Gabriel Echeverría (2020). Towards a Systemic Theory of Irregular Migration: Explaining Ecuadorian Irregular Migration in Amsterdam and Madrid.

Abstract

This is a book review for the recent publication by Dr. Gabriel Echeverría, Towards a Systemic Theory of Irregular Migration: Explaining Ecuadorian Irregular Migration in Amsterdam and Madrid, published in 2020 by Springer (e-ISBN 978-3-030-40903-6). The book covers the subject of irregular international migration, of the legal definitions that relate to it, and the theories that study it from both a social and economic perspective. The book also includes a case-study, that of the Ecuadorian irregular immigration to Spain and to the Netherlands, and attempts to explain it by developing a systemic theory that includes a mixture of legal and socio-economic elements. The book comprises an introduction and three parts, and it is further subdivided into a total of eight chapters.