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Yes, 95% of Afghans on student visas apply for asylum, but how many people are we really talking about? What about Cameroon or Myanmar? See below the top countries of origin via entry route. 88% of Afghan asylum seekers don't enter with a visa...

The UK Home Secretary #shabanamahmood is never shy of a photo opportunity. Here she is posing in a martial Greg Bovino–style coat at a removal centre in #Copenhagen; just a few days later we find her again on the front pages announcing a #visa ban for countries that “abuse our generosity”. #asylum

The UK Home Secretary #shabanamahmood is never shy of a photo opportunity. Here she is posing in a martial Greg Bovino–style coat at a removal centre in #Copenhagen; just a few days later we find her again on the front pages announcing a #visa ban for countries that “abuse our generosity”. #asylum

Apparently one of the effects of using AI as our sparring partner/friend/therapist/coach/mentor is that we are becoming less patient with those who don't agree with us and find our ideas always insightful. Is this something others are experiencing?

➜ new episode of "Conversations with Iris" #podcast on asylum and integration in #Denmark with Prof prof Michelle Pace open.spotify.com/episode/6FvW...

Join us for our next IRIS talk with professor @vickisquire.bsky.social on her recently published book "Making and unmaking global citizenship" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-and...

➜ a reminder: the Call for papers, panels and workshops for IRIS 2026 conference: Unsettling Communities (7-9 September 2026) is open until 16th March 2026: superdiversity.net/iris-2026-co...

4 updates from IRIS. ➜Racial Logics of hashtag#IrregularMigration: new @iclaimeu.bsky.social report on how race and #racism shape the production, governance, and lived experience of migrants’ irregularity across Europe: in collaboration with @enareurope.bsky.social i-claim.eu/project/raci...

New episode of Conversations with IRiS 🎙️ In this #podcast, we speak with prof Michelle Pace, author of Unwelcome to #Denmark (Manchester University Press, 2025). #asylum open.spotify.com/episode/6FvW...

Rubio: we attacked Iran to preempt their retaliation due to Israel attacking them first. Carlson: we attacked Iran to protect Israel who attacked Iran first from their retaliation Netanyahu: Trump is the strongest leader in the world

Well, no, they’re not just as wrong. The bigger error is not seeing that “trying to win over voters from a party on the opposite end of the spectrum, whose values your core voters oppose” is not same as “chasing voters from party on same side ideologically whose values your core voters like.”

She hasn't learned the lesson BBC News - Mahmood to press on with immigration reforms despite by-election defeat www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The only thing Keir Starmer seems to be changing at the moments are his glass frames. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"At a time when migrants are routinely framed as problems to be managed or threats to be deterred, Spain has chosen a different language: one of presence, contribution, and belonging" @nandosigona.bsky.social www.meltingpot.org/en/2026/02/a...

To get a sense of how this may affect people who are British by descent, here a public comment on my piece: "I am Australian, my father is British. He never bothered getting Australian citizenship, and he moved back to the UK over 30 years ago..."

Who are the dual citizens living in the UK at the time of 2021 Census (source: ONS)? 592,145 are UK-born 17,295 are Irish-born 139,240 are EU-born (excl. Ireland) 508,145 are non-EU born #dualcitizenship

⚠️ Natasha Tsangarides, an associate director at Freedom from Torture, said: “Yusuf’s speech was a grotesque display of ethnonationalist, authoritarian cruelty. His divisive and dangerous proposals threaten to divide families and wreak terror and chaos in our communities.”

New piece by @nandosigona.bsky.social: A different path – the #regularisation of migrants in #Spain. At a time of rising xenophobia across Europe, Spain is charting a different course. What does it reveal about the failures of the wider European approach? www.meltingpot.org/en/2026/02/a...

British dual citizens are not a homogeneous group, and their different constituent parts are affected differently by the new UK passport rules — changes whose wider consequences the government does not appear to have fully appreciated, @nandosigona.bsky.social writes for @theconversation.com

UK’s new passport rules for dual citizens are a result of border control in the digital age. But dual citizenship and transnational life produce precisely the kind of complexity digital systems struggle to accommodate. theconversation.com/uks-new-pass... @nandosigona.bsky.social @theconversation.com

New rules for dual citizens reflect how states are adapting citizenship to a digital age of control and surveillance. 👉 Read the full analysis on @theconversation.com UK’s new passport rules for dual citizens are a result of border control in the digital age theconversation.com/uks-new-pass...

New rules for dual citizens reflect how states are adapting citizenship to a digital age of control and surveillance. 👉 Read the full analysis on @theconversation.com UK’s new passport rules for dual citizens are a result of border control in the digital age theconversation.com/uks-new-pass...

Listening to @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social & Rory Stewart on the fate of Starmer's gov & I see why Rory is a inspiring intellectual & accomplished diplomat but he failed as politician. His 'solution' is to press ahead with unpopular policy by uninspiring establishment ministers (Streeting & Reeves)

What we may soon find out, potentially leading to a resignation over a false statement by the PM, is that Starmer & McSweeney appointed Mandelson NOT out of ignorance, but BECAUSE his presence in Epstein network made him someone Trump could trust. theconversation.com/how-much-tro...

