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Undocumented Workers' Transitions: Legal Status, Migration, and Work in Europe book cover

1st Edition

Undocumented Workers' Transitions Legal Status, Migration, and Work in Europe

By Sonia McKay, Eugenia Markova, Anna Paraskevopoulou Copyright 2011
202 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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 their own employment opportunities. The authors argue that undocumented migrants are forced into the most... Read more

1. The Lived Experiences of Undocumented Migrants  2. Migration in a European Historical Perspective  3. Theories of Migration  4. What Works and What Does Not – Methodologies and Migration Research  5. Controlling Undocumented Migration at EU Level  6. Immigration Policies and Regularisation  7. European Undocumented Migration  8. Informal Economies and Dual Labour Market Theories  9. The Feminisation of Undocumented Migration  10. The Impact of Family on Undocumented Migration  11. Europe’s Undocumented Migrants – Here to Stay

Biography

Sonia McKay is a Professor in European Socio-Legal Studies at the Working Lives Research Institute.

Eugenia Markova is a Senior Migration Research Fellow at the Working Lives Research Institute and a Research Associate at the Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Anna Paraskevopoulou is a Research Fellow at the Working Lives Research Institute.

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