ABSTRACT
This monograph addresses mobility and migrations as contributing phenomena in shaping contemporary Europe after 1945, in connection with decolonisation and the creation of the European Community. The disappearing of the colonial empires caused a large movement of people (former colonizers as well as formerly colonized people) from the extra-European countries to the "Old continent"; while the European integration project encouraged the movement of the citizens within the Community. The book retraces how, in both cases, migrations and mobility impacted the way national communities, as well as the European one, have been defining themselves and their real and imaginary boundaries.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|40 pages
Workers or citizens
chapter 1|13 pages
Movement but with limitations – mobility in the process of European integration
chapter 3|14 pages
The challenge of interdependence
part II|48 pages
Postcolonial returns
chapter 4|12 pages
Post-colonial migrants and the (re)making of Europe
chapter 5|15 pages
Repatriates, refugees, or exiles?
chapter 6|8 pages
A univocal special relationship
chapter 7|11 pages
The Confédération européenne des spoliés d’outre-mer (CESOM)
part III|42 pages
Refugees and displaced persons
chapter 9|14 pages
Europe and the Latin American exile
part IV|40 pages
Migrants and citizens