Emigration of scale challenges states at the European periphery at their core. The book documents these struggles along their effects for politics and policy within their economic and welfare dimensions. The politics of emigration describe changing voter attitudes and behaviour pointing towards more support for nationalist and right-wing parties. The policies of emigration show state and local level efforts for the return of emigrant citizens. The welfare and economic dimensions explore the context for emigration and its effects for growth models and systems of health and care within the European single market. The book observes two types of state transformations: the re-emergent nation-state that re-discovers its core resource, the citizenry, as well as states that functionally and socially adapt to population loss.
Christof Roos is Professor of European and Global Governance at the Europa-Universität FlensburgAnna Kyriazi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan
Introduction: Emigration and its impact on the European state – Anna Kyriazi and Christof RoosPart I: Politics1 Emigration and anti-establishment voting in Europe – Cyrill Otteni, Mariana S. Mendes, Maik Herold2 Political trust and attitudes towards emigration across the EU – Francesco Visconti3 Voting abroad, fighting at home: Co-agency in the political controversies around non-resident voting in Bulgaria – Julia RonePart II: Policies4 Reassessing the conceptual boundaries between diaspora engagement policies and emigration policy – Pau Palop-García and Luicy Pedroza5 There and back again? Realities and regulation of emigrants’ return migration in the EU – Cecilia Bruzelius, Lea Reiss, Dominic Afscharian6 From national to local diaspora policies: an exploratory case study in Romania –Magdalena UlcelusePart III: Economy and Welfare7 Specific visions or muddling through? Diverse migration strategies to sustain (and modify) growth models in Poland and Portugal – Max Nagel, Martin Seeliger, Felix Syrovatka8 Disembedding citizenship in the EU: Internal migration and its externalities –Christof Roos and Susanne K. Schmidt9 Why care? Free movement as a transmission channel of social care crises in the EU – Anna Kyriazi and Waltraud Schelkle10 The emigration of Albanian doctors: A vicious cycle for the Albanian health system? – Ilir Gëdeshi and Russell King11 Epilogue: Emigration, immigration and tourism as supplementary engines of political legitimacy – Ettore Recchi