{"product_id":"eurostars-and-eurocities-paperback","title":"Eurostars and Eurocities - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdrian Favell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe\u003c\/i\u003e examines intra-European Union migration in the cities of Amsterdam, London and Brussels. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBased 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines the mobility, lifestyle and career opportunities created by the borderless society of the European Union, as well as the barriers that still persist\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAnalyses the new migration trends, challenges to the welfare state, and forms of urban cosmopolitanism linked to processes of European integration\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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, \u003ci\u003eEurostars and Eurocities\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdrian Favell\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Sociology at UCLA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003ePhilosophies of Integration: Immigration and the Idea of Citizenship in France and Britain\u003c\/i\u003e, and (with Michael Peter Smith) \u003ci\u003eThe Human Face of Global Mobility: International Highly Skilled Migration in Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 9.04 x 6.39 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42119549288583,"sku":"9781405134040","price":59.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/453e3a1386d2dfdcfdb8d9c90e79d32d.webp?v=1746508081","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/eurostars-and-eurocities-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}