Professor Nando Sigona is Chair of International Migration and Forced Displacement at the University of Birmingham, UK. Nando is a founding editor of the peer reviewed journal Migration Studies (Oxford University Press), and lead editor for Global Migration and Social Change book series at Bristol University Press. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. His research interests include: the migration and citizenship nexus; undocumented migration; naturalisation, denaturalisation and statelessness; Romani politics and anti-Gypsyism; asylum and EU; Brexit and intra-European migration; and child and youth migration.
His work has appeared in a range of international academic journals, including Sociology, Social Anthropology, Antipode, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Identities, Citizenship Studies and Ethnic and Racial Studies. He is author or editor of books and journal’s special issues including Undocumented Migration (with Gonzales, Franco and Papoutsi, 2019); Unravelling Europe’s ‘migration crisis’ (with Crawley, Duvell, Jones, and McMahon, 2017), Within and beyond citizenship (with Gonzales, 2017), The Oxford Handbook on Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (with Fiddian Qasmiyeh, Loescher and Long, 2014), and Sans Papiers. The social and economic lives of undocumented migrants (with Bloch and Zetter, 2014).
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 586 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7882-1851 |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/@nandosigona |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
- Conflict, war and violence
- International relations and geopolitical transformations
- Migration governance and infrastructure
- Migration policy and other public policies
- Personal resources and migration experience
- Migrant communities and networks
- Migrant aspirations and attitudes
- Globalisation and (post)colonialism
- Transnational ties
- Family size and structure
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
- Governmental institutions in travel & migration
- Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
- Means of travel and transportation
- Civil society actors in travel & migration
- Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection
- Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
- Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
- Cultural identity and belonging
- Attitudes, migration and migrants
- Ethnic, religious and national minorities
- Diasporas and transnational communities
- Descendants of migrants
- Marriage and migration
- Family relations and migration
- Upbringing of children and migration
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Qualitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
Roles
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University of Birmingham
University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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The University of Birmingham
University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Research
Reimagining, Repositioning, Rebordering: Intersections of the Biopolitical and Geopolitical in the UK's Post-Brexit Migration Regime (and Why It Matters for Migration Research)
| Authors | Michaela Benson, Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | International Migration Review |
The UK's ‘Safe and Legal’ Humanitarian Routes: from Colonial Ties to Privatising Protection
| Authors | Michaela Benson, Nando Sigona, Elena Zambelli |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | The Political Quarterly | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Mothering in hostile environments: Migrant families negotiating the welfare and immigration regime nexus
| Authors | RACHEL BENCHEKROUN, RACHEL HUMPHRIS, NANDO SIGONA |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Critical Social Policy | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Brexit Rebordering, Sticky Relationships and the Production of Mixed-Status Families
| Authors | Elena Zambelli, Michaela Benson, Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Citizenship and irregular migrants
| Authors | Anna Papoutsi, Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2024 |
| Book Title | Encyclopedia of Citizenship Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Superdiversity’s backstory
| Authors | Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
Infrastructuring exit migration: Social hope and migration decision-making in EU families who left the UK after the 2016 EU referendum
| Authors | Marie Godin, Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | The Sociological Review |
From the state of the art to new directions in researching what Brexit means for migration and migrants
| Authors | Michaela Benson, Nando Sigona, Elena Zambelli, ... |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Migration Studies |
Open Access: Intergenerational narratives of citizenship among EU citizens in the UK after the Brexit referendum
| Authors | Marie Godin, Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2022 |
| Book Title | Permitted Outsiders | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Intergenerational narratives of citizenship among EU citizens in the UK after the Brexit referendum
| Authors | Marie Godin, Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
Migration infrastructures and the production of migrants’ irregularity in Japan and the United Kingdom
| Authors | Nando Sigona, Jotaro Kato, Irina Kuznetsova |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Comparative Migration Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Death and Migration: Migrant Journeys and the Governance of Migration During Europe’s “Migration Crisis”