The final episode of #MAGA & #migration #podcast series dropped last week: whodowethinkweare.org/podcasts/who... @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & I reflect back on our conversations with 4 excellent guests: Cecilia Menjívar; Rachel Humphris, Ernesto Castañeda and Heba Gowayed Brief recap🧵

The precarisation of permanent residence, the attack on #dualcitizenship, and the threat of #denaturalisation are not confined to Trump's America, and are finding strong echoes on this side of the Atlantic.

The question we asked @drernestocast.bsky.social is there still space for migrants in the new Trumpified #americandream? whodowethinkweare.org/podcasts/who...

Spain's choice on migrants 'pragmatic' but data needs securing, expert says - France 24 share.google/dtUoRaQ4lMf0...

This is leadership, especially in these dire times when migrants are used as an easy punchbag from all sides of the political spectrum.

This is leadership, especially in these dire times when migrants are used as an easy punchbag from all sides of the political spectrum.

Today we published a report on public understanding & attitudes to #irregularmigration in the UK. this is my a one-line summary: strong opinions, wrong facts. But there is so much more to it. Ultimately the picture is much more nuanced and complex... i-claim.eu/project/publ...

Our lead analyst Joseph Elliott takes you through the interactive Data Dashboard, launched for the first time this year alongside #UKPoverty2026 🔽

Another great episode @ezraklein.bsky.social #podcast on #Davos and the significance of @mark-carney.bsky.social speech. It is also a reflection on the short & medium term impact of Trump's transactionalism & assertion of hegemony open.spotify.com/episode/5gZQ...

Call for Papers, Panels and Workshops | IRIS 2026 Conference: Unsettling Communities: Diversity, Mobility and Displacement in an Age of Growing Authoritarianism 7-9 September 2026, @unibirmingham.bsky.social Deadline for proposals: 16 March 2026 superdiversity.net/iris-2026-co...

Why on earth would the Italian government invite a bunch of murderous thugs and agents provocateurs to secure a sporting event meant to celebrate peace and cooperation? This is sycophancy to another level. Shame on you #giorgiameloni! #winterolympics Source: BBC search.app/YPptcq

Listen to this @ezraklein.bsky.social #podcast on #ice #immigrationenforcement feat. @caitlindickerson.bsky.social before it goes behind paywall. It is outstanding, nuanced and insightful open.spotify.com/episode/0oRq...

📣 Call for Papers, Panels and Workshops | IRIS 2026 Conference: Unsettling Communities superdiversity.net/2026/01/23/%...

There is a huge volume of submissions, reflecting how important, controversial and IMO vindictive and damaging these proposals are. Linked below Good ones from @ippr.org, @ilonapin.bsky.social, @nandosigona.bsky.social & many others [2/3] committees.parliament.uk/committee/83...

Chagos Islanders (& not for the first time), joining the list of the US's "superfluous people" (Arendt).

When & where I grew up education was a right and financial barriers had to be removed to ensure equality of access. HE was at service of the public good. In many countries in Europe this is still the case. You read this article in FT and you realise you are on a different planet.

Measuring Misery: The Science & Politics of Forced Displacement Statistics #IRIStalk by @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social, 2 February, 4-5.30pm @unibirmingham.bsky.social @irisbirmingham.bsky.social superdiversity.net/2026/01/14/m...

The @unibirmingham.bsky.social #socialpolicy is hosting #ISARC19 2026 conference next September (2-4 Sept, University of Birmingham), the call for papers is available here: uobevents.eventsair.com/rc19/call-fo...

Hopefully of interest! @stijntvankessel.bsky.social @gavinbrookes.bsky.social @dgalasinski.bsky.social @casmudde.bsky.social @nandosigona.bsky.social @onachtwey.bsky.social @joshshepperd.bsky.social @francozappettini.bsky.social @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social @samtbennett.bsky.social

What do Britons know and think about #irregularmigration? Read new @iclaimeu.bsky.social report out today i-claim.eu/project/publ...

Pretty confident you would get similar results if you ask foreign academics (excluding the US exodus). www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Need some help to understand what's going on in Trump's America? Listen to the #MAGA & #migration #podcast series hosted by @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & @nandosigona.bsky.social

The final episode of #MAGA & #migration #podcast series dropped last week: whodowethinkweare.org/podcasts/who... @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & I reflect back on our conversations with 4 excellent guests: Cecilia Menjívar; Rachel Humphris, Ernesto Castañeda and Heba Gowayed Brief recap🧵

A (research) year-in-review from @irisbirmingham.bsky.social superdiversity.net/2025/12/16/a...

*NEW EPISODE ALERT* @nandosigona.bsky.social and I reflect on the pace of change when it comes to migration and Trump's MAGA project in this final episode of our Who do we think we are miniseries whodowethinkweare.org/podcasts/who... 1/