Mahmood here is moving dangerously towards a Priti Patel/Suella Braverman field: pushing forward her own racial profile to justify mistreating migrants on the basis of 'race relations' claims from the 1960s. She hurts migrants as well as other politicians of colour by playing this game.

Canadian citizenship can now be passed down to people born abroad, beyond the first generation, if the parents spent a cumulative three years in Canada before the child's birth. Still contestation around "intercountry adoptees" when it comes to passing down citizenship.

Things worth repeating, following Nando: 1) irregular migration does not exist at its own, it is an effect of legal categories and labour market demand 2) hardline migration controls can increase the migrant population by turning would-be temporary migrants in long-term, miserable migrants.

For those interested in the law&procedures of citizenship acquisition, @globalcit.bsky.social has a new resource on 11 European countries - I have contributed a chapter with updates on the Belgian law

A wonderful 2 year Research Associate post working with us on ‘Racial Equality Since Devolution: Divergences, Outcomes and Frontiers'. Deadline for applications 10 December. Please share: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Labour's announcements on asylum seem part of an 'anything goes' tendency started by the Conservative governments, essentially going towards reneging on basic international law obligations. The confusion in announcements makes it clear that it is about electoral signalling rather than policy itself

Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer

New article out! We rethink ‘meritocracy’ not as a fixed belief but as practical, embodied knowledge transformed through experiences of social and geographical mobility onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/6

New GLOBALCIT study compares the conditions of the citizenship acquisition processes for first-generation immigrants and their descendants in 11 countries 🇦🇹🇧🇪🇩🇰🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇱🇻🇳🇱🇵🇹🇸🇪🇬🇧 📰 Summary and Key Findings: tinyurl.com/56sknbxw 📖 Full Report: tinyurl.com/yc6cdszx

Finally catching up with @djsredanovic.bsky.social’s great thread on our special issue “The Dynamics of Migration Policy Implementation: The Frontline and Beyond” in Social Policy & Administration👇 Very happy to see this collection out and many thanks to all our contributors for their great work!

Some further complexities of (post-)colonial British citizenship and overzealous checks of citizenship rights www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

People seeking asylum are given only seven days to challenge their removal to France. Predictably, the system in place to provide legal support for people in detention is failing. Some are unable to obtain legal representation and end up missing crucial deadlines.

🤔 Curious about our new open access dataset on migrant electoral rights? Join us for the webinar to get an overview. 📊

#Brexit and the Emergence of a Transnational European Community of Practice: From Grassroots Mobilisations to Supranational Political Opportunity Structures in the Struggle for Citizens' Rights Journal of Common Market Studies (@jcms-eu.bsky.social) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Labour had this idea as a citizenship requirement in the 2008 Green Paper. It was bad policy then, and nothing came from it because they lost the 2010 elections. Aren't there any new ideas that Labour could think of?

1/ There’s quite a lot of misunderstanding by good journalists about how right to work checks operate. It’s not illegal to work without having provided proof of your right, as James goes on to say later in the thread. And employers are not under a legal duty to conduct checks: ID is not mandatory.

Today we have the official government statements on digital ID and I would add a few things to what I am seeing on here. 1) The UK is an ID-poor country. The relative difficulty of getting a recognised ID, and the share of citizens without a recognised ID would be unthinkable in continental Europe.

With the government moving to introduce mandatory digital ID, I will repeat myself: digital ID is the worst of both worlds, as it keeps the dimension of government control while leaving people without a physical document to autonomously prove their rights www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Wow! Considering that paracetamol (acetaminophen) is basically the only drug the pregnant woman can take, I think that if we follow this reasoning, basically everyone should be autistic.

I closed mine a while ago, mostly because I couldn't bear the amount of spam emails it generated. I think that the best alternative, if you are looking for one, is the French archive HAL. Here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_(op... and here hal.science

Juliet Samuel in The Times today, giving a remarkably selective account of the ECHR's development, especially when the UK was using torture techniques in the 1970s in NI, and was only held (partially) to account under the ECHR. The sort of triumph of forgetting in which London columnists specialise.

I'm very excited to share that the next SSAHE webinar will be a celebration of my new book - Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy - and of Bordering Social Reproduction by Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson. Please register and join us online, 9 October, at 5pm #AcademicSky ssahe.net/2025/09/03/n...

slightly diminish a band: Minimal Threat

JOB ALERT: amazing 4-year post in postwar British history and refugee studies at @uniofreading.bsky.social Humanities! A post perfectly suited for someone working on political and social histories of race and migration in late 20c. Deadline 5 September. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

From yesterday: Trading in human lives: unpacking the UK/European transfer scheme | Basma Kamel

So in addition to the basic flaws in the “one-in-one-out” agreement with 🇫🇷, the Home Office have done their best to make the process of seeking safe passage to the UK as unattractive as possible, by making it minimally user-friendly, excluding people without ID & refusing to commit to timescales 👏👏👏

