Introduction: European Migration Circumstances and Migration Regime in the Modern Times

Abstract

In modern European history, migration regimes implemented and conceptualised migration options. They influenced, controlled, promoted, steered or restricted action and actors in migration processes. The introductory article in this issue provides an overview of conditions, forms and effects of migration and pinpoints pivotal patterns across the subject areas. Against this background the author discusses structural components of modern migration regimes and the emergence of interdependencies between migration and state. Beyond this, he introduces the other contributions in this issue and compresses them into brief comments on the development of modern European migration regimes.