Sans papiers : the social and economic lives of young undocumented migrants / Alice Bloch, Nando Sigona and Roger Zetter.

London : Pluto Press, 2014.

ix, 190 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Researching Everyday 'Illegality': An Introduction -- The Scale of Undocumented Migration: Counting the Uncountable -- Methods and Methodology -- How the Book is Organised -- Migration Dynamics, Irregular Migration and the Governance of 'Illegality' -- Globalisation and Re-Bordering: Migrating Into Irregularity -- Who is Undocumented? The Governance of Migration and the Vocabulary of Irregularity -- Official Status and Categories: Policy and Practice in the UK -- Status Mobility: Undocumentedness as a Process -- A Constructed and Criminalised Identity -- Conclusion -- Migrant Agency, Youth and Legal Status -- Immigration Status and Everyday Lives -- Migration and Youth -- Migration, Destinations and Youth -- Integration and Identity -- Migrant Agency -- Agency in Migration Decision-Making -- Migrant Agency in Destination Countries -- Conclusion -- Visibility and Invisibility: Arrival, Settlement and Socialisation into Irregularity -- Confronting the Reality -- Undocumentedness in Everyday Life : Encounters and Consequences -- Accommodation -- Education -- Health Care -- Finance -- Sexual Exploitation -- Coping in the Public Realm : Mobility and Communication -- Conclusion -- Legal Status and the Labour Market -- Situating Experiences of Employment -- The Wider Economic Context -- Precariousness : The Case of Undocumented Migrants -- Migrant Agency -- Employment : An Overview of Labour-Market Experiences -- Finding Employment : Social Networks, Agencies, 'Middle-Men' and Paying for Jobs -- Employment and Individual Agency -- Managing Without Work -- Conclusion -- Fragile Communities : Social Networks and Geographies of Undocumentedness -- 'Here in England, You Need Other People': Family, Friends and Acquaintances -- Language and Time -- Negotiating the Boundaries of the Community of Trust and Reciprocity -- Social Activities and Where People Socialise -- Remittances and Undocumented Migrants' Transnationalism -- Conclusion -- Intersecting Youth and Legal Status -- Myself as a Young Person -- Youth as a Driver of Migration -- Youth and the Risk of 'Illegality' -- Being Young and Undocumented in Britain -- No Right to Dream -- Making (And Not Making) Plans for the Future -- Was it Worthwhile? -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Current Policy and Political Climates -- Looking Forward or Looking Back? The Immigration Bill -- Rights, Segregation and Marginalisation -- Concluding Reflections.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-185) and index.