INTERSECTIONS OF PRECARIOUSNESS. VULNERABILITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF MIGRANTS WITH IRREGULAR STATUS
INTERSECTIONS OF PRECARIOUSNESS. VULNERABILITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF MIGRANTS WITH IRREGULAR STATUS

Summary/Abstract: The analysis of segments of the immigrant population with precarious legal status has been the subject of a broad − and critical − review in migration studies over the last two decades, especially those referring to migrants in an irregular situation. Thus, a good deal of research has focused on the political economy of irregular work (Gago 2018) or on the development and implementation of migration policies (especially those referring to regularisations and migration control) (Basok and Rojas 2018; López-Sala 2015). There have also been many efforts aimed at estimating the dimension of the phenomenon and its scope, in different contexts (Kraler and Rogoz 2011). More recently, analyses have focused on the production of illegality, on the everyday experiences of “illegal lives”, as well as on the processes of mobilisation and resistance that have been initiated by this type of migrants (De Genova 2002; Nordling, Sager and Sodermann 2017; Lacomba and Moraes 2020).

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