This book contains the findings of the Cross-Border Welfare State research programme and has been prepared specifically for the Access Denied Conference which took place in Amsterdam on 13 and 14 March 2012. The conference commemorated the closing of the Cross-Border Welfare State research project and launched a new international research network centring around the development of alternative policies for the social protection of irregular migrant workers, with the moral support of a number of international organisations and NGO's (www.rechten.vu.nl/accessdenied)