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PRESS & MEDIA
The Dutch I-CLAIM Sector reports on irregular migrant labour received wide national media attention, linking their findings to ongoing cases of exploitation. Coverage in major newspapers, radio, and interviews has brought the research into the public debate in the Nethe...
United Kingdom, VIEWS & NOTES
Drawing on the recently published I-CLAIM reports on the experiences of food delivery riders with precarious immigration status in the UK, Nando Sigona and Stefano Piemontese write for OpenDemocracy on a troubling alignment between the UK’s hostile environment and the...
PRESS & MEDIA
The host of The Whole Show, Iain Dale, speaks to Nando Sigona exploring the links between immigration and community tensions in the UK and examining public perceptions, policy responses, and the complex realities of integration and social cohesion....
United Kingdom, VIEWS & NOTES
Drawing on the recently published I-CLAIM reports on the experiences of migrant workers in domestic work and food delivery in the UK, Nando Sigona writes for The Conversation on how immigration rules, by design, torn migrant families apart, cause emotional harm,...
PUBLICATIONS
The new I-CLAIM sector reports offer key insights from the ethnographic research into domestic work, care, agriculture and delivery sectors across Europe.
ENGAGEMENTS
OCON (Onderzoekscollectief Ongedocumenteerden Nederland - Research Collective for Undocumented Migrants in the Netherlands), where I-Claim researchers Ilse van Liempt and Minke Hajer are part of this network, publishes an Statement on the Criminalisation of Irregular St...
PRESS & MEDIA
In a recent interview on Stand NL (NPO Radio 1), Minke Hajer criticises the plans from the Dutch Government to criminalise irregular stay.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
26 June 2025 (14h00 - 15h00)
PRIME project is organizing a Webinar, where Clare Fox-Ruhs (MPC & PRIME project) and Joakim Palme will present their latest study (the first systematic, comparative analysis of the social and labour rights of irregular migrants in the laws of 28 European countries....
PODCASTS
New episode of Mobility, Work and Rights I-CLAIM podcast out! We talked with Paola Bonizzoni, Minke Hajer; Frederik de Vlaming & Ilse van Liempt on two recent regularisation schemes in The Netherlands and Italy.
PRESS & MEDIA
FairWork publishes an article on the I-CLAIM report on irregular migration in the Netherlands describing how people without residence permits are discussed, and how this differs between the media, politics and civil society.
ENGAGEMENTS
I-CLAIM project was presented at the final conference of the MIMAP project, hosted by the Research Centre of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF).
PRESS & MEDIA
I-CLAIM Research cited in a recent article published by OneWorld - "Werken zonder verblijfsvergunning: werkgevers profiteren van wanhoop" (Working Without a Residence Permit: Employers Benefit from Desperation).
PRESS & MEDIA
In a recent article on Melting Pot Europa, Nando Sigona analyzes the Prime Minister Keir Starmer's evolving approach to immigration.
ENGAGEMENTS
25 March 2025
I-Claim findings presented to the C-Mise (City Initiative on Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe) community by Ilse van Liempt Minke Hajer.
PUBLICATIONS
Check the Comparative report. It compares migration discourse across seven contexts—Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, the UK, and the EU—analysing how irregular migration is framed in politics, media, and civil society.
PRESS & MEDIA
Invezz features an extensive article on the I-Claim Report drafted by Stefano Piemontese 'The narrative construction of migrant irregularity in the United Kingdom'.
PODCASTS
In this episode of Mobility, Work, and Rights, Nando Sigona speaks with Letizia Palumbo, researcher at the Univiersity of Venice Ca' Foscari and author of Taking Vulnerabilities to Labour Exploitation Seriously. Don't miss this important discussion!
PRESS & MEDIA
Our latest report on "The Narrative Construction of Migrant Irregularity in the United Kingdom", by Stefano Piemontese has been featured by the Electronic Immigration Network (EIN)!
PRESS & MEDIA
ByLine Times publishes a Reportage in their series 'A Hostile Environment' highlighting the main results of our latest report 'The Narrative Construction of Migrant Irregularity in the United Kingdom'.
ENGAGEMENTS
Lena Nare and Letizia Palumbo will be presenting their research at the 'The Scholars of Excellence Workshop' series organized by the Toronto Metropolitan University.
