The article analyses the social, economic and theoretical dynamics which cause the non-EU immigrant workers to adopt specific work patterns to increase their own integration into the labour market of the host country. This requires an availability on the part of the immigrants to a vast range of jobs, working conditions and lack of a proper contract which are unacceptable by local workers. This situation may also create replacement phenomena in some specific areas. The higher profits gained by firms as a consequence of this, as well as the availability of a flexible labour market, is to be found only in illegal situations and feeds the demand for this category of non-EU workers. The article deals also with the social integration processes which alter this working behaviour as well as the phenomenon of specific offers to newly arrived immigrants, which, in turn, generates high turn-over levels in the firms with the expulsion of the more integrated immigrants.

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