Posted on 11 October 2021
Birmingham Fellow and IRiS researcher Dr Jenny Allsopp shares the perspectives of British Afghan refugees on the Taliban's recent return to power.
Posted on 07 October 2021
A new publication on the Intergenerational narratives of citizenship among EU citizens in the UK after the Brexit referendum has been launched.
Posted on 30 September 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic impacted wellbeing support for refugees who were part of the UK's Community Sponsorship Scheme (CSS)
Posted on 14 September 2021
New research reveals that refugees, asylum seekers and migrants reported higher levels of bad health and inadequate housing during the COVID-19 pandemic
Posted on 09 September 2021
In this blog, Marisol Reyes discusses how the pandemic has played out for the UK's Community Sponsorship refugees
Posted on 09 September 2021
New open access article by IRiS Researcher, Gabriella D'Avino: Framing Community Sponsorship in the context of the UK's hostile environment
Posted on 03 September 2021
Experts in Superdiversity will launch a new book which focuses on increasing population diversity and what this means for how local communities, health and welfare providers seek to address everyday health concerns
Dr Lisa Goodson is the UK lead on new project Empowering Cities Of Migration: New Methods For Citizen Involvement And Socio-spatial Integration (EMPOWER) in conjunction with Professor Simon Pemberton, University of Keele
Laurie Hartley, Asylum Seeker Support Worker at Rainbow Migration, speaks with IRiS Academic, Dawn River, about the experiences of LGBTQI+ people seeking asylum in the UK for Pride month 2021.
This paper, based on ethnographic work in Skaramagas and Elaionas camps in Athens in 2017, argues that camps are a temporal, as much as spatial, technology of bordering.
New paper: The Economics of Diversity: Innovation, Productivity, and the Labour Market
'A threat to the right to seek asylum'. IRiS Director, Professor Nando Sigona discusses the New Immigration Plan in the House of Lords
The American Journal of Sociology praises 'Undocumented Migration', a book written by IRiS Director, Professor Nando Sigona and colleagues.
Professor Jenny Phillimore has been appointed as an Honorary Doctorate at the University of Gothenburg
Read the new Community Sponsorship journal article from IRiS titled "I have Felt so Much Joy": The Role of Emotions in Community Sponsorship of Refugees.
Blog by researchers Gabriella D'Avino, Natasha Nicholls and Dr Marisol Reyes on the role played by faith groups on resettling refugees in the UK through Community Sponsorship.
Posted on 03 February 2021
The Sociological Review to showcase images and words from In the Shadow of Brexit, the audio-visual collection of family portraits of EU citizens in London on the cusp of Brexit
Posted on 15 January 2021
Sandra Pertek, the SEREDA Researcher at IRiS, University of Birmingham, has been awarded U21 Seed Funding to continue her research on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and modern slavery.
Posted on 07 December 2020
IRiS announces new research project: 'Rebordering Britain and Britons after Brexit (MIGZEN)' under the ESRC's Governance after Brexit programme.
Posted on 14 October 2020
IRiS Director Professor Nando Sigona took part in BBC Radio 4's The Briefing Room on "Britain's immigration dilemma" hosted by award winning journalist David Aaranovitch.
Posted on 04 September 2020
By Nicholas Bailey (Birmingham Business School and Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Responsible Business) and Professor Nando Sigona (School of Social Policy and Director of IRiS)
A webinar event hosted by Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment entitled 'Racism, policing and the politics of surveillance in times of pandemic'.
Blog by Global Challenges Researcher, Rafiyah Khan, on understanding the needs of refugee and forced migrant families and children.
Community Sponsorship Scheme (CSS) can bring local community groups to become directly responsible for supporting the resettlement of refugees.
World Refugee Week blog by Professor Hannah Bradby on having tenacious hope for a better world, especially for forced migrant Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) survivors.
The three year study found that the future of CSS in the UK depended on CSS groups having a positive experience and feeling that their contribution was worthwhile and successful.
