"The EU Should Talk to Germany" Transnational Legal Consciousness as a Rights Claiming Tool among Undocumented Migrants

Migrants must often negotiate their rights while being hampered by their precarious resident status, within contexts where the overlap of migration, welfare, labour and gender regimes lead to incoherent and contradictory institutional set‐ups that hinder their claiming of rights. The analysis of the...

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Published in:International migration 2013-12, Vol.51 (6), p.132-145
Main Author: Schwenken, Helen
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Consciousness
Europe
European Union
Federal Republic of Germany
Germany
Labor Migration
Legal systems
Migrants
Noncitizens
Residents
Right
Rights
Sex
Transnationalism
Undocumented Immigrants
Work Environment
Working Conditions
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Europe
European Union
Federal Republic of Germany
Germany
Labor Migration
Legal systems
Migrants
Noncitizens
Residents
Right
Rights
Sex
Transnationalism
Undocumented Immigrants
Work Environment
Working Conditions
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