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International Labour Mobility and Uneven Regional Development in Europe

Human Capital, Knowledge and Entrepreneurship

Allan M. Williams

University of Exeter, UK, A.M.Williams{at}exeter.ac.uk

Vladimir Baláz

University of Exeter, UK and Institute of Forecasting, Bratislava, Slovakia

Claire Wallace

Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria

Economic geographers have tended to neglect human mobility, and yet international labour migration constitutes significant flows that shape and are shaped by institutionally specific economic spaces. Three underlying themes run through the paper. First, the role of social networks in mediating relationships between flows and spaces. Second, the recomposition of the spatiality and temporality of flows in response to Europeanization and globalization, evident especially in the emergence of increased but differentiated skilled labour mobility. And, third, the locking into space - however temporarily - of inherently ‘sticky’ flows of labour mobility. These themes are investigated through an exploration of how the human capital, knowledge and financial capital embedded in migrants are created and articulated by migrants’ local and trans-local relationships in their spaces of origin and destination. Finally, the paper reflects on some of the ways in which the intersection of migration flows and spaces mediate patterns of uneven regional development in Europe.

Key Words: human capital • knowledge • migration • mobility • regions • remittances

European Urban and Regional Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, 27-46 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0969776404039140
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