The Size of the Irregular Migrant Population in the European Union - Counting the Uncountable?

International Migration

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 78-96

  Vogel, Dita ^a   Kovacheva, Vesela ^a   Prescott, Hannah ^b  

^a Hamburg Institute of International Economics   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN UNION; MIGRATION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION SIZE;

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPEAN UNION; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MIGRATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN UNION; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROUPS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EUROPE;

EID: 80052918435     PISSN: 00207985     EISSN: 14682435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2011.00700.x     Document Type: Article

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