N Sigona
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 15633 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | N Sigona |
| NOMBRES | N |
| APELLIDO | Sigona |
| FIRMA | SIGONA N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7882-1851 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 424 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Raising concerns on the dangers of linking biological invasions to human migration
Superdiversity’s backstory
In "Superdiversity: Migration and social complexity", Vertovec returns to the concept of superdiversity and reviews its uses in different disciplinary fields.Importantly, the book also offers a useful backstory to the concept which helps to better locate it into a long standing but not mainstream anthropological engagement with social complexity.While triggered by a new age of migration and the socio-demographic transformations it was producing i…
Mothering in hostile environments
This article examines the production, working and impact of the UK's hostile environment on migrant families with precarious legal status. Our approach is informed by two bodies of scholarly work: critical border studies and research on migrant families. We bridge these literatures to show how the hostile environment is neither a singular, neatly bounded space, nor limited to a set of interactions between immigration enforcement and a clear-cut g…
Reimagining, Repositioning, Rebordering
This article examines the emergence of a new immigration regime in the United Kingdom, following its exit from the European Union, to uncover the entanglements and intersections of biopolitics, geopolitics and ideology in migration and migration governance. It draws a clear line between Brexit as a political and geopolitical rupture, the ideological project of “Global Britain” that emerged from it, and the forms of migrant and citizen subjectivit…
Brexit Rebordering, Sticky Relationships and the Production of Mixed-Status Families
This article examines the Brexit-driven remaking of some EU families into mixed-status families. Drawing on original research conducted in 2021-2022 with British, EU/EEA and non-EU/EEA citizens living in the UK or the EU/EEA, it shows how families whose members have previously enjoyed equal rights to freedom of movement across the EU/EEA variously negotiate the consequences of Brexit on their lives. Central to our analysis is the interplay betwee…
Intergenerational narratives of citizenship among EU citizens in the UK after the Brexit referendum
The share of British naturalization applications by EU citizens increased in the aftermath of the 2016 EU referendum. This article offers unique insights into the range of motivations informing decisions to become British or not among EU families from new and old EU member states. It contributes to scholarship on migrants’ lived experiences of naturalization by adopting a family-centred approach to explore intergenerational and intersectional dyn…
Death and Migration
In migration and refugee studies, migrant deaths have frequently been closely linked to contemporary forms of border and migration governance. Migrant deaths at sea have also played a central role in shaping policy and public responses to Europe’s “crisis.” Yet relatively little scholarly work has analyzed migrants’ personal experiences related to death and the impact of these experiences on their mobility. Drawing on 500 semi-structured intervie…
The Bureaucratic Capture of Child Migrants
This article investigates the “bureaucratic capture” of migrant children through three technologies of the state: labelling, data production and social services, illuminating the ways visibility and invisibility are constructed and managed in the context of restrictionist immigration regimes. Using the case of unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children, Roma children and undocumented children, we examine how in/visibility is produced; for what purpose…
Outsourcing the 'best interests' of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the era of austerity
This article examines the governance of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) and former UASC in the U.K. and reveals the expanding reach of asylum privatisation to unaccompanied children. In the process, the principle of the ‘best interests of the child’ enshrined in international and national law is being reconfigured through practices of service outsourcing and out-of-county placement that are used to distance local authorities from the…
Navigating the Central Mediterranean in a Time of ‘Crisis’
From 2014 to the end of 2016, over 450,000 people crossed from North Africa towards Italy via the Central Mediterranean route. The number of people recorded as dead or missing in the same stretch of water steadily increased too. Crisis-talk in the region led to renewed efforts by the European Union and its Member States to govern and control migration to and across the Central Mediterranean. Against this backdrop, this article draws upon over 200…
The contested politics of naming in Europe’s “refugee crisis
How we label, categorize and, in turn, differentiate between those on the move, for example those who cross the Mediterranean on unseaworthy boats, has enormous implications on the kind of legal and moral obligations receiving states and societies feel towards them. This is perhaps even more salient nowadays in the context of the process of reform of the global governance of migration initiated with the 2016 New York Declaration for Refugees and …
