Assessing the Social Impact of Immigration in Europe

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to improve knowledge on the social and economic impacts of migration processes towards European rural and mountain areas. All the chapters in this volume derive from the research conducted within the MATILDE project.When we embarked on the path of writing and editing this volume, many great people supported us along the way. We are grateful to colleagues, whose comments, expertise, time and efforts were crucial for finishing this work. We wish to thank Senior Commissioning Editor Katy Crossan from Edward Elgar Publishing for her attention, encouragement and exceptionally smooth collaboration throughout the book production process and the three anonymous reviewers for their feedback and constructive comments on our original book proposal. Our language editor, Rupert Moreton, deserves particular praise for his untiring and diligent editing. All remaining omissions are our own. Finally, we wish to thank the MATILDE project's managerial assistant, Alicja Fajfer, for her valuable all-around help.