Southern Europeans in France: Invisible Migrants?
Southern Europeans in France: Invisible Migrants?
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在法国的南欧人：隐形移民？
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2017
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E. Steichen
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T. Eremenko;Nora El Qadim;E. Steichen
法国在当前经济危机开始时表现相对较好，但近年来经济增长缓慢，失业率高企。因此，它一直是一个不太受欢迎的目的地与南欧和欧盟移民一般在寻找经济机会。虽然他们的人数有所增加，在最近流入法国的资金中所占的比例越来越大，但与德国和英国相比，他们的人数仍然很低。尽管存在这样的统计现实，但自21世纪初以来，欧盟的流动性以及更广泛的欧盟在经济和社会政策中的作用一直是法国辩论的前沿，因此早在危机开始之前。这些辩论集中在两个群体--罗姆人和外派工人--这两个群体都被描绘成对法国福利国家的威胁。虽然根据欧盟的官方定义，外派工人不是移民，但他们的特点和经历与其他临时移民工人群体相似。南欧人在外派工人中所占的比例越来越大，虽然他们不是有关这一问题的讨论所针对的主要民族，但近年来的辩论和政策变化也涉及到他们。此外，我们认为，在法国的其他人口的政治辩论的重点促成了在这个国家的南欧移民的相对不可见。
France fared relatively well at the start of the current economic crisis, but has experienced low economic growth and high unemployment rates in the recent years. As a result it has been a less popular destination with Southern Europeans and EU migrants in general in search of economic opportunities. Although their numbers have increased and represent a growing proportion of recent flows to France, they remain low compared to numbers observed in Germany and the UK. Despite this statistical reality, EU mobility and more generally the role of the EU in economic and social policy have been at the forefront of debates in France since the start of the 2000s, thus well before the start of the crisis. These debates have focused on two populations – the Roma and posted workers – with both groups being portrayed as threats to the French welfare state. Although posted workers are not migrants, according to official EU definitions, their characteristics and experiences are similar to other groups of temporary migrant workers. Southern Europeans account for an increasing number of posted workers, and although they have not been the primary nationalities targeted in discussions concerning this issue, the debates and policy changes introduced in the recent years concern them as well. Moreover, we argue that the focusing of political debates on other populations in France has contributed to the relative invisibility of Southern European immigrants in this country.