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McKay, Sonia.
Undocumented workers transitions : legal status, migration, and work in Europe / Sonia McKay, Eugenia Markova, Anna Paraskevopoulou.
p. cm.(Routledge advances in sociology ; 58)
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1. Foreign workersEuropeCase studies. 2. Illegal aliensEuropeCase studies. I. Markova, Eugenia. II. Paraskevopoulou, Anna. III Title.
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Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to the European Commissions sixth Framework Programme, for financing the study, from which this book grew and to Guilia Amaducci for her support of the research.
This book would not have been possible without the work of our colleagues, in particular, Tessa Wright, for her invaluable contribution throughout the research process since its inception, as well as Steve Jefferys, Leena Kumarappan and Janet Emefo from the Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University, UK; Manfred Krenn and Bettina Haidinger from Forschungs-und Beratungsstelle Arbeitswelt, Austria; Isabelle Carles and Estelle Krzeslo from the Universit Libre de Bruxelles, GEM- Institut de Sociologie, Belgium; Violetta Angelova, Zhelyu Vladimirov, Antonina Zhelyazkova and Mila Mancheva from the International Centre for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations, Bulgaria; Shahamak Rezaei and Marco Goli, Roskilde University, Denmark; Fabio Perocco, Pietro Basso and Ros-sana Cillo, from the University CaFoscari of Venice, Italy; Paolo Leotti and Miguel Pajares, from the Gabinet dEstudis Socials, Spain.
We would like to give special thanks to the participants in the stakeholders meetings organised in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Italy, Spain and the UK in 2008, for all their advice and helpful comments.