This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy
Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the
request of the LIBE Committee, aims to inform policy debates
about how to protect more effectively the fundamental rights of
irregular migrant workers in the EU. It analyses the nature and
causes of the gaps between the fundamental rights protections
enshrined in EU legal standards and the rights realised by
irregular migrants working in EU Member States in practice, and
it discusses strategies for how these ‘protection gaps’ can be
reduced.