About me

My name is Nando Sigona (see profile). I’m Chair of International Migration and Forced Displacement (Full Professor) at the University of Birmingham, UK and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity (IRIS)

I am also Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, Senior Research Associate at ODI, and Visiting Professor at Utrecht University.

My research interests include:

• Irregularised migrant families in Europe (I-CLAIM)
• the politics of migration in the age of ‘Global Britain’ (MIGZEN)
• Intra-EU mobility, mixed-EU families, Eurochildren and Brexit
• The EU and the refugee crisis (MEDMIG)
• Child and youth migration, in particular transitions to social adulthood of former unaccompanied asylum seeking minors in the EU (Becoming Adult).
• Livelihoods and lifeworlds of undocumented migrant children and young people in the UK.
• Stateless diasporas and immigration and citizenship regimes in the EU (Oxford Diasporas Programme)
• Citizenship, superdiversity and belonging (edited book)
• Roma minorities in Europe

At Birmingham I teach on the MA in Migration Studies. Previously I taught on the MSc in Migration Studies at the University of Oxford. In October 2012 I was awarded the Teaching Excellence Award by the University of Oxford for ‘outstanding contribution to the MSc in Migration Studies’.

I have long standing interest in Romani politics and anti-Gypsyism in Europe.

My work has appeared in a range of peer reviewed journals, including Sociology, International Migration Review, The Sociological Review, Social Anthropology, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Citizenship Studies. I am author or editor of books and journal’s special issues including Becoming Adult on the Move (Palgrave), The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity (Oxford University Press), Undocumented Migration (Polity), The Oxford Handbook on Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (with Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Long and Loescher, Oxford University Press), Sans Papiers (with Bloch and Zetter, Pluto), Ethnography, diversity and urban space (with Mette L. Berg and Ben Gidley, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power), Romani politics in contemporary Europe: poverty, ethnic mobilisation and the neoliberal order (with Nidhi Trehan, Palgrave, 2009), Refugee Community Organisations and Dispersal: Networks, Resources and Social Capital (with David Griffiths and Roger Zetter, Policy Press, 2005), The Roma in the new EU: Polices, Frames and Everyday Experiences (with Peter Vermeersch, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2012), and Figli del Ghetto. Gli italiani, i campi nomadi e l’invenzione degli zingari (Nonluoghi 2002).

I am one of the founding editors of Migration Studies, an international peer reviewed journal by Oxford University Press that started publication in Spring 2013. I am also the editor of Global migration and social change’, a Bristol University Press book series. I am on the editorial board of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Migration Studies, Nordic Journal of Migration Research, and Central and Eastern European Migration Review.

In November 2016, I was included in the University of Birmingham’s ‘Birmingham Heroes‘ campaign for my work on the refugee crisis.

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Professore ordinario presso l’Università di Birmingham, dove dirigo l’‘Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity . Sono anche ricercatore associato presso il Refugee Studies Centre alla Università di Oxford,  l’Overseas Development Institute (ODI) e visiting professor all’Universita’ di Utrecht. Mi occupo di asilo politico e migrazioni forzate in ambito europeo, migrazioni irregolari, e di rom e sinti in Italia e Europa. Sono autore di numerosi saggi su queste tematiche, nel 2006 ho ricevuto il premio Di Liegro per la ricerca sociale. Nel 2012 la Università di Oxford mi ha conferito il Teaching Excellence Award per il mio contributo al corso di Master sulle migrazioni internazionali.