Originally posted on EU families & Eurochildren in Brexiting Britain:
By Marie Godin and Mihai Calin Bica* Since the Brexit referendum that took place on 23 June 2016, the Roma Support Group[1], a community organisation working with Roma people in the UK, has been active in informing community members about their rights. In addition, the…
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Eurochildren meets Keir Starmer
Originally posted on EU families & Eurochildren in Brexiting Britain:
During his visit to the University of Birmingham on 7 February, Labour Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer met with Nando Sigona and the other Birmingham-based UK in a Changing Europe research projects. Eurochildren director presented some interim findings from the project, in particular concerning…
Global migration and social change – new book series
Originally posted on Postcards from …:
Delighted to announce the launch of a new book series on “Global migration and social change” edited by me and Alan Gamlen of the Hugo Center for Migration and Population Research at the University of Adelaide, Australia. The series is published by the University of Bristol’s Policy Press and aims…
On superdiversity in a ‘crisis mood’ | Nando Sigona interviewed in openDemocracy
“We need to question the categories we use and how we pigeonhole society. This opens spaces for us to imagine a different kind of society”: Nando Sigona in conversation with Rosemary Bechler in OpenDemocracy. Source: On superdiversity in a ‘crisis mood’ | openDemocracy
It’s the culture, stupid! Or is it?
By Thomas Hylland Eriksen The events in Cologne have sparked controversies across Europe. This time, the topic is not the economic and social costs of the refugee crisis, but questions concerning culture and gender. We need a proper language in which to address these issues. There is no simple answer as to what exactly happened…
Is a distribution key system the solution to the EU’s refugee crisis?
Originally posted on Postcards from …:
by Nando Sigona The Dublin regulation in its three incarnations has attracted plenty of criticism on various grounds and from various statutory and non-statutory actors – the most noticeable perhaps being it is a system that impact unevenly on EU member states, with countries at the EU’s southern border particularly exposed because…
IRiS awarded ESRC funding to carry out research into migration crisis
In response to the on-going migration crisis the ESRC is providing £1 million to support leading UK social scientists to conduct research with migrant and refugee populations who have entered Europe across the Mediterranean. Eight projects from across the UK are being funded under the ESRC’s Urgency Grants Mechanism. This is the first time the…
New Issue of Migration Studies with symposium on the impacts of irregular status
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Migration Studies, OUP The new issue 2(3) of Migration Studies is out. It contains a short symposium on the impacts of irregular status with contributions by Elzbieta Gozdziak, Janina Sohn, Daniela Borodak and Ariene Tichit. Using ethnographic methods, Gozdziak examines how irregular immigration status affects the educational opportunities of children…
