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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Register for our next #IdentitiesEvent! Still Whitewashing Britain: Race, Class and the UK Citizenship Test 18 Nov, Online With Dr Anna Tuckett, Chaired by @aaronwinter.bsky.social In collaboration w/ @lancasteruni.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk... @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social

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Stefan Manser-Egli @s-manser-egli.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just out! Happy to contribute a commentary to the Special Section on integration in Current Issues in Migration Research: “Integration for Migrants, Democracy for Citizens: Why Integration Is Beyond Redemption.” The commentary is available open access here: ojs.mau.se/index.php/ci...

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Among other things, most of the population of Northern Ireland has dual citizenship, whether they personally want it or not. The Tories are essentially proposing to deport everyone who gets 5 years in NI to the Republic. I wonder what the DUP might think about that.

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mahmood's logic is the same of the race relations policies from the 1960s. So among the many questions she should answer is how the last six decades of history could happen if she thinks the UK is essentially identical to the 1960s.

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This however varies - in Continental Europe citizenship is likely to be used over country of birth in several disciplines

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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The UK government is making upwards of £4.9bn in profit from visa fees, citizenship fees & the immigration health surcharge. Meanwhile, people are getting into thousands of pounds of debt or going without food just to afford to these immigration fees. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

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Government makes £5bn a year from immigration fees while applicants…

Home Office’s fees are up to 10 times the processing cost – and rising every year

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Quirk of citizenship/immigration legislation interactions: descendants of Italian citizens are citizens even before registering as such, but the UK Home Office has been denying Settled Status unless registration was completed

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why do I say all of this? Because I have studied the actual implementation of naturalisations in the UK, compared to Belgium, which has citizenship courses (or rather, mandatory integration courses) bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/implementing...

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Implementing Citizenship, Nationality and Integration Policies

Implementing Citizenship, Nationality and Integration Policies - The UK and Belgium in Comparative Perspective; Djordje Sredanovic goes beyond the theory of citizenship and nationality policy to explo...

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Courses of language and civic that are not mandatory for naturalisation would probably reach much of the positive results more cheaply for both the target public and public finances

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

3c) There should be a citizenship course for applicants. There is in other countries, and, apart from the cost, when compulsory it does more to create issues of attendance, compliance, and how to teach citizenship meaningfully, rather than actually teaching citizenship.

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

3b) The test should not focus on history trivia but on aspects of civic participation - this seems a roll back to the first version of the Life in the UK test introduced by Labour, and I do not have much against it

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

3) The naturalisation process should foster integration - this has been a mantra since the 2000s, but there is plenty of literature showing that it creates problems. It makes access to rights conditional to vague 'integration' criteria which will exclude some and usually do not reach a clear aim.

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

2) Path to citizenship should be clear, 5 years (actually 6 at the moment given the 1 year to wait after settlement) usually, 10 exceptionally - this sounds basically support of the status quo against Mahmood's plan, and cannot be but welcome

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

1) Fees are too high: yes, naturalisations subsidise other Home Office activities, and the extra money is not even available to the citizenship team for potential improvements of the procedures.

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

From a quick look at the report there are some very shareable points and one idea that is widespread but has created quite a few problems in the UK and elsewhere.

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ecpr-migration.bsky.social @ecpr-migration.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🧵 #ECPRGC26 starts today in Krakow! 🇵🇱 Our Standing Group is delighted to organize Section S16, “Contemporary Approaches to Migration Governance and Inclusion: Policies, Actors, and Everyday Practices”, chaired by @danielavintila.bsky.social and #VerenaWisthaler. Take a look at today's schedule 👇

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Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A new special issue on the history of freedom of movement, edited by @spe07.bsky.social, including my article on why we should expand the history freedom of movement beyond established frames: journals.openedition.org/chrhc/27766

Table of contents page listing six French-language scholarly articles on the history of freedom of movement, migration, and mobility control, with authors’ names and article titles displayed in red and black text.

