Foggy Social Structures : Irregular Migration, European Labour Markets and the Welfare State
ISBN: 9789048514724
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Amsterdam University Press
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Subjects: Political Science; Social Science; Economics;

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, theauthors 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.

Giuseppe Sciortino is professor of sociology at the University of Trento, Italy.|Michael Bommes was professor of sociology/methodology of interdisciplinary and intercultural migration research at the University of Osnabrück.

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