2025 IMISCOE Spring Conference
The 2025 IMISCOE Spring Conference will focus on irregular migration. Read on for the full programme and make sure you book your place!
What is the Evidence Base? Assessing Irregular Migration Data and Their Impact on Policymaking and Public Debates in the EU
This edition of the joint webinar hosted by MIrreM explored the role of irregular migration data in shaping policymaking and public discourse within the EU member states and at EU level.
Strategic litigation on behalf of migrant workers: To what extent and how can litigation help improve their working and living conditions
The 8th joint webinar, hosted by DignityFIRM, will bring together legal experts to reflect on recent strategic litigation cases from around the world (including Europe, Canada, and Asia) and will explore to what extent and how legal strategies contributed to improvements in the working and living conditions of (including irregular) migrant workers.
Tread lightly: Data on irregular migration needs careful handling
Data on irregular migration is often limited, outdated and even biased. While more and better data provides hope for more evidence-based policymaking, it's essential to approach data use with care and safeguards. Read more in this blog from ICMPD.
MIrreM Spring School
The MIrreM Spring School provides a unique opportunity to gain firsthand insights from experts involved in the MIrreM project—a three-year research project focused on assessing the quantitative aspects of migrant irregularity and related policies.
Irregular not irrelevant: Conceptualizing and measuring irregular migration
Can sanctuary cities inspire innovative approaches to migrant and refugee urban integration? How can we put the principle, “nothing about us without us” into practice? And what does it mean to decentre migration research? Find out more in the 3rd episode of the podcast Borders & Belonging having Albert Kraler as guest.
Discourses, narratives and counter narratives on irregular migration
In the 7th webinar in our Joint Webinar Series, researchers from the I-CLAIM project will shed light on the public discourse around irregularity in Germany, Italy and The Netherlands. Register via this link to hear more!
The number of irregular immigrants in Europe has remained the same for 16 years and represents less than 1% of the population
Portuguese newspaper Publico reports about MIrreM's database on estimates of the undocumented population in Europe and interviews MIrreM researcher João Miguel Carvalho about the Portuguese context.
What’s the truth about ‘irregular migration’ levels?
In this piece for The Spectator, Ross Clark unpacks estimates of the undocumented population in the UK, as gathered by MIrreM researchers. Clarks underlines limits to data collection and reliability, as stressed in the MIrreM research.
Irregular migration into UK and large European countries is same as 2008, research shows
The Guardian reports about MIrreM's database on estimates of the undocumented population in Europe and in the UK specifically.
How do countries measure immigration, and how accurate is this data?
This report from Our World In Data takes a deep dive into the estimates about the undocumented population in Europe and North America, which our researchers collected, analysed and assessed in an updated public database.
NEWSLETTER #7
Read our seventh newsletter for more information on our new database on irregular migration stocks, how fit is data for policymaking, how irregular migration is managed in 20 countries, and more!