UACES Virtual Conference Day is TOMORROW. After an amazing week in Liverpool, we're continuing the research conversations online. Join us for flexible sessions across 14 panels covering everything from EU security to digital policy. Liverpool attendees: check ConfTool for access links. #UACES2025

🥳 Many congratulations to @cbarnard.bsky.social, @fionacostello.bsky.social and @sarahfraserbutlin.bsky.social - their book 'Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers: The House, The Street, The Town' won the @uaces.bsky.social Best Book Prize at the annual conference last week. More: bit.ly/4nrPb8e

NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights. The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system. 🧵 [1/8]

The winners of this year’s UACES Best Book Award goes to @fionacostello.bsky.social, @cbarnard.bsky.social and @sarahfraserbutlin.bsky.social for: Low Paid EU Migrant Workers: the House, the Street, the Town. We congratulate all three authors on this significant achievement.

Asylum applications in the UK hit a record high in 2024. Our updated briefing explores application numbers, grant rates, system costs, employment outcomes for people who came to the UK to seek asylum and much more. Check it out 👉 migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...

After 1 year in government, has Labour made progress towards its goals on migration? We look at 5 pledges: - Net migration↘️ - Work visas↘️ - Small boat arrivals ↗️ - Asylum backlog ↘️ but appeals backlog ↗️ - Returns↗️ migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...

Our #refugeeweek content so far.... First up, a long read by me about the rights of refugees under the Refugee Convention. These are both weaker in many ways yet stronger in others than many realise. They represent a compromise between individual and state rights. freemovement.org.uk/what-rights-...

On the train to London, giving me 1 hour and 20 minutes to start @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social 's new book "Anywhere but here. How Britain's broken asylum system fails us all" 👇

"Trying to fire a legal weapon devised to combat organised crime at the desperate mother and aunt of two young girls offers us a moment of rare moral clarity" 👇 Excellent analysis by @stevepeers.bsky.social on CJEU Kinsa judgement as well as its broader implications. 👇

💥 ONE WEEK TO GO 💥 💻 Join our experts online at 1pm BST to unpack the implications, trade offs & public opinion around the UK government's migration policy With @jdportes.bsky.social, Madeleine Sumption, @robfordmancs.bsky.social & @anandmenon.bsky.social ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...

In last month's white paper, the government said the standard route to settlement will change from five years to ten. Our new commentary looks at how many people could be covered by the changes and their potential impact on migrants. migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...

Our latest on the seasonal worker visa. What jumped out at me when reading this government-commissioned report is that farm-owners will quite openly say that they prefer migrant workers to accrue huge levels of debt, because this pushes them to work harder so that they can pay it off.

Finally managed to write something new for my Substack. It’s on the government’s immigration white paper and its likely unintended consequences. open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...

Under the Same Sky | Refugee Week 2025 The exhibition launches on 18 June, 7 - 9PM. For more information, take a look at the link below! Funded by @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social as part of the Community Rescue Fund centrala-space.org.uk/exhibitions/...

UK government scraps plans for checks on EU fruit and veg www.gov.uk/government/n...

New blog with @cbarnard.bsky.social on the ongoing issues with the EUSS, including how the paucity of (free) accredited help/advice is pushing many into the arms of advice sharks 👇 @ukandeu.bsky.social ukandeu.ac.uk/brexit-eu-ci...

"The success in terms of numbers of applications to EUSS masks the reality that for more vulnerable EU citizens, there are still long-term risks in obtaining and maintaining EUSS status" @cbarnard.bsky.social & @fionacostello.bsky.social on the EU Settlement Scheme ukandeu.ac.uk/brexit-eu-ci...

From yesterday: Briefing: How expensive are UK immigration applications and is this a problem? | Colin Yeo

Really important and expert thread below by @cobrien.bsky.social on the Q of rights under the Withdrawal Agreement for EU Citizens in the UK 👇👇

What do we need to do before creating shiny new UK-EU reset rules? Make existing rules work properly! Our *newly published* response to the HoL consultation highlights a giant problem facing EUSS holders: a COMPLETE ABSENCE of evidence of WA rights. committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...

Are the EU free movement rules wildly out of step with the new realities of work? My new book, the MARKET CITIZENSHIP ILLUSION answers this by looking at the law in action – and it is available now to *everyone for free*! www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... 🧵on key arguments... (1/10)

🚨🚨 For those of you new here and new arrivals I did a while ago create some fairly comprehensive #starterpacks with some very bright minds. This one on #ukpolitics and #brexit is one of my favourites. All accounts well-worth following. 👇👇 go.bsky.app/NZG5maf

🧐 Want to know the origin story of UK in a Changing Europe? Our director @anandmenon.bsky.social reveals... 👇

En route to the @slsauk.bsky.social Annual Conference. Presenting a paper tomorrow with @cbarnard.bsky.social on the Labour Law and Society Empirical Insights into Precarious Work Panel chaired by @arwenjoyce.bsky.social. Looking forward to sharing our work and hearing about lots of others! ✨️

Thank you so much for this generous recommendation, @seanjones.org 👇. If anyone is interested in reading the book, we have a 50% off code from BUP valid until the end of April. 📸👇 @cbarnard.bsky.social @sarahfraserbutlin.bsky.social

Full text of today's Advocate General's opinion on the Polish constitutional Court - independence and primacy of EU law curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...