Unravelling Europe's 'Migration Crisis'
What is it like to travel to Europe over land and sea in order to secure a future for yourself and your family? Why are so many people willing to risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean? What are their hopes and fears? And why is Europe, one of the richest regions of the world, unable to cope? Drawing on compelling first-hand accounts from 500 people who arrived on the shores of Europe in 2015, this important new book unpacks their routes, ex…
Mapping the soft borders of citizenship
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides a brief profile of some figures of contemporary membership whose experiences and predicaments will be examined by the contributors of this collection. It also provides a diverse set of case studies of migrant and minority populations located in the grey areas which are both within and beyond the traditional realm of citi…
Introduction
Everyday statelessness in Italy
This article is an invitation to reflect sociologically on statelessness, to date mostly absent from an otherwise burgeoning sociological debate on citizenship, rights, and legal status. Millions of stateless people worldwide confirm the need for a more nuanced understanding of contemporary forms of membership attentive to the interplay of different rights regimes. While the article characterizes the Roma as the undeserving stateless, so alien to…
Campzenship
This article engages with current debates on the sociology of camps and camp-like institutions in contemporary society. Drawing on ethnographic material collected in Italy in ‘nomad camps’ where forcibly displaced Roma from former Yugoslavia were sheltered in the 1990s and 2000s, it argues that Agamben's conceptualisation of the camp as a space of exception, by constructing the camp as other to an idealised notion of citizenship and the rule of l…
Ethnography, diversity and urban space
This article is an introduction to a special issue on ethnography, diversity and urban space. It places the 'diversity turn' within studies of migration and multiculture historically and discusses the implications of concepts such as 'diversity' and more recently 'super-diversity' for scholarship, policy and identity politics. It argues that diversity is a helpful concept for studies of migration and multiculture because it avoids the essentialis…
‘I have too much baggage’
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 in particular: firstly, the impact of being undocumented on the ways migrants choose who to interact with and how; secondly, the range of social activities undocumented …
Education, Asylum and the 'Non-Citizen' Child
Journal Article Education, Asylum and the ‘Non-Citizen’ Child: the Politics of Compassion and Belonging. By Halleli Pinson, Madeleine Arnot and Mano Candappa. Get access Education, Asylum and the ‘Non-Citizen’ Child: the Politics of Compassion and Belonging. By Halleli Pinson, Madeleine Arnot and Mano Candappa. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. £60 (hb). 280pp. ISBN 978 0 230 52468 2. Nando Sigona Nando Sigona Refugee Studies Ce…
Deportation, non‐deportation and precarious lives
Globalisation, Rights and the Non-Citizen
The governance of Romani people in Italy
This article provides a critical overview of public policy and practice towards the Romani population in Italy over a period of fifty years. It investigates the uses and consequences of the label ‘nomads’ and widespread essentialist assumptions about their alleged nomadic lifestyle, and the ambiguity embedded in policy which claims to solve the ‘Gypsy problem’. It explores in particular the ways in which recent political debate and policy initiat…
Introduction Anti-Gypsyism and the politics of exclusion
Roma and Sinti have been continuously present in the Italian peninsula since at least the 1400s and as such must be considered an integral part of Italian history and culture. As Piasere argues (19
Néolibéralisme et antitsiganisme
L’Union européenne et les Roms
Nouveaux instruments de gouvernance et contrôle de la mobilité des Roms Lors d’une récente communication au Parlement et au Conseil européen, la Commission européenne (2011) est revenue sur la question des Roms, suite aux événements relatifs aux expulsions de Roms roumains par la France l’été dernier. Cette intervention était très attendue car la Commission avait jusque là évité de prendre position sur ce sujet, laissant l’initiative aux États me…
Campzenship
This article engages with current debates on the sociology of camps and camp-like institutions in contemporary society. Drawing on ethnographic material collected in Italy in ‘nomad camps’ where forcibly displaced Roma from former Yugoslavia were sheltered in the 1990s and 2000s, it argues that Agamben's conceptualisation of the camp as a space of exception, by constructing the camp as other to an idealised notion of citizenship and the rule of l…
Ethnography, diversity and urban space
This article is an introduction to a special issue on ethnography, diversity and urban space. It places the 'diversity turn' within studies of migration and multiculture historically and discusses the implications of concepts such as 'diversity' and more recently 'super-diversity' for scholarship, policy and identity politics. It argues that diversity is a helpful concept for studies of migration and multiculture because it avoids the essentialis…
The contested politics of naming in Europe’s “refugee crisis
