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Crisis and Beyond: Intra-EU Mobility of Polish and Spanish Migrants in a Comparative Perspective

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The 2004 and 2006 EU enlargement rounds have opened a new chapter in the contemporary history of European migration. Both accessions have not been comparable to previous enlargement experiences. Altogether 12 countries have joined the EU and as a consequence its population has increased by around 26%. The EU enlargement has changed significantly the institutional and socio-economic context of intra-EU mobility. As a consequence of introduction of the free mobility regime, the scale and dynamics of the outflows from Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries have increased significantly. According to the EU Labour Force Survey (LFS) data, within the ten years following the 2004 EU enlargement, the total number of EU-12 nationals residing in the ‘old’ member states increased 5.4-fold, from 1.1 million in 2004 to 6.1 million in 2014. This number can be translated into a total net inflow of five million mobile persons from the new member states (i.e., 500,000 per year) (Fihel et al. 2015).

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Kaczmarczyk, P., Stanek, M. (2016). Crisis and Beyond: Intra-EU Mobility of Polish and Spanish Migrants in a Comparative Perspective. In: Triandafyllidou, A., Isaakyan, I. (eds) High-Skill Migration and Recession. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137467119_4

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