Our founder writes: Keir Starmer says his approach is sleeves-rolled-up, serious, practical. But what’s practical about putting barriers in front of a woman delivering your dinner? What’s moral about punishing the very people holding our society together? bigissue.com/opinion/starme…

Starting in half an hour! Register before 4:40 for a zoom link or message us here and we’ll try to share it. COMPAS Migration Oxford MigrationObservatory Queen Mary Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Bristol Uni Press Stanford Press IRiS

I look very much forward to this IRiS talk with Christina Boswell Emile Chabal (also: emile-chabal.bsky.social) Mike Slaven, editors/authors of States of Ignorance: Governing #irregularmigrants in Western Europe on 22 May, 1-2.30pm. Register via Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/states-of-ig…

The dreams of the precarious migrant worker circulate around an individualist survivalism, handily & dangerously in tune with the wider neoliberal context. What connects precarious workers is precisely their disconnection. See how precarious migrant work sows its persistence ↓

"An island of strangers?" Immigrants are the ones keeping the NHS and care homes going. They wipe your arses, test your prostate & do your pap smears. They're not strangers. They know more about you than they'd like to." This & more on this week's pod. shows.acast.com/over-the-top-u…

New interview with me out: Reform UK and Farage: Children of the British Political Establishment By Wojciech Albert Łobodziński In Cross-Border Talks crossbordertalks.eu/2025/05/15/ref…

Looking forward to the Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment conference: 'Is Britain really an Island of Strangers?' on 19-20 June. I'll be speaking in the final plenary: 'Understanding and Resisting the Hostile Environment' with Nando Sigona & Floya Anthias, chaired by Ben Gidley. eventbrite.co.uk/e/is-britain-r…

The goal of Starmer’s new #immigration plan is to #takebackcontrol but without acknowledging #Brexit’s failings writes Nando Sigona (Uni of Birmingham) for openDemocracy #mustread opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-traf…

Since the falling out, former allies of Musk, incl Trump, are now using his Nazi salute to discredit him, while some critics of Trump are trying to excuse it to redeem Musk as a potential ally, so I'm re-posting my blog on it: identitiesjournal.com/blog-collectio…

Interesting to hear about Runnymede Trust report on #hostileenvironment at Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment conference, there are several findings that resonates with out I-CLAIM corpus analysis of political and public narratives on #irregularmigration i-claim.eu/project/the-na…

Research exposes structural exploitation of migrant workers in UK domestic and food delivery sectors superdiversity.net/2025/07/17/res… via IRiS

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'Til the Home Office do us part: new piece drawing on the I-CLAIM study on the working and living conditions of migrant workers in food delivery and domestic work in the UK theconversation.com/how-the-uks-im…

If you live in the UK and have ever ordered a food delivery, you REALLY should read this story. The state, The Labour Party, capital and high-tech - working together to make life nasty & brutish for your local delivery riders. Nando Sigona Stefano Piemontese opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-traf…