ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts of key concepts disscussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores the regulatory processes and gendered effects of migration in the context of social regimes, notably family and employment. Geographical moves are frequently accompanied and motivated by expectations of upward social and economic mobility and a greater degree of personal belonging and security. While for many such expectations are fulfilled, for others migration can trigger a gradual and, at times, unforgiving attrition of familial, legal, professional and economic status. The book focuses on the extensive and far-reaching legal and policy architecture governing migration that has emerged since the turn of the millennium. Developments at European Union (EU) level have largely driven this process, but in a different direction than EU migration law of the pre-millennium era. The book focuses on trafficking offer a further illustration of the unhelpful tendency to fix migrant groups into rigid categories.
