The working group on international migration in Europe of the European Association for Population Studies aims to promote discussion on migration issues. This book contains selected papers presented at the working group's second conference, which was held in Rome in November 2004. Some 130 researchers from 23 countries attended the conference for three days of stimulating debate. The conference was organised by the working group chair, Corrado Bonifazi from the Institute of Research on Population and Social Policies (IRPPS), part of Italy's National Research Council (CNR) in Rome, Marek Okólski from the Centre of Migration Research at the University of Warsaw, Jeannette Schoorl from the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) in The Hague and Patrick Simon from the National Demographic Institute (INED) in Paris. The IRPPS acted as organising body for the meeting. The conference was generously supported by a grant from the Population, Migration and Environment Foundation.

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