Migrations and microstates

Abstract

The smallest European countries have transformed their economic bases from their specific situation. Their new economy based on service sector goes together with a change in territorial functions, and specialy, with an important increase in population. Referred to the migrations these societies have changed from emision ones to receivers. The population composition according to their origin shows and average above 60% of inmigrates, in two cases, and over 10% in the other cases. Today, the European microstates are the modern expression of the city-state characteristic of the past. But they have become truthful multicultural societies when starting the XXI century.