Periodic Reporting for period 1 - MIrreM (Measuring Irregular Migration and related Policies)
Período documentado: 2022-10-01 hasta 2023-09-30
MIrreM’s overall objective is to provide a sound evidence basis for policies concerning irregular migration and regularisation.
To fulfil this objective the project comprises an extensive review of data, and policy analysis in 20 countries in Europe (AT, BE, BA, DE, EL, ES, FI, FR, IE, IT, NL, PL, PT, RS, TR, UK), North America (CA, US), and North Africa (MA, TN). MIrreM’s methods lab will develop and pilot innovative estimation approaches. Based on a review of regularisation policies, case studies of their implementation and effects, we will then develop regularisation scenarios that can guide stakeholders on available options in particular circumstances, as well as the implications of such policy options. The conclusions of the project will be summarised in two handbooks elaborated together with two working groups to be launched in spring 2024.
Specifically, MIrreM has:
• developed a project website and prepared a publication series
• appointed an Advisory Board that is closely involved with the project
• developed a detailed strategy for Communication and Impact
• launched a project newsletter that now has more than 300 subscribers
• co-organised a joint webinar series together with other Horizon Europe projects
• published papers focused on the conceptualisation of migrant irregularity, stakeholder engagement, stakeholders' data needs and usage, ethics and a review of estimation methods
• commenced policy reviews in the research countries and gathered available data on stocks and flows of irregular migration
• prepared pilot studies using new innovative methods for estimating irregular migration
• implemented processes for ensuring ethics clearances and approvals of fieldwork
• launched a stakeholder survey and held stakeholder workshops in the countries under study.
The specific objectives set out in MIrreM will result in:
1. A refined understanding of migrant irregularity and a systematic classification of different types of migrants in an irregular and related situations.
2. A better understanding of the relationship between pathways in and out of irregularity, on the one hand, and stocks of irregular migrants, on the other.
3. A rigorous review of estimates on irregular migrants living in the EU, including those working.
4. The development of methodologies to estimate the number of irregular migrants, specific categories of migrants and characteristics of irregular migrants.
5. Clarification of the links between policies and migrant irregularity in a multi-level setting.
6. A better understanding of data needs and usage at different policy levels.
7. An examination of policy responses to irregular migration at the local, national and EU level.
8. The development of tools to assess the viability and costs of regularisation programmes, alongside their economic, socio-demographic and health benefits.
9. Tangible recommendations for the production and use of quantitative data on the irregular migrant population and in relation to regularisation – targeting various policy levels and types of stakeholders.
The expected impacts of MIrreM are:
Impact 1 Stronger Data – Generate more accurate information about the size and characteristics of the population in an irregular situation via innovative and scalable estimation methods.
Impact 2 Enhanced Policies – Develop a systematic and in-depth understanding of how migration management policies and practices shape migrant irregularity in a wide range of countries in Europe, North America and North Africa.
Impact 3 Knowledge Exchange – Sustained involvement of stakeholders through two working groups on data on irregular migration and regularisation, respectively.
Objective 4 Feasible Solutions – Disseminate strategies for assessing the costs and benefits of regularisation and to provide practical avenues for improving the quantitative evidence-base on irregular migration.