Op-Ed
The Conversation, Asylum is not illegal migration – why the UK government shouldn’t conflate the two, 20 November 2025
The Political Quarterly, How Europe’s Migration Rules Keep Creating the “Irregular Migrants” They Claim to Catch, 18 Nov 2025
The Conversation, Labour’s plan for migrants to ‘earn’ permanent residency turns belonging into an endless exam, 30 Sept 2025
OpenDemocracy, Delivery riders caught between algorithms and immigration raids, 7 Aug 2025
The Conversation, How the UK’s immigration system splits families apart – by design, 23 July 2025
OpenDemocracy, Starmer’s new plan scapegoats migrants for Brexit’s failings, 21 May 2025
MeltingPot, Regno Unito: Keir Starmer e la crociata contro l’immigrazione, 14 May 2025
I-CLAIM, The business of immigration control: Who really profits from mass deportation plans?, 15/2/2025
The Conversation, What a Trump presidency means for millions of migrants and their families in the US, 7/11/2024
The Political Quarterly, The UK’s ‘Safe and Legal’ Humanitarian Routes: from Colonial Ties to Privatising Protection, 16 Aug 2024
The Conversation, UK plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda may never happen but other European leaders still want to copy it – podcast, 20/6/2024
UK in a Changing Europe, Comparing the Hong Kong BN(O) and Ukraine humanitarian visa schemes, 30/1/2024
The Conversation, Bespoke humanitarian visa schemes like those for Ukraine and Hong Kong can’t replace the asylum system, 30/1/2024
The Conversation, Rwanda plan: Rishi Sunak has insisted on pushing ahead – here’s where he could take it next, 16/11/2023
The Conversation, Tears, compromise, divorce – what it’s like to leave the UK because of Brexit, 18/9/2023
El Pais, La normalizacion de la violencia estatal hacia los migrantes y refugiados [The normalization of state violence against migrants and refugees] 3/9/2023
UK in a Changing Europe, A Battle for the Crown, 12/5/2023
Transforming Society, Who is breaking the asylum system? 11/1/2023
MeltingPot, Chi sta rompendo il sistema di asilo? 23/1/2023
OpenDemocracy, Why some migrants are deemed more deserving than others in Global Britain, 18/01/2023
The Political Quarterly, The UK’s Refugee ‘Invasion’ is a Brexit-made Policy Failure, 10/11/2022
The Conversation, Brexit sparked greater attachment to the European Union in UK and EU citizens living abroad, survey suggests 18/10/2022
The Conversation, Four ways Brexit and the loss of free movement have made life harder for mixed British-European families, 29/07/2022
UKICE, How Brexit transformed mobile families into migrant families, 5/5/2022
LSE EUROPP, EU citizenship and transnational political mobilisation after Brexit, 29/4/2022
ODI, UK government’s response to this refugee crisis is too little, too confused, too slow, 9/3/2022
The Conversation, Debunking key myths about Britain’s ‘broken asylum system’, 2/12/2021
The Conversation, Belarus: border crisis with Poland loses sight of the people trapped in the middle, 9/11/2021
Rivista Il Mulino, Brexit e l’eredità del sogno europeo, 2/7/2021
The Sociological Review, Brexit On ‘Plague Island’: Fortifying The UK’s Borders In Times Of Crisis, 2/2/2021
LSE EUROPP, EU families feel more welcome in Scotland than they do in the rest of the UK, 10/10/2019
The Conversation/iNews/Metro, How EU families in Britain are coping with Brexit uncertainty, 31/8/2019
OpenDemocracy, Naturalisation and paracetamol: diary of an EU citizen in the UK, 18/4/2019
New Internationalist, Migration deal, is it the answer? 30/07/2018
OpenDemocracy, Hostile environment: border guards and border guardees, 12/06/2018
OpenDemocracy, Amber Rudd, the Windrush scandal and the reluctant Remainer, 3/5/2018
Discover Society, The Government’s hostile environment and its consequences, 1/5/2018
The Conversation (iNews), Windrush generation is not alone – children of EU-born citizens could be next, 18/4/2018
