Introduction

"Mobile Identities. Migration and Integration in Transnational Communities" is a transnational project financed by the European Commission, DG Home, European Integration Fund that aims at evaluating the impact of existing policies on integration in fostering the well-being of migrants involved in temporary or circular migration or in different Kinds of transnationalism.

The project intends to explore the existing links between the different kinds of circular/temporary migration and integration processes in European countries. Most European integration policies are in fact rooted on the idea of a long-term permanence of migrants. The logic behind these policies is to consider origin and destination countries as two alternative poles of the migration path. In recent years, many European Governments have regarded circular migration as one possible solution to the challenges posed by the integration of immigrants. In particular, circular migration seemed to provide the opportunity of a "Win-Win-Win approach", i.e., favoring all interested parties: origin and destination countries as well as migrants and their families.

The project is Co-funded by the European Union, with the financial support of Directorate B-Immigration and Asylum-Directorate-General Home Affairs, and European Commission, European Fund for the Integration of third-country nationals 2007-2013.