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Eva-Maria Schäfferle @evaschaefferle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Our research group "Transformations of Citizenship" @goetheuni.bsky.social is advertising two full-time postdoctoral positions: Postdoctoral Researcher karriere.uni-frankfurt.de/gu-frankfurt... Postdoctoral Fellowship citizenship.uni-frankfurt.de/2026/09/03/j... Deadline: 30 September 2026

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Free Movement @freemovement.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sponsors will no longer need to report modern slavery referrals to the Home Office, and Erasmus+ mobility is back in the immigration rules. We've broken down all the key changes in HC 584, including what's actually shifting for sponsors and applicants in practice.

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Statement of changes HC 584: sponsorship rules eased for modern slavery victims and return of Erasmus+ - Free Movement

The latest statement of changes stop skilled worker visa holders who are recognised victims of modern slavery from being tied to their sponsors.

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

SD is also polling below its 2022 result in most polls, so I am not sure they're the news at all

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Don't know if it is my favourite, but 'Scottish lad tries working in real estate, then returns to previous activities'

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Bronwen Manby @bronwenmanby.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Italian Court of Cassation rules that children born abroad to an Italian parent in a country applying the ius soli principle retained Italian citizenship even if their Italian parent later naturalized while they were minors www.imidaily.com/europe/italy...

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Italy's Top Court Rules Dual Citizens From Birth Never Lost Citizenship, Reviving Denied Descent Cases - IMI Daily

Marco Mesina explains the landmark ruling that ends the two-year “minor issue” saga, and who stands to benefit.

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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Habitar un cuerpo discapacitado —humano y más-que-humano— puede llevar a un devenir político a través de caminos distintos." A very interesting (and fully #openaccess) special issue that will certainly interest anyone working on new directions in mental health, neurodiversity, disability and more.

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Número 57Número 57 – Revista Tabula Rasa

Tabula Rasa es una revista científica del área de las ciencias sociales con una periodicidad trimestral, dedicada principalmente a las disciplinas de la Antropología, Historia, Sociología, Trabajo Soc...

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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The well-researched and well-argued piece that the British press should have written but was incapable of doing, preferring sensationalism and gossip over analysis.

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Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · 19/08/2026

We're thrilled to share the introduction to our forthcoming SI: Situating the migration industry, by Nina Glick Schiller & @triandafyllidou.bsky.social. It unpacks the web of state agencies, private actors, and entrepreneurs who profit from and govern human mobility. doi.org/10.1080/0141...

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Situating the migration industry

Governance, capital accumulation and global dehumanization: an introduction

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I would imagine there is plenty of literature on cohort/phase of life effects on that generation specifically, as well as on how widespread mobilisations were in the 1960s. I also think 1968 in the UK was less of a mass mobilisation when compared to several other experiences worldwide?

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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

My mother went to work when she was 10 yo, while I had the privilege of going to university and ended up (at least temporarily) in a very upper-class profession. The big question is: do we see the son of a surgeon or of a judge becoming a plumber? I have never seen one, and this is the problem.

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I’m torn by the hard hat v graduation cap debate. Is it wrong that I want my kids to go to university? | Emma Brockes

As Andy Burnham intervenes, it’s clear that the shine is coming off higher education. But is society ready for this mindshift? Am I? asks Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Among the many problems of both this letter and Mahmood's plans, there is the talk of settlement being 'automatic' after five years. Settlement requires a complex application, an English language test or alternative evidence, and the Life in the UK test. That's not automatic.

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Among other things 'automatic' right to stay continues to be baffling, given that an application and two tests are needed

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

New Towns were apparently a big topic in the late 1970s www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9-S...

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NEWTOWN NEUROTICS - HYPOCRITE

YouTube video by slymymcslymy

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Yes, the two concepts are often used together, and a lot of the points of intersectional theory were absolutely absent in Bourdieu. But I wonder whether rethinking some central points of intersectionality in terms of forms of capital could open new avenues of analysis.

