of intra-EU migration, the presentation will offer an overview of the new map of migration in Europe, and focus in particular on the material and symbolic effects of intra-EU migration, both from Western member states, and new member states such as Poland and Romania. Despite other forms of security/closure involved in EU border politics, there are also interesting “concentric” effects of building the E U which have brought into the picture free movement/mobility from neighbours – i.e. the de facto “integration” of Turkish, Moroccan or post-Soviet migration into the new European migration system. Classic forms of immigration (and control) need to be seen in a fluid and variable continuum with other forms of mobility, cross-border movement, trade and tourism.

Adrian Favell is Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po, affiliated to the Centre d’Études Européennes. He is also Professor of European and International Studies at Aarhus University, was previously Professor of Sociology at UCLA, and has worked at the Universities of Sussex, Utrecht and Louvain-la-Neuve. He holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute, Florence (1995).