Blog by Community Sponsorship Evaluation Project Researcher, Sara Hassan, around research experiences using the Arabic language.
My journey in Community Sponsorship - a blog written by Gabriella D'Avino, pioneer volunteer and researcher for the Community Sponsorship Scheme Evaluation.
IRiS statement on George Floyd, Amy Cooper and the banality and lethality of structural racism.
Coronavirus crisis 'increases suffering of most vulnerable refugees', new IRIS research report reveals.
Apply for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships 2020 with IRiS. This is the last call of H2020.
Forced migrant survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) face increasingly serious problems – some life-threatening – as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and associated restrictions, a new study reveals.
Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge from IRiS writes about what Hannah Arendt can teach us about work in the time of Covid-19 for the New Statesman.
New book by IRiS Associate, Professor Gracia Liu-Farrer: Immigrant Japan Mobility and Belonging in an Ethnonationalist Society.
The Refugee Hosts project has published a new report titled 'Religion and Social Justice for Refugees'. Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge from IRiS is a Co-Investigator of Refugee Hosts project.
SEREDA Project Researcher, Hoayda Darkal, writes a blog on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) during the time of lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
SEREDA Project Researcher, Professor Hannah Bradby, writes a blog on International Women's Day about Maryam's story: a testament to the persistent courage of refugee women around the world.
Posted on 18 February 2020
Professor Jenny Phillimore reflects on the highlights of her ten years as Director of IRiS.
Posted on 21 January 2020
SEREDA blog on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) across migrant and refugee journeys: Early lessons learnt from Tunisia.
Posted on 21 January 2020
SEREDA blog on how faith can help refugee and migrant women to heal from Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV).
Posted on 15 January 2020
IRiS announces new director: Professor Nando Sigona takes the lead of the Institute from founding director Professor Jenny Phillimore.
Posted on 15 January 2020
IRiS's Prof Jenny Phillimore and Dr Marisol Reyes published a report detailing the wider effects of the Community Sponsorship Scheme (UK), with knowledge about, and attitudes to, refugees in less-diverse communities.
Posted on 15 January 2020
SEREDA blog on main research findings demonstrating a pressing need for SGBV-informed service provision in the forced migration context from displacement to settlement.
Posted on 24 October 2019
Professor Nando Sigona, will present Eurochildren Project research in Berlin on 14 November at a Centre Marc Bloch event focused on the impact of Brexit on EU citizen's migration, mobility and belonging.
Posted on 17 October 2019
Professor Nando Sigona of IRiS invited to give the keynote address of an inter-agency meeting organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross at the Humanitarium in Geneva.
Posted on 16 September 2019
These conclusions are based on the findings of two reports being launched on Tuesday 17th September at the Cornerstone Centre St John's, Edinburgh by the University of Birmingham.
Posted on 11 September 2019
The Eurochildren Team launch research findings in Edinburgh, showcasing a new Scotland-focused report mapping the population of EU Nationals over four decades.
Posted on 11 September 2019
How are EU families coping with Brexit? With Brexit looming, Professor Nando Sigona, IRiS Deputy Director, captures some of the difficult dilemmas faced by EU nationals in an article for The Conversation.
Posted on 11 September 2019
New book 'Undocumented Migration' authored by IRiS Deputy Director Professor Nando Sigona and colleagues is launched by Polity.
Professor Phillimore to visit the University of Melbourne as a Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellow
By Jeanine Hourani, Research Associate at Centre for Health Equality, Gender and Women's Health Unit, University of Melbourne.
Professor Jenny Phillimore, Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity and Project Lead, writes fifteen months into the SEREDA project.
Research conducted from the Eurochildren study, led by Dr Nando Sigona, released three new reports today covering the legal, statistical and soiciological aspects of the impact of Brexit on EU families.
Professor Jenny Phillimore helps develop UK Home Office Indicators of Integration Framework and its supporting documents, including an interactive toolkit and a guide to 'what works in integrating refugees.'
