Improving the living and labour conditions of irregularised migrant households in Europe

I-Claime旨在调查六个欧洲国家的非法移民的生活和工作条件。它的目标是通过跨部门和代际的镜头，揭示移民非正常身份的范围和驱动因素，以及它对移民家庭的影响。该项目既需要推进科学知识和对产生违规行为的理论化，又迫切需要促进旨在改善欧洲无证移民家庭生活的政策和公共辩论。值得注意的是，它引入了“不规范集合”的概念，以说明移民和庇护法、政策和实践、更广泛的劳动力市场和福利制度以及占主导地位的公众叙述和看法的相互作用如何产生不规范现象。这一理解为共同设计、评估和验证政策选择和公共干预措施奠定了基础，这些政策选择和公共干预措施针对欧洲一系列不确定或没有法律地位的人所经历的特定地点、部门和跨部门的关键和脆弱性。该项目通过在研究过程的所有阶段与相关的欧洲、国家、地方和部门行为者接触，实现了向公众和政治辩论提供关于非正规移徙的信息的总体目标。其中包括六个国家的工会和移民权利组织。在方法上，该项目对法律和叙事框架进行政策和话语分析，这些框架在欧洲产生了一个复杂的违规基础设施。它还利用调查实验来捕捉公众对劳动力市场部门违规和人种学的看法，这些部门拥有大量无证移民和不同程度的数字平台渗透(农业食品、护理和家政工作以及物流和交付)。该项目还利用了协作、多模式和以艺术为基础的研究方法。

I-CLAIM aims to investigate the living and working conditions of undocumented migrants in six European countries. Its goal is to uncover the spectrum and drivers of migrants’ irregular status, as well as the impact it has on migrant families, through an intersectional and intergenerational lens. The project combines the need to advance scientific knowledge and theorisation on the production of irregularity with the urgency to contribute to policy and public debates aimed at improving the lives of undocumented migrant households in Europe. Notably, it introduces the concept of “irregularity assemblages” to capture how irregularity is produced by the interplay of immigration and asylum laws, policies and practice; broader labour market and welfare regimes; and dominant public narratives and perceptions. This understanding underpins the co-design, assessment, and validation of policy options and public interventions that target place-specific, sectoral, and intersectional criticalities and vulnerabilities experienced by a range of people with uncertain or no legal status in Europe. The project achieves its overarching ambition to inform public and political debates on irregularised migration by engaging with relevant European, national, local, and sectoral actors at all stages of the research process. These include labour unions and migrant rights organizations in six countries. Methodologically, the project applies policy and discourse analysis of the legal and narrative frameworks that produce a complex infrastructure of irregularity in Europe. It also employs survey experiments to capture public perceptions of irregularity and ethnographies of labour market sectors with high numbers of undocumented migrants and varying degrees of digital platform penetration (agri-food, care and domestic work, and logistics and delivery). The project also utilizes collaborative, multimodal, and art-based research methods.