The change to the citizenship guidance had immediate effect - anyone who applies for citizenship as of 10 Feb is impacted. That includes people who have had refugee status for several years, as well as those who are waiting for a decision on their asylum claim. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Excited to be at the Norfolk Farming Conference today. Learning lots, (eg potato protein progress!) But most keen to hear about farm workers, labour needs and those out in the fields. 🚜

Thanks to the @slsauk.bsky.social for shortlisting our book 'Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers' for their Hart-SLSA Prize 2025! @cbarnard.bsky.social @cambridgelaw.bsky.social @ukandeu.bsky.social. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/low-paid-eu-...

When people are barred from claiming benefits by no recourse to public funds, or deterred because of the impact on a future citizenship application, it pushes them to remain in exploitative and abusive working conditions through a lack of alternative www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

"57% of voters say they would vote to rejoin the EU, he has a certain mandate to get closer... bearing in mind Nigel Farage is constantly snapping at his heels" 📺 UKICE's @cbarnard.bsky.social discusses Keir Starmer aligning more closely with the EU on BBC's The Sunday Show👇

Today is officially 5 years since the UK left the EU, & Brexit officially happened. 5 years ago @cbarnard.bsky.social & I wrote this blog on the EUSS for @ukandeu.bsky.social: ukandeu.ac.uk/what-has-hap.... It's an interesting look back @ what the issues were then, not least 2.7m -> 8.1 m apps!

😮 Today is officially five years since the UK left the EU, and Brexit officially happened 📖 To mark the occasion we've produced a major new report: 'The Brexit Files: from referendum to reset' Have a read of it here 👇

Glad to provide some further context on the 🌎 regulation of birthright citizenship, drawing on @globalcit.bsky.social, in this new @nytimes.com article. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/w...

🐟 Sand eels are not just lunch for a puffin... they also sparked the first post-Brexit courtroom trade battle 😱 And UKICE's @jreland.bsky.social is quoted in @theguardian.com on how the sand eels Vs EU row risks polluting the wider UK-EU relationship 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Proposal from @the-tuc.bsky.social for new mandatory human and labour rights and environmental due diligence legislation, noting that voluntary approach to corporate responsibility and accountability hasn’t worked in addressing abuses inc forced labour and debt bondage www.tuc.org.uk/blogs/protec...

Join us this March for a day conference on Structural Injustice at the University of Cambridge. We're celebrating our books on Structural Injustice with Jude Browne, @maevemckeown.bsky.social, @jowolff.bsky.social & other brilliant speakers. Registration link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/structural...

@jdportes.bsky.social at the press briefing for our new report out today: ‘The Brexit Files: from referendum to reset’ “There was a broad consensus among economists that Brexit would harm the UK economy”

Major new report from @ukandeu.bsky.social 👇👇 written by leading academic experts on Brexit issues. Essential reading for all the Brexit nerds out there! 🤓 'The Brexit Files: from referendum to reset'. 👇

👻 “Five years on, Brexit continues to haunt us… The government doesn’t like the equilibrium we’ve reached but is unwilling to do much about it” @anandmenon.bsky.social & @jreland.bsky.social on Brexit and the UK-EU reset for @theguardian.com ✍️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

just giving this a bump. I accidentally deleted my bluesky account recently (I was trying to delete my x account) so I'm starting from scratch again. hit follow if you remember me. If not, no worries.

Roll up roll up for our event tomorrow to launch our new report. Featuring John Curtice, @cbarnard.bsky.social @drsarahhall.bsky.social and me, chaired by Jo Coburn, with opening remarks by Nick Thomas Symonds ukandeu.ac.uk/events/the-s...

And some more quiet good news.

Have you seen this amazing tool developed by colleagues at the Lauterpacht Centre @cambridgelaw.bsky.social? It contains over 1200 peace agreements from all over the world with over 75000 individual provisions coded and categorised. An amazing instrument for peace. www.languageofpeace.org#/about

🤩 NEW SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT🤩 UKICE's Catherine Barnard joins our expert panel for our event next week: The story of Brexit: politics, policy and progress? 🕐 7:00 - 8:15pm 📍 Bush House Full details and tickets below👇 ukandeu.ac.uk/events/the-s...

EU Settlement Scheme: "the Home Office is introducing a new process to automatically convert eligible pre-settled status holders to settled status... We expect to issue the first grants of settled status under this process from late January 2025" www.gov.uk/government/p...

From yesterday: OISC renamed Immigration Advice Authority from 16 January 2025 | Colin Yeo

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