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Machine generated contents note: 1.Researching Everyday 'Illegality': An Introduction -- The Scale of Undocumented Migration: Counting the Uncountable -- Methods and Methodology -- How the Book is Organised -- 2.Migration Dynamics, Irregular Migration and the Governance of `Illegality' -- Globalisation and Re-Bordering: Migrating Into Irregularity -- Who is Undocumented? The Governance of Migration and the Vocabulary of Irregularity -- Official Status and Categories: Policy and Practice in the UK -- Status Mobility: Undocumentedness as a Process -- A Constructed and Criminalised Identity -- Conclusion -- 3.Migrant Agency, Youth and Legal Status -- Immigration Status and Everyday Lives -- Migration and Youth -- Migration, Destinations and Youth -- Integration and Identity -- Migrant Agency -- Agency in Migration Decision-Making -- Migrant Agency in Destination Countries -- Conclusion -- 4.Visibility and Invisibility: Arrival, Settlement and Socialisation into Irregularity -- |
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Contents note continued: Confronting the Reality -- Undocumentedness in Everyday Life: Encounters and Consequences -- Accommodation -- Education -- Health Care -- Finance -- Sexual Exploitation -- Coping in the Public Realm: Mobility and Communication -- Conclusion -- 5.Legal Status and the Labour Market -- Situating Experiences of Employment -- The Wider Economic Context -- Precariousness: The Case of Undocumented Migrants -- Migrant Agency -- Employment: An Overview of Labour-Market Experiences -- Finding Employment: Social Networks, Agencies, `Middle-Men' and Paying for Jobs -- Employment and Individual Agency -- Managing Without Work -- Conclusion -- 6.Fragile Communities: Social Networks and Geographies of Undocumentedness -- `Here in England, You Need Other People': Family, Friends and Acquaintances -- Language and Time -- Negotiating the Boundaries of the Community of Trust and Reciprocity -- Social Activities and Where People Socialise -- |
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Contents note continued: Remittances and Undocumented Migrants' Transnationalism -- Conclusion -- 7.Intersecting Youth and Legal Status -- Myself as a Young Person -- Youth as a Driver of Migration -- Youth and the Risk of `Illegality' -- Being Young and Undocumented in Britain -- No Right to Dream -- Making (And Not Making) Plans for the Future -- Was it Worthwhile? -- Conclusion -- 8.Conclusion -- Current Policy and Political Climates -- Looking Forward or Looking Back? The Immigration Bill -- Rights, Segregation and Marginalisation -- Concluding Reflections. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-185) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012278178 |
| ISBN | 0745332617 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0745333907 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780745332611 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780745333908 (paperback) |
