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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825201903321

Autore

McKay Sonia

Titolo

Undocumented workers' transitions [[electronic resource] ] : legal status, migration, and work in Europe / / Sonia McKay, Eugenia Markova, and Anna Paraskevopoulou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2011

ISBN

1-136-68194-9

1-283-64254-9

0-203-81042-2

1-136-68195-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in sociology ; ; 58

Classificazione

SOC007000SOC015000SOC026000

Altri autori (Persone)

MarkovaEugenia

ParaskevopoulouAnna

Disciplina

331.6/2094

Soggetti

Foreign workers - Europe

Noncitizens - Europe

Illegal immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-180) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Undocumented Workers' Transitions: Legal Status, Migration, and Work in Europe; Copyright; Contents; Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; 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 Migration11 Europe's Undocumented Migrants: Here to Stay; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"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 precarious types of work, and changes in the way that employment is organised, with a shift into temporary, agency and sub-contracted work, makes undocumented migrants particularly attractive in some employment markets. This groundbreaking volume draws substantially on data collected from a two-year research study in seven European countries that was focused on understanding the impact of migration flows on EU labour markets"--