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Nando Sigona And Ilse Van Liempt (I-CLAIM)
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Mobility, work and rights: the I-CLAIM podcast
Let's talk regularisation
While 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...
2025-06-06
43 min
Mobility, work and rights: the I-CLAIM podcast
Structures of exploitation - interview special
In 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...
2025-03-21
18 min
Mobility, work and rights: the I-CLAIM podcast
Narratives of irregularity
What 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...
2025-03-08
46 min
Mobility, work and rights: the I-CLAIM podcast
The night shift and the politics of exhaustion
In 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. ...
2025-01-21
46 min
Mobility, work and rights: the I-CLAIM podcast
Irregularising human mobility - interview special
For 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...
2024-12-06
16 min
Mobility, work and rights: the I-CLAIM podcast
Policy and politics of irregularity in Europe and US
In 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...
2024-11-28
37 min
Mobility, work and rights: the I-CLAIM podcast
What is Irregular Migration? Definitions and Why They Matter
In 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...
2024-10-20
36 min
Mobility, work and rights: the I-CLAIM podcast
Mobility, work and rights: about us
Welcome 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?
2024-10-20
00 min