Eurostars and Eurocities (eBook)

Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe

Adrian Favell (Autor)

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2008
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-71258-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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

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.

Inhalt

Series Editors' Preface.

Preface.

1. FREEDOM-VRIJHEID-LIBERTÉ.

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

Rezensionen

"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)

"A fascinating insight into the crucial and elusive topic of
European identity, Eurostars and Eurocities is a pleasure to
read."

--Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

"Who are the Europeans? Eurostars and Eurocities presents
a convincing portrait of the pitfalls, opportunities, sorrows and
joys of people who have decided to give life a go in another
European society."

--Neil Fligstein, University of California,
Berkeley

"A rich ethnography that will surely become a major historical
document of the experiences of free movers in the EU."

--Juan Díez Medrano, University of Barcelona

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2008
• Reihe/Serie: IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Urban and Social Change
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Urban and Social Change
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Amsterdam • author • Citizens • Discrimination • European • europe built • Eurostars • Evidence • FACE • Generation • Geographie • Geography • highly • Idea • integrating • Limitations • Migrants • Movement • new kind • none • Promise • settlement • Sociology • Soziologie • Stadtgeographie • Stadtsoziologie • Union • Urban Geography • Urban sociology • west european • Work
• ISBN-10: 0-470-71258-9 / 0470712589
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-71258-0 / 9780470712580