How we label, categorize and, in turn, differentiate between those on the move, for example those who cross the Mediterranean on unseaworthy boats, has enormous implications on the kind of legal and moral obligations receiving states and societies feel towards them. This is perhaps even more salient nowadays in the context of the process of reform of the global governance of migration initiated with the 2016 New York Declaration for Refugees and …
Migration routes and strategies of young undocumented migrants in England
Based on data from in-depth qualitative interviews with young undocumented migrants from Brazil, China, Ukraine, Zimbabwe and Kurds from Turkey, this article explores the entry strategies used by young people in relation to the UK immigration system and their undocumented status. Against a brief account of Britain's regime, the paper first examines why and how these migrants come to the UK and the ways in which they entered the country. Second, t…
The governance of Romani people in Italy
This article provides a critical overview of public policy and practice towards the Romani population in Italy over a period of fifty years. It investigates the uses and consequences of the label ‘nomads’ and widespread essentialist assumptions about their alleged nomadic lifestyle, and the ambiguity embedded in policy which claims to solve the ‘Gypsy problem’. It explores in particular the ways in which recent political debate and policy initiat…
How Can a 'Nomad' be a 'Refugee
Ethnic categories in Kosovo as well as in Italy have been shaped and reshaped according to public politics and local power relations. Focusing on the treatment of the Roma minority, this article examines the complexity of the relationship between labelling and policy in two different contexts: Kosovo and Italy. It highlights the impact that bureaucratic and institutional actors have on the process of identity building of the Roma/Gypsies communit…
Everyday statelessness in Italy
This article is an invitation to reflect sociologically on statelessness, to date mostly absent from an otherwise burgeoning sociological debate on citizenship, rights, and legal status. Millions of stateless people worldwide confirm the need for a more nuanced understanding of contemporary forms of membership attentive to the interplay of different rights regimes. While the article characterizes the Roma as the undeserving stateless, so alien to…
Navigating the Central Mediterranean in a Time of ‘Crisis’
From 2014 to the end of 2016, over 450,000 people crossed from North Africa towards Italy via the Central Mediterranean route. The number of people recorded as dead or missing in the same stretch of water steadily increased too. Crisis-talk in the region led to renewed efforts by the European Union and its Member States to govern and control migration to and across the Central Mediterranean. Against this backdrop, this article draws upon over 200…
Outsourcing the 'best interests' of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the era of austerity
This article examines the governance of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) and former UASC in the U.K. and reveals the expanding reach of asylum privatisation to unaccompanied children. In the process, the principle of the ‘best interests of the child’ enshrined in international and national law is being reconfigured through practices of service outsourcing and out-of-county placement that are used to distance local authorities from the…
Introduction Anti-Gypsyism and the politics of exclusion
Roma and Sinti have been continuously present in the Italian peninsula since at least the 1400s and as such must be considered an integral part of Italian history and culture. As Piasere argues (19
Death and Migration
In migration and refugee studies, migrant deaths have frequently been closely linked to contemporary forms of border and migration governance. Migrant deaths at sea have also played a central role in shaping policy and public responses to Europe’s “crisis.” Yet relatively little scholarly work has analyzed migrants’ personal experiences related to death and the impact of these experiences on their mobility. Drawing on 500 semi-structured intervie…
The Bureaucratic Capture of Child Migrants
This article investigates the “bureaucratic capture” of migrant children through three technologies of the state: labelling, data production and social services, illuminating the ways visibility and invisibility are constructed and managed in the context of restrictionist immigration regimes. Using the case of unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children, Roma children and undocumented children, we examine how in/visibility is produced; for what purpose…
Brexit Rebordering, Sticky Relationships and the Production of Mixed-Status Families
This article examines the Brexit-driven remaking of some EU families into mixed-status families. Drawing on original research conducted in 2021-2022 with British, EU/EEA and non-EU/EEA citizens living in the UK or the EU/EEA, it shows how families whose members have previously enjoyed equal rights to freedom of movement across the EU/EEA variously negotiate the consequences of Brexit on their lives. Central to our analysis is the interplay betwee…
Introduction
Refugee Integration(s)
Refugee Integration(s): Policy and Practice in the European Union Get access Nando Sigona Nando Sigona Research Associate, Development and Forced Migration Research Unit, Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 115–122, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdi093 Published: 01 December 2005
Mothering in hostile environments
