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Mobility, work and rights: the I-CLAIM podcastLet's talk regularisationWhile Trump's administration continues its mass deportation campaign and the European Commission launches a new strategy for streamlining returns, including by normalising the idea of offshore warehousing of migrants awaiting removal, we think it is important and useful to offer some (qualified) hope by focusing on two recent regularisation schemes in The Netherlands and Italy. Our podcast picks- BOOK: Boswell, C. and Chabal, E. (eds) (2023) States of Ignorance: governing irregular migration in Western Europe, Cambridge University Press. - ARTICLE: Bonizzoni, P., & Hajer, M. (2022). Civil Society Actors and the 2020 Italian Amnesty: Bordering to...
2025-06-0643 minMobility, work and rights: the I-CLAIM podcastStructures of exploitation - interview specialIn this episode of Mobility, Work, and Rights, Nando Sigona speaks with Letizia Palumbo, researcher at the Univiersity of Venice Ca' Foscari and author of Taking Vulnerabilities to Labour Exploitation Seriously. The book examines how European and national legal frameworks shape migrant workers’ vulnerabilities—particularly in agriculture and domestic work and how intersecting legal, economic, and social factors create and exacerbate exploitation. With a focus on Italy and comparisons with the UK, this episode unpacks the tensions between labour migration policies and measures to combat severe exploitation. Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on the systemic dimensions of labour expl...
2025-03-2118 minMobility, work and rights: the I-CLAIM podcastNarratives of irregularityWhat is irregular migration? We often start our conversations with this question, today we really want to dig in on how and why media and political narratives on irregular migration really matters not only because they shape public perceptions but also how our institutions respond to this phenomenon. Our hosts, Nando Sigona and Ilse van Liempt, explore these questions with two guests: professor Bastian Vollmer who coordinated the I-CLAIM work on narratives and representations of irregular migration and Michele Levoy, director of PICUM.Our podcast picks … I-CLAIM Country reports on narratives of irregular migr...
2025-03-0846 minMobility, work and rights: the I-CLAIM podcastThe night shift and the politics of exhaustionIn the fourth episode of Mobility, Work, and Rights, hosts Nando Sigona and Ilse van Liempt explore the relation between migration status and working conditions and what it means to work the nightshift.
Nando and Ilse are joined by two guests who help them in this task: Julius Cezar MacQuarie who teaches and researches at the University of Cork and his the author of Invisible Migrant Nightworkers in 24/7 London (Springer 2023); and Renzo Sgolacchia, architect, researcher and film-maker, author of Living Labour, a documentary on the lives of Polish, Spanish and Roma workers in the Netherlands.
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2025-01-2146 minMobility, work and rights: the I-CLAIM podcastIrregularising human mobility - interview specialFor this interview special of Mobility, Work & Rights, Nando Sigona speaks with Davide Colombi, co-author with Sergio Carrera of Irregularising Human Mobility (Springer 2024), a new open access book examining the history and current state of play of EU law and policy covering irregularised migration and how migration policies have been problematised at the EU institutional level, in particular by the European Commission.
As Donald Trump prepares to take office next year and the new European Commission, led by Ursula von der Leyen, begins its term this December, Nando and Davide explore what lies ahead for the politics of migration...
2024-12-0616 minMobility, work and rights: the I-CLAIM podcastPolicy and politics of irregularity in Europe and USIn this episode of Mobility, Work, and Rights, hosts
Nando Sigona and Ilse van Liempt look at how a migrant can become irregularised and with what consequences.
In conversation with Sabrina Marchetti (University of Venice) and Lena Nare (University of Helsinki) they consider the governance of irregular migration in Europe and compare and contrast how European states address the phenomenon.
On the eve of Donald Trump's second term as US president, Nando and Ilse speak to Walter Nicholls (UC Irvine) about what we can expect from Trump and if and how Europe is moving in...
2024-11-2837 min
Mobility, work and rights: the I-CLAIM podcastWhat is Irregular Migration? Definitions and Why They MatterIn the first episode of Mobility, Work, and Rights, hosts Nando Sigona and Ilse van Liempt kick off the series by unpacking a key question: What exactly is irregular migration? Misunderstandings around this issue shape how it’s talked about in politics and the media, and how policies are made.
Nando and Ilse explore what irregular migration really means and why it has become such a hot topic across Europe. They look at how different countries respond to migration and why cities seem to be more progressive than national governments in handling the presence of migrants with precarious legal st...
2024-10-2036 minMobility, work and rights: the I-CLAIM podcastMobility, work and rights: about usWelcome to Mobility, Work and Rights: the I-CLAIM podcast, where we challenge common misunderstandings
about irregular migration in Europe today. Your hosts are Nando Sigona, a sociologist based at the University of Birmingham in the UK specialising in migration and citizenship, and Ilse van Liempt, a human geographer based at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands focus on belonging, citizenship and the spaces of everyday life in Europe. In this series, we consider some of the key questions surrounding irregular migration, starting from perhaps the most fundamental ones: what is irregular migration? Who counts as an irregular migrant?
2024-10-2000 min