Now back to do podcast with real people after the quite successful (I think) experiment with Google’s Notebook AI. Ilse van Liempt and I host a new podcast series on irregular migration called Mobility, Work and Rights. You can find it on all major podcast platforms (including youtube). The starting point is that irregular migration is complicated and, if one looks just a bit under the surface of what may seem self-explanatory, defining what irregularity is and who counts as an irregular migrant is not just slippery and hard to pin down, but unpacking what falls in these categories at a particular time and place can cast light of wider societal transformations and hierarchies. It also offers insights into a range of, sometimes hidden, practices of resistance and contestation mobilised by migrants and citizens alike, but we will discuss this a bit later in the series, so stay tuned and subscribe!

In each episode we talk to experts in the field and share insights from the findings of the I-CLAIM study on the living and working conditions of irregularised migrant families in Europe. In the first episode we talk definitions and their implications and consider why cities can offer a more welcoming environment to irregularised migrants with Blanca Garces Mascarenas and Myriam Cherti.