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.
Training opportunities for migration scholars and practitioners
Advanced Training in Migration Studies and Research Methods: Below you can find various training opportunities for scholars and practitioners interested in migration studies […]
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.
De-centring the Study of Migrant Returns and Readmission Policies in Europe and Beyond (GAPs) // March 2023-February 2026
GAPs will explore the disconnects between expectations of return policies and their actual outcomes by decentering the dominant, one-sided understanding of "return policy making" by examining return infrastructures, migration diplomacy and migration trajectories with a focus on 13 countries in Europe, Africa and the broader Middle East. // Coordinators: Soner Bartholoma (Uppsala University) and Zeynep Mencütek (Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies)
Motivations, experiences and consequences of returns and readmissions policy: revealing and developing effective alternatives (MORE) // October 2023-September 2026
MORE problematises the focus on effectiveness of return. It explores perceptions of return and readmission policies amongst stakeholders as well as their consequences, explores alternative solutions and examines why certain ‘solutions’ are preferred over others. // Coordinator: Olga Jubany (University of Barcelona, Spain)
