This groundbreaking book utilizes data from a two-year research study in seven European countries, comparing the experiences of undocumented workers in the UK with those of similar migration status in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Italy and Spain. The book explores how immigration laws, while aimed at discouraging undocumented migration, actually sustain it.

1. The 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. The Feminisation of Undocumented Migration 10. The Impact of Family on Undocumented Migration 11. Europe's Undocumented Migrants - Here to Stay

Sonia McKay is a Professor in European Socio-Legal Studies at the Working Lives Research Institute.

Eugenia Markova is a Senior Migration Research Fellow at the Working Lives Research Institute and a Research Associate at the Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Anna Paraskevopoulou is a Research Fellow at the Working Lives Research Institute.