Exhibition / 7 March — 29 March 2025
‘Reframing Migration’ by Ieva Baltaduonyte, critically examines how lexical choices in four major UK newspapers contribute to the depersonalisation of migrants, often reducing them to faceless statistics or negative stereotypes. By juxtaposing migrant portraits with linguistic analysis conducted by I-CLAIM researchers, the project highlights the disconnect between how migration is framed in the media and how it is experienced by individuals. It challenges the dehumanisation of migrants as mere items, emphasising that migration is not just a crisis but an inherently natural phenomenon involving regular people.
I-CLAIM project investigates the living and working conditions of irregularised migrant households in Europe from an intersectional perspective. It aims to reveal the spectrum of irregularity in contemporary Europe and cast light on the everyday experiences of migrants with irregular, unstable and/or precarious legal status. I-CLAIM develops the concept of ‘irregularity assemblages’ to capture how migrants’ ‘irregular condition’ is produced by the interplay of immigration and asylum laws, policies and practice, wider labour market and welfare regimes, and political, media and public narratives. The irregular condition is shaped by migrants’ social position and positionality as well as by processes that occur at international, European, regional and local levels.