ABSTRACT
Introduction: Migration, Transnational Social Spaces and Regional Integration Intuition suggests that there should be a close relationship between politics of regional integration and an intensification of migration between the national territories which form part of the integration process. Economic integration should further facilitate the movement of people between the participating countries. A closer look, however, reveals that things are different: Among the member countries of the European Union, the number of migrants has decreased with the progress of integration – in spite of the free mobility of the labour force – while in fact the number of immigrants from non-member countries has increased dramatically despite the continuing to existence of all kinds of obstacles to their migration.
