A journey through Europe

EUとその加盟国から、スウェーデン、離脱したイギリス、ドイツ、ルーマニア、ギリシャ、イタリアを取り上げ、それぞれ社会事情、経済、政治を紹介する。 CONTENTS Introduction I Sweden: Women at work: why do so many Swedish mothers work? 　Introduction 　Female employment and motherhood in Sweden 　Why do so many Swedish women work? 　Conclusion II UK: Coming to work: why have so many (young) people from Poland and Romania moved to the UK? 　Introduction 　The EU’s eastern enlargement in 2004, the implications for labour mobility, and the UK’s liberal immigration policies in the mid-2000s 　Pull factors in the UK 　What factors are most important? 　Conclusion III Germany: Why does Germany have so many refugees from the Middle East? 　Introduction 　What are refugees and asylum seekers, and what rights do they have? 　Why does Germany have so many asylum seekers? 　Why did Germany welcome so many refugees with open arms? 　Conclusion IV Romania: Looking for a better life abroad or in the city: why have so many Romanians left the countryside? 　　　　　　　　　(Co-authored with Andrei HERINEAN) 　Introduction 　Rural development and poverty in Romania: the first half of the 20th century 　A shift away from the countryside: Romania’s industrialisation and urbanisation in the post-war years 　External migration: Romanians moving to European countries from the 1990s 　Why do Romanians leave the countryside? 　　Infrastructure 　　Foreign migration 　Conclusion V Greece: Greece and the Eurozone crisis: what are the reasons behind Greece’s downfall, and why is the economy only recovering slowly? 　Introduction 　The Greek economy in the 1990s and the early 2000s, and Greece’s accession to the Eurozone in 2001 　Greece’s structural problems 　Conclusion VI Italy: The rise of the Mummy’s Boys (mammoni): why do so many Italian live with their parents? 　Introduction 　Economic reasons: delayed financial independence 　The housing market 　Social factors 　Conclusion