OpenDemocracy, Another dangerous ‘National Us’: you can’t have a more integrated society in a hostile environment, 21/3/2018
The Conversation, Fact Check: are there over a million foreigners living illegally in Britain? 17/10/2017
Discover Society, The tower, 2/8/2017
LSE Europp, “A disgusting political lie”: EU parents respond to the Children’s Commissioner’s letter to Michel Barnier, 14/7/2017
The Conversation, Rome mayor’s anti-migrant stance signals shift further to right for Italy’s Five Star Movement, 21/6/2017
The Conversation, NGOs under attack for saving too many lives in the Mediterranean, 29/3/2017
The Conversation, If the EU wants to be the bastion of liberal democracy, it too must stop demonising refugees and migrants 2/2/2017
Internazionale, Memoria corta e ipocrisia 10/2/2017
The Conversation, Why pushing undocumented children out of schools won’t help bring down net migration 2/12/2016
The Conversation, No direct flight: new maps show the fragmented journeys of migrants and refugees to Europe 2/11/2016
Refugees Deeply, Outrage Over Unaccompanied Minors Highlights Massive E.U. Data Gap
10/10/2016
Newsweek, Theresa May’s Britain will be no haven for refugees, 23/9/2016
The Conversation, Britain is to take 3,000 refugee children by 2020 … Generous? Think again, 25/4/2016
The Independent, The chart that shows just how generous the UK’s offer to take 3,000 refugee children really is, 25/4/2016
Newsweek, Europe is driving refugees to more dangerous routes across the Med, 30/3/2016
The Conversation, European policy is driving refugees to more dangerous routes across the Med, 29/3/2016
The Conversation, Lost in the world: the young people shunted around a global asylum system, 10/3/2016
OpenDemocracy, Mind the gap: why are unaccompanied children disappearing in their thousands? 22/2/2016
LSE EUROPP, Why the jury is out on the Commission’s latest proposal for a ‘distribution key’ to help solve the refugee crisis, 18/1/2016
The Conversation, Quand l’Europe voit les migrants en double ou en triple, 21/10/2015
The Conversation, Seeing double? How the EU miscounts migrants arriving at its borders, 16/10/2015
Liberation, Quand l’Europe voit les migrants en double ou en triple, 22/10/2015
The Conversation, Juncker appeals to European hearts with refugee plan, but one leader is already shaking his head, 9/9/2015
The Conversation, Calais migrants are not invading: they’re just a small part of a global refugee crisis, 3/8/2015
The Conversation, What the EU must do now to halt this tragedy on its shores, 20/4/2015
The Conversation, Q&A: what is being done to stem migrant crossings in the Mediterranean? 15/4/2015
The Conversation, Fact Check: was Italy’s flagship immigration project a failure? 1/3/2015
The Conversation, Why has this Italian politician’s neighbourly photo prompted such a furious backlash? 5/12/2014
The Conversation, Opting out of Mediterranean rescue condemns desperate migrants to death, 29/10/2014
The Conversation, New wave of nationalism could scupper Italy’s bid for EU-wide response to migrant boats, 30/6/2014
OpenDemocracy, What the EU must do now to halt this tragedy on its shores, 21/4/2015
The Conversation, Whose interests do we protect by refusing children asylum? Not ours, nor the children’s, 10/4/2014
OpenDemocracy, Another killing in British detention: who was Alois Dvorzac? 19/3/2014
LSE EUROPP, The death of migrants in the Mediterranean is a truly ‘European’ tragedy, 14/10/2013
The Conversation, Italy ignores real cause of Lampedusa refugee tragedy, 4/10/2013
OpenDemocracy, King Nigel’s speech: recasting ‘us’ and ‘them’,13/5/2013
OpenDemocracy, UK migration policy: we need to talk about citizens, 4/3/2013
TEDxEastEnd, The UK’s DREAMers? Undocumented children in Britain, 6/12/2012
OpenDemocracy, Life in limbo for UK’s irregular migrant children and families, 24/6/2012
