#Asylum is not #illegalmigration — So why is the UK Government treating it as such? nandosigona.info/2025/11/18/a...

Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2

Everyone should watch this, including the Home Secretary. It is horrific what ICE is doing in the US.

This is so relatable. I worked as a delivery driver in Sweden. With a student visa, I could only work for 15h/week. With flexible hours, I thought it was the best possible option for me. It is the worst job I've ever had. I have so much compassion for these people.

Among the many things wrong with Labour’s immigration strategy, this stands out: to “fight” a few thousand so-called illegal migrants, Shabana Mahmood is willing to make life hell for hundreds of thousands of people who are legally in the UK. 🔗 theconversation.com/labours-plan...

Our @iclaimeu.bsky.social report on the living and working conditions of food delivery migrant workers is featured in this excellent piece by Diane Taylor for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Performative cruelty once again. By Labour. Support for people seeking asylum is already heavily restricted. Most are not allowed to work, but for those who can support themselves they are already pretty much expected to. 1/ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

At the right of Laura K, wow, who would have imagined

Shabana Mahmood tells Sunday Times it should take 20 years for somebody granted refugee status in UK to secure permanent status (ie, reapply 6 times) if came without permission. Paper says Denmark has toughest settlement timeline (8 years) but UK govt wants longer www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees, either - it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents or - it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Go to the last paragraph, to stop 'the dark forces' take over, we must be the dark forces... BBC News - UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tomorrow we are presenting some of the findings from the @iclaimeu.bsky.social at a policy workshop hosted by @ceps.eu, in collaboration with our partners @enareurope.bsky.social & @etuc-ces.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?si=y4W...

The train service in the UK is pathetic; the only things that work ok is the online compensation system. #crosscountry #silverlining #commuterlife

There is a long tradition of right-wing populist leaders signing "contract" with "the people" (and then breaking them) #farage #reform In 2001, Silvio Berlusconi di it live on RAI 1, the Italian national broadcast.

The Telegraph had to correct its multiple lies about "illegal immigrants" in London at least three separate times.

Written by @nandosigona.bsky.social & @ilsevanliempt.bsky.social, The irregularisation of migration and migrants’ irregular condition draws on research across 6 European countries to propose a new way of thinking about migrant ‘irregularity’ i-claim.eu/irregular-mi... #hotoffthepress

New @iclaimeu.bsky.social report by @ilsevanliempt.bsky.social and myself on the irregularisation of #migration in Europe and why we need to rethink how we think, talk and address the issue

#Irregularmigration as an #assemblage: New IRIS Working Paper by @ilsevanliempt.bsky.social and me unpacks how “irregularity” is made in Europe drawing on @iclaimeu.bsky.social findings superdiversity.net/2025/10/31/i...

So nice to have @rachelhumphris.bsky.social back at IRIS for a day! On 5 November (4-5.30pm) Rachel will present her new @stanfordpress.bsky.social book "Making Sanctuary Cities". To book a place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-san...

#Irregularmigration as an #assemblage: New IRIS Working Paper by @ilsevanliempt.bsky.social and me unpacks how “irregularity” is made in Europe drawing on @iclaimeu.bsky.social findings superdiversity.net/2025/10/31/i...

Bumped into this quote from David, a Brazilian working in London we interviewed for #SansPapiers (@plutopress.bsky.social), it still captures so aptly a truth about being a long-term migrant: 'I've sent all the pictures I had to send': #migration and friendship nandosigona.info/2013/11/27/i...

“Home. Delivered.” is based on research findings by @iclaimeu.bsky.social researchers Ilse van Liempt & Minke Hajer from the University of Utrecht, titled ‘Irregular migrants and precarity in the Dutch Food Delivery Sector’.

