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Gervais Appave defines labour migrants as a 'resource' that must be treated delicately. He ascribes the increase in human mobility to the deliberate decision by the EU choosing economic growth as the primary policy goal.

Ibrahim Awad, highlights that also medium and low skilled labour is in demand. Europe's multiple unintegrated labour markets complicate migration, with the Blue Card providing only little relief.

Western societies in Europe are growing old fast and life expectancy is rising. Professor Rainer Münz sheds light on possible policy solutions for a shrinking active workforce.

Zirkuläre Migration wird nicht selten als migrationspolitisches Allheilmittel dargestellt. Das ist sie nicht. Gunilla Fincke etwa sieht in ihr eine große Chance, weil sie versuche Win-Win-Situationen für alle zu schaffen.

Jane Hardy examines the special relationship between Poland and the UK. She sees migration as a 'revolving door', a relationship of extensive traffic between East and West, highlighting that 'deskilling' and 'gatekeeping' negatively affect large numbers of Polish migrants.

Die Türkei entwickelt sich zu einem attraktiven Einwanderungsland, sagt Sozialwissenschaftler Kamuran Sezer. Er untersucht die Merkmale der Auswanderung vieler in Deutschland lebender Türken zurück aus Deutschland und stellt: viele gehen nicht für immer.

Research on female labour migrants has been generally neglected in the discourse of global labour migration. Eleonore Kofman and Parvati Raghuram refute the assumption that female migrants are unemployed because they do not have skills, tracing misconceptions of gender discrimination in employment against migrant women.

Herbert Brücker und Carola Burkert analysieren die Vor- und Nachteile einer Angebots- oder nachfrageorientierten Steuerung der Zuwanderung.

Dietrich Thränhardt observes that despite a growing need for immigration in Germany, numbers are decreasing and except for rhetorical assurances integration has worsened in the past decades. He sees new chances for the EU with the opening of labour markets to the new members if bureaucratic obstacles are reduced.

The dossier addresses the issue of growing labour mobility supply and demand within the European continent and challenges social, legal and economic policies restricting this process.