Provides lived experiences of migrant women and their strategies in Europe

Comparative perspective on labour markets, migration policies, welfare regimes and Integration policies

The uses of the concept of integration in public and policy discourse and migration research

Focus on migrant women in different labour markets and particularly as domestic workers, sex workers and victims of trafficking

Acknowledgments.- Introduction: Paradoxes of Integration: Floya Anthias, Mirjana Morokvasic-Müller and Maria Kontos.- 1. Profiling Female Migrants in Europe: categories of difference: Ron Ayres, Tamsin Barber, Floya Anthias and Maja Cederberg.- 2. Welfare Regimes, Labour Markets, Policies: the Experiences of Migrant Women: Floya Anthias, Maja Cederberg, Tamsin Barber and Ron Ayres.- 3. Informalization and Flexibilization at work: The Migrant Women Precariat speak: Nicos Trimikliniotis and Mihaela Fulias-Souroulla.- 4. Coping with Deskilling: Strategies of Migrant Women across European Societies: Anna Vouyioukas and Maria Liapi.- 5. Civic Participation of Migrant Women: Employing Strategies of Active Citizenship: Mojca Pajnik, and Veronika Bajt.- 6. Female Migrants and the Issue of Residence Rights: Karolina Krzystek.- 7. Family Matters: Migrant Domestic and Care Work and the Issue of Recognition: Christine Catarino, Maria Kontos and Kyoko Shinozaki.- 8. Blurred Lines: Policies and Experience of Migrant Women in Prostitution and Entertainment: Christine Catarino and Mirjana Morokvasic-Müller.- 9. Trafficking and Women's Migration in a Global Context: Giovanna Campani and Tiziana Chiappelli.- Notes on the Contributor.