"Emerging in the throes of a global pandemic that threatens Europe's economies and food security, International Labour Migration to Europe's Rural Regions combines a diverse range of empirically rich, in-depth case studies, analysis of their rural context specificities, and insights from labour...

Prologue -- Changing contexts : the growing demand for transnational human capital and the middle and upper class quest for distinction -- Social background makes all the difference : types of capital, class position and chances for acquiring transnational human capital -- Strategic investments...

"Just because there has been a crisis does not necessarily mean there is going to be a change. And yet why, exactly, did nothing change in the face of global resistances and movements which followed the financial meltdown of 2007/8. Based on ethnographic research with the Occupy movement in...