Irregular vs. Illegal Immigration: Setting the Definitions. An Overview of European Practice

Year, pages: 2017, 420 - 426

For the European Union (E.U.) and its Member States, migration is not a new phenomenon. Administratively abnormal immigration is mainly at the heart of all humanitarian efforts and political debates on the harmonization of the Union’s common immigration policy. However, even today, the notion of irregular immigration and the exact wording of the terminology associated with the specific dimension of the phenomenon has not found a general and acceptable version. Interpretations on the categorization of immigrants and their movements depends every time on political discussions, public documents issued and academic studies. The essay demonstrates the variety of use of the relevant terms focusing on the inseparable dependency on the performance of interpretation of the two terms “irregular immigration” and “illegal immigrant”.

Kostas, S. 2017. Irregular vs. Illegal Immigration: Setting the Definitions. An Overview of European Practice. In Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology, vol. 65, no.4, pp. 420-426. 1339-9357. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26363/SN.2017.4.04

Kostas, S. (2017). Irregular vs. Illegal Immigration: Setting the Definitions. An Overview of European Practice. Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology, 65(4), 420-426. 1339-9357. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26363/SN.2017.4.04

Publisher: Ústav etnológie a sociálnej antropológie SAV