Rita Chin has an ongoing project on "The European New Left and Postwar Immigration," which examines New Left engagements with "difference," race, and immigration. She has also begun work on "Visible and Invisible Labor: A History of Precarious Immigration to Postwar Europe" that draws particular attention to the highly insecure existence of migrants who arrived through unregulated channels (e.g., older colonial networks for domestic work, free movement of labor). This study seeks to make a number of interventions. First, it provides a synthetic analysis of postwar European immigration that will serve as a critical introduction to the broader patterns of non-European worker and their settlement in Europe after the Second World War. This is a crucial contribution at a moment when public discourse assumes that the problem of immigrants simply "appeared," as if Europeans had no role in their arrival and settlement. Second, the project offers a comparative examination of both state-sanctioned and unregulated forms of immigration in order to explore the wide range of migrant experiences. Relying on a significant body of secondary literature to flesh out the state regulated forms of immigration, the focus of this research effort is on unregulated forms of migration: people who came to Europe in the interstices of devolving empires that were scrambling to put formal immigration laws into place; or people who arrived to work in informal economies with businesses loathe to regularize their legal status, the so-called sans papiers; or people who came as tourists or students who ended up settling permanently.