The Undocumented Worker Transitions (UWT) project held its final conference in London in February 2009. All the project reports are available on this website.

View conference press release here:
UWT Press release

UWT Policy brief

UWT Final report revised

The research took place from 2007 to 2009 in seven Member States: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Italy, Spain and the UK, funded by the European Union Sixth Framework Programme for Research.

Click on the map for more on each participating country.

The aims of the UWT project were to better understand:

• the reasons why migrants seek work in Europe without proper authorisation;
• their working conditions and experiences;
• the various ways in which legally working and residing migrants can fall into irregularity;
• the ways in which undocumented or irregular migrant workers may gain legal status;
• the continued demand for irregular migrant labour, and its impact on labour markets.