Highlights
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.
I-CLAIM events
Reconsidering EU’s partnership and cooperation models on return and readmission
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.
I-CLAIM Stakeholders’ Meeting (Italy)
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 living and working conditions of migrants in situation of irregularity in the country
I-CLAIM Stakeholders’ Meeting (Poland)
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-governmental organizations working for refugees and migrants in Poland (including those created by people with migration experience).