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• Ambrosini, M. (2018). Irregular Immigration in Southern Europe: Actors, Dynamics and Governance.
• Andersson, R. (2016). Europe's failed ‘fight’ against irregular migration: ethnographic notes on a counterproductive industry.
• Ataç, I. & Schütze, T. (2020). Crackdown or Symbolism? An Analysis of Post-2015 Policy Responses Towards Rejected Asylum Seekers in Austria
• Ataç I., Schütze T., & Reitter V. (2020) Local responses in restrictive national policy contexts: welfare provisions for non-removed rejected asylum seekers in Amsterdam, Stockholm and Vienna
• Baldwin-Edwards, M. & Kraler, A. (2009), REGINE Regularisations in Europe. Study on practices in the area of regularisation of illegally staying third-country nationals in the Member States of the EU
• Bloch A., & McKay S. (2016). Living on the margins: Undocumented migrants in a global city.
• Chimienti, M. & Solomos J. (2016). How do international human rights influence national healthcare provisions for irregular migrants?: A case study in France and the United Kingdom
• Crépeau, F., & Hastie, B. (2015). The case for ‘firewall’ protections for irregular migrants: Safeguarding fundamental rights.
• De Graauw, E. (2020), City Government Activists and the Rights of Undocumented Immigrants: Fostering Urban Citizenship within the Confines of US Federalism
• Engbersen, G., Van San, M., & Leerkes, A. (2006). A room with a view: Irregular immigrants in the legal capital of the world.
• Eurodiaconia (2019), Fostering cooperation between local authorities and civil society actors in the integration and social inclusion of migrants and refugees - Challenges and Opportunities
• FRA - EU Fundamental Rights Agency (2011). Fundamental Rights of Migrants in an Irregular Situation in the European Union.
• FRA - EU Fundamental Rights Agency (2011). Migrants in an irregular situation: Access to healthcare in 10 European Union member states.
• FRA- EU Fundamental Rights Agency. (2012). Apprehension of migrants in an irregular situation—Fundamental rights considerations.
• FRA- EU Fundamental Rights Agency. 2014. Criminalisation of Migrants in an Irregular Situation and of Persons Engaging with Them.
• Gebhardt, D. (2010). Irregular migration and the role of local and regional authorities.
• Genҫ, H.D. (2018). Responding to Irregular Migration: High Potential of Local Governments in Turkey.
• GLA Economics. (2009). Economic impact on the London and UK economy of an earned regularisation of irregular migrants to the UK,
• Delvino, N. & Spencer, S. (2014). Irregular Migrants in Italy: Law and Policy on Entitlements to Services.
• Cuadra, C. B. (2012). Right of access to health care for undocumented migrants in EU: A comparative study of national policies.
• Delvino N. (2020) European Union and National Responses to Migrants with Irregular Status: Is the Fortress Slowly Crumbling?
• Delvino N. (2017). The challenge of responding to irregular immigration: European, national and local policies addressing the arrival and stay of irregular migrants in the European Union
• Delvino, N., & González Beilfuss, M. (2021) Latino Migrant Victims of Crime: Safe Reporting for Victims With Irregular Status in the United States and Spain
• Timmerman, R., Leerkes, A., Staring, R., Delvino, N. (2020), ‘Free in, Free out’: Exploring Dutch Firewall Protections for Irregular Migrant Victims of Crime
• Delvino, N. (2019). Safe reporting of crime for victims and witnesses with irregular migration status in the United States.
• Bendel P., Schammann H., Heimann C., Stürner. J. (2019). A Local Turn for European Refugee Politics - Recommendations for Strengthening Municipalities and Local Communities in refugee and asylum policy of the EU
• Chauvin, S. & Garcés-Mascareñas, B. (2020). Contradictions in the Moral Economy of Migrant Irregularity
• Chauvin, S. and B. Garcés-Mascareñas. 2014. Becoming Less Illegal: Deservingness Frames and Undocumented Migrant Incorporation.
