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Nando Sigona
@nandosigona.bsky.social
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Professor @unibirmingham.bsky.social UK, FAcSS
Director @irisbirmingham.bsky.social
Research: #migration, #asylum, #citizenship, #diversity
https://www.nandosigona.info
https://www.i-claim.eu
podcast https://whodowethinkweare.org/
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nandosigona.bsky.social
Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 2h
Our @iclaimeu.bsky.social colleague professor Sabrina Marchetti reflects on the findings of our ethnographies with migrant domestic workers in Italy, Finland, UK and The Netherlands and what they tell us of domestic work today in Europe.

nandosigona.bsky.social
Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 2h
Our second guest is professor Rhacel Parreñas (@rhacel.bsky.social) who tells @ilsevanliempt.bsky.social
about her new book: The Trafficker Next Door and how migrant domestic workers are especially vulnerable to trafficking.

nandosigona.bsky.social
Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 2h
I speak to professor Bridget Anderson (@mmbuob.bsky.social) about her seminal book Doing the Dirty Work? 25 years on.
#publicsociology
#migrationstudies

nandosigona.bsky.social
Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 2h
Who cares? Migrant domestic workers and the cost of care
New episode of Mobility, Work and Rights #podcast
ft. Bridget Anderson @mmbuob.bsky.social, Rhacel Parrenas @rhacel.bsky.social, and Sabrina Marchetti
Hosts: @ilsevanliempt.bsky.social & me.

Listen & Follow: open.spotify.com/episode/5NjS...
Who Cares? Migrant Domestic Workers and the Cost of Care
open.spotify.com

Reposted by Carla Ferstman

nandosigona.bsky.social
Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 20h
Import joint statement on @10dowingstreet.bsky.social #asylum proposals ilpa.org.uk/statement-of...
Statement of Consensus, November 2025 - ILPA
We, the undersigned, as practitioners and researchers working in UK migration and asylum law, collectively observe the following issues with the UK Government’s asylum policy announcements which were ...
ilpa.org.uk

Reposted by Nando Sigona

politicalquarterly.bsky.social
Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 1d
"Lecturers, doctors, landlords and employers have been turned into border guards."

A Professor of International Migration argues that states do not reduce immigrant irregularity — they create it.

By @nandosigona.bsky.social

Read now:
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

Reposted by Nando Sigona

lukepiper.bsky.social
Luke Piper @lukepiper.bsky.social · 1d
Especially since the 'earned settlement' announcement, I'm struck by the lack of coherent objective. I get the politics (muddled and cruel it is) but there is no real explanation of what the objective is with their immigration policy.

nandosigona.bsky.social
Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 1d
If Labour can’t answer that, then this isn’t a strategy.
It’s an inherited slogan (remember David Cameron's tens of thousands goal — and a shrinking vision of Britain.

nandosigona.bsky.social
Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 1d
What does a smaller number actually achieve?
How does it make the country fairer, stronger, or more prosperous?
What problem does it solve?

nandosigona.bsky.social
Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 1d
#Labour is embracing a #littleEngland mentality — and they don’t even seem to know why, or even care.
Reducing #netmigration is treated as if it were self-explanatory.
But it isn’t.

nandosigona.bsky.social
Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 1d
What worries me even more is to think: what is the destination if this is 'a step in the right direction'? Where does he think (or want) to be going
jdportes.bsky.social Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 1d
Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving.

A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.

Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK net migration falls sharply with drop in arrivals for work and study
Provisional figures for net migration to the UK show levels dropped to 204,000 in the year to June 2025.
www.bbc.co.uk

nandosigona.bsky.social
Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 1d
www.blast-info.fr/articles/202...
Politique d'asile au Royaume-Uni : quand la gauche travailliste adopte les recettes de l'extrême droite
Le gouvernement travailliste britannique présente la réforme d’asile la plus dure depuis des décennies : statut temporaire renouvelable, suppression des aides, facilitation des expulsions, remise en c...
www.blast-info.fr

Reposted by Martin McKee, Nando Sigona, Ben H. Ansell , and 8 more

jdportes.bsky.social
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 1d
Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving.

A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.

Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK net migration falls sharply with drop in arrivals for work and study
Provisional figures for net migration to the UK show levels dropped to 204,000 in the year to June 2025.
www.bbc.co.uk

nandosigona.bsky.social
Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 4d
Politics and practices of transborderism at the Mexico-US border, new book by Mitxy Mabel Meneses Gutierrez for @brisunipress.bsky.social Global #migration series.

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Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 4d
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/
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

nandosigona.bsky.social
Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 6d
Flagging and counter-flagging, Romani and Irish flags join the Union Jack and St. George Cross in Oxford #flags

Reposted by Nando Sigona, Ilse van Liempt

iclaimeu.bsky.social
I-CLAIM Project @iclaimeu.bsky.social · 7d
@ilsevanliempt.bsky.social interviews professor Rhacel Parreñas on her new book The Trafficker Next Door: How Household Employers Exploit Domestic Workers.

Reposted by Nando Sigona

iclaimeu.bsky.social
I-CLAIM Project @iclaimeu.bsky.social · 7d
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.

Reposted by Nando Sigona

bettinastruff.bsky.social
Bettina Struff #Woke #FBPE #FBPR #NHS #RejoinEU @bettinastruff.bsky.social · 7d
"The issue is not simply that the proposals are harsh, unethical or likely to be ineffective. They represent a deeper shift: redefining protection as a discretionary favour rather than a legal obligation."

Great article from @nandosigona.bsky.social

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

Reposted by Nando Sigona

jdportes.bsky.social
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 8d
Implying that the "cause of our division" is too many care workers, as Mahmood does here, is both absurd and sinister.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8d
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood made more explicit her argument that when ethnic minorities face racism, "we have no choice but to ask: what is the cause of our division"

Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)

nandosigona.bsky.social
Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 8d
There are some (small) cracks in the consensus within government, perhaps arguments can offer some help to those pushing for a different framing and policy.

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Nando Sigona, Tariq Modood , and 3 more

sundersays.bsky.social
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8d
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood made more explicit her argument that when ethnic minorities face racism, "we have no choice but to ask: what is the cause of our division"

Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)

Reposted by Steve Peers, Michael Jones‐Correa

nandosigona.bsky.social
Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 8d
Asylum is not "illegal migration"
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

Reposted by Nando Sigona

mcslaven.bsky.social
Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · 9d
Mahmood writes in today's paper on "earned settlement," which will move the goalposts for people here, about her parents from Pakistan who "became Brits."

As context, arriving pre-1973, her dad probably would've been granted settlement *immediately* and could register as a UK citizen after 5 years.
Text from a Home Office consultation period with a photo of Shabana Mahmood: "Foreword from the Home Secretary The story of migration in Britain is the story of my family,and many others like us. My father came here in the early 1970s, and my mother a little less than a decade later. Both came to seek a better life, and they found one here in Britain. They became Brits themselves, and Brummies too. They brought up four children just as proud to be a part of this country, and that great city, as them. This is not just my story. It is the story of many of my constituents in Birmingham Ladywood. It is the story of many millions more across this country. "