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  • 10 - De-magnetizing the Market: European Integration, Employer Sanctions, and the Crackdown on Undeclared Work

  • from Part II - Participation
  • Edited by Tesseltje de Lange, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Willem Maas, York University, Toronto, Annette Schrauwen, Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • Book:
    Money Matters in Migration
    Published online:
    12 November 2021
    Print publication:
    18 November 2021, pp 169-187

  • Summary

    Economic incentives shape migratory decisions and therefore play an important role in immigration enforcement. Facing limits on the utility of formal border controls or forced removals as ways of combating irregular migration, governments in Europe have sought to ‘de-magnetize’ their economies – rendering life in their countries infeasible or unattractive by making it difficult for irregular migrants to find paid work. Although governments initially focused on penalizing employers who hire migrants lacking legal authorization to work, in recent decades they adopted a wider set of initiatives targeting undeclared work of all kinds. This chapter explores these initiatives, tracing their emergence in a number of Northern European countries and subsequent diffusion across Europe. One theme of the chapter concerns the effect of these measures on the relationship of states to economies. Another theme concerns the impact of these initiatives on irregular migrants who, if they remain within these countries, can be pushed into the shadowy depths of advanced industrialized economies.