• European Committee of the Regions (2019), Debate on: Launch of the "Cities and Regions for Integration" Initiative: working together towards a more inclusive Europe - Memo for CoR Members
• Engbersen, G. and D. Broeders. (2011). Immigration control and strategies of irregular migrants: from light to thick fog.
• Bommes, M. and G. Sciortino. (eds.) (2011). Foggy Social Structures Irregular Migration, European Labour Markets and the Welfare State
• Bloch, A., Sigona, N. & Zetter, R. (2014). Sans Papiers: The Social and Economic Lives of Young Undocumented Migrants.
• Gonzales, R. G., & Raphael, S. (2017). Illegality: A Contemporary Portrait of Immigration.
• Kaufmann, D. (2019), Comparing Urban Citizenship, Sanctuary Cities, Local Bureaucratic Membership, and Regularizations
• Koser, K. (2010). Dimensions and Dynamics of Irregular Migration.
• Laubenthal, B. (2011). The negotiation of irregular migrants’ right to education in Germany: a challenge to the nation state
• Leerkes, A., Varsanyi, M., & Engbersen, G. (2012). Local Limits to Migration Control: Practices of Selective Migration Policing in a Restrictive National Policy Context.
• Leerkes, A., Engbersen, G, and van der Leun, J. (2012), Crime among irregular immigrants and the influence of internal border control.
• Pobjoy, J., & Spencer, S. (2012). Equality for all? The relationship between immigration status and the allocation of rights in the United Kingdom.
• Leerkes, A. (2016). Back to the poorhouse? Social protection and social control of unauthorised immigrants in the shadow of the welfare state.
• O’Cinneide, C. (2020). The Human Rights of Migrants with Irregular Status: Giving Substance to Aspirations of Universalism
• OHCHR - United Nations Human Rights Office (2019), Promising local practices for the enjoyment of the right to health by migrants
• Oomen, B., & Baumgärtel, M. (2018). Frontier cities: The rise of local authorities as an opportunity for international human rights law.
• Connor, P. and Passel, J. (2017) Europe’s Unauthorized Immigrant Population Peaks in 2016, Then Levels Off
• Guia, M.J., Woude, M.v.d, & Leun, J.v.d. (eds). (2013). Social control and justice: crimmigration in the age of fear.
• HUMA Network. (2010). Are undocumented migrants and asylum seekers entitled to access health care in the EU? A comparative overview in 16 countries.
• PICUM. (2007). Access to healthcare for undocumented migrants in Europe.
• PICUM. (2008). Undocumented children in Europe: Invisible victims of immigration restrictions.
• PICUM. (2011). Rights of accompanied children in an irregular situation.
• PICUM. (2015). Protecting undocumented children: promising policies and practices from governments.vernments/
• UNCHR. (2014). The Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of Migrants in an Irregular Situation.
• United Nations. (2018). Global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration.
• Triandafyllidou, A. (ed.). 2013. Irregular Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe: Who Cares?
• Triandafyllidou, A. Ed. (2010). Irregular Migration in Europe, Myths and Realities.
• Tihomir Sabchev (2018), Comprehensive relational model for the study of local responses to the arrival and settlement of forced migrants.
• Price, J. & Spencer, S. (2015). ‘Safeguarding children from destitution: Local authority responses to families with ‘no recourse to public funds’’.
• Price, J. & Spencer, S. (2014). City-Level Responses to Migrant Families with Restricted Access to Welfare Benefits.
• Provera, M. (2015). The Criminalisation of Irregular Migration in the European Union.
• Rosenberger, S. and Koppes, S. (2018). Claiming control: cooperation with return as a condition for social benefits in Austria and the Netherlands.
• Sabates-Wheeler, R. (2009). The impact of irregular status on human development outcomes for migrants.