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

But while intersectionality is about things one is (which can involve some rigidity, and calls for the concept of privilege) habitus is ultimately about things one has or had (forms of capital) which allows some gradation, and allows to see phenomena more specifically in terms of inequality.

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It's July and late in the working day, but has anyone explicitly contrasted habitus and intersectionality? Both account for how complex social positions structure in an embodied way experiences and outlooks.

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The deprivation of citizenship part has already been done. Indeed the Rochdale case has been used as a test to extend the crimes for which citizenship can be withdrawn.

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Periodical reminder that 1) the UK government made all the decisions behind the Windrush situation 2) Mahmood either lacks or pretends to lack the historical and policy knowledge that would be required for the position she holds.

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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"Taken together, these chapters make a strong case that attending to time, and to who controls it, opens up dimensions of health inequality that spatial or distributional analyses alone cannot capture" Very happy to read this review of our volume "The Chronopolitics of Life" by Alaz Kilicaslan.

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The Chronopolitics of Life: Rethinking Temporalities in Health and Biomedicine Beyond the Life CourseBy N. Bühler, N. Graber, V. Boydell and C. Greco (eds.), London: UCL Press, 2025. 224 pp. £50.00 (hbk); £30.00 (pbk); open access (PDF). ISBN: 978‐1‐80‐008‐972‐3

Click on the article title to read more.

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Today it’s ten years after the referendum, so I had a new look at the Brexit naturalisation effect. open.substack.com/pub/maartenp...

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The Brexit naturalisation effect, ten years on

What several hundred thousand citizenship decisions reveal about the value people place on EU citizenship — once it is taken away

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The only thing I can think of is 'we feel awful without you', but it would need a very specific accent (which I am not sure exists) and it would be still contrived

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Especially because so much else is done for inclusivity which did not exist at all when I was a university student. But the one-shot evaluation and lose-your-place mentality does not seem to budge.

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Having graduated from a university system (Italy) with multiple exam sessions, attempts allowed, and possibility to advance to the next year with a minimum of credits cleared, teaching in the UK system of 'you get one shot and then you're capped at 40' is hard to stomach.

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Personally the Louvre holds the record for 'determination to carry away very heavy things to another country'

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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

"Children as young as five who are living legally in the UK are being told by the Home Office they must leave the country," and instead of protecting and supporting these children tomorrow, there will be a pearl-clutching article about low fertility rates... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Home Office sends letters to children as young as five saying they must leave UK

Children of those on care worker visas – who came legally before rule change – told to leave even if parents can stay

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Settled @settled.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Thousands of EU citizens trusted us with their EUSS applications. Now we're here to help you take the next step: strengthening your rights and building your future as a British citizen. 👉 Discover our new Citizenship Service: www.settled.org.uk/citizenship-service

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Cinzia is too modest to include the link to the #openaccess version of her book Assemblages of Cancer: Experiences and contexts of breast cancer in the UK, France and Italy www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

Cover of Cinzia Greco's book, incorporating an reproduction of Watercolour by Richard Tennant Cooper, showing a giant claw piercing the breast of a sleeping naked woman, while another naked woman swoops down and stabs the claw with a knife. Image credit: Wellcome Collection, CC BY 4.0.

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I also note the journalist did not manage to give a passable definition of philology and misrepresented the real university at which the academic was working

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Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Monday 11 May, from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. CET, we are organising a webinar to discuss our new edited volume, The Chronopolitics of Life. Come and join us! For more info and the event link, please visit this page: www.unil.ch/events/fr/17...

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The Chronopolitics of Life ⎥ Rethinking temporalities in health and biomedicine beyond the life course

Webinar organisé par Nolwenn Bühler (Unil), Nils Graber (Humboldt University of Berlin), Victoria Boydell (University College London) et Cinzia Greco (University of Manchester) suite à la publication ...

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