Migration in the Mediterranean across disciplines / Elena Ambrosetti, Donatella Strangio -- A provincial level analysis of Italian emigration to Africa : who left and why / Francesca Fauri -- The South-European model of immigration : cross-national differences by sending area in labour-market...

Annotation, As the financial crisis continues to cast its long shadow over Europe, the view that immigrants compete unfairly for jobs and present an unsustainable burden on the European Social Model appears to be gathering support in some circles. But at the same time, the 'right' type of...

This illuminating book examines the origins and evolution of labor market policy in Western Europe in three phases: a manpower revolution during the 1960s and 1970s; a phase of international disagreement about the causes of and remedies for unemployment, which triggered a variety of policy...