Undocumented Migrants and their Everyday Lives

This open access monograph provides an overview of the everyday lives of undocumented migrants, thereby focusing on housing, employment, social networks, healthcare, migration trajectories as well as their use of the internet and social media. Although the book's empirical focus is Finland, the themes connect the latter to broader geographical scales, reaching from global migration issues to the EU asylum policies, including in the post-2015 situations and during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as from national, political, and societal issues regarding undocumented migrants to the local challenges, opportunities, and practices in municipalities and communities. The book investigates how one becomes an undocumented migrant, sometimes by failing the asylum process. The book also discusses research ethics and provides practical guidelines and reflects on how to conduct quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research about undocumented migrants. Finally, the book addresses emergingresearch topics regarding undocumented migrants. Written in an accessible and engaging style the book is an interesting read for students, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners.

This open access book provides an overview of the everyday life of undocumented migrants Includes in-depth discussion of how one becomes undocumented migrant and what are the society's concerns over the phenomenon Provides guidelines on ethics, methodologies and methods for conducting research about undocumented migrants

Autorentext
Dr. Jussi S. Jauhiainen is Professor of Geography at the University of Turku (Finland) and Visiting Professor at the University of Tartu (Estonia). His research interests are in urban and regional development and policies, innovations and asylum-related migration. He has published widely on asylum-related migration in the Middle East and Europe. His publications include "Innovations for Development in Africa" (with Lauri Hooli).

Dr. Miriam Tedeschi is a researcher at the University of Turku (Finland). She is an ethnographer, and her research draws on various lines of thought, such as information theory, irregular migration, public and (security) policies. Her publications include the monograph "Crime, Bodies and Space. Towards an Ethical Approach to Urban Policies in the Information Age".

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Conducting research about undocumented migrants.- Chapter 3. Becoming undocumented: Legislation and asylum process in Finland.- Chapter 4. Undocumented migrants' everyday lives in Finland.- Chapter 5. Healthcare of undocumented migrants.- Chapter 6. Internet and social media use of undocumented migrants.- Chapter 7. Conclusions.