The Institute for Research into Superdiversity, in partnership with the Institute of Asian Migrations (IAM), Waseda University, have been awarded funding from the Japan Foundation to hold an international symposium.
In her acclaimed new book, Dr Rachel Humphris seeks to open up new questions for academic and political debates about citizenship, migration and belonging.
Professor Jenny Phillimore speaking at TEDx at the University of Birmingham on 'Symbolic Violence and Refugees: Where is the Harm?'
The overall purpose of the CoP is to work collaboratively with key organisations to explore ways of improving support for refugee survivors of SGBV both locally, nationally and internationally.
IRiS Deputy Director, Dr Nando Sigona, is one of the authors of the article: Changing undocumented migrant children for NHS healthcare: implications for child health.
Violence, insecurity, persecution, and human rights violations have led to the forced displacement of an estimated 68.5 million people. Of these, 25.4 million are refugees – the highest number ever recorded.
Professor Jenny Phillimore writes: "Today, on International Women's Day, we have launched a series of working papers focusing on some of the key aspects of the gendered refugee experience."
By Professor Hannah Bradby: There is much to celebrate since the first international women's day in 1911. But with women fleeing conflict and poverty being subject to regular sexual assault, there remains much to protest
Posted on 06 February 2019
A pilot study by the University of Birmingham has identified major barriers to healthcare access for migrants, including denial of entitlements and administrative issues.
Posted on 18 January 2019
Migration experts from the University of Birmingham and Waseda University are launching a major new research partnership that will examine a shortage of skilled and unskilled labour in the UK and Japan - .
Posted on 21 November 2018
Nando Sigona in The Conversation: How a child reacted to Theresa May's comments that Brexit would stop EU citizens from 'jumping the queue' to come to the UK.
Posted on 12 October 2018
Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge has been appointed to a new Interdisciplinary Chair in Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham
Posted on 11 October 2018
SEREDA Project Team Member named as one of the most inspiring young alumni from the University of Auckland, New Zealand
Posted on 10 October 2018
IRiS staff, Jenny Phillimore, Rachel Humphris and associate, Gemma Hennessey, were invited to attend the Community Sponsorship awards ceremony at The Royal Society in London on Tuesday 2nd October 2018.
Posted on 05 October 2018
Talented new doctoral student Allaa Barri writes for the World Today Magazine, discussing initiatives to allow refugees to return to their war-ravaged country.
Dr Nando Sigona explains why we shouldn't treat Spain as a new Greece or Italy as far as irregular sea crossings are concerned
This new article, explores how austerity, welfare conditionality and the hostile environment combine to effect policy and practice towards new migrants.
IRiS Deputy Director, Dr Nando Sigona presented at the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) Thematic Workshop - Children and Youth on the Move: Implementing Sustainable Solutions, in partnership with UNICEF.
Academics from the University of Birmingham's Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) look closely at the changing profile of EU-born residents in the UK during the last 40 years of EU membership.
The UPWEB project ran its final symposium at ISCTE, The University Institute of Lisbon, on the 27 and 28 June 2018.
Director of IRiS Professor Jenny Phillimore in the Birmingham Brief: 'With the UK's Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme and Community Sponsorship Programme for refugees escaping conflicts in the Middle East, refugees have been resettled to many places in the UK that have very little experience of diversity, let alone refugees. What can these places do to welcome refugees?'
April-Louise Pennant and Dr Nando Sigona write for The Conversation.What is the legacy of the Empire Windrush for black Britishness today? The arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury docks on June 22, 1948 marked a watershed moment in the recent history of immigration to Britain. The day before the ship arrived from the Caribbean, the Evening Standard sent an airplane to photograph the vessel as it approached Britain. The photo appeared on the front page under the headline: "Welcome to Britain! Evening Standard plane greets 400 sons of Empire." But the reception of the new arrivals was far from unequivocally positive.
The West Midlands Combined Authority's (WMCA) Leadership Commission Report 2018, was launched by Andy Street CBE, the Mayor of the West Midlands and presented at a city centre event on Thursday 14 June.
