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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 Employment Is Organised, With A Shift Into Temporary, Agency And Sub-contracted Work, Makes Undocumented Migrants Particularly Attractive In Some Employment Markets. This Groundbreaking Volume Draws Substantially On Data Collected From A Two-year Research Study In Seven European Countries That Was Focused On Understanding The Impact Of Migration Flows On Eu Labour Markets-- Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. Lived Experiences Of Undocumented Migrants -- 2. Migration In A European Historical Perspective -- 3. Theories Of Migration -- 4. What Works And What Does Not -- Methodologies And Migration Research -- 5. Controlling Undocumented Migration At Eu Level -- 6. Immigration Policies And Regularisation -- 7. European Undocumented Migration -- 8. Informal Economies And Dual Labour Market Theories -- 9. Feminisation Of Undocumented Migration -- 10. Impact Of Family On Undocumented Migration -- 11. Europe's Undocumented Migrants -- Here To Stay. Sonia Mckay, Eugenia Markova, And Anna Paraskevopoulou. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 169-180) And Index.