Illegal immigration in Europe

• List of Tables
• p. viii

• Notes on the Contributors
• p. ix

• Part I
• Introduction and Background

• 1
• The Irregular Migration Dilemma: Keeping Control, Out of Control or Regaining Control?
• p. 3

• 1
• Introduction
• p. 3

• 2
• The scope of the book
• p. 9

• 3
• Acknowledgements
• p. 12

• 2
• Irregular Migration: a Global, Historical and Economic Perspective
• p. 14

• 1
• Irregular immigrants in Europe
• p. 19

• 2
• The concept of 'illegal immigration'
• p. 21

• 3
• The political economy of irregular immigration
• p. 29

• 4
• Research on irregular immigration in Europe
• p. 34

• Part II
• Case Studies

• 3
• Irregular Immigration in Four European Union Member States
• p. 43

• 4
• Documented and Undocumented Immigrant Workers in the UK: Changing Environments and Shifting Strategies
• p. 48

• 1
• The political environment of the twenty-first century: from racial to economic considerations
• p. 48

• 2
• Legal and illegal immigration in the UK
• p. 49

• 3
• The case study: Polish and Indian immigrants in the UK
• p. 52

• 4
• Comparison and conclusion
• p. 71

• 5
• Managing Access to the German Labour Market: How Polish (Im)migrants Relate to German Opportunities and Restrictions
• p. 75

• 1
• Introduction
• p. 75

• 2
• Background: migration from Poland to Germany
• p. 77

• 3
• Managing access to the German labour markets
• p. 79

• 4
• Conclusion: relating migrants' accounts to control policies
• p. 102

• 6
• Polish and Albanian Workers in Italy: Between Legality and Undocumented Status
• p. 106

• 1
• Introduction
• p. 106

• 2
• Albanian and Polish migration to Italy
• p. 107

• 3
• The case study
• p. 109

• 4
• Findings
• p. 112

• 5
• Conclusions
• p. 134

• 6
• Acknowledgements
• p. 136

• 7
• Albanian and Polish Undocumented Workers' Life-stories: Migration Paths, Tactics and Identities in Greece
• p. 138

• 1
• Introduction
• p. 138

• 2
• The meanings attached to social origin
• p. 139

• 3
• Leaving the home-place: processes and meanings
• p. 140

• 4
• Paths of entry for Albanian and Polish workers into Greece
• p. 149

• 5
• 'Tactics' of stay in Greece
• p. 153

• 6
• The work of the Albanian and Polish immigrant workforce
• p. 155

• 7
• Concluding remarks
• p. 166

• Part III
• Analysis and Comparison

• 8
• Undocumented Migration in Europe: a Comparative Perspective
• p. 171

• 1
• New migration, the emergence of new migration systems and perspectives
• p. 171

• 2
• New migration typologies
• p. 173

• 3
• Pathways into Europe: travelling, trafficking and human smuggling
• p. 175

• 4
• Biographies and migration patterns
• p. 177

• 5
• Immigration laws, and legal and social stratification
• p. 178

• 6
• Social capital, networks and markets: relevance and meaning
• p. 181

• 7
• Networks and subversion
• p. 184

• 8
• Comparing documented and undocumented migrants
• p. 186

• 9
• Unwanted side-effects of immigration restrictions
• p. 189

• 10
• The case of the Netherlands and Spain
• p. 190

• 11
• Summary: risk biographies of Europe's labouring nomads
• p. 194

• 9
• Poles Apart: How Each EU Country Gets the Migrant Workers it Requires
• p. 197

• 1
• The demand for Polish migrant workers
• p. 199

• 2
• Flexibility, mobility and the demand for migrant workers
• p. 202

• 3
• Conclusions
• p. 205

• 10
• Implicit and Explicit Concepts of Justice in Irregular Immigration
• p. 209

• 1
• Implicit issues of justice in immigration processes
• p. 210

• 2
• Explicit issues of justice made by migrants
• p. 211

• 3
• Social movements for justice in migration processes
• p. 219

• 4
• Conclusion: a sense of injustice
• p. 219

• Part IV
• Conclusion

• 11
• Reframing the Irregular Migration Dilemma
• p. 223

• 1
• Migration and conflict
• p. 224

• 2
• Trends in contemporary migration policy
• p. 226

• 3
• Five variables for reframing the migration dilemma
• p. 231

• 4
• Towards a new approach in migration policy
• p. 238

• Bibliography
• p. 244

• Index
• p. 269