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Regularisations – an instrument to reduce vulnerability, social exclusion and exploitation of migrants in an irregular situation in employment?

Document number
2936
Date
2012
Title
Regularisations – an instrument to reduce vulnerability, social exclusion and exploitation of migrants in an irregular situation in employment?
Author/publisher
EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
Availability
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Document type(s)
EU law, Guidelines/Recommendations, Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
migration, irregular migrants, EU, regularisation
Summary
Over the past 25 years, European Union (EU) Member States have implemented nearly 70 regularisation programmes involving more than six million migrants living in an irregular situation in the EU. This paper examines regularisations, meaning, the awarding of legal status to irregularly staying migrants, from the migrants’ point of view and their access to fundamental rights.
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