International Labour Migration to Europe's Rural Regions brings together intimate descriptions, theoretical analyses, and policy recommendations for this novel phenomenon that has the potential to transform lives of international migrants and local communities in Europe's rural regions.

Johan Fredrik Rye is Professor in sociology at the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has studied varies forms of mobility in late modern societies, including international labour migration, domestic migration of youths, and leisure mobilities, combining a range of qualitative and quantitative materials and research methods. Rye is currently leading the international comparative research project Global Labour in Rural Societies (Glarus).

Karen O'Reilly is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, at Loughborough University, and an Independent Research Academic. She has been researching migration since the early 1990s and is author of numerous books and articles including The British on the Costa del Sol, Ethnographic methods, and International Migration and Social Theory. She is currently co-investigator on the ESRC-funded project Brexit Brits Abroad, and is on the International Advisory Board of Glarus.

Section I: Transforming Europe's Rural Industries

1. New Perspectives on International Labour Migration to Europe's Rural Regions

2. Are the Guest-worker Programmes Still Effective? Insights from Romanian Migration to Spanish Agriculture

3. The Social and Spatial Mobility Strategies of Migrants: Romanian Migrants in Rural Greece

4. Ghettos, Camps and Dormitories: Migrant Workers' Living Conditions in Enclaves of Industrial Agriculture in Italy

5. Lessons from the Mountains: Mobility and Migrations in Euro-Mediterranean Agro-Pastoralism

6. Temporary Farmworkers and Migration Transition: On a Changing Role of the Agricultural Sector in International Labour Migration to Poland

7. 'Living on the Edge'? A Comparative Study of Processes of Marginalization among Polish Migrants in Rural Germany and Norway

8. Changing Labor Standards and 'subordinated Inclusion': Thai Migrant Workers in the Swedish Forest Berry Industry

Section II: Transforming Europe's Rural Societies

9. Agricultural Employers' Representation and Rationalisation of Their Work Offer: The 'Benevolent Moderator'

10. Emotions and Community Development after Return Migration in the Rural Arctic

11. Does International Labour Migration Affect Internal Mobility in Rural Norway?

12. 'If We Do Not Have the Pickers, We Do Not Have the Industry': Rural UK under a Brexit Shadow

Section III: Concluding Remarks

13. Farm Labour in California and Some Implications for Europe

14. The (Re)Production of the Exploitative Nature of Rural Migrant Labour in Europe