Our Fairwork colleagues recently had the honor of presenting the paper, “Exclusion as Default – The legal and policy dynamics around the production of irregular migration in the Netherlands,” at the conference “Making Rights Reality: The Human Rights of Undocumented Migrant Workers,” organized by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) on 19 June 2024.

Conference Details

The ‘Making Rights Reality’ conference brings together those international law instruments with human rights activism and practice.By focusing on those instruments, that have received less-attention among scholars and governments in Europe, and by engaging with diverse users and actors in migrant human rights, this conference strives to break new ground in the possibilities for international norms and their effective protection.

About the Paper

Authored by Minke Hajer, María Bruquetas, Anna Ensing, this paper delves into the legal and policy mechanisms that contribute to the creation and perpetuation of irregular migration in the Netherlands.

This paper is based on the I-Claim Report on ‘The Legal and Policy Infrastructure of Irregularity: The Netherlands‘