Irregular migration as a structural phenomenon / Michael Bommes and Giuseppe Sciortino -- From irregular migrants to fellow Europeans : changes in Romanian migratory flows / Remus Gabriel Anghel -- The informal economy of paid domestic work : Ukrainian and Polish migrants in Naples / Lena Nàˆre -- Gaining and insight into Central European transnational care spaces : migrant live-in care workers in Austria / Sandra Gendera -- Irregular migration and foggy organisational structures : implications of a German city study / Maren Wilmes -- Labour market flexibility and worker security in an age of migration / Alex Balch and Sam Scott -- Immigration control and strategies of irregular immigrants : from light to thick fog / Godfried Engbersen and Dennis Broeders -- Regularisation of immigrants in Southern Europe : what can be learned from Spain? / Claudia Finotelli -- In lieu of a conclusion : steps towards a conceptual framework for the study of irregular migration / Michael Bommes and Giuseppe Sciortino.
Summary:
European countries are currently involved in several irregular migration systems, resulting in undocumented populations estimated at several millions. They manage to live and work for years without a certified identity -- a phenomenon that challenges existing notions of political statehood and societal membership. Drawing on empirical studies carried out in a variety of settings, the authors of this illuminating study analyse the ways in which such irregular migration systems developed over time, interacting with changes in European labour markets, welfare regimes and immigration policies.
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