ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the employment experiences of Central and Eastern European (CEE) accession nationals to look at how moving to the UK for the purposes of work impacts upon the migrant's experiences of the family life. It explores the implications of such migration decisions on the family units and the family life of the post-accession CEE migrant workers. The chapter details the entitlement of CEE migrant worker's family members to join the worker in the UK. It explores the applicability of the notion of the transnational family, evident in the research literature on the transnational kinship, to post-accession EU8 migrant workers in the UK. The chapter also explores the legal framework governing the capacity of EU8 migrants to be joined in the UK by their family members and has sought to juxtapose this formal legal entitlement against the EU8 migrant's practical ability to rely on it.
