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Research at the EU level will concentrate on the policy and legal infrastructures of irregularity and the analysis of narratives and counternarrative on irregular migration among EU policy makers, civil society and non-governmental organisations. Engagement with EU stakeholders is a pillar of I-CLAIM impact strategy and central to the development of policy recommendations to improve the conditions of irregular migrants and their families in Europe.

Related publications

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Discourses about irregularised migrants: representation and narratives in media, politics, and civil society in Europe. Comparative report

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Markus Rheindorf, Bastian Vollmer

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This report 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. By identifying dominant themes, linguistic patterns...

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Discourses about irregularised migrants at the EU level

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Davide Colombi

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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.

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Narratives of Irregular Migration in Finland

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Paula Merikoski

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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.

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Methodological Note: Corpus-based discourse analysisof migration-related discourses inmedia, politics and civil society

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Markus Rheindorf, Bastian Vollmer

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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...

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Irregularising Human Mobility

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Sergio Carrera, Davide Colombi,

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I-Claim Consortium

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.

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The Legal and Policy Infrastructure of Migrant Irregularity. Comparative Report

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Lena Näre, Letizia Palumbo, Paula Merikoski, Sabrina Marchetti

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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).

Research Partner:

CEPS

Sergio Carrera

Senior Research Fellow and Head of Justice and Home Affairs unit
Steering Committee member, WP7 Leader

BIO

Sergio Carrera is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Justice and Home Affairs unit at CEPS. Sergio is also Visiting Fellow at the Migration Policy Centre (MPC) in the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence.

Miriam Mir

Project Officer
I-CLAIM Communications Manager

BIO

Miriam Mir is Project Officer in the Justice and Home Affairs Unit. Since 2008 she had carried out the administration, coordination and dissemination activities of the different research projects of which the JHA section is part. She has experience in managing research projects, preparing project proposals, organising events and fund-raising. Miriam has been involved in the dissemination management of various projects funded by the EU such as SOURCE, EU-CITZEN, JUD-IT, RELIGARE, among others.

Davide Colombi

Researcher
Researcher

BIO

He is an expert in human rights and EU migration policies with more than 2 years of experience in non-governmental organisations and the United Nations system. Davide researched these fields with mostly qualitative methods and legal research.

European Engagement Partner:

ETUC

Mercedes Miletti

ETUC Advisor
I-CLAIM Partner

BIO

Mercedes Miletti is Policy Advisor on migration at the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). She graduated in Political Sciences and International Relations at the Universidad Católica Argentina in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and later obtained a Master in Cultures and Development Studies from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). Before joining ETUC, she worked at the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM). Since 2011, she has also been active in grassroots migrant organisations and communities.

ENAR

Ojeaku Nwabuzo

Director
I-CLAIM Partner

BIO

Ojeaku Nwabuzo is one of two directors, leading on Policy, Advocacy and Network Development. She previously worked at Runnymede, a race equality think tank in the UK, as a research and policy analyst where she led on various projects including and developed various resources that captured individual and community histories on migration and belonging. Ojeaku has extensive experience of working in children and young people’s Ojeaku holds a BSc in Politics from the University of Southampton and an MA in Political Communications from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Emmanuel Achiri

Policy and Advocacy Advisor
I-CLAIM Partner

BIO

Emmanuel Achiri is a Policy and Advocacy Advisor at ENAR where he focuses his advocacy efforts on deracializing and decolonizing migration attitudes in Europe. He defends his PhD in September 2023 where his dissertation focuses on critiquing voluntary repatriation as a concept and practice.