Full Description
Irregular migration systems are giving way to an undocumented population in Europe that is estimated at some millions. The migrants manage to live and work for years without a certified identity yet within 'foggy' social structures. What strategies and mechanisms allow them to avoid detection, generate an income and access necessary services? What alternatives are pursued - at whatever human cost - to substitute for political membership and legal protection? How does irregular status impact social interactions? Based on empirical studies carried out across the Continent, this book explores how irregular migration systems developed over time to interact with changing European labour markets, welfare regimes and immigration policies. Foggy Social Structures considers such phenomena one of contemporary society's distinctive features, one that challenges existing notions of political statehood and societal membership.
Contents
Foggy Social Structures - 2[-]Table of contents - 8[-]INTRODUCTION - 10[-]1 Irregular migration as a structural phenomenon - 12[-]PART I IRREGULAR MIGRATION AND EASTERN ENLARGEMENT - 22[-] 2 From irregular migrants to fellow Europeans: Changes in Romanian migratory flows - 24[-] 3 Illegality in everyday life: Polish workers in Dutch agriculture - 46[-] 4 The informal economy of paid domestic work: Ukrainian and Polish migrants in Naples - Gaining an insight into Central European transnational care spaces: Migrant live-in care workers in Austria - 92[-] 6 Irregular migration and foggy organisationalstructures: Implications of a German city study - 118[-]PART III POLICY RESPONSES - 142[-] 7 Labour market flexibility and worker security in an age of migration - 144[-] 8 Immigration control and strategies of irregular immigrants: From light to thick fog - 170[-] 9 Regularisation of immigrants in Southern Europe: What can be learned from Spain? - 190[-]EPILOGUE - 212[-]10 In lieu of a conclusion: Steps towards a conceptual framework for the study of irregular migration - 214[-]Contributors - 230
