Irregular immigration control in Italy and greece: Strong fencing and weak gate-keeping serving the labour market

European Journal of Migration and Law

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 251-273

  Triandafyllidou, Anna ^a   Ambrosini, Maurizio ^b  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

irregular migrations; labour market; migration policies; regularizations; Southern Europe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860396745     PISSN: 1388364X     EISSN: 15718166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157181611X587847     Document Type: Article

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