PUBLICATIONS
Check the key findings from the analysis of public discourses on irregular migrants and migration across media, politics, and civil society in Italy between 2019 and 2023!
PUBLICATIONS
This report reveals that dominant narratives around irregular migration were predominantly linked to attempts to enter Poland without sufficient documentation or bypassing legal channels rather than stay (overstay) or work-related aspects.
PUBLICATIONS
New report that investigates the narrative construction of migrant irregularity in the United Kingdom across three primary domains: media, politics, and civil society.
PUBLICATIONS
New Country Report Out Now!
This report offers a data-driven analysis of how migration is framed in media, politics, and civil society. Discover key insights into public discourse and its impact.
PUBLICATIONS
Check the new Country Report. This I-CLAIM report analyses how irregularised migration is framed at the EU level across the European Commission, the European Parliament, and EU civil society.
PRESS & MEDIA
Prof. Nando Sigona comments on Donald Trump's mass deportation plans and examines who mass deportations actually benefit.
PUBLICATIONS
Check the new Country report. This report presents the key findings of a corpus-based study on narratives of irregular migration in the domains of media, politics, and civil society in Finland.
ENGAGEMENTS, EVENTS
I-Claim will be present at the 2025 IMISCOE Spring Conference (Krems). Check our participation and register to the event.
Australian refugee policy violates international law, but remains an inspiration for other countries
Ilse van Liempt was interviewed for the NRC newspaper to talk about Australian refugee policy and why European countries like to copy it.
PUBLICATIONS
New I-Claim Country Report to present the findings of a corpus-based analysis of the discourses surrounding irregular migration in the Netherlands, with a focus on the terminology and narratives used in media, politics, and civil society.
PODCASTS
In the fourth episode of Mobility, Work, and Rights, hosts Nando Sigona and Ilse van Liempt explore the relation between migration status and working conditions and what it means to work the nightshift.
ANNOUNCEMENTS, ENGAGEMENTS
I-Claim is now on Bluesky
We’re excited to announce that I-Claim has joined Bluesky! Follow us for the latest insights, publications, and updates at @iclaimeu.bsky.social.
PUBLICATIONS
This book investigates how migration policies have been problematised at the EU institutional level, in particular by the European Commission. It critically assesses the assumptions lying behind the Commission’s political priorities, agendas and policy outputs.
PODCASTS
For this interview special, Nando Sigona speaks with Davide Colombi, co-author with Sergio Carrera of Irregularising Human Mobility (Springer 2024). They explore what lies ahead for the politics of migration in the coming months with the new European Commission's term.
ENGAGEMENTS
Kamil Matuszczyk and Ksenia Homel introduced and presented the preliminary results of the research carried out among irregular workers in platform work at the expert seminar organized by the Social Insurance Institution (Warsaw).
PODCASTS
New Episode of the I-Claim podcast on Policy and politics of irregularity in Europe and US - in conversation with Sabrina Marchetti (University of Venice) and Lena Nare (University of Helsinki)
PRESS & MEDIA
Read this interview by The Guardian to Nando Sigona on how Trump's mass deportation plan could harm millions of U.S. children, causing family separations, trauma, poverty, and community destabilization.
WEBINAR
4 December 2024
Join on 4 December our Webinar on 'Discourses, narratives and counter narratives on irregular migration'. This webinar is part of the joint events within the MIrreM project.
PRESS & MEDIA
Nando Sigona explores in this article the potential impacts of a Trump 2024 presidency on migrant families in the U.S., including shifts in deportation and family separation policies.
PUBLICATIONS
New I-CLAIM Policy Brief! It calls for policy reforms to address irregular migration in Europe by promoting regularization paths, coordinated policy responses, and protections for migrant workers’ rights.
PODCASTS
On Monday 28th of October 2024 the I-CLAIM podcast called Mobility, Work, and Rights goes live! The I-CLAIM Podcast explores the realities of irregular migration in Europe, challenging widespread misconceptions around mobility, work and migrant worker’s rights.
PRESS & MEDIA
I-Claim research featured by Ilse van Liempt in the Opinion titled "Op straat wordt een klein wondje groot" (On the street, a small wound becomes big) published at De Groene Amsterdammer.
