ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the use of migration controls against illegalized migrant workers. While there has been significant scholarly activity around the use of migration controls to deter and criminalize asylum seekers, there has been less attention given to the study of migrant workers. Migrant workers experience high levels of migration control, which may take many forms. Notably migration controls are highly fluid and often rely on frequent categorization and recategorization of the migration status of workers, who therefore shift from being legal to illegalized workers, or vice versa, in the eyes of the authorities. 1
