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What makes migrant workers in Europe irregular, and what is their experience like day to day?
This book traces how immigration regimes, labour markets, welfare systems and public narratives combine to produce precarious, insecure working lives across contemporary Europe.
Drawing on the Horizon Europe and UKRI-funded I-CLAIM projects, the volume covers Finland, Germany, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands and the UK, introducing the concept of "irregularity assemblage" to capture how irregular migration is produced through overlapping layers of policy, narratives and practices.
Combining policy analysis, survey experiments, analysis of public narratives and ethnographic fieldwork in agriculture, domestic work, and food delivery, the authors cast new light on the living and working condition of irregularised migrant workers in Europe.
Ilse van Liempt is Professor of Geographies of Migration and Urban Inequalities and Chair of the Urban Geography section at Utrecht University. She co-leads the Horizon Europe I-CLAIM project on the living and labour conditions of irregularised migrant workers in Europe.
Nando Sigona is Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham.
1. The Irregularity Assemblage - Nando Sigona and Ilse van Liempt
2. Infrastructures of Irregularity at the EU Level - Sergio Carrera and Davide Colombo
3. Legal and Policy Infrastructures: A European Comparison - Lena Näre
4. Narratives and Counter-Narratives of Irregularity: A Comparative Perspective - Markus Rheindorf and Bastian Vollmer
5. Public Perceptions of Migrant Irregularity Across Europe - Laurence Lessard Phillips
6. Resistance in Precarity: Migrant Workers’ Strategies Against the Privatisation of Border Control - Stefano Piemontese, Nando Sigona
7. Normalisation of Exclusion and Its Effects on Everyday Lives of Irregular Migrants in the Netherlands - Minke Hajer and Ilse van Liempt
8. Bureaucratic Struggles of Irregularised Migrants in Finland: A Gender Perspective - Paula Merikoski
9. Live to Work and Work to Live: Poor Work and Irregularities in the Experiences of Ukranian Women in the Agricultural and Domestic Work Sectors in Campania - Letizia Palumbo and Iuliia Lashchuk
10. Unpacking insecurities in the context of food delivery and agriculture in Poland - Aleksandra Grzymała-Kazłowska, Ksenia Hommel-Ficenes and Kamil Matuszczyk
11. The Condition of Formal Informality in Germany - Bastian Vollmer (CUAS Mainz) and Beatrice Salamena
12. Conclusion - Ilse van Liempt and Nando Sigona