Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe

Prelims.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe: A Multi-faceted and Dynamic Reality: Anna Triandafyllidou and Sarah Spencer.- Chapter 2: Understanding Irregularity: Anna Triandafyllidou and Laura Bartolini.- Chapter 3: Contradictions in the Moral Economy of Migrant Irregularity: Sébastien Chauvin and Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas.- Chapter 4: The Human Rights of Migrants with Irregular Status: Giving Substance to Aspirations of Universalism: Colm O'Cinneide.- Chapter 5: European Union and National Responses to Migrants with Irregular Status: Is the Fortress Slowly Crumbling?: Nicola Delvino.- Chapter 6: The Transnational Mobilization of 'Irregular Migrants': Milena Chimienti and John Solomos.- Chapter 7: Crackdown or Symbolism? An Analysis of Post-2015 Policy Responses Towards Rejected Asylum Seekers in Austria: Ilker Ataç and Theresa Schütze.- Chapter 8: Irregular Migration and Irregular Work: A Chicken and Egg Dilemma : Anna Triandafyllidou and Laura Bartolini.- Chapter 9: The Economy of Reception: A View from Southern Europe: Laura Bartolini, Regina Mantanika, and Anna Triandafyllidou.- Chapter 10: Cities Breaking the Mould? Municipal Inclusion of Irregular Migrants in Europe: Sarah Spencer.- Chapter 11: Evolving Conceptual and Policy Challenges Sarah Spencer and Anna Triandafyllidou.

Sarah Spencer is Director of the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity and a Senior Fellow at COMPAS at the University of Oxford. Her particular interests are in irregular migrants, integration, human rights and equality issues, and in the policy making process. She was an Open Society Fellow (2012-2014), exploring issues relating to irregular migrants in Europe and is a Visiting Professor at the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex. Sarah was awarded her doctorate at Erasmus University Rotterdam, has an MPhil from University College London and took her first degree at the University of Nottingham.

Anna Triandafyllidou is the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. She was previously Robert Schuman Chair at the Global Governance Programme of the European University Institute (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, 2012-2019) where she directed the Cultural Pluralism Research Area.  She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, Chair of the IMISCOE Editorial Committee, and member of the IMISCOE Board of Directors. She has been Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges between 2002 and 2018. Her recent books include: Migration and Globalisation Handbook (E. Elgar, ed. 2018); The Problem of Religious Diversity: European Challenges, Asian Approaches (with T. Modood, ed. Edinburgh University Press, 2018); Multicultural Governance in a Mobile World (ed. Edinburgh University Press, 2018); Global Governance from Regional Perspectives (Oxford University Press, ed., 2017).