While Trump's administration continues its mass deportation campaign and the European Commission launches a new strategy for streamlining returns, including by normalising the idea of offshore warehousing of migrants awaiting removal, we think it is important and useful to offer some (qualified) hope by focusing on two recent regularisation schemes in The Netherlands and Italy.

Our podcast picks

- BOOK: Boswell, C. and Chabal, E. (eds) (2023) States of Ignorance: governing irregular migration in Western Europe, Cambridge University Press.

- ARTICLE: Bonizzoni, P., & Hajer, M. (2022). Civil Society Actors and the 2020 Italian Amnesty: Bordering to Deborder? Journal of Intercultural Studies, 44(1), 44–60. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2022.2134317

- REPORT: The right to legal residence and the colonial past: are former Dutch citizens born in Suriname discriminated as compared to former Dutch citizens born in other (Western) countries? by Raffaela Abbate, Lara van Daalen, Paul Fosse, Anouk Hol & Salomé Rakotovao, 2022

- REPORT: Yeo, C, Sigona, N., Godin, M. (2022) Parallels and Differences Between Ending Commonwealth And EU Citizen Free Movement, Eurochildren Research Brief Series, No. 4, 2022

- MEDIA: Nigerian family deported after years in Netherlands despite integration, NL Times, 23 May 2025

How to cite this episode

Sigona, N, van Liempt, I, Hajer, M., de Vlaming , F. , Bonizzoni, P., (2025) “Let's talk regularisation", Mobility, work and rights: the I-CLAIM podcast, S1 E7, 6 June 2025.

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