Abstract
The main features of the present pattern of intra-European workers’ migrations are becoming clear as they are viewed in structural and cyclical terms. The age of uncontrolled migration is gone. The drying-up of the flows, however, due to the stoppage of foreign recruitment of workers, appears simultaneous to the consolidation of the stocks: in France and Germany the foreign population is increasing appreciably because of its demographic vitality and the new policy of authorized family reunions, offering to industry and services an increased working force reserve. The migratory pressure in some of the southern countries is not slackening, as they are hardly suffering from the backlash of the recession.
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