PODCASTS
Nando Sigona spoke to the Inside Story Podcast of Aljazeera on irregular crossings, safe routes to asylum and Sir Keir Starmer's 'strange infatuation' for Italian PM Giorgia Meloni.
PRESS & MEDIA
Ilse van Liempt and Minke Hajer contributed, together with other researchers, to the Opinion article at the De Volkskrant following the announcement of the cancellation of LVV.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
This call for papers focuses explicitly on food delivery work provided by irregular migrants. Deadline to submit Abstracts 18 September 2024.
PUBLICATIONS
This Policy Brief shows that a home affairs and criminalisation approach prioritising law enforcement and policing has dominated the von der Leyen Commission on questions related to migration policy.
PUBLICATIONS
Check the Comparative report. It brings together findings from the six country reports, and a report examining EU policies.
MEETING
3 July 2024
In the context of the MIrreM project, I-Claim is participating in the Workshop 'The ethics of researching irregular migration'.
CONFERENCE
2 July 2024
I-Claim is organizing a panel at the 21st IMISCOE Annual Conference in Lisbon on 2nd July 2024.
VIEWS & NOTES
19 June 2024
Our Fairwork colleagues presented a paper at the conference "Making Rights Reality: The Human Rights of Undocumented Migrant Workers".
VIEWS & NOTES
June 2024
On the 13th of May 2024 the Focus Area on Migration and Societal Change organized a film screening called ‘Living Labour’. Ilse van Liempt is presenting us here her reflections.
ENGAGEMENTS
29 May 2024
Prof. Nando Sigona gave a talk at UC Berkeley about the irregularisation of migration and migrants in Europe.
WEBINAR
7 May 2024
This webinar gives the opportunity to our researches to present the report 'The Legal and Policy Infrastructure of Irregularity in Italy'.
PRESS & MEDIA
Nando Sigona interviewed by AFP/France24 on intra-European co-operation on irregular migration and its impact on irregularised migrants.
VIEWS & NOTES
April 2024
The Dutch I-CLAIM report on policy and legal infrastructures of irregularity reveals an alarming trend towards exclusion of irregular migrants in the Netherlands.
PUBLICATIONS
Check the new country reports looking at the legal and policy infrastructures of irregular migration in Poland and Italy.
PRESS & MEDIA
Ilse van Liempt (University of Utrecht) was interviewed by the Het Financieele Dagblad on the new deal with Egypt.
VIEWS & NOTES
Everyone has the right to enjoy the nightlife. The Beats Beyond Borders: Uniting in Solidarity event was organized as part of the week against racism, the night before a large demonstration against racism and discrimination starting at Dam Square.
PODCASTS
Nando Sigona / March 2024Is the UK immigration system really 'fairer' as the government claims? Fairer for whom? In the latest episode of the Conversations with Iris podcast, Nando Sigona discusses these questions with Luke Piper, Head of Immigration at the Work...
ENGAGEMENTS
14.03.2024 – 15.03.2024
Bastian Vollmer, I-Claim member, participated at the „Illegality“ Conference 2024 at the Catholic Academy in Berlin
ENGAGEMENTS
Wednesday, 6 March 2024
This roundtable aims to facilitate an inclusive and open discussion among stakeholders engaged on relevant migration and F2F policies.
It will focus on the CAP social conditionality mechanism and the new corporate due diligence framework.
WEBINAR
13 March 2024
Drawing from the findings of the six I-Claim country reports on the topic of “Politics of irregularity”, in the Netherlands, UK, Germany, Poland, Finland and Italy, this webinar will offer an overview of the ways in which irregularity is generated and shaped in prac...
WEBINAR
12 March 2024
The webinar will offer an introduction to the Horizon Europe I-CLAIM study that investigates the living and working conditions of irregular migrants in six European countries.
WEBINAR
5 February 2024
In this webinar, representatives from Horizon Europe projects working on these topics would like to critically elaborate on various models of return and readmission arrangements.
MEETING
6 December 2023
In this meeting, a group of key stakeholder organisations and institutions engaged with the preliminary research results produced by the I-CLAIM team at Ca’ Foscari University concerning the national policies on migration, labour and welfare that have an impact on the...
