Political leaders condemn violent mob conducting race-based pogrom in Northern Ireland, targeting migrants and minorities with collective punishment after an attempted murder by a Sudanese refugee the previous night
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Nearly a decade after Brexit, what has actually changed?In a new FoD essay @nandosigona.bsky.social argues that Brexit’s deepest legacy is reshaping belonging. Insecurity has become a feature of governance rather than a by-product via status checks, income thresholds & conditional settlement routes
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
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...
"Migration functions instead as a broader symbolic language through which anxieties about decline, identity, inequality & political distrust are articulated"
Interesting piece by @nandosigona.bsky.social on why tougher controls won't reduce anxieties around migration.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Those involved in disorder/violence in Northern Ireland in summer 2024 were much less likely to be arrested than in England
Northern Ireland in 2024
[49 arrests; > 600 people involved in disorder]
So up to 1 in 12
England in 2024
[1876 arrests of 4000-5000 people involved in disorder]
About 1 in 3
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.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Northern Ireland's first minister says masked men were "burning families out of their homes". One pastor says black people were targeted, while an MP calls it a "race-based pogrom".
I'm fine with criticising Starmer, but '... beneath it lies what SOME see as a broader failure of government and politics to address a genuine national interest'. This is poor journalism, who are these 'some'? They seem to be doing a lot of work in this 'analysis'.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
Migration numbers are falling, but attitudes towards immigration are hardening. That's because immigration concerns are a symbol for other anxieties.
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.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
LSE British Politics and Policy blog
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Migration numbers are falling, but attitudes towards immigration are hardening. That's because immigration concerns are a symbol for other anxieties.
There is a significant under-policing in Northern Ireland of intimidation, harassment and threat against ethnic minorities.
There were many fewer arrests and fewer prosecutions in 2024 in Northern Ireland than England, after more sustained violence
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...
The PSNI has issued a warning that it “does not tolerate any type of vigilante activity” after videos appeared online showing groups of people patrolling parts of East Belfast.
Essay · Nando Sigona on How Brexit Reshaped Britain's Architecture of Belonging — From Open-Ended Security to Conditional, Bureaucratically Managed Precarity
When Immigration Control Becomes Higher Education Policy
nandosigona.info/2026/06/05/w...
#migration #immigration
#homeoffice #highereducation
When Immigration Control Becomes Higher Education Policy
nandosigona.info/2026/06/05/w...
#migration #immigration
#homeoffice #highereducation
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…
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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…
