Draft:Nando Sigona

Nando Sigona is an Italy-born sociologist, migration expert and media commentator based in the UK. He is professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is a founding editor of the peer reviewed journal Migration Studies (Oxford University Press) and lead editor for Global Migration and Social Change book series by Bristol University Press. Nando Sigona has led several externally-funded national and international research projects, including Rebordering Britain and Britons after Brexit, and EU families and their children in Brexiting Britain. He is currently Scientific Coordinator for the Horizon Europe-funded Improving the living and working conditions of iregularised migrant households in Europe

His research interests include: the migration and citizenship nexus; undocumented migration; naturalisation, denaturalisation and statelessness; Romani politics and anti-Gypsyism; asylum and EU; Brexit and intra-European mobility; and child and youth migration.

His work has appeared in a range of international academic journals, including the Sociological Review, Sociology, Critical Social Policy , Social Anthropology, Antipode, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Identities, Citizenship Studies, International Migration Review and Ethnic and Racial Studies.

He is author or editor of books and journal’s special issues including Becoming Adult on the Move (with Chase and Chatty, 2023), The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity (with Meisner and Vertovec, 2022) Undocumented Migration (with Gonzales, Franco and Papoutsi, 2019); Unravelling Europe’s ‘migration crisis’ (with Crawley, Duvell, Jones, and McMahon, 2017), Within and beyond citizenship (with Roberto G. Gonzales, 2017), The Oxford Handbook on Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (with Fiddian Qasmiyeh, Loescher and Long, 2014), and Sans Papiers. The social and economic lives of undocumented migrants (with Bloch and Zetter, 2014).

He is Senior Research Associate at ODI and held visiting research and teaching positions at the Universities of Oxford, Bergen and Utrecht, and the European University Institute.

Nando Sigona is a regular contributor on migration and forced displacement for The Conversation and his research has received extensive media coverage.