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Identifying and Assessing the Development of Populations of Undocumented Migrants: The Case of Undocumented Poles and Bulgarians in Brussels

“…In the particular case of research on undocumented Polish and Bulgarian migrants in Brussels, and in light of the fact that the present day systematic knowledge about the size and the origins of the undocumented migrants is still in a rudimentary stage of development (Paspalanova, 2005) the identification and the sampling of undocumented migrants is also a subject of the abovementioned restrictions on applying probability sampling procedures. The primary question under such circumstances is therefore how to get an access to the undocumented population and secondly how a sample from this population can be drawn so that at least certain level of representativity is achieved.…”