Nando Sigona
@nandosigona.bsky.social
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/
#runner
Director @irisbirmingham.bsky.social
Research: #migration, #asylum, #citizenship, #diversity
https://www.nandosigona.info
https://www.i-claim.eu
podcast https://whodowethinkweare.org/
#runner
If the premise is wrong...
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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, …
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November 18, 2025 at 9:36 AM
If the premise is wrong...
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Presenting a visa ban as an effective tool to force countries to take back returnees is, at best, disingenuous — not least because visa access is already extremely restricted for most of these countries.
Unless they happen to be strategic partners, in which case the Home Office can’t do much at all.
Unless they happen to be strategic partners, in which case the Home Office can’t do much at all.
November 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Presenting a visa ban as an effective tool to force countries to take back returnees is, at best, disingenuous — not least because visa access is already extremely restricted for most of these countries.
Unless they happen to be strategic partners, in which case the Home Office can’t do much at all.
Unless they happen to be strategic partners, in which case the Home Office can’t do much at all.
The premise here is wrong — asylum is not #illegalmigration.
Punishing the overwhelming majority of people who are genuinely in need of protection because a minority may abuse the system is morally indefensible.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Punishing the overwhelming majority of people who are genuinely in need of protection because a minority may abuse the system is morally indefensible.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Key takeaways: What are the proposed asylum system reforms?
What we know so far about Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's proposed reforms.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The premise here is wrong — asylum is not #illegalmigration.
Punishing the overwhelming majority of people who are genuinely in need of protection because a minority may abuse the system is morally indefensible.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Punishing the overwhelming majority of people who are genuinely in need of protection because a minority may abuse the system is morally indefensible.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
and here when she was a backbenchers not that long ago x.com/i/status/199...
Owen Jones on X: "This is @ShabanaMahmood as a Labour backbencher. She calls for a "general amnesty" for "undocumented workers" already in the UK. Now she steals Farage and Trump's rhetoric and policies and imposes mass deportation. These people have no principles! They're driven only by power. https://t.co/tFzEXZiv08" / X
This is @ShabanaMahmood as a Labour backbencher. She calls for a "general amnesty" for "undocumented workers" already in the UK. Now she steals Farage and Trump's rhetoric and policies and imposes mass deportation. These people have no principles! They're driven only by power. https://t.co/tFzEXZiv08
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November 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
and here when she was a backbenchers not that long ago x.com/i/status/199...
And the full report is available here: zenodo.org/records/1577...
Irregularised migrant workers in the UK food delivery sector
This report investigates the experiences of migrant workers with precarious immigration status in the UK food delivery sector. It draws on in-depth qualitative interviews with twelve migrant riders an...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
And the full report is available here: zenodo.org/records/1577...
we wrote about the findings from our work on food delivery sector here: nandosigona.info/2025/08/08/t...
‘The Home Office is everyone’: Delivery riders caught between algorithms and immigration raids
Migrants denied right to work turn to exploitative delivery apps to earn cash, but the government is cracking down by Nando Sigona and Stefano Piemontese, originally published in OpenDemocracy R…
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November 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
we wrote about the findings from our work on food delivery sector here: nandosigona.info/2025/08/08/t...
Does she really think that right-wing newspapers she is courting are obsessed with #migration because they care? Migrants are weaponised for political gains by Farage & the trans-Atlantic ultraright, newspapers are not shifting alliances because she is speaking or doing what they do, it's not the .
November 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Does she really think that right-wing newspapers she is courting are obsessed with #migration because they care? Migrants are weaponised for political gains by Farage & the trans-Atlantic ultraright, newspapers are not shifting alliances because she is speaking or doing what they do, it's not the .
'Dark forces', 'tearing UK apart',
The Home Secretary is definitely getting a lot of press coverage with her language (more than anyone else in Labour party), but does this translate in political support?
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Home Secretary is definitely getting a lot of press coverage with her language (more than anyone else in Labour party), but does this translate in political support?
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Illegal migration tearing UK apart, Mahmood says
The home secretary is set to announce major policy reforms, including a 20-year wait before people granted asylum can apply to settle permanently.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
'Dark forces', 'tearing UK apart',
The Home Secretary is definitely getting a lot of press coverage with her language (more than anyone else in Labour party), but does this translate in political support?
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Home Secretary is definitely getting a lot of press coverage with her language (more than anyone else in Labour party), but does this translate in political support?
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Nando Sigona
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.
November 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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.
And these measures don’t just harm migrants. They tear apart families — including long-settled migrant households and British families with loved ones abroad. The cruelty is systemic, not accidental.
🔗 theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...
🔗 theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...
How the UK’s immigration system splits families apart – by design
Barriers to migrants’ family life are embedded in the UK’s immigration system.
theconversation.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
And these measures don’t just harm migrants. They tear apart families — including long-settled migrant households and British families with loved ones abroad. The cruelty is systemic, not accidental.
🔗 theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...
🔗 theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...
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Podcasts - I-CLAIM
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November 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Subscribe to Mobility, Work and Rights: the I-CLAIM podcast where we challenge common misunderstandings about irregular migration in Europe today. In the episodes we draw from our research findings in Italy, Germany, Poland, Finland, Netherlands and the UK Y
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We are going to focus on the nexus between immigration status and labour conditions through an intersectional perspective and how it affects irregularised and precarious migrant workers
to find out about the @iclaimeu.bsky.social approach: i-claim.eu/irregular-mi...
to find out about the @iclaimeu.bsky.social approach: 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 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
We are going to focus on the nexus between immigration status and labour conditions through an intersectional perspective and how it affects irregularised and precarious migrant workers
to find out about the @iclaimeu.bsky.social approach: i-claim.eu/irregular-mi...
to find out about the @iclaimeu.bsky.social approach: i-claim.eu/irregular-mi...