The Final Joint Policy Meeting on “Irregular Migrants in Europe: Public Attitudes, Protection Needs and EU Responses” (25 March 2026) brought together policymakers, researchers and practitioners at the Committee of the Regions in Brussels to discuss key challenges and policy responses related to irregular migration.
New Exhibition | 2–6 March 2026 | University of Helsinki. We are pleased to present Future Conditional, a two-channel video installation by Anna Knappe and Amir Jan, commissioned by Centrala Space (Birmingham, UK) and developed as part of the I-CLAIM research project.
OCON (Onderzoekscollectief Ongedocumenteerden Nederland – Research Collective for Undocumented Migrants in the Netherlands), where I-Claim researchers Ilse van Liempt and Minke Hajer are part of this network, publishes an Statement on the Criminalisation of Irregular Stay and Support to Undocumented Migrants.
Invezz features an extensive article on the I-Claim Report drafted by Stefano Piemontese ‘The narrative construction of migrant irregularity in the United Kingdom’.
Prof. Nando Sigona comments on Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans and examines who mass deportations actually benefit.
Read this interview by The Guardian to Nando Sigona on how Trump’s mass deportation plan could harm millions of U.S. children, causing family separations, trauma, poverty, and community destabilization.
Nando Sigona explores in this article the potential impacts of a Trump 2024 presidency on migrant families in the U.S., including shifts in deportation and family separation policies.
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.
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).