This study explores the expansion of migration from countries of Eastern Europe in the period following their accession to the European Union in 2004-07. It includes new empirical case studies of migration patterns based on recent field research, as well as analysis of existing statistical data

A Continent Moving West? argues that the conceptualization of migration as a one-way or long-term process is becoming increasingly wide of the mark. Rather, east-west labor migration in Europe, in common perhaps with other flows in and from other parts of the world, is diverse, fluid, and...