IRIS
@irisbirmingham.bsky.social
The Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham, UK. Director: Prof @nandosigona.bsky.social
web: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/iris
blog: https://superdiversity.net
web: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/iris
blog: https://superdiversity.net
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Spoke to Greek newspaper @tovimagr.bsky.social about #UK asylum and immigration proposals and how they may impact non-citizens already in the UK
tovima.com/world/reforms-will-make-peoples-lives-miserable-academic-warns-as-uk-moves-toward-new-asylum-model/
tovima.com/world/reforms-will-make-peoples-lives-miserable-academic-warns-as-uk-moves-toward-new-asylum-model/
Reforms Will ‘Make People's Lives Miserable’, Academic Warns, as UK Moves Toward New Asylum Model - tovima.com
Asylum debate shifts to the right – asylum seekers and refugees are being labelled as criminals
tovima.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Spoke to Greek newspaper @tovimagr.bsky.social about #UK asylum and immigration proposals and how they may impact non-citizens already in the UK
tovima.com/world/reforms-will-make-peoples-lives-miserable-academic-warns-as-uk-moves-toward-new-asylum-model/
tovima.com/world/reforms-will-make-peoples-lives-miserable-academic-warns-as-uk-moves-toward-new-asylum-model/
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Stay tuned! The new episode of Mobility, Work and Rights podcast is out next week!
We have amazing guests joining our hosts: @ilsevanliempt.bsky.social and @nandosigona.bsky.social to talk about migrant domestic work.
Nando talks to professor Bridget Anderson, director of @mmbuob.bsky.social.
We have amazing guests joining our hosts: @ilsevanliempt.bsky.social and @nandosigona.bsky.social to talk about migrant domestic work.
Nando talks to professor Bridget Anderson, director of @mmbuob.bsky.social.
November 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Stay tuned! The new episode of Mobility, Work and Rights podcast is out next week!
We have amazing guests joining our hosts: @ilsevanliempt.bsky.social and @nandosigona.bsky.social to talk about migrant domestic work.
Nando talks to professor Bridget Anderson, director of @mmbuob.bsky.social.
We have amazing guests joining our hosts: @ilsevanliempt.bsky.social and @nandosigona.bsky.social to talk about migrant domestic work.
Nando talks to professor Bridget Anderson, director of @mmbuob.bsky.social.
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Asylum is not "illegal migration"
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Asylum is not illegal migration – why the UK government shouldn’t conflate the two
The new proposals transform settlement into something that must be continually earned. The path has become longer, more conditional and far more easily disrupted.
theconversation.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Asylum is not "illegal migration"
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
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What if the very policies designed to prevent irregularity are the ones that keep producing it?
I try to answer these questions in this piece for @politicalquarterly.bsky.social drawing on this recently published @iclaimeu.bsky.social concept paper i-claim.eu/irregular-mi...
I try to answer these questions in this piece for @politicalquarterly.bsky.social drawing on this recently published @iclaimeu.bsky.social concept paper i-claim.eu/irregular-mi...
Irregular migration as an assemblage - I-CLAIM
Rethinking irregular migration: a new I-CLAIM paper questions the categories, narratives, and policies that sustain ‘irregularity’.
i-claim.eu
November 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
What if the very policies designed to prevent irregularity are the ones that keep producing it?
I try to answer these questions in this piece for @politicalquarterly.bsky.social drawing on this recently published @iclaimeu.bsky.social concept paper i-claim.eu/irregular-mi...
I try to answer these questions in this piece for @politicalquarterly.bsky.social drawing on this recently published @iclaimeu.bsky.social concept paper i-claim.eu/irregular-mi...
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Across Europe, politicians promise to “stop illegal migration” as if it were a problem that comes from the outside.
What if irregular migration is not something that happens despite the system, but because of it?
#EUmigration #ShabanaMahmood
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/how-eur...
What if irregular migration is not something that happens despite the system, but because of it?
#EUmigration #ShabanaMahmood
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/how-eur...
How Europe’s Migration Rules Keep Creating the “Irregular Migrants” They Claim to Catch
What if irregular migration is not something that happens despite the system, but because of it?
politicalquarterly.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Across Europe, politicians promise to “stop illegal migration” as if it were a problem that comes from the outside.
What if irregular migration is not something that happens despite the system, but because of it?
#EUmigration #ShabanaMahmood
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/how-eur...
What if irregular migration is not something that happens despite the system, but because of it?
#EUmigration #ShabanaMahmood
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/how-eur...
