Migration, Work and Citizenship in the Enlarged European Union

Dr Samantha Currie is a Lecturer in Law at the Liverpool Law School, Liverpool University. Her research interests lie in the areas of: migration in the context of EU eastward enlargement; EU Free movement of persons provisions; Union citizenship; and Gender and migration.

• List of Cases; List of UK Legislation; List of European Union Materials and Community Legislation; Preface; Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Transitional Rules in the Accession Treaties and National Implementation throughout the EU; Chapter 3 EU8 Migrants’ Access to the UK Labour Market during the Transitional Period; Chapter 4 De-Skilled and Devalued; Chapter 5 Facilitating Family Life in the Aftermath of Post-Accession Migration to the UK; Chapter 6 Citizenship in the Context of EU Enlargement; Chapter 7 Conclusion; Chapter 101 Appendix Sample of Respondents;

'An excellent piece of socio-legal scholarship that highlights the limits and potential of EU citizenship status for A8 migrants. The combination of legal analysis and empirical data convincingly bring to life the experiences of European migrants living and working in the UK.' Peter Dwyer, Nottingham Trent University, UK '...[this] book is an excellent addition to recent studies on migration from the new accession states...[and] has much to say empirically (often poignantly) about the human stories of migrants and their efforts to work and maintain family life...' Translocations: Migration and Social Change '...Samantha Currie makes effective use of a socio-legal approach, drawing upon a mixture of legal material and interviews with Polish migrants and employment agencies. The work as a whole shows the limits to the status and experience of EU8 migrants in the United Kingdom.' Journal of Immigration Asylum and Nationality Law 'Migration, Work and Citizenship raises some important theoretical issues that deserve exploration and analysis. The author lays out the legal relationship between mobility and citizenship, and this is an important first step.' Journal of International Migration and Integration