| List of Tables | p. viii |
| Notes on the Contributors | p. ix |
| Introduction and Background | |
| The Irregular Migration Dilemma: Keeping Control, Out of Control or Regaining Control? | p. 3 |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| The scope of the book | p. 9 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 12 |
| Irregular Migration: a Global, Historical and Economic Perspective | p. 14 |
| Irregular immigrants in Europe | p. 19 |
| The concept of 'illegal immigration' | p. 21 |
| The political economy of irregular immigration | p. 29 |
| Research on irregular immigration in Europe | p. 34 |
| Case Studies | |
| Irregular Immigration in Four European Union Member States | p. 43 |
| Documented and Undocumented Immigrant Workers in the UK: Changing Environments and Shifting Strategies | p. 48 |
| The political environment of the twenty-first century: from racial to economic considerations | p. 48 |
| Legal and illegal immigration in the UK | p. 49 |
| The case study: Polish and Indian immigrants in the UK | p. 52 |
| Comparison and conclusion | p. 71 |
| Managing Access to the German Labour Market: How Polish (Im)migrants Relate to German Opportunities and Restrictions | p. 75 |
| Introduction | p. 75 |
| Background: migration from Poland to Germany | p. 77 |
| Managing access to the German labour markets | p. 79 |
| Conclusion: relating migrants' accounts to control policies | p. 102 |
| Polish and Albanian Workers in Italy: Between Legality and Undocumented Status | p. 106 |
| Introduction | p. 106 |
| Albanian and Polish migration to Italy | p. 107 |
| The case study | p. 109 |
| Findings | p. 112 |
| Conclusions | p. 134 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 136 |
| Albanian and Polish Undocumented Workers' Life-stories: Migration Paths, Tactics and Identities in Greece | p. 138 |
| Introduction | p. 138 |
| The meanings attached to social origin | p. 139 |
| Leaving the home-place: processes and meanings | p. 140 |
| Paths of entry for Albanian and Polish workers into Greece | p. 149 |
| 'Tactics' of stay in Greece | p. 153 |
| The work of the Albanian and Polish immigrant workforce | p. 155 |
| Concluding remarks | p. 166 |
| Analysis and Comparison | |
| Undocumented Migration in Europe: a Comparative Perspective | p. 171 |
| New migration, the emergence of new migration systems and perspectives | p. 171 |
| New migration typologies | p. 173 |
| Pathways into Europe: travelling, trafficking and human smuggling | p. 175 |
| Biographies and migration patterns | p. 177 |
| Immigration laws, and legal and social stratification | p. 178 |
| Social capital, networks and markets: relevance and meaning | p. 181 |
| Networks and subversion | p. 184 |
| Comparing documented and undocumented migrants | p. 186 |
| Unwanted side-effects of immigration restrictions | p. 189 |
| The case of the Netherlands and Spain | p. 190 |
| Summary: risk biographies of Europe's labouring nomads | p. 194 |
| Poles Apart: How Each EU Country Gets the Migrant Workers it Requires | p. 197 |
| The demand for Polish migrant workers | p. 199 |
| Flexibility, mobility and the demand for migrant workers | p. 202 |
| Conclusions | p. 205 |
| Implicit and Explicit Concepts of Justice in Irregular Immigration | p. 209 |
| Implicit issues of justice in immigration processes | p. 210 |
| Explicit issues of justice made by migrants | p. 211 |
| Social movements for justice in migration processes | p. 219 |
| Conclusion: a sense of injustice | p. 219 |
| Conclusion | |
| Reframing the Irregular Migration Dilemma | p. 223 |
| Migration and conflict | p. 224 |
| Trends in contemporary migration policy | p. 226 |
| Five variables for reframing the migration dilemma | p. 231 |
| Towards a new approach in migration policy | p. 238 |
| Bibliography | p. 244 |
| Index | p. 269 |
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