Migration pressures and opportunities Challenges to belonging within the European Union ’ s mobility regime

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Author	Barglowski, Karolina
Copyright Year	2017
Abstract	What for a long time appeared unimaginable became reality with the enlargement of the European Union, beginning in 2004, which united countries that had been separated from each other for decades by the Iron Curtain partitioning Europe into the »East« and the »West.« The expansion turned people into EU citizens whose mobility had been severely restricted in the past, but who had nevertheless experienced widespread migration, often in a partly clandestine manner. The opening of borders was thus accompanied by fears that certain countries would be overrun by the movement of people from the new to the old member states. Among those new acceding countries, Poland, due to its large population and high rates of emigration, has significantly impacted discourses on Europeanization, intra-European migration, and inequalities within the European Union in the post-accession period. People from Poland have taken advantage of their post-2004 freedom of mobility with an unexpected speed and scale, thereby fundamentally transforming the socio-demographic landscape in many European regions (Favell 2008). Most of them have migrated to the UK, which as one of the few old EU member states has not restricted the immigration of people from the new member states. Yet despite Germany’s seven-year accession moratorium, and widely unnoticed by social sciences, a significant and increasing
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Subject Keyword	Accession number (bioinformatics) Ehrlich units per deciliter European Union Fear (Mental Process) Hypertrophy Impacted tooth La Clandestine Absinthe Rana temporaria Science Social Sciences
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