This book analyzes the impact of thirty years of labor migration from the Mediterranean region and from Finland to western and northern continental Europe.

Rosemarie Rogers is a professor of political science at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She has published extensively on topics in ethnicity and international migration.

Westview Special Studies -- Introduction -- Post-World War II European Labor Migration: An Introduction to the Issues -- The Migrants' Role in the Economies, Societies, and Polities of the Receiving Countries -- Labor Migration and the Employment of Foreigners in the Federal Republic of Germany Since 1950 -- The French Textile Industry: A Segmented Labor Market -- Temporary Labor Migration or Immigration? "Guest Workers" in the Federal Republic of Germany -- Citizenship, Aliens' Political Rights, and Politicians' Concern for Migrants: The Case of Sweden -- The Second Generation of Migrants -- The Second Generation of Immigrants: A Sociological Analysis with Special Emphasis on Switzerland -- Second-Generation Foreigners in France -- Second-Generation Migrants in the Federal Republic of Germany -- The Migrants' Effects on the Sending Countries -- Migration of Workers and the Labor Market: Is Italy Becoming a Country of Immigration? -- Impact of Labor Migration on the Turkish Economy -- Intra-European Migration and Regional Development: Spain and Portugal -- Emigration and Development in Algeria: Doubts and Dilemmas -- Conclusions -- Western Europe in the 1980s: The End of Immigration?