ABSTRACT
According to the OECD, the two major phases of immigration to the richest countries in Europe in the contemporary period have been the economic migration of single men in the 1950s and 1960s and the family immigration of the 1970s and the 1980s (OCDE 1987). What will be the future pattern of immigration in Europe, or is there a future at all for immigration in the 1990s and beyond, and what will the Europe of the 1990s actually look like? The implementation of the Single European Act for 1993, the changes in Eastern Europe (which have prompted fears of a massive migration from the East as well as the South to EC countries) and possibly the approach of the new millennium have led to much recent speculation: a sort of futurology of migration. Scenarios go from an end of contemporary immigration to a new explosion, from a multicultural Europe to a fortress Europe along racialised lines.
