Global Connections and Emerging Inequalities in Europe

Edited by Deema Kaneff and Frances Pine

This book explores connections between poverty and migration in the context of the expansion of neoliberalism in Europe, examining these global concerns from a local perspective.

Acknowledgements; 1. Emerging Inequalities in Europe: Poverty and Transnational Migration – Deema Kaneff and Frances Pine; 2. Capital, Family or Community in Postsocialist Rural Romania: Inequalities and Equalities – Míriam Torrens; 3. International Labour Migration, Remittances and Economic Development in Moldova – Dennis Goerlich and Matthias Luecke; 4. From Street Busking in Switzerland to Meat Factories in the UK: A Comparative Study of Two Roma Migration Networks from Slovakia – Jan Grill; 5. Transnational Migration of Bulgarian Roma – Ilona Tomova; 6. The End of Politics in Romania’s Jiu Valley: Global Normalisation and the Reproduction of Inequality – David A. Kideckel; 7. Assistance Migrants in Russia: Upsetting the Hierarchies of Transitional Development – Melissa L. Caldwell; 8. Contemporary Contexts of European Migration: Concluding Thoughts – Deema Kaneff and Frances Pine; List of Contributors; Index