In the fourth episode of Mobility, Work, and Rights, hosts Nando Sigona and Ilse van Liempt explore the relation between migration status and working conditions and what it means to work the nightshift.

Nando and Ilse are joined by two guests who help them in this task: Julius Cezar MacQuarie who teaches and researches at the University of Cork and his the author of Invisible Migrant Nightworkers in 24/7 London (Springer 2023); and Renzo Sgolacchia, architect, researcher and film-maker, author of Living Labour, a documentary on the lives of Polish, Spanish and Roma workers in the Netherlands.

Our podcast picks …

Books:

- Invisible Migrant Nightworkers in 24/7 London (2023): https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-36186-9

- Living on the Margins: Undocumented Migrants in a Global City by Alice Bloch and Sonia McKay (2017)

Films:

- Invisible Lives: Romanian Night Workers in London

- The Sleepless Bat Trailer a.k.a Nightshift Spitalfields

Report:

Cleaning up Westminster: Understanding Racial Capitalism Through Ethnographies of Racialised and/or Migrant Night Cleaners in UK Parliament.

Article:

Night-Time and Refugees: Evidence from the Thai-Myanmar Border | Journal of Refugee Studies

Podcast:

NightWorkPod

How to cite this episode

Van Liempt, I , Sigona, N, MacQuarie, JC, Sgolacchia, R (2025) “The night shift and the politics of exhaustion”, Mobility, work and rights: the I-CLAIM podcast, S1 E4, 21 January 2025.

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For this interview special of Mobility, Work & Rights, Nando Sigona speaks with Davide Colombi, co-author with Sergio Carrera of Irregularising Human Mobility (Springer 2024), a new open access book examining the history and current state of play of EU law and policy covering irregularised migration and how migration policies have been problematised at the EU institutional level, in particular by the European Commission. As Donald Trump prepares to take office next year and the new European Commission, led by Ursula von der Leyen, begins its term this December, Nando and Davide explore what lies ahead for the politics of migration in the coming months.

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– Carrera, S. and Colombi, D. (2025) Irregularising Human Mobility: EU Migration Policies and the European Commission’s Role, Springer
– Carrera, S. and Colombi, D. (2024) Irregularised migration and the next European Commission. I-CLAIM Policy Brief.

How to cite this episode:

Sigona, N, Colombi, D. (2024) “Irregularising human mobility - interview special", Mobility, work and rights: the I-CLAIM podcast, S1 E3, 6 December 2024.

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In this episode of Mobility, Work, and Rights, hosts Nando Sigona and Ilse van Liempt look at how a migrant can become irregularised and with what consequences.

In conversation with Sabrina Marchetti (University of Venice) and Lena Nare (University of Helsinki) they consider the governance of irregular migration in Europe and compare and contrast how European states address the phenomenon.

On the eve of Donald Trump's second term as US president, Nando and Ilse speak to Walter Nicholls (UC Irvine) about what we can expect from Trump and if and how Europe is moving in a similar direction.

Our podcast picks …

- Näre, L., Palumbo, L., Merikoski, P., & Marchetti, S. (2024). The Legal and Policy Infrastructure of Migrant Irregularity. Comparative Report. I-CLAIM. DOI: https://zenodo.org/records/12564073 - Colombi, D. Näre, L., Palumbo, L., Merikoski, P., & Marchetti, S. (2024). Irregularised migration in Europe. Policy Brief. I-CLAIM.

- ⁠‘SANCTUARY FOR ALL’ OR ‘SANCTUARY FOR THE DESERVING’: How Municipal Bureaucracies Mediate and Decide Contentious Struggles over Urban Citizenship⁠ by Walter Nicholls, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research - The politics of status, ICMPD podcast - "Exploitable by design: Nando Sigona in conversation with Luke Piper", Conversations with Iris, 2024

- Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment (SSAHE) A new chapter or more of the same? Migration policy under Labour, 2024

How to cite this episode:

Van Liempt, I , Sigona, N, Marchetti, S, Nare, L, Nicholls, W (2024) “Policy and politics of irregularity in Europe and US", Mobility, work and rights: the I-CLAIM podcast, S1 E2, 28 November 2024.

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