Introduction
1. European Agenda on Migration between progress and challenges: situational overview
2. Migrants in Europe: from a production factor to social actors PART I Immigrants and the labour market: employment opportunities and challenges 3. Hostility in times of labour shortage: controversial attitudes towards labour immigration in Hungary
4. Is talent divide a proper form with which to characterize contemporary migration flows? Evidence from the Portuguese emigration within the European Union PART II Immigrants: an economic resource or a burden? 5. An economic resource or a social problem? European institutions and migrants from the 1950s to the 1970s: the case of Belgium
6. Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs in Italy and England: the cases of Bologna and London
7. Immigration and sustainability of the pay-as-you-go social security system in Italy PART III Immigrant networks, well-being and education 8. Blood, buddies, banks: potential funding sources for starting a new business as perceived by Maghrebi, Filipino and Chinese immigrants in Italy
9. Mothering from afar: the subjective well-being of Eastern European migrants in Italy
10. Free or bounded? Migration, ethnicity, social background and educational choices in four European countries