This is the first book to systematically examine the full cost of labour migration, and is intended as a primer for evidence-based policy for reducing the costs of international labour mobility.

Tugba Basaran is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, University of Cambridge, UK, and Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School. Her publications include Security, Law and Borders: At the Limits of Liberties (Routledge, 2011) and International Political Sociology: Transversal Lines co-edited with Didier Bigo, Emmanuel P. Guittet and R. B. J. Walker (Routledge, 2016).

Elspeth Guild is a Jean Monnet Professor ad personam in law at Queen Mary University of London, UK, and Radboud University, Netherlands. She regularly advises EU institutions on migration and asylum-related matters and has written studies for the European Parliament on the European dimension of the refugee crisis in 2016. Her publications include Security and Migration in the 21st Century (2009) and The Human Rights of Migrants in the 21st Century, co-edited with Stefanie Grant and Kees Groenendijk (Routledge, 2017).

1. The premium Tugba Basaran and Elspeth Guild 2. Legal status and vulnerabilities Idil Atak and François Crépeau 3. Precarious work and residence Ryszard Cholewinski 4. Worker-paid recruitment costs Dilip Ratha and Ganesh Seshan 5. (In)equality in wages and working conditions Bjarney Friðriksdóttir 6. The health costs of irregular migration Alyna C. Smith 7. Migrant risks and insurance Aparna Dalal and Craig Churchill 8. The criminalisation of Irregular migrants Valsamis Mitsilegas and Yewa S. Holiday 9. Access to justice Julinda Beqiraj 10. Migrant incomes, Big Issue sellers, penalties and confiscation regimes Rudi Fortson 11. Agricultural workers Bethany Hastie 12. The migrant tax - how children and young people pay to exercise mobility rights Jacqueline Bhabha 13. Migrant remittances in face of securitization Anthony Amicelle 14. Gan's journey from Thailand Gan and Yewa S. Holiday 15. Then and now, here and there: personal and academic perspectives on migration Martin O. Heisler