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#mustread by @nandosigona.bsky.social on @politicalquarterly.bsky.social drawing on the recently published concept paper on #irregularityassemblage
As Labour's hardline stance on immigration dominates the headlines, a Professor of International Migration asks: What if irregular migration is not something that happens despite the system, but because of it?
By @nandosigona.bsky.social
Read now: politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/how-eur...
By @nandosigona.bsky.social
Read now: politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/how-eur...
How Europe’s Migration Rules Keep Creating the “Irregular Migrants” They Claim to Catch
What if irregular migration is not something that happens despite the system, but because of it?
politicalquarterly.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
#mustread by @nandosigona.bsky.social on @politicalquarterly.bsky.social drawing on the recently published concept paper on #irregularityassemblage
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#Asylum is not #illegalmigration — So why is the UK Government treating it as such? nandosigona.info/2025/11/18/a...
Asylum is not illegal migration — So why is the UK Government treating it as such?
Nando Sigona The premise driving the government’s latest proposals on asylum is fundamentally wrong.Asylum is not illegal migration. Yet the policy architecture being rolled out treats it as such, …
nandosigona.info
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
#Asylum is not #illegalmigration — So why is the UK Government treating it as such? nandosigona.info/2025/11/18/a...
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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...
for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Life as a food delivery worker: ‘Sometimes men open the door naked’
To earn a living as a delivery rider, some work 10-12 hour days, contending with low pay, exhaustion, accidents, injuries and harassment. Is this a new form of modern slavery?
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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...
for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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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...
www.youtube.com/watch?si=y4W...
About I CLAIM
YouTube video by I-CLAIM
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?si=y4W...
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You can find our new report here: nandosigona.info/2025/10/31/i...
Irregular migration as an assemblage: New IRIS Working paper unpacks how “irregularity” is made in Europe
Written by Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham) and Ilse van Liempt (Utrecht University), The irregularisation of migration and migrants’ irregular condition: an assemblage perspective draws on …
nandosigona.info
November 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
You can find our new report here: nandosigona.info/2025/10/31/i...
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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
November 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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
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#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...
Irregular migration as an assemblage: New IRIS Working paper unpacks how “irregularity” is made in Europe
Written by Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham) and Ilse van Liempt (Utrecht University), The irregularisation of migration and migrants’ irregular condition: an assemblage perspective draws on …
superdiversity.net
October 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
#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...
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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...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Man sent to France under ‘one in, one out’ scheme returns to UK on small boat
Exclusive: Asylum seeker says he made second crossing because he did not feel safe in France
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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"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...
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...
S4 E2 No place for migrants in the American Dream
Michaela and Nando talk to Ernesto Castañeda about what's left of the American Dream in Trump's America and countering anti-immigration rhetoric and politics.
whodowethinkweare.org
October 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"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...
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...
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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...
October 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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...
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...
October 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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...
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...
Still hostile? Labour’s migration policy under the spotlight at IRIS public seminar
After fourteen years of Conservative governments defined by the infamous hostile environment launched by Home Secretary Theresa May, a new Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, seems eager to build her …
superdiversity.net
October 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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...
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'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.
October 16, 2025 at 6:44 AM
'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.
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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
nandosigona.info/2025/10/16/w...
#immigration
#keirstarmer
#labour
#shabanamahmood
Who is the Home Office really talking to? Diary of EU citizen in the UK
‘Thanks’ to the algorithm, this is what I woke up to every morning when I first looked at my phone. As a foreign-born Briton, it really sets the mood (not) for the day. I deleted the first version …
nandosigona.info
October 16, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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
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...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/gl...
Global refugee sponsorship scheme could improve perceptions of refugees in the UK – research - University of Birmingham
The UK should develop a ‘global’ sponsorship programme to give all sponsored refugees the same rights and entitlements, according to new research.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
New research by @profjennyp.bsky.social and colleagues for a global #refugeesponsorship initiative
www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/gl...
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-...
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/migration-...
October 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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-...
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...
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...
Migration, citizenship and belonging: IRIS seminar series
We are delighted to announce our seminar series for this academic term. All seminars are free and open to the public. They will be held in Room 1150, Muirhead Tower, University of Birmingham. Pleas…
superdiversity.net
October 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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...
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...
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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”.
September 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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”.
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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
🔗 theconversation.com/labours-plan...
#ShabanaMahmood
#LabourConference
Labour’s plan for migrants to ‘earn’ permanent residency turns belonging into an endless exam
In this hierarchical system, migrants are kept on extended probation and judged by standards never applied to British nationals.
theconversation.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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
🔗 theconversation.com/labours-plan...
#ShabanaMahmood
#LabourConference