289 of the 1,248 players at the 2026 #WorldCup were born in a country different from the one they represent.
Paris is the world's leading exporter of #football talent: it's the most common birthplace among World Cup players...
🧵Technosolutionism turns moral panic into moral failure.
It is the case - and it's been for a very long time - for the UK Home Office, now about to roll out AI age checks for migrant children, despite knowing they are flawed and they will damage the most vulnerable.
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New net migration figures covering 2025 will be published on Thursday.
Here's what our team will be watching out for – from the trajectory of net migration to the use of asylum hotels and a surge in citizenship applications.
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#Labour doubled #immigrationraids in Birmingham, but what did they achieve?
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🚨The Brexit referendum was supposed to save the Conservative Party. Instead, it might have just killed it, argues @timbale.bsky.social.
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The politics of #immigration is not a response to public anxiety, but one of the mechanisms through which anxiety is continuously reproduced and politically organised.
Why public attitudes to immigration don’t respond to falling migration @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social share.google/Miyiujubucu7...
In the latest @irisbirmingham.bsky.social Working Paper Robin Cohen traces the concept of #creolization through the arc of his own intellectual and personal journey. The result is both a contribution to migration studies and a compelling intellectual memoir.
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Net migration is falling, yet many Britons believe the opposite. Why?
@nandosigona.bsky.social unpacks this paradox for @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social
#MustRead #Immigration #Migration #Asylum
I enjoyed reading this interesting piece by @myriamcherti.bsky.social @compasoxford.bsky.social about the Morocco's world cup squad
www.compas.ox.ac.uk/article/prid...
Migration numbers are falling, but attitudes towards immigration are hardening. That's because immigration concerns are a symbol for other anxieties.
Stumbling across the concept of creolization was a matter of chance discovery and, for most of my academic life, intermittent engagement. I noticed it first as a student at the University of the Witwa...
The Home Office's latest measures on international student recruitment raise questions that go beyond immigration policy, write @nandosigona.bsky.social
Under new rules, universities will be judged against stricter visa refusal, enrollment and course completion targets.
#mustread
#immigration
Nando Sigona
Internal Home Office tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors. It’s moving forward anyway.
Migration numbers to the UK are falling, yet at the same time attitudes towards immigration are hardening. That’s because immigration concerns are a symbol for other anxieties, argues @nandosigona.bsky.social.
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LSE British Politics and Policy
Migration numbers are falling, but attitudes towards immigration are hardening. That's because immigration concerns are a symbol for other anxieties.
The Brexit referendum was supposed to save the Conservative Party and stop Farage. Instead, it emboldened Farage, and might have killed the Conservative Party.
New #HomeOffice rules measure universities through immigration compliance metrics while ignoring how surveillance and immigration control shape international students’ lives and chances of success.
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#hostileenvironment
#migration
#internationalstudents
New Home Office rules measure universities through immigration compliance metrics while ignoring how surveillance and immigration control shape international students’ lives and chances of su…
