This open access book explores the laws and policies that determine whether migrants are lawfully or unlawfully present in a country, and how that status might change.

Drawing on interviews and focus groups with key stakeholders, and enriched by data on irregular migrant populations, the book provides an expert overview of how this complex, multi-dimensional challenge is addressed by key European states, as well as lessons from non-European contexts. The collection takes a multi-disciplinary approach, so that lawyers, policymakers and scholars across the social sciences and beyond will welcome it as an essential read.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.

Alan Desmond is Associate Professor at Leicester Law School, UK.
Maegen Hendow is Senior Researcher at the International Centre for Migration Policy and Development (ICMPD), Austria.