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CONTENTS
Introduction
I Sweden: Women at work: why do so many Swedish mothers work?
　Introduction
　Female employment and motherhood in Sweden
　Why do so many Swedish women work?
　Conclusion
II UK: Coming to work: why have so many (young) people from Poland and Romania moved to the UK?
　Introduction
　The EU’s eastern enlargement in 2004, the implications for labour mobility, and the UK’s liberal immigration policies in the mid-2000s
　Pull factors in the UK
　What factors are most important?
　Conclusion
III Germany: Why does Germany have so many refugees from the Middle East?
　Introduction
　What are refugees and asylum seekers, and what rights do they have?
　Why does Germany have so many asylum seekers?
　Why did Germany welcome so many refugees with open arms?
　Conclusion
IV Romania: Looking for a better life abroad or in the city: why have so many Romanians left the countryside?
　　　　　　　　　(Co-authored with Andrei HERINEAN)
　Introduction
　Rural development and poverty in Romania: the first half of the 20th century
　A shift away from the countryside: Romania’s industrialisation and urbanisation in the post-war years
　External migration: Romanians moving to European countries from the 1990s
　Why do Romanians leave the countryside?
　　Infrastructure
　　Foreign migration
　Conclusion
V Greece: Greece and the Eurozone crisis: what are the reasons behind Greece’s downfall, and why is the economy only recovering slowly?
　Introduction
　The Greek economy in the 1990s and the early 2000s, and Greece’s accession to the Eurozone in 2001
　Greece’s structural problems
　Conclusion
VI Italy: The rise of the Mummy’s Boys (mammoni): why do so many Italian live with their parents?
　Introduction
　Economic reasons: delayed financial independence
　The housing market
　Social factors
　Conclusion