Undocumented workers' transitions : legal status, migration, and work in Europe /

"This book explores how immigration laws, while aimed at discouraging undocumented migration, actually sustain it. It documents the circumstances that have caused previously documented migrants to become undocumented and explores the impact of their changing status on their families and on thei...

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Main Author: McKay, Sonia
Other Authors: Markova, Eugenia, Paraskevopoulou, Anna
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2011.
Series:Routledge advances in sociology ; 58.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The lived experience of undocumented migrants
  • Migration in a European historical perspective
  • Theories of migration
  • What works and what does not - methodologies and migration research
  • Controlling undocumented migration at EU level
  • Immigration policies and regularisation
  • European undocumented migration
  • Informal economics and dual labour market theories
  • The feminisation of undocumented migration
  • The impact of family on undocumented migration
  • Europe's undocumented migrants - here to stay.