This open access monograph provides an overview of the everyday lives of undocumented migrants
thereby focusing on housing employment social networks healthcare migration trajectories as
well as their use of the internet and social media. Although the book's empirical focus is
Finland the themes connect the latter to broader geographical scales reaching from global
migration issues to the EU asylum policies including in the post-2015 situations and during
the COVID-19 pandemic as well as from national political and societal issues regarding
undocumented migrants to the local challenges opportunities and practices in municipalities
and communities. The book investigates how one becomes an undocumented migrant sometimes by
failing the asylum process. The book also discusses research ethics and provides practical
guidelines and reflects on how to conduct quantitative qualitative and mixed methods research
about undocumented migrants. Finally the book addresses emerging research topics regarding
undocumented migrants. Written in an accessible and engaging style the book is an interesting
read for students scholars policymakers and practitioners.
