1st Edition

Irregular Migrants Policy, Politics, Motives and Everyday Lives

Edited By Alice Bloch, Milena Chimienti Copyright 2012
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

  A new era of international migration has been accompanied by increasingly restrictive immigration controls to manage migration to more developed countries. The consequence has been fewer routes to enter and/or stay in countries in a regularised way and as a result, an increase in the numbers of undocumented migrants. In this situation undocumented migrants, especially in relation to... Read more

1. Irregular migration in a globalizing world Alice Bloch, City University London and Milena Chimienti, City University London, UK 

2. Migration routes and strategies of young undocumented migrants in England: a qualitative perspective Alice Bloch, City University London, Nando Sigona and Roger Zetter, both University of Oxford, UK

3. The Uneasy ties of working and belonging: Zimbabwean migrants and Regularization in northern South Africa Blair Rutherford, Carlton University, Ottawa, Canada

4. Navigating the U.S.-Mexico border: The crossing strategies of undocumented Workers in Tijuana, Mexico Sergio Chavez, Rice University, Houston, USA

5. Mobilization of irregular migrants in Europe: A comparative analysis Milena Chimienti, City University London, UK

6. The negotiation of irregular migrants’ right to education in Germany –  A challenge to the nation-state Barbara Laubenthal, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

7. Social effects of mass deportations by the United States government: 2000-2010 Jacqueline Hagan, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brianna Castro and Nestor Rodriguez, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

8. Turning refugees into ‘illegal migrants’: Afghan asylum seekers in Europe Liza Schuster, City University London, UK

Biography

Alice Bloch is Professor of Sociology at City University London, UK. She is also co-editor of Race and Ethnicity in the 21st Century (2010).

Milena Chimienti is Lecturer in Sociology at City University London, UK. She is also editor of Prostitution et Migration: La dynamique de l'agir faible (2009).