• Schweitzer. R. (2018). Health Care Versus Border Care: Justification and Hypocrisy in the Multilevel Negotiation of Irregular Migrants’ Access to Fundamental Rights and Services.
• Scholten P., Kasli Z. (2018), Ask the expert policy brief - Integration.
• Senyo Dotsey (2018) International migration and livelihood dynamics during the recent economic crisis: a study of Ghanaian migrants in the Como province, Italy.
• Sigona, N., & Hughes, V. (2012). No way out, no way in: Irregular migrant children and families in the UK
• Slaven, M. & Boswell, C. (2018): Why symbolise control? Irregular migration to the UK and symbolic policy-making in the 1960s.
• Spencer, S. (2013). City Responses to Migrants with Irregular Status.
• Spencer, S. (2014). ‘The Sunshine and Shadow Politics of Irregular Migrants in Europe’
• Spencer S. and V. Hughes. (2015). Outside and in: Legal Entitlements to Health Care and Education for Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe.
• Spencer, S., & Hughes, V. (2015). Fundamental rights for irregular migrants: Legal entitlements to healthcare and school education across the EU28.
• Spencer, S. (2016). ‘Managing Irregular Migrants within the EU’.
• Spencer, S. (2016). Postcode Lottery for Europe’s Undocumented Children: unravelling an uneven geography of entitlements in the European Union.
• Spencer, S. (2018). Multi-level governance of an intractable policy problem: migrants with irregular status in Europe.
• Spencer, S. (2018). ‘Inclusion of Migrants with Irregular Status’. Building Inclusive Cities Case Study.
• Spencer, S. & Delvino, D. (2019). Municipal activism on irregular migrants: the framing of inclusive approaches at the local level.
• Spencer, S. (2020). Cities breaking the mould? Municipal inclusion of irregular migrants in Europe.
• Spencer, S. & Triandafyllidou, A. (2020). (Eds). Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe: Evolving Conceptual and Policy Challenges.
• Stürner, J., Bendel, P. (2019) ʻThe Two-way ‘Glocalisation’ of Human Rights or: How Cities Become International Agents in Migration Governanceʼ,
• Szpak A. (2019): How to deal with migrants and the State’s backlash – Polish cities’ experience.
• Ajuntament de Barcelona (2017). Government measure for encouraging access to regularisation and preventing lapsed regularity
• Ministry of Social Affairs, Sweden. 2011. Care as needed and on equal terms – a human right.
• PICUM (2017). Cities of Rights: Ensuring Health Care for Undocumented Residents.
• Learning from Amsterdam’s experience on irregular migrants and discussing healthcare for migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic: reporting on the C-MISE meeting “in” Amsterdam
• City of Zurich, 2020 Further action to improve the situation of Sans-Papiers and introduction of a «Züri City-Card»
• New short guidance for local authorities on community-based mentoring of migrant children
• Zurich Meeting June 2021: Report of the online conference
• Municipal IDs for Inclusion
• Bastick, Z. & Mallet, M. (2021) Double lockdown: The effects of digital exclusion on undocumented immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Kaufman, D., Räss, N., Strebel, D and Sager, F (2021) Sanctuary Cities in Europe? A Policy Survey of Urban Policies in Support of Irregular Migrants
• Reflecting on 5 years of C-MISE, celebrating impact and plans for the future
• Spencer, S. (2022). European city network on migrants with irregular status: Exploring functions and outcomes on a sensitive policy issue
• A decade of COMPAS Research and Knowledge-Exchange on Access to Rights and Services in European, national and local policies (2012–2022)
• Executive Summary of the Evaluation of the National Undocumented Migrant Facility
• Local Responses to Migrants with Precarious Status (LoReMi): A Comparative Report on Frames, Strategies and Evolving Practices in Europe
• Municipal ID Cards: a new form of citizenship
• Oxford Mosaic Accessibility Statement
• (Un)equal services, (un)equal opportunities
• Paradox of (In)visibility of Irregular Migrants
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