Circular Migration between Europe and its Neighbourhood

Anna Triandafyllidou is Professor and Director of a Programme on Cultural Diversity in a Globalised World at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, in Florence, Italy. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens. She has been teaching as Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges since 2002. Her recent books include Irregular Migration in Europe: Myths and Realities (2010, Ashgate), European Multiculturalism(s) (with T. Modood and N. Meer, 2011, Edinburgh University Press), Migrant Smuggling. Irregular Migration from Africa and Asia to Europe (with T. Maroukis, 2012, Palgrave), The Greek Crisis and Modernity in Europe (with R. Gropas and H. Kouki, Palgrave, 2013), Irregular Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe: Who Cares? (Ashgate, 2013), and What is Europe? (with R. Gropas, 2013, Palgrave).

• 1. Circular Migration: Introductory Remarks ; 2. The Drive for Securitised Temporariness ; 3. Flexible circularities: Integration, return and socio-economic instability within Albanian migration to Italy ; 4. Albanian Circular Migration in Greece: Beyond the State? ; 5. Circular Economic Migration between Italy and Morocco ; 6. Circularity in a Restrictive Framework: Mobility between Morocco and Spain ; 7. Circular Migration between Hungary and Ukraine: Historical legacies, the economic crisis and the multi-directionality of 'circular' migration ; 8. Circular Migration Patterns between Ukraine and Poland ; 9. A Transnational Double Presence: Circular Migration between Ukraine and Italy ; 10. Circular Migration at the Periphery of Europe: Choice, Opportunity or Necessity?

This book is noteworthy not only because of the abundance of research and information it contains but also because it emphasises the need for a stronger relationship between research and policy-making.