Living on the margins offers a unique insight into the working lives of undocumented (or 'irregular') migrants living in London, and their employers. It offers an international context to the research and provides theoretical, policy and empirical analyses.

Alice Bloch is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. She is the co-author of Sans-Papiers: The Social and Economic Lives of Young Undocumented Migrants (Pluto, 2014) and Race, Multiculture and Social Policy (2013).

Introduction;
Policy, law and rights;
Migration: Motives, journey and status mobility;
Undocumented migrants living and working in London;
Ethnic enclave entrepreneurs;
Social networks and social lives;
The consequences of being undocumented;
Grasping life on the margins.