This article examines the production, working and impact of the UK's hostile environment on migrant families with precarious legal status. Our approach is informed by two bodies of scholarly work: critical border studies and research on migrant families. We bridge these literatures to show how the hostile environment is neither a singular, neatly bounded space, nor limited to a set of interactions between immigration enforcement and a clear-cut g…
L’Union européenne et les Roms
Nouveaux instruments de gouvernance et contrôle de la mobilité des Roms Lors d’une récente communication au Parlement et au Conseil européen, la Commission européenne (2011) est revenue sur la question des Roms, suite aux événements relatifs aux expulsions de Roms roumains par la France l’été dernier. Cette intervention était très attendue car la Commission avait jusque là évité de prendre position sur ce sujet, laissant l’initiative aux États me…
Reimagining, Repositioning, Rebordering
This article examines the emergence of a new immigration regime in the United Kingdom, following its exit from the European Union, to uncover the entanglements and intersections of biopolitics, geopolitics and ideology in migration and migration governance. It draws a clear line between Brexit as a political and geopolitical rupture, the ideological project of “Global Britain” that emerged from it, and the forms of migrant and citizen subjectivit…
Deportation, non‐deportation and precarious lives
How Can a 'Nomad' be a 'Refugee
Ethnic categories in Kosovo as well as in Italy have been shaped and reshaped according to public politics and local power relations. Focusing on the treatment of the Roma minority, this article examines the complexity of the relationship between labelling and policy in two different contexts: Kosovo and Italy. It highlights the impact that bureaucratic and institutional actors have on the process of identity building of the Roma/Gypsies communit…
Refugee Community Organisations and Dispersal
Despite increased political and public interest in asylum issues in the UK, little has been written on the topic. This book, written by leading experts in the field, is the first to examine the role of refugee community organisations (RCOs) at a critical point of policy change.
Refugee community organisations and dispersal
Introduction Refugee community organisation: paradigms and perspectives The dispersal framework RCOs in the West Midlands: emerging organisational forms The North West: fragmentation and unity in refugee communities RCOs in London: competition and consolidation Comparative issues: RCOs and the impacts of dispersal Conclusions.
Refugee Integration(s)
Refugee Integration(s): Policy and Practice in the European Union Get access Nando Sigona Nando Sigona Research Associate, Development and Forced Migration Research Unit, Oxford Brookes University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 115–122, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdi093 Published: 01 December 2005
Identidade, estereótipos e políticas
Muitos motivos me levaram a mudar de vida: em primeiro lugar, o fato de ser 'nômade', ou seja, de rom tornar-me 'nômade', tornar-me 'cigano', com todos os preconceitos, sobretudo negativos, que isto comporta. Quando estava em meu país, nunca tinha pensado em mim mesmo como um 'nôm ade'. Não pensava em mim mesmo como um 'cigano': sujo, maltrapilho, ladrão. Por isso, quando cheguei na Itália, decidi trabalhar ativamente pelos direitos dos rom. Quer…
Remaking Home
The main aim of this book is to explore the meanings of ‘home’ and the practices, processes and institutions which shape the way that refugees seek to emplace themselves—or make a ‘home’—in different contexts. It emphasizes, in particular, the relationship between individual biographies and life circumstances in determining the way people organize their lives in exile. It is a book on ‘integration’ but where the word itself is very rarely mention…
The governance of Romani people in Italy
This article provides a critical overview of public policy and practice towards the Romani population in Italy over a period of fifty years. It investigates the uses and consequences of the label ‘nomads’ and widespread essentialist assumptions about their alleged nomadic lifestyle, and the ambiguity embedded in policy which claims to solve the ‘Gypsy problem’. It explores in particular the ways in which recent political debate and policy initiat…
Introduction Anti-Gypsyism and the politics of exclusion
Roma and Sinti have been continuously present in the Italian peninsula since at least the 1400s and as such must be considered an integral part of Italian history and culture. As Piasere argues (19
Néolibéralisme et antitsiganisme
L’Union européenne et les Roms
Nouveaux instruments de gouvernance et contrôle de la mobilité des Roms Lors d’une récente communication au Parlement et au Conseil européen, la Commission européenne (2011) est revenue sur la question des Roms, suite aux événements relatifs aux expulsions de Roms roumains par la France l’été dernier. Cette intervention était très attendue car la Commission avait jusque là évité de prendre position sur ce sujet, laissant l’initiative aux États me…
Migration routes and strategies of young undocumented migrants in England
Based on data from in-depth qualitative interviews with young undocumented migrants from Brazil, China, Ukraine, Zimbabwe and Kurds from Turkey, this article explores the entry strategies used by young people in relation to the UK immigration system and their undocumented status. Against a brief account of Britain's regime, the paper first examines why and how these migrants come to the UK and the ways in which they entered the country. Second, t…
