European Encounters
Subtitle: Migrants, Migration, and European Societies Since 1945 (Research in Migration and Ethnic Relations)
Contributors: Rainer Ohliger (Editor); Karen Schonwalder (Editor); Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: August 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780754630869
Subjects: Ethnic studies; European history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Immigration & emigration; Social research & statistics; Europe; Emigration & Immigration; Social Science; Sociology; History; 20th century; Ethnic Studies - General; Emigration and immigration
First sentence: In the second half of the twentieth century, migration constituted one of the major challenges to European states and societies and one of the major forces shaping them.