International Migration into Europe : From Subjects to Abjects.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction and Theoretical Context -- Theoretical context -- 1 Irregular Migration and Undocumented Migrants - the abjects -- The story of A.R., aged 17 years, from Afghanistan -- Concluding remarks -- 2 Documented Migrants: Skilled Migration - the injects -- The 'sucking sound': brain drain, strain, gain, loss or exchange, circulation? -- Definitions -- Impact on sending countries -- Impact on receiving countries -- The complexities surrounding skilled migration -- Concluding remarks -- 3 From Undocumented to Documented: Migration and Self-employment -- Ethnic entrepreneurship and self-employment -- Theoretical framework: impact of structure and agency on ethnic entrepreneurship -- Case study: survival entrepreneurs - from abjects to subjects -- Carving out spaces of control -- Concluding remarks -- 4 Migrant Women: Maids, Nannies and Nurses, and the Ban on the Headscarf -- Domestic work: maids, nannies and quasi-nurses -- The burqa question -- Concluding remarks -- 5 Human Trafficking and Smuggling: The Production of Ultimate Abjects -- Definitions and legislation -- Human rights -- Trafficking of women for sexual exploitation -- Child trafficking -- Trafficking in human organs -- Concluding remarks -- 6 The Securitisation of Migration -- Consequences -- Concluding remarks -- 7 Migration Regime/s, the Multiculturalism Question and Regularisation Policies in Europe -- Regularisation policies - les Ejectés -- Concluding remarks -- Erratum -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book aims to decipher the complex web of structural, institutional and cultural contradictions which shape the inclusion-exclusion dialectic and the multifaceted grid within which the 'us' becomes the 'other' and the 'other' becomes the 'us'. It looks at how international migrants in Europe transform from legal subjects into legal abjects.

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