While global migration is increasing, internal EU migration flows have only increased slowly.
This paper contributes to a better understanding of the determinants and scale of European …

Albania is a country on the move. This mobility plays a key role in household-level strategies
to cope with the economic hardship of transition. With the relaxing of controls on emigration …

International migration trends are the result of many elements. Demographic contexts,
economic and social conditions, political choices, international links, historical ties, and …

Using evidence from two recent data sources–the 2002 Albania Living Standards
Measurement Survey (LSMS) and the 2001 Population Census of Albania–the paper …

'This article examines the process of family reunification among original guest-workers in
Germany. Contrary to conventional accounts, the findings indicate that the bulk of family …

Italy and Spain are two countries with important migration traditions, yet very little research
has been done on movements between these two Southern European countries. In this …

Several reconstructions are now available of the migrations which took place across the
European continent in the 20th century, especially in the period following World War II (for …

1. BACKGROUND Three specific phenomena largely affected international migration
patterns in Europe in the second half of the 20th century. Labour shortages in Northern and …

The measurement of both the dimensions and main features of the foreign population in
Southern European host countries (Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal) is not an easy task. In …

It is widely known that since the end of the 1970s South European countries (Italy, Spain,
Greece and Portugal) have progressively changed their role from traditional emigration area …