'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.

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

New research by @profjennyp.bsky.social and colleagues for a global #refugeesponsorship initiative www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/gl...

Join us on 20 October, 4-5.30pm @unibirmingham.bsky.social for this IRIS public seminar by @nandosigona.bsky.social on #Migration & #asylum under #Labour. Discussant: David Stark. Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/migration-...

IRIS Public Talks 20 Oct, 4pm Migration and #Asylum under Labour | @nandosigona.bsky.social 5 Nov, 4pm Making Sanctuary Cities | @rachelhumphris.bsky.social 5 Dec, 4pm The Shape of Belonging for Unaccompanied Young Migrants| Ozlem Ogtem Young superdiversity.net/2025/10/01/m...

In the piece for @theconversation.com I argue that settlement used to recognise residence, contribution & community ties. Now it’s recast as a prize for those who can continually prove their “moral worth”.

Labour’s plan to make migrants earn permanent residency by doubling the wait to 10 years & adding new tests turns belonging into an endless exam. 🔗 theconversation.com/labours-plan... #ShabanaMahmood #LabourConference

#publicationalert New article by @michaelacbenson.bsky.social Catherine Craven & @nandosigona.bsky.social on the political mobilisation of #EUcitizenship during #Brexit drawing @ukri.org www.migzen.net

If you happen to be in Birmingham on 8 Oct (1:30-3pm), Dr Seb Rumsby will be speaking about his work, "Theorising ‘global labour migration chains". All welcome - for more details and to register: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @irisbirmingham.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social

The first episode of #maga & #migration podcast series is finally out! @michaelacbenson.bsky.social and I talk to @rachelhumphris.bsky.social about her new @stanfordpress.bsky.social book Making #sanctuarycities Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0ptn... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

#mustlisten #podcast on #migration and reproductive justice in a hostile environment with @pipmck.bsky.social, host: @rachelbenchekroun.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/33G3...

Not sure it will work great diplomatically

Migrants vs. locals: A growing culture clash in Gulf states – DW – 09/06/2025 share.google/3OJoYMQgFkD5...

A new day, a new minister, a new ‘solution’ – speaking to @lbc.co.uk and @bbc5live.bsky.social about Shabana Mahmood's first migration 'solution' after less than 24h in office share.google/z2jhpHXqb9ou...

How come none had come up with this idea before? I would like to ask this question to the minister and then compare the answer with her colleagues' in the Foreign Office BBC News - UK could suspend visas for countries with no migrant return deals www.bbc.com/news/article...

Where are the UK's asylum seekers from? | UK News | Sky News share.google/jdEquTlr6JmN... - It includes words from me

Spoke to Johnny L'Anson @bbc5live.bsky.social on #Epping #asylum hotel ruling and the challenges to move to an asylum system that doesn't rely on hotels and huge private contractors but is built together with local authorities. From 10.37 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

About half a billion quid made in profit...

Excellent article by @bbcdomc.bsky.social on the context of #Epping high court ruling and its possible consequences on the UK's approach to asylum accommodation BBC News - Difficult decisions lie ahead after asylum seeker hotel ruling www.bbc.com/news/article...

You read this and won't believe that the whole madness of asylum hotel was born and bread under the Tories. More asylum hotels face legal challenge after court ruling - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nando Sigona interviewed by @ipaper.bsky.social on the redevelopment of Mansion #asylum centre. Home Office cuts back plans to revamp scandal-hit Manston asylum centre inews.co.uk/news/politic...

'The food delivery sector is no longer just a site of informal economic survival for precarious migrants' - @nandosigona.bsky.social & @stefano-piemontese.bsky.social on 'a new mode of migration governance' merging algorithmic control and immigration enforcement www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

Speaking to @markaustintv.bsky.social on Sky News on irregular boat crossings and the Labour government's response, @nandosigona.bsky.social says that one of the reasons why immigration policy fails is because they have little control or influence on the root caused of migration.

"From ‘smash the gangs’ to ‘smash the workers’" Important read from @nandosigona.bsky.social and @stefano-piemontese.bsky.social on how this government’s war on illegal work is making it harder for migrant workers to survive. www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

From #smashthegangs to ‘smash the workers’ Extract from our @opendemocracy.net piece drawing on @iclaimeu.bsky.social research www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

The British immigration system doesn’t just enable exploitation - it is built to enforce it. We urgently need a system rooted in fairness, which protects people, not profits, and which allows them to live and thrive. From research by @iclaimeu.bsky.social. www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

#Deliveryriders caught between algorithms and #immigration raids new piece drawing on @iclaimeu.bsky.social research with @stefano-piemontese.bsky.social www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr... #KeirStarmer #Labour #YvetteCooper #immigrationenforcement #Deliveroo #UberEats #gigeconomy

Great to talk to @iaindale.bsky.social for this episode of @lbc.co.uk The Whole Show on #immigration open.spotify.com/episode/6261...

