Objective The Undocumented Worker Transitions (UWT) project will document the factors that underlie migration flows, illegal and legal, focusing on undocumented migrants and under-documented migrants, whose migration status limits or prevents their working. The link between work and migration flows is at its heart: what knowledge such migrants have of their host labour markets, how they find work, what work they do, what transitions between different jobs and statuses take place and what impact their working arrangements and migration have more generally both in the host country and in their countries of origin. Recognising that gender, age and ethnicity are key factors in understanding migrant and refugee flows, UWT will analyse migration and work trajectories in a differentiated way to better understand the process. The ethical issues are considerable and the project will guarantee its interviewees complete anonymity while ensuring that researchers' personal safety is not compromised. Its purpose is to deepen understanding and awareness of contemporary migration flows and to present clear choices to policymakers, not to provide an assessment of the efficacy of policing. Our objectives are as follows: to give more reliable estimates of migration and refugee flows into the EU; to deepen understanding of the impact of migration flows on EU labour markets; to theorise the relationship between the presence of 'informal' or 'shadow' industry labour markets and migration flows; to map and model migrant and refugee pathways in to and within the EU; to deepen knowledge of how legal status interacts with migrant labour market positions; to deepen understanding of the impact of migration flows on countries of origin; to test key theories concerning human capital and social capital in relation to migration; and to explore the particular consequences of migration for women workers, including trafficked workers. At the core are in-depth interviews with 210 migrant and refugee workers. Fields of science social sciencessociologyanthropologyethnologysocial sciencessociologyindustrial relationssocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemploymentsocial sciencessociologydemographyhuman migrationssocial scienceslaw Keywords employment relations gender migration remittances shadow economies undocumented workers Programme(s) FP6-POLICIES - Policy support: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) POLICIES-2.6 - Improved means to anticipate crime trends and causes, and to assess the effectiveness of crime prevention policies; assessment of new challenges related to illicit drug use Call for proposal FP6-2005-SSP-5-A See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY EU contribution No data Address 31 Jewry Street LONDON United Kingdom See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all FORSCHUNGS- UND BERATUNGSSTELLE ARBEITSWEIT Austria EU contribution No data Address Aspernbrückengasse 4/5 VIENNA See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES Belgium EU contribution No data Address AVENUE FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, 50 BRUSSELS See on map Total cost No data INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MINORITY STUDIES AND INTERCULTURAL RELATIONS Bulgaria EU contribution No data Address Antim I, Nr 55 SOFIA See on map Total cost No data ROSKILDE UNIVERSITET Denmark EU contribution No data Address Universitetsvej, 1 ROSKILDE See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VENICE "CA' FOSCARI" Italy EU contribution No data Address Dorsoduro, 3246 VENICE See on map Total cost No data GABINET D'ESTUDIS SOCIALS, S.C.C.L. Spain EU contribution No data Address Aragó, 281 BARCELONA See on map Total cost No data