ABSTRACT
There are few doubts that migration is a powerful factor shaping European societies. In the European Union, one out of ten individuals is living in a country where he/she was not born. Around 7 percent of the EU population, little more 33 million individuals, is made of foreign residents (Eurostat 2011c). More than 20 million of them are “third country citizens”, people with citizenships of non-EU countries. Migration is also a resilient phenomenon: from 2007 to 2011, deep into the economic downturn, the foreign population in the EU had grown by 13 percent (Eurostat 2012).