"That the Home Office sent a removal letter to an eleven-year-old is not a clerical error. It is the system working as designed." @nandosigona.bsky.social on the UK migration system intentionally splitting families apart theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...

“Whilst this may involve a degree of disruption in family life…”. El gobierno de Keir Starmer expande un modelo migratorio cruel y utilitarista, como explica @nandosigona.bsky.social en esta pieza para @uk.theconversation.com. La nueva socialdemocracia europea se nos está volviendo rojiparda.

Great to see our @iclaimeu.bsky.social findings cited in @financialtimes.com ‘Account for rent’: UK seeks to curb illegal work in food delivery sector - on.ft.com/4m8T7Ke via @FT

Thanks to @nandosigona.bsky.social for a very thoughtful review in @migrationjrnl.bsky.social of "States of Ignorance", the book of the "Seeing 'Illegal' Immigrants" project I was proud to work on with @emile-chabal.bsky.social, @christinaboswell.bsky.social & others academic.oup.com/migration/ar...

'The Home Office is Everyone'! "Migrant riders become hyper-visible to the state yet invisible to the systems meant to protect them. They are ’legal enough’ to serve the economy but not ‘legal enough’ to be safe" @nandosigona.bsky.social & Stefano Piemontese www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/cr...

The UK wants (cheap and docile) labour no (family) ties attached. My op-ed for @uk.theconversation.com based on our @iclaimeu.bsky.social recently published reports. theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...

'Til the Home Office do us part: new piece by @nandosigona.bsky.social drawing on the @iclaimeu.bsky.social study on the working and living conditions of migrant workers in food delivery and domestic work in the UK theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...

'Til the Home Office do us part: new piece drawing on the @iclaimeu.bsky.social study on the working and living conditions of migrant workers in food delivery and domestic work theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...

Research exposes structural exploitation of #migrant workers in UK domestic and food delivery sectors made worse by #immigrationsystem under Labour superdiversity.net/2025/07/17/r...

Some thoughts by @nandosigona.bsky.social on @iomchief.iom.int vision for #migration #migrants

A great response/critique to Labour's immigration White Paper. I'd downplay the economic contribution of migrants and stress the inclusive policies and all other aspects of the approach described.

I attended a conversation with @iomchief.iom.int at @odi.global yesterday, the word #displacement was used so many times that by the end of it I thought I was listening to @unhcr.org chief.

📢 #Labour’s new immigration White Paper takes us further and faster in the wrong direction, argue Goodson & Stark. Instead of restoring trust, the plan doubles down on control, sidelines fairness, and risks deepening social division. Read the full critique 👉 superdiversity.net/2025/07/05/f...

This year, there is a sizeable IRiS delegation at the #IMISCOE2025 conference, including @profjennyp.bsky.social @seb-rumsby.bsky.social @stefano-piemontese.bsky.social @pipmck.bsky.social Laurence Lessard Phillips and @nandosigona.bsky.social

Day 2 of the Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment conference has started, with a fab panel with @irisbirmingham.bsky.social’s @amartinsjr.bsky.social, Giorgia Doná, ILPA’s @zoebantleman.bsky.social, and @migrantsorganise.bsky.social’s @zrinka.bsky.social.

Interesting to hear about @runnymedetrust.bsky.social report on #hostileenvironment at #ssahe conference, there are several findings that resonates with out @iclaimeu.bsky.social corpus analysis of political and public narratives on #irregularmigration i-claim.eu/project/the-...

Nando Sigona finds the language to express the loss of moral compass and the collapse of the 'West''s own narrative of the self.

Getting ready for @irisbirmingham.bsky.social awayday at #MAC. Looking forward to talking about methods and the futures of #migrationstudies

Looking forward to today's @irisbirmingham.bsky.social roundtable on methods in migration studies. I'll share insights from editing the 2nd edition handbook on the subject with @cvar-sil.bsky.social, alongside our open-access intro that reflects on changes and continuities: doi.org/10.4337/9781....

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer calls for Israel and Iran to de-escalate and says a Palestinian state is "the only long-term solution" for the region

But what is also in flux is the 'West''s own narrative of the self, to some extent this was always the case, but the rift seems to be deeper that it was in the last 20-30 years - the end of 'end of history' age

Does a so-called multipolar world necessarily mean everything is up for grabs, some sort of multipolar 'truth' era? The narrative of the 'west' in the Soviet Union was always different from how the 'west' liked to imagine itself... So more (also numerically) of the same but