Introduction: Into the Margins – Migration and Exclusion in Southern Europe

Migration is a world wide phenomenon. Transnational movements are particularly important in a global era of economic, political and social transformations. Globalisation processes have been characterised as political, economic and cultural. Globalisation has been seen as a challenge to the nation state, although also seen as generating ethnic and cultural parochialisrns and localisms, or glocalisation in Roland Robertson’s own ‘hybrid’ term (Robertson 1995).