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This contribution to research on regional integration in Europe considers the process from a bottom-up perspective: the purpose of this paper is to explore how the European area is perceived and socially constructed by one type of population in particular, skilled migrants from the New Member States (NMS) of the European Union in France. We rely on a survey based on semi-directive interviews carried out in Nancy between August 2019 and March 2020 with twenty-four migrants. The joint analysis of two types of data, mental maps, and life stories, has made it possible to sketch out a typology for representations of Europe by skilled migrants from the NMS and highlights three different relationships to Europe according to the social characteristics of the respondents and their migratory journey.