Nando Sigona is a part-time Senior Researcher at COMPAS, primarily working on projects in the Citizenship and Belonging, Urban Change and Settlement, and Welfare clusters.
He has a DPhil in Social Sciences and previous training in Politics and Anthropology. He is the co-author (with Alice Bloch and Roger Zetter) of ‘No right to dream: the social and economic lives of young undocumented migrants in Britain’ (PHF, 2009) and co-editor of ‘Romani politics in contemporary Europe: poverty, ethnic mobilization and the neoliberal order’ (Palgrave, 2009).
Nando has carried out research on minority and migration issues in the EU and the Balkan region. His main research interests are: forced migration and EU policy and practice towards third country nationals; migrant communities’ organisations and mobilisation; and Romani politics and anti-Gypsyism in Europe. Since 2002, he has worked as researcher and consultant on a number of research projects funded by, among the others, UK Home Office, EU, OSCE, Refugee Housing Association, Council of Europe, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Joseph Rowentree Foundation.
Nando is also Senior Research Officer at the Refugee Studies Centre, currently leading a research project on ‘Stateless diasporas and immigration and citizenship regimes’, member of the Advisory Board of the Leverhulme-funded Oxford Diasporas Programme, and co-founder of OsservAzione, action research collective working on anti-Gypsyism in Italy.