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
Good piece by @apnews.com on the intra-EU tensions in response to #Ceuta's border crisis. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez fends off blistering criticism within the EU over Ceuta crisis
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s migration policies are facing criticism from EU leaders after a surge of migrants arrived in Ceuta, a Spanish territory in North Africa
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#Ceuta: an extraordinary migration event nandosigona.info/2026/07/31/c...
Ceuta: a migration crisis or a diplomatic message?
Nando Sigona The speed and scale of the arrivals in Ceuta are difficult to explain as an ordinary migration event. According to provisional Spanish estimates, around 50,000 people crossed from Moro…
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Good piece by Nando Signa on different narratives. A [dangerous] protest as much as a serious effort to migrate. How far Moroccan relaxation of controls was conscious effort to create this tbc. US right voices did suggest Morocco do this, but may be opportunists using it, not agents of this
Nando Sigona@nandosigona.bsky.social · 4d ago#Ceuta: an extraordinary migration event nandosigona.info/2026/07/31/c...
This starts to make sense of what seemed perplexing... I'm willing to blame Trumpian malevolence (as ever).
Nando Sigona@nandosigona.bsky.social · 4d ago#Ceuta: an extraordinary migration event nandosigona.info/2026/07/31/c...
Ceuta: a migration crisis or a diplomatic message? nandosigona.info/2026/07/31/c...
Ceuta: a migration crisis or a diplomatic message?
Nando Sigona The speed and scale of the arrivals in Ceuta are difficult to explain as an ordinary migration event. According to provisional Spanish estimates, around 50,000 people crossed from Moro…
nandosigona.info
#Ceuta: an extraordinary migration event nandosigona.info/2026/07/31/c...
Ceuta: a migration crisis or a diplomatic message?
Nando Sigona The speed and scale of the arrivals in Ceuta are difficult to explain as an ordinary migration event. According to provisional Spanish estimates, around 50,000 people crossed from Moro…
nandosigona.info
As always, very sharp analysis and important reflections from Nando. Labour and Social Democracy in general are on a completely wrong track. They need to rethink their approach to the radical and far right completely or become irrelevant.
Nando Sigona@nandosigona.bsky.social · 2mo agoOnce again, more EU citizens are leaving the UK than arriving. A negative net migration figure of -42,000 — is this what @andyburnham.bsky.social, #ShabanaMahmood and #KeirStarmer celebrate as a success and a goal to achieve for #migration overall?
Once again, more EU citizens are leaving the UK than arriving. A negative net migration figure of -42,000 — is this what @andyburnham.bsky.social, #ShabanaMahmood and #KeirStarmer celebrate as a success and a goal to achieve for #migration overall?
Paris, not nations: What the 2026 World Cup tells us about migration and identity Prof Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social explores how the 2026 World Cup reflects migration and identity, with many players born in a different country to the one they play for.
What the 2026 World Cup says about migration and identity - University of Birmingham
explores how the 2026 World Cup reflects migration and identity, with many players born in a different country to the one they play for.
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US Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship: Who wins, who loses? | Migration News | Al Jazeera share.google/Mls7K73DVaUu...
US Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship: Who wins, who loses?
Court struck down US President Trump's executive order abolishing it, but he has pledged to challenge the ruling.
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#emigration back in the news share.google/IOxXV59RgEr3...
Canadians and permanent residents leaving Canada at highest rate since 1950s, over 150,000 emigrated in last 5 quarters
Canada is losing people at a rate not seen since the 1950s. Over 150,000 Canadians and permanent residents emigrated in just 5 quarters. Here's what's driving it.
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#Brexit's division still unresolved - World - Chinadaily.com.cn share.google/phDPAuoSoj6U...
China Daily Website - Connecting China Connecting the World
Chinadaily.com.cn is the largest English portal in China, providing news, business information, BBS, learning materials. The Website has channels as China, BizChina, World, Opinion, Sports/Olympics, E...
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Lords Juetice and Home Affairs Committee inquiry on Settlement, Citixenship & Integration Calls on government to rehink its settlement reforms - timelines > 10 years would damage intergration + make UK an outlier - retrospective application is "manifestly unfair".
"World Cup squads remind us that national identities are not fixed or exclusive. They are shaped by movement, family histories, colonial legacies and migration trajectories" @nandosigona.bsky.social superdiversity.net/2026/06/19/p...
Paris, not nations: What the 2026 World Cup tells us about migration and global cities
Nando Sigona As the 2026 FIFA World Cup gets underway, one statistic stands out: 289 of the tournament’s 1,248 players were born in a country different from the one they represent. Nearly one…
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Paris is the birthplace of world football, literally superdiversity.net/2026/06/19/p... #fifaworldcup #worldcup
Paris, not nations: What the 2026 World Cup tells us about migration and global cities
Nando Sigona As the 2026 FIFA World Cup gets underway, one statistic stands out: 289 of the tournament’s 1,248 players were born in a country different from the one they represent. Nearly one…
superdiversity.net
The 2026 #WorldCup tells a different story from the one national teams suggest. Nearly 1 in 4 players were born in a different country from the one they represent. And when you map where players come from, cities matter more than nations. 👇 superdiversity.net/2026/06/19/p... #fifaworldcup
Paris, not nations: What the 2026 World Cup tells us about migration and global cities
Nando Sigona As the 2026 FIFA World Cup gets underway, one statistic stands out: 289 of the tournament’s 1,248 players were born in a country different from the one they represent. Nearly one…
superdiversity.net
Brexit "has encouraged the state-&the public-to draw firmer lines within society..not only between citizens & migrants, but between the secure & the precarious, the valued & the disposable" @nandosigona.bsky.social on conditional belonging and engineered uncertainty open.substack.com/pub/futureso...
The Politics of Difference after Brexit
Essay · Nando Sigona on How Brexit Reshaped Britain's Architecture of Belonging — From Open-Ended Security to Conditional, Bureaucratically Managed Precarity
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