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Introduction: Labour Migration Policy-Making in the EU

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The principle of free movement of labour has dominated the policy agenda of the EU for the past few years, certainly in the area of home affairs, but also beyond. Pathways towards managing migration into the Union requires solidarity and burden-sharing in policy-making. In such respect, the dynamics of institutional actors are keys to facilitate mobility which may help to tackle labour market imbalances and bottlenecks. Owing to the fact that the multilevel governance of migration characterizes the EU’s system, examining functions, competences and relationship between the institutions and the member states is way forward for the contemporary policy-making. The aim is to bring clarity to the degree of rigidities deriving from large divergences in labour market performance across the EU for this chapter are at an early stage.

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Oğuz, G. (2020). Introduction: Labour Migration Policy-Making in the EU. In: Labour Migration in the European Union. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36185-3_1

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