Accession and Migration

The expansion of the European Union to include ten countries from Central and Eastern Europe, followed by the inclusion of Romania and Bulgaria, has generated great media interest in recent times. This volume focuses on the migration flow between Britain and Bulgaria, placing it within the wider European perspective through a careful and grounded analysis. It will be of great interest to migration scholars and policy makers at local, national and international levels.

Contents: Introduction, John Eade and Yordanka Valkanova; Section 1 Policies Towards Migration: Social, Economic and Cultural Dynamics: Cultural Patterns of the EU: 'Eastern Enlargement' - between post-socialism and the 'longue durée' of history?, Andreas Pribersky; The contemporary development of the Bulgarian policy towards migration, 2006-2007, Daryana Kotzeva; Stemming the flow? The causes and consequences of the UK's 'closed door' policy towards Romanians and Bulgarians, Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah and Laurence Cooley. Section 2 Going East: The British in Bulgaria: Property and transnational neoliberalism: the case of British migration to Bulgaria, Deema Kaneff; From foreigner to neighbour: a Standart view of the changing patterns of communication with British settlers in Bulgaria, Irina Chongarova; Britons in the Bulgarian countryside: social and cultural aspects of adaptation and intercommunication, Zhivko Ivanov. Section 3 Going West: The Bulgarians and Other 'New' Europeans in Britain: Bulgarian immigrants and community cohesion in London and Brighton, Eugenia Markova; Being a rara avis: the educational experiences of Bulgarian children in Great Britain, Yordanka Valkanova; Settling or surviving in London? The experience of Poles and other 'A8' migrants in a global city borough, John Eade and Michal P. Garapich; References; Index.