Out now: "Navigating the Central Mediterranean in a Time of 'Crisis': Disentangling Migration Governance and Migrant Journeys", is an interesting new article by Nando Sigona and his MEDMIG colleague Simon McMahon in Sociology journal, 52(3).
The codes used to guide us are designed for data protection, marketing and social media – not anthropology. Dr Rachel Humphris writes om how the GDPR will force us to rethink how we go about our research.
IRiS Director Professor Jenny Phillimore and Deputy Director Dr Nando Sigona have made a significant contribution to the Discovery Society's interesting response to the Government's Integration Strategy green paper.
A prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship has been secured by IRiS Researcher, Dr Rachel Humphris, for a three year research project, Welcoming Cities?
The project findings were extensively reported in the Guardian and other publications.
Dr Lauren Heidbrinnk (California State University) successfully applied for a Fulbright award in the 2018-19 Fulbright-Schuman programme with the support of Dr Nando Sigona at IRiS.
Dr Nando Sigona presented his work at two universities.
Dr Nando Sigona writes for The Conversation: When freedom of movement is revoked, legal migrants are suddenly asked to prove they have the right to reside. Theresa May, the UK prime minister, and Amber Rudd, home secretary, have both apologised for the distress caused by the treatment of the so-called "Windrush generation", in the face of mounting pressure from MPs and the wider public.
The study found the nature and quality of rights of many EU citizens and their future residence in the UK would be thrown into question, particularly for children, whose status is dependent on their parents.
Dr Nando Sigona writes for Open Democracy in response to the Integrated Communities Strategy Green Paper released on 14 March 2018: The UK Government's strategy is not for an integrated society, focusing on what government and society could and should do, but for integrated 'communities', code word for everyone else.
In a series of IRiS blogs we give our reactions to the DHCLG Integrated Communities Strategy green paper, based on some two decades of research into integration in the UK and Europe, to the Green Paper.
IRiS Deputy Director, Dr Nando Sigona, has been invited to give his expert insight on the potential impact of Brexit on family life for a panel discussion chaired by Jean Lambert, Green Party MEP.
In this interview with the Atlas of Transitions, Dr Nando Sigona offers some fascinating insights into how the 2015 refugee crisis has turned into a "solidarity crisis" and a "crisis of the European Union (EU) as a project".
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Superdiversity provides an accessible and authoritative overview of the linguistic analysis of interaction in superdiverse cities.
Posted on 15 February 2018
The International Conference on Refugee Policies and Refugee Movements will be held on 16 February 2018.
Posted on 01 February 2018
New film outlines some of the findings from the UPWEB project Birmingham case study
Triple invitation for ITSEE staff to present at an Irish Research Council-sponsored conference in Dublin this week.
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Deputy Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS), Nando Sigona, was recently interviewed by Rosemary Bechler, Editor for 'Open Democracy'.
Professor Jenny Phillimore, Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS), writes for Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs on 'Integration and the European Migration 'Crisis'.
Professor Jenny Phillimore, Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS), writes for Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs on 'Integration and the European Migration 'Crisis'.
Nando Sigona interviewed by the well-respected Dutch newspaper NRC about the directions of EU border policy in the context of the refugee crisis.
Nando Sigona delivers conference keynote address - 'The dead sea and the politics of mourning in the EU's refugee crisis'.
New report published this week takes stock of the responses of all LAs in England to a Freedom of Information request regarding unaccompanied asylum seeking children.
Dr Nando Sigona spoke at the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Uncertainties on 28 June.
The latest in the IRiS Working Paper series has been published, 'Dimensions of Diversity: Terminology in health resarch'.
St Patricks Day is celebrated by Irish and non-Irish communities across Britain with a confidence and inclusiveness that was unimaginable decades ago.
Posted on 27 February 2014
Although adult social care works with some of the most disadvantaged and marginalised people in society, for various reasons mainstream services don't always get it right for people. That's why there are different forms and sources of care and support developing outside the mainstream.