Helena Wray
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Immigration law academic at University of Exeter. Also, books, music, films, life.
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Jolyon Maugham KC
7 months ago
There will not be a single neutral lawyer in the country who will read this and be comfortable with what the Supreme Court has done.
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Brexit Couples Project
7 months ago
Call for Papers Alert: We're organising an academic workshop on the Legal World of Family Migration. This call aims to begin a discussion of the characteristics and dynamics of this legal world and the use of law and legality in family migration.
brexitcouples.ac.uk/call-for-pap...
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Call for Papers: The Legal World of Family Migration – UK-EU Couples After Brexit
https://brexitcouples.ac.uk/call-for-papers-the-legal-world-of-family-migration/
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London Review of Books
10 months ago
‘Refugees will often have shown great courage, fortitude and ingenuity in the face of the obstacles placed in their way. Showing such virtues in order to escape oppression is not normally seen as evidence of bad character, rather the contrary.’ Christopher Bertram:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...
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Christopher Bertram | Bad Character
There is a troubling disconnect between the deterrent rationale and the mechanism that will be used to deny citizenship...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/february/bad-character
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This should be a national scandal. Families are ripped apart because the UK partner is a care worker, a teaching assistant, a PhD student, or has caring responsibilities
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Natalie Sedacca
almost 2 years ago
‘The UK already has the second-most restrictive family immigration regime in Europe, if not the world’ even before the new staggering increase, with a devastating impact on families since the threshold was raised in 2012 - Katherine Charsley &
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theconversation.com/just-the-ric...
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'Just the rich can do it': our research shows how immigration income requirements devastate families
The new proposals will be devastating to any British citizen who falls in love with a foreign partner.
https://theconversation.com/just-the-rich-can-do-it-our-research-shows-how-immigration-income-requirements-devastate-families-219246
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