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"Looking for Loopholes, Processes of incorporation of illegal immigrants in the Netherlands offers a detailed account of how illegal immigrants, who are legally excluded, manage to incorporate into Dutch society. By combining the perspectives of immigrants on the one hand and of those who have to implement the 'discouragement policy' on the other hand, the study shows how tensions between restrictive rules and day-to-day practices are growing. Based on long-term research in the four largest cities in the Netherlands, attention is paid to the role of informal employment and criminal involvement and to practices in the fields of education, housing, health-care and police surveillance"--Publisher's description

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Incorporation of illegal immigrants and 'internal migration control' -- 2. Loopholes in the labour market: informal employment -- 3. Crime as alternative option: illicit employment -- 4. Internal surveillance in practice: the police -- 5. Close encounters with the welfare state: limits of the Linking Act -- 6. Summary and conclusions. Legal limits to incorporation, social limits to internal control -- Appendices -- Notes -- References -- Index of names

"Two issues come to the fore in current debates over migration: illegal migration and the role of gender in illegal migration. This incisive study combines the two subjects and views the migration scholarship through the lens of the gender perspective, investigating definitions of citizenship and the differences in mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion for men and women, producing a comprehensive account of illegal migration in Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, Mexico, Malaysia, the Horn of Africa and the Middle East over the nineteenth- and the twentieth centuries"--Provided by publisher

Dit liber amicorum is gemaakt voor Carel Stolker. De bijdragen aan dit boek proberen recht te doen aan de verschillende facetten van de carrière en de persona van Carel Stolker, aan zijn bijdrage als wetenschapper in het privaatrecht en gezondheidsrecht, als academisch bestuurder en als belangrijke stem in het debat over de rol van de wetenschap en de universiteit in onze maatschappij.