‘I have too much baggage’
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 in particular: firstly, the impact of being undocumented on the ways migrants choose who to interact with and how; secondly, the range of social activities undocumented …
Education, Asylum and the 'Non-Citizen' Child
Journal Article Education, Asylum and the ‘Non-Citizen’ Child: the Politics of Compassion and Belonging. By Halleli Pinson, Madeleine Arnot and Mano Candappa. Get access Education, Asylum and the ‘Non-Citizen’ Child: the Politics of Compassion and Belonging. By Halleli Pinson, Madeleine Arnot and Mano Candappa. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. £60 (hb). 280pp. ISBN 978 0 230 52468 2. Nando Sigona Nando Sigona Refugee Studies Ce…
Deportation, non‐deportation and precarious lives
Globalisation, Rights and the Non-Citizen
Ethnography, diversity and urban space
This article is an introduction to a special issue on ethnography, diversity and urban space. It places the 'diversity turn' within studies of migration and multiculture historically and discusses the implications of concepts such as 'diversity' and more recently 'super-diversity' for scholarship, policy and identity politics. It argues that diversity is a helpful concept for studies of migration and multiculture because it avoids the essentialis…
Campzenship
This article engages with current debates on the sociology of camps and camp-like institutions in contemporary society. Drawing on ethnographic material collected in Italy in ‘nomad camps’ where forcibly displaced Roma from former Yugoslavia were sheltered in the 1990s and 2000s, it argues that Agamben's conceptualisation of the camp as a space of exception, by constructing the camp as other to an idealised notion of citizenship and the rule of l…
Everyday statelessness in Italy
This article is an invitation to reflect sociologically on statelessness, to date mostly absent from an otherwise burgeoning sociological debate on citizenship, rights, and legal status. Millions of stateless people worldwide confirm the need for a more nuanced understanding of contemporary forms of membership attentive to the interplay of different rights regimes. While the article characterizes the Roma as the undeserving stateless, so alien to…
Unravelling Europe's 'Migration Crisis'
What is it like to travel to Europe over land and sea in order to secure a future for yourself and your family? Why are so many people willing to risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean? What are their hopes and fears? And why is Europe, one of the richest regions of the world, unable to cope? Drawing on compelling first-hand accounts from 500 people who arrived on the shores of Europe in 2015, this important new book unpacks their routes, ex…
Mapping the soft borders of citizenship
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides a brief profile of some figures of contemporary membership whose experiences and predicaments will be examined by the contributors of this collection. It also provides a diverse set of case studies of migrant and minority populations located in the grey areas which are both within and beyond the traditional realm of citi…
Introduction
Navigating the Central Mediterranean in a Time of ‘Crisis’
From 2014 to the end of 2016, over 450,000 people crossed from North Africa towards Italy via the Central Mediterranean route. The number of people recorded as dead or missing in the same stretch of water steadily increased too. Crisis-talk in the region led to renewed efforts by the European Union and its Member States to govern and control migration to and across the Central Mediterranean. Against this backdrop, this article draws upon over 200…
The contested politics of naming in Europe’s “refugee crisis
How we label, categorize and, in turn, differentiate between those on the move, for example those who cross the Mediterranean on unseaworthy boats, has enormous implications on the kind of legal and moral obligations receiving states and societies feel towards them. This is perhaps even more salient nowadays in the context of the process of reform of the global governance of migration initiated with the 2016 New York Declaration for Refugees and …
The Bureaucratic Capture of Child Migrants
This article investigates the “bureaucratic capture” of migrant children through three technologies of the state: labelling, data production and social services, illuminating the ways visibility and invisibility are constructed and managed in the context of restrictionist immigration regimes. Using the case of unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children, Roma children and undocumented children, we examine how in/visibility is produced; for what purpose…
Outsourcing the 'best interests' of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the era of austerity
This article examines the governance of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) and former UASC in the U.K. and reveals the expanding reach of asylum privatisation to unaccompanied children. In the process, the principle of the ‘best interests of the child’ enshrined in international and national law is being reconfigured through practices of service outsourcing and out-of-county placement that are used to distance local authorities from the…
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