articleInternational Journal of Population GeographyMar 1, 2002GREEN OA

Towards a new map of European migration

University of Sussex

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Abstract

Abstract Students of European migration have been hampered by the legacy of those established forms of migration which have been historically most important – settler migrations from Europe to the Americas, guest‐worker migrations from the Mediterranean Basin to Northern Europe, and refugee migrations after the World Wars. We need to appreciate that many of the key questions that were asked to frame our understanding of the functioning of migration now have a very different array of answers from the largely economic ones which shaped our earlier analyses. Now, new mobility strategies are deployed to achieve economic and, importantly, non‐economic objectives. In the new global and European map of migration, the…

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Keywords
  • Human migration
  • Migration studies
  • Economic geography
  • Refugee
  • Internal migration
  • Forced migration
  • Geography
  • Tourism
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Reduced inequalities
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