| Authors | Simon McMahon, Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | International Migration Review |
The Bureaucratic Capture of Child Migrants: Effects of In/visibility on Children On the Move
| Authors | Rachel Humphris, Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Antipode | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Charging undocumented migrant children for NHS healthcare: implications for child health
| Authors | Neal James Russell, Lisa Murphy, Laura Nellums, ... |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Archives of Disease in Childhood | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Navigating the Central Mediterranean in a Time of ‘Crisis’: Disentangling Migration Governance and Migrant Journeys
| Authors | Simon McMahon, Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Outsourcing the ‘best interests’ of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the era of austerity
| Authors | Rachel Humphris, Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 10 |
The contested politics of naming in Europe’s “refugee crisis”
| Authors | Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 12 |
Introduction: superdiversity, policy and governance in Europe
| Authors | Jenny Phillimore, Nando Sigona, Katherine Tonkiss |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Policy & Politics | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Citizenship, Rights, and Deservingness: Introduction to the Special Issue
| Authors | Roberto G. Gonzales, Nando Sigona, Edelina Munoz Burciaga |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | American Behavioral Scientist | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Destination Europe? Understanding the dynamics and drivers of Mediterranean migration in 2015
| Authors | Jonathan Price |
| Description | |
| Year | 2016 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Everyday statelessness in Italy: status, rights, and camps
| Authors | Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 11 |
Campzenship: reimagining the camp as a social and political space
| Authors | Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Citizenship Studies |
The Citizen and the Other: New Directions in Research on the Migration and Citizenship Nexus
| Authors | J. Barrett, N. Sigona |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 3 |
Introduction: refugee and forced migration studies in transition.
| Authors | Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Gil Loescher, Katy Long, ... |
| Year | 2014 |
| Book Title | The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Politics of Refugee Voices
| Authors | Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Gil Loescher, Katy Long, ... |
| Year | 2014 |
| Book Title | The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
| Year | 2014 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Ethnography, diversity and urban space
| Authors | Mette Louise Berg, Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Identities |
| Citations (WoS) | 64 |
Faultlines and contact zones: A new forum for Migration Studies
| Authors | A. Gamlen, A. Betts, A. Delano, ... |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 2 |
Globalisation, Rights and the Non-Citizen
| Authors | Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | Sociology |
Deportation, non‐deportation and precarious lives: The everyday lives of undocumented migrant children in Britain (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
| Authors | Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | Anthropology Today | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Education, Asylum and the 'Non-Citizen' Child: the Politics of Compassion and Belonging. By Halleli Pinson, Madeleine Arnot and Mano Candappa.
| Authors | N. Sigona |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | JOURNAL OF REFUGEE STUDIES |
‘I have too much baggage’: the impacts of legal status on the social worlds of irregular migrants
| Authors | Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | Social Anthropology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Between Competing Imaginaries of Statehood: Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian (RAE) Leadership in Newly Independent Kosovo
| Authors | Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Editors' Introduction. The Roma in the New EU: Policies, Frames and Everyday Experiences
| Authors | Nando Sigona, Peter Vermeersch |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
L’Union européenne et les Roms : pauvreté, haine anti-Tziganes et gouvernance de la mobilité
| Authors | Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | Cultures & conflits |
Néolibéralisme et antitsiganisme : le suspens du rêve européen
| Authors | Nando Sigona, Nidhi Trehan, Séverine Weiss |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | Lignes |
Migration routes and strategies of young undocumented migrants in England: a qualitative perspective
| Authors | Alice Bloch, Nando Sigona, Roger Zetter |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 45 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Introduction Anti-Gypsyism and the politics of exclusion: Roma and Sinti in contemporary Italy
| Authors | Isabella Clough Marinaro, Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Modern Italian Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The governance of Romani people in Italy: discourse, policy and practice
| Authors | Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Modern Italian Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Remaking Home: Reconstructing Life, Place and Identity in Rome and Amsterdam. By Maja Korac.
