Tag Archives: Nando Sigona
120000 migrant children fall through the net: new report
An estimated 120,000 children living in the UK without legal immigration status are at risk of destitution, exploitation and social exclusion because of contradictory and frequently changing rules and regulations which jeopardise their access to healthcare, education, protection by the … Continue reading
Filed under migration and mobility, politics
New article: ‘I’ve too much baggage’: the impacts of legal status on the social worlds of irregular migrants
Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with irregular migrants in the UK, this article shows how the condition of ‘illegality’ permeates migrants’ everyday lives, gradually invading their social worlds and social and community networks. The article will focus on three aspects … Continue reading
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The Arab Spring and beyond: human mobility, forced displacement and humanitarian crises
By Nando Sigona Migration in its various forms has been part of the popular uprisings that have spread across North Africa and the Middle East in 2011. First, the columns of vehicles escaping from cities and villages under siege in … Continue reading
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