Resumen de Labour migration, social incorporation and transmigration in the New Europe. The case of Germany in a comparative perspective

Ludger Pries

• This article examines the challenges and opportunities of labour migration for Europe and the European social model in the 21st century. The social incorporation and labour market insertion of labour migrants in Germany is considered in a comparative perspective which highlights the increasing importance of transnational migration and transnational social spaces as a feature of migration in Europe. It is transmigration, it is argued, that could constitute one crucial ingredient of the "cement" for a sustainable social Europe.