@lukepiper.bsky.social @the3million.bsky.social @nandosigona.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social

YouGov suggest support for deporting legal migrants at approx 8-11% of public for deport people who came to work legally (Much higher deportation support figures when people are thinking about those without legal status) 1/6 pro deporting refugees with legal status [an extreme view]

"The result would be removals on an epic scale. The comparison with Idi Amin's expulsion of Ugandan Asians is not one many Tory MPs welcome. Some appear unaware their own policy was that monstrous, until Lam spelled it out in a newspaper interview" - Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Me to chatgpt: Labour cabinet's topline messages as reported in media Chatgpt: raise taxes; immigrants are bad; Israel is always right; Trump? No comment. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

Strange world we live in — while everyone is talking about the #heist at the #Louvre in Paris, $230 million is about to ‘disappear’ from the Bank of America in Washington D.C., right in broad daylight. #Trump www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The moral squalor of this politics knows no bounds. Just when you think they’ve hit bottom, they dig deeper. And yet I'm not surprised. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The #1in1out scheme was always deemed to fail (and a compromise)... France can't detain anyone sent back from Britain and people will just try again, as they have always done www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

What happens when people start to realize that immigration is not necessarily the cause of the problems they face? A myth-busting conversation on hope, solidarity, and change."

"The targeting of migrants & minoritized populations poses a serious challenge to the long-standing idea that if a person comes to the USA and works hard, they will enjoy social mobility and ‘success’.

"Who still believes in the American Dream? How long can its demolition hold in a country built on immigration?" It was great to talk about the state of the American Dream with Professors @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & @nandosigona.bsky.social for their podcast whodowethinkweare.org/podcasts/who...

From yesterday: Age assessments: what happens when a child arrives in the UK? | Francesca Sella

she is better than many presenters currently on air #c4 But what does 'better' mean? youtu.be/BF74l1jIfXY?...

Usual lack of political courage from a Labour Cabinet minister, we learn that it was the #Brexit deal, not Brexit, to be a disaster. Source: BBC search.app/t53mu

Systematic murder and torture as a matter of deliberate state policy. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Catch up with the first seminar in our series. We discussed #migration and #asylum under #Labour with @nandosigona.bsky.social and David Stark superdiversity.net/2025/10/20/s...

Labour to Reform: come on in! This was the chance to hold Farage to account, but instead she gives him the exact narrative he'd go for. Instead of Wrecking the country with Brexit he can bang on about Brexit Betrayal

Usual lack of political courage from a Labour Cabinet minister, we learn that it was the #Brexit deal, not Brexit, to be a disaster. Source: BBC search.app/t53mu

The visuals of this British Home Office ad (which also reads as targeting foreigners who are already legally resident in the UK, not future immigrants) look like they'd be right in place in some 1980s dystopian movie about the BNP taking power.

Let me say what many people are thinking: I don't care about his title, if he is guilty, he should go to prison as any commoner committing a crime. It is amazing how the 'firm' is spinning this so much, to keep this obvious thing out of the conversation www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Professor Benjamin Zephaniah performing his poem "The British" with a group of sixth form students from the East Midlands in 2009 for BBC Poetry

From a country that had no qualms about taking over large parts of the world with its 'emigrants' for a few centuries, this seems a bit rich, doesn’t it? nandosigona.info/2025/10/16/w...

A short piece developing the thread a bit further nandosigona.info/2025/10/16/w...

"While trying to play catch-up with Reform & its mythical white working-class voters, Labour is in danger of alienating millions of real British workers & voters—people who make up the fabric of contemporary Britain but who rarely see themselves reflected in the national conversation about belonging

Reintroducing @iclaimeu.bsky.social, a research and art collaboration exploring how irregularised migrant households live and work across Europe. Past exhibitions: Reframing Migration, Ieva Baltaduonyte 7-29.03.25 Nostalgia ’n’ Exploitation, Chris Costa 7-11.05.25 https://bit.ly/3J3VNuF

Still on Probation: How the Home Office’s Rhetoric Keeps Foreign-Born Britons in Their Place nandosigona.info/2025/10/16/w... #immigration #keirstarmer #labour #shabanamahmood

Most people are shocked to learn that ALL state-funded in schools are legally required to hold daily acts of worship. We’re campaigning to change that – and replace worship with assemblies that all children can participate in. Want to help us? Donate! humanists.uk/2025/10/14/h...

'thanks' to the algorithm, this is what I woke up to every morning... As a foreigner, this really gets me in a good mood (not) for the day.

This is not good for anyone. There is no good reason, besides fiddling with net migration statistics, to do it. Has @10dowingstreet.bsky.social even bothered to explain why was this done? share.google/fFeByfRYwlPz...