OpenDemocracy, Triple vulnerability: the lives of Britain’s undocumented migrant children, 9/11/2010
Selected media coverage
Tovima (Greece), Reforms Will ‘Make People’s Lives Miserable’, Academic Warns, as UK Moves Toward New Asylum Model, 25 Nov 2025
Blast (France) Politique d’asile au Royaume-Uni : quand la gauche travailliste adopte les recettes de l’extrême droite, 27 Nov 2025
The Guardian, Life as a food delivery worker: ‘Sometimes men open the door naked’ 16/11/2025
Sky News, Interview with Mark Austin, 12 Aug 2025
Ipaper, Home Office cuts back plans to revamp scandal-hit Manston asylum centre, 19 Aug 2025
LBC, The Whole Show with Iain Dale, 28 July 2025
Expansion, No solo Estados Unidos, Europa también endurece sus políticas migratorias, 4/3/2025
France 24/AFP,From Bulgaria to the English Channel: tracing trafficked migrant boats, 8/4/2024
Reuters, Fact Check: Misleading to claim Britain’s net migration is set to rise by 315,000,
19/3/2024
The Guardian, Ukrainians in UK shocked by shortage of dentists, survey finds, 30/1/2024
CNA News (Singapore), Interview on irregular crossings and EU responses, 9/10/2023
BBC News, Interview on irregular crossings along the Central Mediterranean route, 1/10/2023
Euronews, Uncertainty, anxiety, even divorce… the impact Brexit had on EU citizens in the UK, 8/9/2023
Euronews, Why it’s often men who make the migration journey to Europe, 6/9/2023
The National, EU families reveal why they left the UK post-Brexit, 8/9/2023
BBC News, Migrant boats in the Mediterranean: Why are so many people dying? 13/8/2023
Al Jazeera, ‘Europeans are almost not coming here anymore’, 9/6/2023
ABC News, Interview, 26/2/2023
ABC News, Dozens of asylum seekers drown off southern Italy, 27/2/2023
Ayesha Hazarika Times Radio https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio/show/20221105-13265/2022-11-05 5/11/2022
ZDF Auslandsjournal (Germany) https://www.zdf.de/politik/auslandsjournal/220622-abschiebung-nach-afrika-100.html 22/6/2022
The Guardian, Brexit remains ‘open wound’ for EU citizens living in UK, 23/6/2022
El Mundo, Boris Johnson se enfrenta al doble veredicto de los votantes, 23/6/2022
Independent, Brexit has left ‘enduring scars’ on EU nationals living in UK, research finds, 24/6/2022
El diario, El Brexit sigue siendo una “herida abierta” para los ciudadanos de la UE que viven en Reino Unido, 23/6/2022
Il Sole24Ore, Brexit sei anni dopo: per gli europei residenti in Uk è ancora una ferita aperta, 23/6/2022
Associated Press 15/6/2022: https://apnews.com/article/queen-elizabeth-ii-boris-johnson-business-rwanda-migration-6ac674d20298ecc42e035008b5751a30
Associated Press 15/6/2022: https://apnews.com/article/uk-rwanda-migration-deportations-boris-johnson-9ca56e7a1736dd803690ceac544fc7e8
Africanews/Associated Press, https://fr.africanews.com/2022/06/15/nando-sigona-le-royaume-uni-tente-de-se-debarrasser-des-refugies/?utm_medium=AfricanewsFR&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1655295767 15/6/2022
Al Jazeera English, Inside Story, https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2022/6/16/whats-behind-the-record-number-of-displaced-people 16/6/2022
ABC Radio (Australia) https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/britain-forced-to-cancel-first-asylum-seeker-deportatio/13931496 16/6/2022
Associated Press, Camped in Calais, migrants renew resolve to try for England, 28/11/2021
Associated Press, Channel migrant deaths: Smugglers net millions per kilometer, 27/11/2021
Associated Press, Channel deaths fuel UK-France tensions over migrant boats, 25/11/2021
TRT World: https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/why-are-more-refugees-risking-the-dangerous-journey-on-the-english-channel-52028 (Ylenia Gostoli) 25/11/2021
ABC Radio (Australia) https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/struggle-to-stop-people-smugglers-in-the-wake-of-migrant-tragedy/13649628 (long interview) 26/11/2021
