Irregular Migration
Contemporary public debate and policy thinking on migration has a particular focus on those falling outside of regular status. While popularly depicted as 'illegal immigrants', in practice understanding this phenomenon requires an analysis of immigration status as a spectrum, rather than an legal/illegal dichotomy. For example, many people who are working illegally may be legally resident. COMPAS integrates issue related to irregularity into many of its projects.
Project:
1) Clandestino. Undocumented Migration: Counting the Uncountable. Data and Trends Across Europe
This interdisciplinary project, conducted by an international team of six partners aims (a) to provide an inventory of data and estimates on irregular migration (stocks and flows) in selected EU countries, (b) to analyse these data comparatively, (c) to discuss the ethical and methodological issues involved in the collection of data, the elaboration of estimates and their use, (d) to propose a new method for evaluating data/estimates on irregular migration in the EU. The project will address these aims in selected EU countries ( Greece , Italy , Portugal and Spain in southern Europe; Netherlands , UK , Germany and Austria in Western and Central Europe; Poland , Hungary , Slovakia in Central Eastern Europe ). It will also look at transit migration in countries/regions used as key ‘stepping stones' by irregular migrants en route to the EU, notably Turkey, Ukraine and one Maghreb country.
Researchers: Franck Düvell (Main contact person - link )
Timeline: 2007-2009
Funder: EU 6th Framework, Specific targeted Research
Outputs: see reports and publications below. Click here to download a two-page flyer on the project. A call for experts has now been issued - click here for further information.
Related COMPAS Projects:
1) Markets for migrant sex and domestic work - link
2) Changing status, changing lives? The socio-economic impact of EU accession on low wage migrant labour in the UK - link
3) Filipino nurses and domestic workers longitudinal study - link
4) Managing the employment of migrant workers in the UK’s hospitality sector - link
5) Integration, Diversity and the Economy- link
6)
The migration-asylum nexus: the Somali and Tamil diaspora' (MAST) - link
7) Immigrant Work Strategies and Networks - link
Events and Publications:
Events:
18-20 April 2008, IMISCOE Conference on (Irregular) Transit Migration the European space: Theory, Politics, and Research Methodology Koc University, Istanbul (Sariyer). Click here for more details.
7th and 8th July 2005 - COMPAS Annual Conference: Irregular Migration: Research, Policy and Practice.
10th June 2004, COMPAS Public Lecture - Controlling 'Unwanted' Immigration: Lessons from the US’ Professor Wayne Cornelius, Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, San Diego. Click here for further information and to download the papers.
Reports and Publications:
Düvell, Franck, Being there. Euro/topics 9 July 2008, Federal Office for Political Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung), http://www.eurotopics.net/en/magazin/magazin_aktuell/illegalitaet-2008-07/duvell-hintergrund/
Düvell, Franck, 2007, Migration Policy divergence and civil society activism: the case of anti-deportation campaigns. In Berggren, Erik, Branka Likic-Brboric, Gülay Toksöz and Nicos Trimikliniotis (eds), Irregular Migration, Informal Labour and Community in Europe . Maastricht : Shaker Publishing, forthcoming.
Düvell, Franck, 2006, Zugang zur Gesundheitsversorgung für Sans-Papiers: Ein europäischer Vergleich [Access to health care for sans papieres: a European comparison]. In Rotes Kreuz Schweiz (ed), Sans papieres in der Schweiz. Unsichtbar – Unverzichtbar . Zürich: Seismo, pp. 136-156, (available in English on request).
Düvell, Franck, 2006, Crossing the Fringes of Europe: Transit Migration in the EU's neighbourhood. Working paper-06-33. Oxford : Centre on Migration, Policy and Society.
Düvell, Franck, (ed), 2005, Illegal immigration in Europe. Beyond control, Houndmills: Palgrave/MacMillan.
Anderson, B. and B. Rogaly, 2005, Forced Labour and Migration, TUC: London. Click here for summary and to download the full report.
Levinson, A 2005, The Regularisation of Unauthorized Migrants: Literature Survey and Country Case Studies. Click here for summary and to download the full report.
Anderson, B., 2006, Response to “Tackling Human Trafficking – Consultation on Proposals for a UK Action Plan”. Click here to download (.pdf)
COMPAS Staff Members working on this issue:
Bridget Anderson, Senior Researcher- Link to Biography
Martin Ruhs, Senior Researcher - Link to Biography
Sarah Spencer, Associate Director - Link to Biography
Ellie Vasta, Senior Researcher - Link to Biography
Associated DPhil students:
Karin Heissler, DPhil Student - Researching child labour migration and children's agency, focusing on Bangladesh. Link to Biography