ABSTRACT
This chapter examines claims about labour migration regimes in the European Union (EU). The European context is a particularly interesting one as it is highly dynamic and reveals deep cleavages in perceptions and meanings of control. The chapter also examines the subject under the following headings: The European integration dynamic; Fragmentation and the foreigner; and Tools of control and control of tools. The European Union is founded on three international treaties which have been subject to regular amendment and addition but which have retained their primary objective the creation of an internal market and added to it the establishment of monetary union. The creation of the internal market means, according to these treaties, the abolition on the control of persons crossing intra Member State borders and free access to the labour market and self employment for nationals of the Member States.