BBC Radio 4 The Week in Westminster, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00120hs 27/11/2021
Al Jazeera English, The News Hour (video interview with Barbara Serra), 25/11/2021
BBC World, News, 26/11/2021
BBC Newsnight, Irregular crossings in the English Channel, 22/11/2021
TBS eFM (South Korea) This Morning, Discussion on the overall relations between Belarus-Poland and the current situation in their borders, 22/11/2021
Aljazeera Inside Story, Is a new international convention to protect refugees needed?, 14/11/2021
CBC The Current, Australia moves to close refugee detention centre on Manus Island, 18/10/2021
Prospect Magazine, The UK’s birth rate has hit a record low. Can it bounce back? 20/10/2021
METRO, Vaccine passports ‘will force undocumented migrants further into the shadows’, 8/4/2021
BBC Radio 4, The Briefing Room, Britain’s immigration dilemma, 8/10/2020
New York Times, U.K. Police Release Names of 39 People Found Dead in Essex Truck, 8/11/2019
Ara.Cat, El Brexit força els europeus del Regne Unit a fer britànics els seus fills, 26/10/2019
La Vanguardia, Nando Sigona: “El cierre del paso de Calais hace que se abran nuevas rutas”, 24/10/2019
BBC Radio 4, PM, 24/10/2019
Radio 24, Nessun Luogo e’ Lontano, 24/10/2019
Associated Press, U.K. probe widens in deaths of 39 smuggled Chinese found dead in freight container after trip across Europe, 25/10/2019
Spiegel, Salvinis langer Schatten, 24/10/2019
euronews, Scotland and Brexit: ‘People are embarrassed over what their friends from the EU have to go through’, 27/9/2019
The Guardian, Brexit: EU citizens feel safer in Scotland than in England, report says, 17/9/2019
BBC Radio Scotland, John Beattie Show, 20/9/2019
The Scotsman, EU citizens feel ‘safer’ in Scotland than in England, finds report, 17/9/2019
The National, Brexit: EU citizens feel safer in Scotland than England, study finds, 17/9/2019
Al Jazeera, European families ‘feel safer’ in Scotland than England, 16/9/2019
World Politics Review, Salvini’s Migrant Crackdown in Italy Is Creating a Crisis, Not Solving One, 30/7/2019
BBC News, Carola Rackete: How a ship captain took on Italy’s Salvini, 6/7/2019
Polish Express, 12/6/2019
The Times, Record number of EU citizens applying for a British passport, 8/6/2019
Daily Mail, Record number of EU nationals are applying for British citizenship as 200 per day seek more security after Brexit, 8/6/2019
Daily Express, Brexit ANXIETY behind surge of EU nationals seeking British citizenship – 200 A DAY, 8/6/2019
Al Jazeera English News, interview on irregular crossings in the Mediterranean Sea, 19/08/2018
NBC/euronews, ‘Migrant rescue ship’s ordeal exposes hardening views as populism blossoms’, 26/07/2018
El Mercurio (Chile), ‘Líderes europeos luchan por ejecutar un urgente pero criticado acuerdo migratorio’, 30/06/2018
Big Issue (New Europeans), ‘A kick in the teeth’, 24/4/2018
The Guardian, EU parents warned children need papers to stay in UK after Brexit, 29/3/2018
El Mundo, Los hijos de europeos nacidos en Reino Unido, en territorio hostil tras el Brexit, 29/3/2018
Huffington Post, EU Parents Urged To Take Steps To Protect Their Child’s Right To Stay In The UK, 29/3/2018
Polish Express, Dzieci unijnych imigrantów w UK mogą mieć “poważne problemy” po Brexicie, 29/3/2018
Politics.co.uk, The real Theresa May: How the PM tried to introduce immigration checks in schools, 5 October 2017
Internazionale, A Napoli non c’e’ spazio per i rom, 2/10/2017
BBC World Service, interview on EU-Turkey deal and Dublin Regulation, 14/3/2-17
MOAS Podcast on migrant journeys across the Mediterranean and EU’s responses, 10/3/2017
Nature, Data on movements of refugees and migrants are flawed, 1/3/2017
CNN, How some European countries are tightening their refugee policies, 22/2/2017
