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).
On 29th November, the I-Claim Finnish team held a Stakeholders Meeting in Helsinki. The two themes discussed were family and work through the perspective of different services that are available for people in irregular situation in Finland.
On December 1, from 13.00 to 14.15 CET, the Centre for Migration Law and a group of Horizon Europe projects focusing on irregular migration in Europe (including I-Claim) will present the second online joint webinar.
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’.
This post problematises the positions from which research on irregular migrants is produced and the “access problem” is constructed. While emphasising the benefit of sharing experiences and identities between researchers and researched, the post highlights the importance of converging intentions as a condition for creating more symmetrical research relationships.
Migrants are still risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean; we must challenge the rhetoric of ‘invasion’ and examine the deeper reasons for migration, writes Nando Sigona
Interview to Nando Sigona on BBC News. How to address irregular sea crossings and the secondary mobility of migrants are igniting tensions at the border between Italy and France, and with other EU member states.
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.
In an opinion column for Spanish daily El Pais, Nando Sigona examines the link between border externalisation and the normalisation of state violence across Europe.