Our newest paper examines the factors contributing to irregular conditions for migrants at the intersection of migration, employment, and welfare systems in the Netherlands.
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Month: November 2025
Undocumented people deserve protection, not punishment
I-Claim research featured in an important new article published by Sociale Vraagstukken, highlighting why undocumented people in the Netherlands should not be criminalised but protected.
How Europe’s Migration Rules Keep Creating the “Irregular Migrants” They Claim to Catch
A recent opinion piece by Nando Sigona in The Political Quarterly examines how Europe’s restrictive migration policies unintentionally increase irregular migration.
New article in The Guardian highlights risks faced by food-delivery workers
A recent article in The Guardian describes the difficult and sometimes unsafe conditions experienced by food-delivery workers, including long hours, low and unstable pay, and instances of harassment from customers. It also refers to the new research done by our team at the University of Birmingham, which documents the exploitation of migrant workers in delivery and domestic work.
Moving beyond securitisation and deservingness
We are pleased to share the release of the article that presents findings from a large-scale discourse analysis that examines how ‘irregular migration’ and the figure of the ‘irregular migrant’ are constructed across political and media discourse.
Third Stakeholder meeting I-CLAIM (The Netherlands)
On the 8th of September the third I-CLAIM stakeholder meeting was organized in the Netherlands at the office of I-CLAIM partner Fair work.
Irregular migration as an assemblage
New I-CLAIM paper unpacks how “irregularity” is made in Europe. Written by Nando Sigona and Ilse van Liempt