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Immigration to Europe and its Consequences for the Host Societies

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The Making of the European Union

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Western Europe has a long tradition of sending emigrants overseas. For most European countries, however, receiving and integrating foreigners is a relatively new phenomenon that first started to occur in the 1940s and 1950s. In the years following World War II, Western European societies had to absorb refugees, displaced persons, and people returning from former colonies. But by the 1950s and 1960s, countries such as Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and Switzerland already met part of their growing demand for labour by recruiting migrants from several Mediterranean countries: First from Italy, Spain and Portugal, then from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, and finally from Yugoslavia and Turkey. Great Britain remained the main destination for migrants from Ireland and from other Commonwealth countries. In the majority of cases (at least in continental Europe) the recruitment of foreign labour took place on the basis of bilateral agreements between the governments of sending and receiving countries (Hollifield 1992).

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Münz, R., Seifert, W. (2001). Immigration to Europe and its Consequences for the Host Societies. In: Haller, M. (eds) The Making of the European Union. European and Transatlantic Studies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59443-4_14

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