This Discussion Paper examines the structural conditions shaping migrant labour in Farm-to-Fork (F2F) sectors across the European Union. Drawing on insights from the DignityFIRM project, it analyses how governance gaps,...
This handbook presents the methodological framework developed within the DignityFIRM project to guide comparative and interdisciplinary empirical research on migrants working in irregular labour conditions. The overall aims of the...
by Nora Dalia Gottlieb, Universität Bielefeld – School of Public Health It seems common sense that migrants tend to work in more taxing and dangerous jobs and that this, in turn, impacts their...
New Policy Brief is out! The focus of this Policy Brief is on the implementation of the social conditionalities mechanism in the Netherlands, where it came into force on...
07 / May – July 2025. This is the seventh note in a series of EU policy updates, each of which provides an overview of relevant EU-wide and EU-level policy developments...
The first DIGNITYFirm National Policy Brief is out! It highlights the paradoxes of the Italian quota system regulating labour migration, which appears highly dysfunctional and a source of irregular work....
06 / February – April 2025. This is the fifth note in a series of EU policy updates, each of which provides an overview of relevant EU-wide and EU-level policy developments...
Authors: Nora Gottlieb, Ingrid Jungwirth, Marius Glassner, Tesseltje de Lange, Sandra Mantu & Linda Forst How to cite: Gottlieb, N., Jungwirth, I., Glassner, M. et al. Immigrant workers in the meat industry during COVID-19: comparing governmental protection in Germany,...
Author: Anastasia Karatzas, European Policy Centre _ How to cite: Karatzas, A. (2025). Manifesto 2 - WP3.2: In the new cycle, the EU must develop a holistic approach to situations of irregularity...
05 / October 2024 – January 2025. This is the fifth note in a series of EU policy updates, each of which provides an overview of relevant EU-wide and EU-level policy...