Mobility, work and rights: the I-CLAIM podcast

In this episode of  Mobility, Work, and Rights , Ilse van Liempt and Nando Sigona bring together three of the world’s leading scholars of domestic work - Rhacel Parreñas (Princeton University), Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol) and Sabrina Marchetti (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) - to unpack how migration and labour regimes shape the everyday lives of the workers who keep households...

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 pic...

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...

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 B...

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...

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...

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...

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 acro...

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, citize...