A room with a view: Irregular immigrants in the legal capital of the world

Ethnography

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 209-242

  Engbersen, Godfried ^a   Van San, Marion ^b   Leerkes, Arjen ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

citizenship; crime; informal institutions; irregular migration; multiculturalism; spatial concentration; the Netherlands; unintended consequences; urban marginality

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547552751     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138106067057     Document Type: Article

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