ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the analysis of Mediterranean migration. It presents the conditions that promote the demand for migrant labor in Southern European cities in the shift to a service economy. The book discusses the conditions that promote informalization in the demand for manufacturing labor at European borders. It underlines the role of the family as the axis mundi of migration: the family's world simultaneously reveals the variations in migratory practices and the constrictions for family reunion policies in the host countries. In border cities, the model is based on the nuclear family embedded in horizontally extended family relations, where half reluctantly send the female labor force to factories and to Europe. The local focus on border cities has provided us with a micro-view of the contradictions of globalization.