Carta di Roma, Immigrazione e post-verita: quando sui fatti prevalgono le convinzioni personali. Interview, 23/11/2016
BBC World Service, Newshour, interview on Calais and what’s next for its residents, 23/10/2016 (from 47’30”)
News Deeply, Mismatch between rhetoric and reality at the refugee summits, 22/9/2016
BBC News, Rise in lone children seeking asylum in England, 8/9/2016
MO.BE, Europese ontwikkelingshulp als steekpenning om Afrikaanse migranten buiten te houden, 2/9/2016
Sunday Telegraph, No one knows how many children are dying in the Mediterranean – ‘I remember thinking; “Just hours ago this child was alive”‘ 27/7/2016
OpenDemocracy, On superdiversity in a ‘crisis mood’ (interview by Rosemary Bechler) 25/7/2016
BBC Reality Check, Could 250,000 refugees come to the UK from 2020? 3/6/2016
BBC World Have Your Say (from 31’25”), Or Angelina Jolie Pitt’s passionate plea to help refugees, 16/5/2016
BBC Radio 5 Up all Night (from 3h17’15’), On David Miliband’s ‘radical’ proposal to close refugee camps as a solution to the refugee crisis, 15/5/2016
BBC 4 World at One, Is the UK taking a ‘fair share’ of unaccompanied minors? 28/4/2016
Chinese Social Sciences News, Effect of EU-Turkey refugee deal debated, 27/4/2016
Público, ¿Dónde están los menores refugiados desaparecidos? 22/4/2016
Press Association, Nearly 90,000 lone children sought asylum in EU last year, 22/4/2016
El Pais, Cómo son los protagonistas de este desembarco inédito pero previsible, 10/4/2016
ABC RN Breakfast, European Union considers overhaul of asylum seeker system, 7/4/2016
The Guardian, Border force warns terrorists could enter EU by abusing asylum checks, 6/4/2016
The Guardian, EU to set out proposals for overhaul of European asylum rules, 6/4/2016
Vita, Rifugiati, le cifre confermano: le politiche europee aumentano i rischi in mare, 31/3/2016
Voice of America, ‘Mediterranean Hope’ Gives Second Chance to Refugees, 24/3/2016
Left, In Europa aumentano i casi di volontari processati o multati per aver aiutato i rifugiati, 17/3/2016
France24, Calais migrant crisis: Is France doing everything it can? 23/2/2016
Liberation, Pierre Lellouche invente 800 000 migrants supplémentaires en 2015, 5/2/2016
SciDev.net, View on Migration: Protect refugees with mobile banking, 2/2/2016
Al Jazeera Inside Story, Denmark migration law: A sign of things to come? 27/1/2016
L’Humanité, Les chiffres de l’immigration, l’arithmétique d’un crime, 8/1/2016
The Guardian, Stateless in Europe: ‘We are no people with no nation’, 27/12/2015
Il manifesto, Aperto il primo corridoio umanitario, 17/12/2015
Al Jazeera Inside Story, Europe’s refugee dilemma, 12/11/2015
E-IR, Interview, 1/11/2015
Le Croix, Le délicat usage des chiffres sur les migrants, 3/11/2015
RTS, Le décompte des réfugiés en Europe pose question, 25/10/2015
Soir, Quand l’Europe voit les migrants en double ou en triple, 21/10/2015
L’Opinion, Quand l’UE compte deux fois les migrants…, 21/10/2015
euronews, Migrant crisis confusion: how many are entering the EU? 14/10/2015
Voice of America, Migrant Arrivals Unlikely to Bring Major Changes to Europe, 28/9/2015
Associated Press, Migrant arrivals unlikely to bring major changes to Europe, 26/9/2015
BBC News, 4/9/2015
Krytyka Polityczna, Bennett: Europa sie spzecza, a ludzie tona, 3/8/2015
RT UK, Cameron pushes immigration target as net migration continues to soar, 26/5/2015
IRIN News, Outsourcing asylum, 17/3/2015
BBC World Global, 16/4/2014
Al Jazeera America, Human smugglers: Exploiters or pioneers of new underground railroad? 30/11/2014
Truthloader, Hundreds of migrants storm border of Spanish territory Melilla, 20/3/2014
BBC 4 Moral Maze, Migration, 16/10/2013
Politiken, Danmark vil udvise afghanske børn 5/9/2012
The Economist, Good things and small packages, 19/5/2012
de Volkskrant, ‘Romabeleid van Italië is nog erger dan dat van Frankrijk’, 22/9/2010
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