This is the first book to systematically examine the full cost of labour migration, and is intended as a primer for evidence-based policy for reducing the costs of international labour mobility.

1. The premium Tugba Basaran and Elspeth Guild 2. Legal status and vulnerabilities Idil Atak and François Crépeau 3. Precarious work and residence Ryszard Cholewinski 4. Worker-paid recruitment costs Dilip Ratha and Ganesh Seshan 5. (In)equality in wages and working conditions Bjarney Friðriksdóttir 6. The health costs of irregular migration Alyna C. Smith 7. Migrant risks and insurance Aparna Dalal and Craig Churchill 8. The criminalisation of Irregular migrants Valsamis Mitsilegas and Yewa S. Holiday 9. Access to justice Julinda Beqiraj 10. Migrant incomes, Big Issue sellers, penalties and confiscation regimes Rudi Fortson 11. Agricultural workers Bethany Hastie 12. The migrant tax - how children and young people pay to exercise mobility rights Jacqueline Bhabha 13. Migrant remittances in face of securitization Anthony Amicelle 14. Gan's journey from Thailand Gan and Yewa S. Holiday 15. Then and now, here and there: personal and academic perspectives on migration Martin O. Heisler