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

International migration is a powerful symbol of global inequality, whether in terms of wages, labor market opportunities, or lifestyles. Millions of workers and their families move each year across borders and across continents, seeking to reduce what they see as the gap between their own...

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...