Labor Mobility and Return Migration Potential in Response to EU Accession Public Deposited
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Endahl, Kathryn
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- Regarding migratory flows in relation to EU enlargement, there is a popular assumption that labor markets of existing member states will be overwhelmed by newcomer intra-EU migrants. Freedom to move throughout the EU is unquestionably an incentive for some to emigrate, but the corresponding domestic changes as a result of membership also incentivize some migrants to return. Using the Western Balkans as a regional focus, as well as the experience of the 2004/2007 enlargements, I explore these incentives in depth and examine whether return migration in response to EU accession can be expected. I conclude that, while there is still significant potential for emigration from the Western Balkans, the stabilizing effects of the EU accession process on both economic and democratic norms act as a significant pull factor for return migration.
- Date of publication
- May 2016
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- Vachudová, Milada Anna
- Searing, Donald
- Stephens, John
- Degree
- Master of Arts
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
- Graduation year
- 2016
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