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
First Stakeholder meeting I-CLAIM (The Netherlands)
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 Irregularity. The Netherlands’.
New perspectives on irregular migration in Europe: 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.