MEETING
5 December 2023
This meeting took the form of an expert discussion moderated by prof. Aleksandra Grzymała-Kazłowska (Faculty of Sociology, Migration Research Center, University of Warsaw). It was attended by representatives of institutions - ministries, think-tanks and non-government...
MEETING
29 November 2023
On 29th November, the I-Claim Finnish team held a Stakeholders Meeting in Helsinki. The two themes discussed were family and work through the perspective of different services that are available for people in irregular situation in Finland.
WEBINAR
1 December 2023
On December 1, from 13.00 to 14.15 CET, the Centre for Migration Law and a group of Horizon Europe projects focusing on irregular migration in Europe (including I-Claim) will present the second online joint webinar.
MEETING
28 November 2023
I-Claim is starting its series of Stakeholder Meetings. The first meeting took place in The Netherlands where key stakeholders in the field of irregular migration reacted to the draft version of the first I-CLAIM report: ‘The Legal and Policy Infrastructure of Irregul...
PRESS & MEDIA
The government's controversial plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing has hit a roadblock as the court deems it unlawful. But hold on, the saga isn't over!
VIEWS & NOTES
This post explores the role of community researchers, highlighting the epistemic advantages they bring and the unintended consequences of their involvement. It suggests ways to address power dynamics and promote more equitable and ethical research practices.
VIEWS & NOTES
This post problematises the positions from which research on irregular migrants is produced and the “access problem” is constructed. While emphasising the benefit of sharing experiences and identities between researchers and researched, the post highlights the impor...
VIEWS & NOTES
Migrants are still risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean; we must challenge the rhetoric of ‘invasion’ and examine the deeper reasons for migration, writes Nando Sigona
PRESS & MEDIA
Interview to Nando Sigona on BBC News. How to address irregular sea crossings and the secondary mobility of migrants are igniting tensions at the border between Italy and France, and with other EU member states.
PRESS & MEDIA
Recently, the Dutch newspaper AD featured Zaenal's story as a victim of modern slavery as part of a podcast produced by Fairwork, our engagement partner from The Netherlands.
WEBINAR
18 October, 1-2pm CET. Webinar
Irregular migration is an important feature of the political economy of migration and associated patterns of legal, social and economic inequality in Europe and elsewhere.
PRESS & MEDIA
In an opinion column for Spanish daily El Pais, Nando Sigona examines the link between border externalisation and the normalisation of state violence across Europe.
PRESS & MEDIA
Our I-CLAIM migration expert Ilse van Liempt commented on the news on the EU Tunis deal. Check all the related articles.
PRESS & MEDIA
Experts doubt whether Sunday’s migration agreement with Tunisia will help reduce the number of people trying to reach the European Union, the Financieele Dagblad reported on Thursday.
ENGAGEMENTS
May 2023
In a world where people have always migrated seeking safety and opportunity, it is disheartening to witness the UK's current treatment of those who make it their home.
ENGAGEMENTS
May 2023
The Berlin Smuggler's Gala, which challenges the political narrative and public discourse surrounding the topic of "smuggling," will be held on June 25th.
ENGAGEMENTS
May 2023
Celebrate International Domestic Workers Day on June 16th! Join thousands of domestic workers worldwide as they raise their voices in solidarity and commemorate a significant milestone in their lives.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Launching the handbook on irregular migration at the Migration and Societal Change Conference in Utrecht.
PRESS & MEDIA
Feature interview in Al Jazeera for comms track record and social media
ENGAGEMENTS
We are excited to invite you to submit individual paper proposals to the kick-off symposium of the project Tackling Precarious and Informal Work in the Nordic Countries (Future Challenges in the Nordics programme)
PUBLICATIONS
May 2023
In March 2023 a research handbook on irregular migration was released with Edward Elgar edited by Ilse van Liempt, Joris Schapendonk and Amalia Campos-Delgado.
ENGAGEMENTS
At the 20th IMISCOE Annual conference in Warsaw this year I-CLAIM will host two panels on the production of irregular living and working conditions for migrants and racialized communities in Europe.
PODCASTS
New podcast series on migration and citizenship out now