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

I-CLAIM旨在调查六个欧洲国家无证移民的生活和工作条件。其目标是通过交叉和代际的视角，揭示移民非正规身份的范围和驱动因素，以及它对移民家庭的影响。该项目结合了推进关于不规范产生的科学知识和理论的需求，以及促进旨在改善欧洲无证移民家庭生活的政策和公共辩论的紧迫性。值得注意的是，它引入了“不正常组合”的概念，以捕捉移民和庇护法律、政策和实践的相互作用如何产生不正常；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事和观念。这种理解为共同设计、评估和验证政策选择和公共干预提供了基础，这些选择和公共干预针对的是特定地点、部门和交叉领域的关键问题和脆弱性，这些问题和脆弱性是欧洲法律地位不确定或没有法律地位的人群所经历的。该项目通过在研究过程的各个阶段与相关的欧洲、国家、地方和部门行为者合作，实现了其为非法移民问题的公共和政治辩论提供信息的总体目标。其中包括六个国家的工会和移民权利组织。在方法上，该项目应用了对欧洲产生复杂的不规则基础设施的法律和叙事框架的政策和话语分析。它还采用调查实验来捕捉公众对无证移民人数众多、数字平台普及率不同的劳动力市场部门（农业食品、护理和家政工作、物流和配送）的不规范现象和民族志的看法。该项目还采用协作、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.