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<div>Dr Jochen Oltmer is Professor of Migration History at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück.</div><div><br></div>

<div>This&nbsp; book looks at the background to the policy of free movement in Europe and discusses the consequences. European integration changed migration conditions considerably: Under the concept of "freedom of movement", border crossings between EU member states as well as work and settlement by nationals of other member states were largely facilitated; internal borders thus lost their significance. At the same time, the question of how to deal with a common external border and the migration of "third-country nationals" gained in importance. The essential explains why migration from outside Europe was increasingly understood as a problem of security policy and why this still determines the measures for designing a common external border today.</div><div><br><div><div><b>The content</b></div><div><ul><li>Migration and border policy in the context of European integration from the 1950s until today</li><li>Heterogeneity of migration in the EU</li><li>Schengen Agreement as the beginning of a discussion on migration shaped by security policy</li><li>Development of common European ideas on the control of external borders</li><li>State of EU asylum policy</li></ul></div><br></div><div><b>The target groups</b></div><div><ul><li>People interested in the history and present of Europe as well as in migration and migration policy; people who wonder why there is such an intense debate about migration and asylum in the EU at present</li><li>Lecturers and students in the fields of migration studies, European studies, history, social sciences</li></ul></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>The author</b></div></div><div><div><div><div><b>Dr Jochen Oltmer</b> is Professor of Migration History at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>

The policy of free movement within Europe