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10 - De-magnetizing the Market: European Integration, Employer Sanctions, and the Crackdown on Undeclared Work

from Part II - Participation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2021

By
Kimberly J. Morgan
Edited by
Tesseltje de Lange ,
Willem Maas  and
Annette Schrauwen
Tesseltje de Lange
Affiliation:
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Willem Maas
Affiliation:
York University, Toronto
Annette Schrauwen
Affiliation:
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Summary

Economic incentives shape migratory decisions and therefore play an important role in immigration enforcement. Facing limits on the utility of formal border controls or forced removals as ways of combating irregular migration, governments in Europe have sought to ‘de-magnetize’ their economies – rendering life in their countries infeasible or unattractive by making it difficult for irregular migrants to find paid work. Although governments initially focused on penalizing employers who hire migrants lacking legal authorization to work, in recent decades they adopted a wider set of initiatives targeting undeclared work of all kinds. This chapter explores these initiatives, tracing their emergence in a number of Northern European countries and subsequent diffusion across Europe. One theme of the chapter concerns the effect of these measures on the relationship of states to economies. Another theme concerns the impact of these initiatives on irregular migrants who, if they remain within these countries, can be pushed into the shadowy depths of advanced industrialized economies.

Keywords

Employer sanctionsundeclared workirregular migrantEUgovernment policy
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Money Matters in Migration
Policy, Participation, and Citizenship
 , pp. 169 - 187
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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