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

by Eugenia Markova, Sonia McKay, Anna Paraskevopoulou

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415851807
• ISBN13: 9780415851800
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"