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The asylum system, migrant networks and the Informal labour market

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Author

  • Gregor Noll

Editor

  • Thomas Bull
  • Per Cramér

Summary, in English

Governments attempting to regulate labour markets and control immigration are confronted with difficult questions. In the past, there was general agreement that the asylum system should not be exploited as a side entrance to the labour market. The two systems—asylum and labour market—were to be planned and maintained separately. But if migration is a prerequisite for asylum, does not increasingly stiffer migration control block escape for those under persecution? Prices for smuggling go up, and smugglers seek new routes, yet irregular migration continues, and the informal labour market flourishes. Here we must ask an irreverent question: is there any point in having both systems? And can the crux of the matter be that both are repeatedly branded as an ‘illegal’ phenomena which must be ‘battled’ like enemies? This contribution asks whether the asylum system a way to regulate the informal labour market within the EU?

Department/s

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Publication/Series

Swedish Studies in European Law

Volume

2

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Hart Publishing Ltd

Topic

  • Law

Keywords

  • human rights
  • asylum
  • mänskliga rättigheter
  • asylrätt

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9781841136561