PUBLICATIONS
Country reports
Laurence Lessard-Phillips, Lena Näre and Aleksiina Asell
Consortium I-claim
This country report presents evidence from the I-CLAIM public perceptions survey carried out in Finland in February 2025 with a nationally-representative sample of 1,025 adult respondents. It examines what people in Finland understand about irregularity and how they eva...
Laurence Lessard-Phillips, Aleksandra Grzymała-Kazłowska and Kseniya Homel-Ficenes
Consortium I-claim
PUBLICATIONS How to cite: Lessard-Phillips, L., Grzymala-Kazlowska, A., & Homel, K. (2026). Public understanding and attitudes to irregular migration in Poland. I-CLAIM. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18700731 The report presents an analysis of the I-CLAIM...
Laurence Lessard-Phillips, Minke Hajer and Ilse van Liempt
Consortium I-claim
This document outlines insights from the I-CLAIM public perceptions survey on irregular migration, which on what people in the Netherlands know about irregular migration, how they perceive it, and their attitudes toward irregular migrants, particularly in relation to wo...
Laurence Lessard-Phillips and Nando Sigona
University of Birmingham
This report summarises findings from the February 2025 I-CLAIM survey of 1,147 UK adults, exploring public knowledge of irregular migration, how people define it, and their attitudes toward irregular migrants, especially in relation to work.
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.