Job in the Sociology Department here at Durham. Opportunity to work on a really important project looking at the history of a classic study in British sociology and how it ignored/obscured issues of race and gender. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

📣 CFP: Racialised Space & the Politics of Emotion 📝 Abstracts due: 01/10/2025 📚 Special Issue for Identities Guest editors: A. Emejulu, L. Bassel, A. Christoffersen & O. Siow ✉️ Submit: [email protected] #CFP #CriticalRaceStudies #Emotions #RacialisedSpace #IdentitiesJournal

📚 Call for Book Chapters Handbook of Skilled Migration (Edward Elgar, 2027) Edited by #VerenaWisthaler & #AbdeslamMarfouk 🔍 Focus: Skilled migration & the Global South 🌍 🗓️ Abstracts due: Sept 30, 2025 🔗 More info: www.eurac.edu/en/institute... #MigrationStudies #CFP #SkilledMigration

Great work by @djsredanovic.bsky.social and Emilien Fargues and colleagues on the dynamics of migration policy beyond the law, focusing on everyday bureaucratic practices. #MigCitSky

I'm excited to share pre-print of a ✨ new paper with the great @sumpierrez.bsky.social! We study ’pathways of external citizenship’ across 194 countries 🌎 since 1960. We do so by building a sequence analysis of the timing and extent of dual citizenship acceptance and external voting rights. a 🧵

For those interested in how migration governance works day by day, Émilien Fargues and I have edited a special issue of Social Policy & Administration collecting ethnographic and historical studies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679515...

Hi everyone, I'm currently researching how second-generation migrant young adults - those born in Ireland to at least one migrant parent - experience identity and belonging. I'm especially interested in what 'home' means to them and how they negotiate Irish and local identity. 1/2

Disturbing developments in the UK, which already has among most restrictive citizenship revocation legislation 🌎 If the bill passes, someone who successfully appeals against order taking their citizenship away would not get citizenship back until no longer possible for gov to challenge that appeal.

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This agreement has human costs (some people will be shipped off/denied entry) and some have raised questions of compliance with EU law. I have a further doubt: will the implementation work? We have the negative precedent of the 2015 EU refugee redistribution www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

If anyone is interested in having a conversation about the social aspects of breast cancer this summer, let me know!

I've just launched a survey exploring the experiences of Britons living in the EU, EEA, EFTA of accessing and securing their post-Brexit rights, five years on. Open to Brits of all ages across the EU - please share widely! #Brexit #BritsinEU lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

New CFP for a special issue of the Statelessness and Citizenship Review on “Citizenship, #statelessness and emerging technologies” - 15 Oct deadline #legalidentity #digitalID www.institutesi.org/news/scr-spe...

Check out our new @globalcit.bsky.social report on The Global State of Citizenship! > Find out more about how citizenship is regulated 🌎 > Focus on gender equality, immigrant inclusion, security of status > Explore new data on regulations in 191 countries up to 2024 Online now at 🔗 loom.ly/JeESa3g

📣 The Global State of Citizenship 2025 report is now live. ✍️ Authored by the GLOBALCIT team at the Global Governance Programme, the report draws on data from 191 countries and highlights key global trends in citizenship law. Read the PR to learn more & download the report🔗 loom.ly/JeESa3g

I guess 'restrictive migration policy increase the migrant population in a country' is both agreed upon in migration studies and surprising outside of the field?

Next Tuesday!

O'Brien is both almost onto something and deeply wrong. Migrants cannot integrate into the 'traditional majority culture' because it NEVER existed. It is an abstraction and gloss over differences that any societies has always had - this is the main reason why restrictive integration policies fail.

Italy will vote in a Referendum to reduce residence requirements for naturalisation on 8/9 of June. In the meanwhile the government has restricted access to citizenship by descent and marriage. In this short paper we discuss what this means in the wider context www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Melissa Blanchard joins the debate 📣 Showing how Italy’s 🇮🇹 restitution of citizenship via maternal descent aimed to fix gendered injustice, but ended up enabling a market-driven, selective form of citizenship 💸🎯 Can time-stretched ius sanguinis ever deliver real justice? ⚖️ 🔗 tinyurl.com/7c4e3md9

"Each extension or renewal of a visa can cost up to almost £2,000, in addition to the £1,035 annual NHS surcharge that migrants need to pay." It's worth noting that the NHS surcharge was £200 in 2018; since then, in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis, it has been increased year after year.

#Kuwait #citizenshipdeprivation: “The latest campaign abolishes naturalisation by marriage, which only applied to women, and revokes citizenship granted to wives since 1987. Official data shows 38,505 women were naturalised by marriage from 1993 to 2020.” www.newarab.com/news/they-ta...

Research Associate job opportunity at U of Manchester @ethnicityuk.bsky.social - quantitative methods and substantive knowledge on ethnic inequalities in mental health and mental healthcare: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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