"In the European Union, migration is one of the foundations of shared prosperity, unity and diversity. Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, the phenomenon of migration to and within Europe calls for regulation. This book is about the role the law plays in facilitating migrants' integration and effective participation in the EU, whether coming to the EU for the first time or moving within the Single Market. Specifically, this book addresses the experience of one category of migrants accessing work in the Single Market, namely, third- country nationals. While third- country nationals play an important role in the EU by and through their work, they habitually experience inadequate skills' or qualification recognition and wrongful discrimination in accessing work, thereby inhibiting their well- being. This book proposes to describe and critically analyse the legal and policy architecture governing such migrants' access to work, equal treatment and non- discrimination and the recognition of their professional qualifications - in other words, some of the most important aspects of the regulation of migrants' integration in Europe. This book, in essence, is a study of the role that the regulation of skills' or qualification recognition plays in facilitating migrants' integration in Europe. This introductory chapter is structured as follows. Section 1 outlines the problem this book addresses in greater detail. It does so by providing a highlevel background to and partial overview of certain relevant statements of EU economic and social policy which identify the relevance of skilled migrants to the future of the European project. Section 1 also identifies and describes some empirical data which emphasises the need for third- country nationals to come to work in the EU, as well as some of the problems they actually face. Building on the policy documents and data outlined in Section 1, Section 2 identifies the central research question and contribution to scholarship which this book will make. Section outlines the sources of law, policy and philosophy which this book draws on. Section 5 identifies a central theme which runs throughout this book, namely, that of governance or regulation. Before concluding, Section 6 provides an outline of the structure of the book, describing the contribution each chapter makes to the overall argument of the book"--
This book describes and analyses the law and policy governing the recognition of professional qualifications of migrants coming to and moving within the EU, making a timely contribution to the broader and evolving study of migrant integration in Europe.