| Authors | N. Sigona |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | JOURNAL OF REFUGEE STUDIES |
'No right to dream': the social and economic lives of young undocumented migrants in Britain
| Description | |
| Year | 2010 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Review: Understanding Immigration and Refugee Policy: Contradictions and Continuities Rosemary Sales Policy Press, Bristol, 2007, 276pp, ISBN 9781861344519, £15.99 (pbk)
| Authors | Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2009 |
| Journal Name | CRITICAL SOCIAL POLICY |
Integrative Paradigms, Marginal Reality: Refugee Community Organisations and Dispersal in Britain
| Authors | David Griffiths, Nando Sigona, Roger Zetter |
| Year | 2006 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 23 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Refugee Community Organizations and Dispersal: Networks, Resources and Social Capital. By David Griffiths, Nando Sigona, and Roger Zetter. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2005. viii + 246pp. £55, ISBN 1 86134 6344 hb; £24.99, ISBN 1 86134 633 6 pb.
| Authors | Natalie Ondiak |
| Year | 2006 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Refugee Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Refugee Integration(s): Policy and Practice in the European Union
| Authors | N. Sigona |
| Year | 2005 |
| Journal Name | REFUGEE SURVEY QUARTERLY |
Conclusions
| Authors | David Griffiths, Nando Sigona, Roger Zetter |
| Year | 2005 |
| Book Title | Refugee community organisations and dispersalNetworks, resources and social capital |
Dispersal, RCOs and refugee communities
| Authors | David Griffiths, Nando Sigona, Roger Zetter |
| Year | 2005 |
| Book Title | Refugee community organisations and dispersalNetworks, resources and social capital | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Refugee community organisations: paradigms and perspectives
| Authors | David Griffiths, Nando Sigona, Roger Zetter |
| Year | 2005 |
| Book Title | Refugee community organisations and dispersalNetworks, resources and social capital | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Introduction
| Authors | David Griffiths, Nando Sigona, Roger Zetter |
| Year | 2005 |
| Book Title | Refugee community organisations and dispersalNetworks, resources and social capital |
Locating ‘The Gypsy Problem’. The Roma in Italy: Stereotyping, Labelling and ‘Nomad Camps’
| Authors | Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2005 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Refugee community organisations in London: consolidation and competition
| Authors | David Griffiths, Nando Sigona, Roger Zetter |
| Year | 2005 |
| Book Title | Refugee community organisations and dispersalNetworks, resources and social capital | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Social capital or social exclusion? The impact of asylum-seeker dispersal on UK refugee community organizations
| Authors | Roger Zetter, David Griffiths, Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2005 |
| Journal Name | Community Development Journal | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Refugee community organisations and dispersalNetworks, resources and social capital
| Authors | David Griffiths, Nando Sigona, Roger Zetter |
| Year | 2005 |
| Journal Name | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Dispersal: policy and practice
| Authors | David Griffiths, Nando Sigona, Roger Zetter |
| Year | 2005 |
| Book Title | Refugee community organisations and dispersalNetworks, resources and social capital | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The institutional and policy framework in the regions
| Authors | David Griffiths, Nando Sigona, Roger Zetter |
| Year | 2005 |
| Book Title | Refugee community organisations and dispersalNetworks, resources and social capital | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The development of RCOs in the regions
| Authors | David Griffiths, Nando Sigona, Roger Zetter |
| Year | 2005 |
| Book Title | Refugee community organisations and dispersalNetworks, resources and social capital |
How Can a `Nomad' be a `Refugee'?
| Authors | Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2003 |
| Journal Name | Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Sans Papiers
| Authors | Alice Bloch, Nando Sigona, Roger Zetter |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name |
Sans Papiers: The Social and Economic Lives of Young Undocumented Migrants
| Authors | Alice Bloch, Nando Sigona, Roger Zetter |
| Year | 2014 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Migrations and diversifications in the UK and Japan
| Authors | Jenny Phillimore, Gracia Liu-Farrer, Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Comparative Migration Studies |
Ethnography, Diversity and Urban Space
| Authors | Ben Gidley, Mette Louise Berg, Nando Sigona |
| Year | 2015 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |