Provides a timely contribution to our understanding of the current refugee crisis in Europe
Sheds light on the fine line that separates legal and irregular migration
Offers significant policy insights for a Europe that lacks a common approach to immigration
Provides an illuminating case study for comparative research on migration regimes in the global North

Autorentext
Maurizio Ambrosini is Professor of Sociology of Migration at the University of Milan and chargé d'enseignement at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France. In addition to writing several books in Italian and articles in various languages, he is the author of Irregular Immigration and Invisible Welfare (Palgrave 2013) and edited Europe: No Migrants land? (ISPI, 2016).

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction: Illegal immigration as a selective and dynamic process in different settings.- Chapter 2. Dealing with irregular immigration in Southern and Western Europe.- Chapter 3. The European Union and asylum seekers: between human rights and national sovereignty.- Chapter 4. Irregular immigrants as social actors.- Chapter 5. NGOs and civil societies.- Chapter 6. Civil servants and street level bureaucracies.