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By Annika Elwert, Henrik Emilsson and Nahikari Irastorza In 2008, Sweden opted for a radical change in its labour migration policy. The new law provided all foreign-born individuals with a job offer the right to migrate to Sweden. The government reduced its ambition to control… Read More »From State-Controlled to Free Migration: Unintended consequences of the 2008 Swedish Labour-Migration Reform

Magdalena Ulceluse* After more than a decade of stagnation, the European Union (EU) is gearing up for enlargement plans yet again. Only a couple of months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in April 2022, the European Council greenlighted opening talks with Albania and North Macedonia,… Read More »Future EU enlargements and restricted free movement: lessons from the past

Welcome to the IILME website and especially to our blog on mobile and migrant labour in times of, and beyond, COVID-19. In the classic contribution by Castles and Miller (1993), our times were named “The Age of Migration”. We have seen for some years the… Read More »Welcome to our blog