PUBLICATIONS
Country reports
Giulia Garofalo Geymonat
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
This I-CLAIM report presents 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.
Kseniya Homel-Ficenes and Aleksandra Grzymała-Kazłowska
University of Warsaw
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.
Stefano Piemontese
University of Birmingham
This report investigates the narrative construction of migrant irregularity in the United Kingdom across three primary domains: media, politics, and civil society.
Markus Rheindorf and Bastian Vollmer
Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Mainz
This report presents key findings and conclusions from a large-scale corpus analysis of text addressing
irregularised migrants and migration in the domains of media, politics and civil society.
Davide Colombi
CEPS
This I-CLAIM report examines how irregularised migration is framed at the EU level across the European Commission, the European Parliament, and EU civil society.
Paula Merikoski
Helsinki University
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.
Markus Rheindorf, Bastian Vollmer
Utrecht University
PUBLICATIONS How to cite: Rheindorf, M., Vollmer, B. (2025). Methodological Note: Corpus-based discourse analysis of migration-related discourses in media, politics and civil society. I-CLAIM. This I-CLAIM report presents the findings of a corpus-based analysis of the...
Minke Hajer
Utrecht University
This I-CLAIM report presents 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.
Letizia Palumbo and Sabrina Marchetti
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
The report highlights how, over the last two decades, by fostering narratives on a ‘migrant invasion’ threating the country, various Italian governments have adopted increasingly stringent migration and asylum policies.
Matuszczyk, Kamil; Grzymala-Kazlowska, Aleksandra; Homel, Kseniya
University of Warsarw
The report focuses on 'the production of irregularities' in the context of migration, aiming to illuminate its complexity from the perspective of the national policy level in Poland.
Paula Merikoski, Lena Näre and Salla-Mari Karti
University of Helsinki
The report presents general trends and features of migrant irregularity in Finland, including estimates of the number of irregularised people and the most common characteristics of irregularised situations that we have identified.
Markus Rheindorf, Bastian Vollmer, Martina Liebsch
Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Mainz and Catholic Forum “Living in Illegality”
The report discusses the evolution of migration policies and their impact on irregularised migrants in Germany, emphasizing the non-essential yet impactful nature of irregularity as produced by a complex network of legal, social and economic conditions and practices.
Stefano Piemontese and Nando Sigona
University of Birmingham
This report examines the legal and policy infrastructures of irregular migration in the United Kingdom (UK) from the hostile environment policies to the post-Brexit new plan for immigration. It investigates the intersection between immigration, labour and welfare regime...
Minke Hajer, Carola Vasileiadi, Ilse van Liempt
Utrecht University
This report aims to understand the implementation and impact of Dutch laws and policies on the production of migrant irregularity in the Netherlands. It is shown that over the past 25 years, Dutch policies have increasingly excluded irregular migrants from essential ser...
Comparative Report
Lena Näre, Letizia Palumbo, Paula Merikoski, Sabrina Marchetti
This comparative report brings together the main findings of Work Package 3 of Improving the living and labour conditions of irregularised migrant households in Europe research project (I-CLAIM).