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This article was amended on 5 March 2026. An earlier version said low-skilled workers would “receive immediate access to welfare and social housing” if Labour did not make them wait longer to apply for settlement. In fact, settlement status only gives people the eligibility to apply for welfare and social housing, it does not give them instant or automatic access to such benefits. This has been clarified. From breaking news to huge investigative proje

Guardian has now [after my complaint] corrected Mahmood's deliberate & incendiary false claim settlement gives immigrants "immediate access to welfare and social housing".

Good for Gdn but embarrassing/shameful that Home Secretary deliberately misled the public for political gain like this.

CJEU, asylum law

New judgment: Italy cannot unilaterally refuse transfers to it of asylum-seekers it is responsible for under the Dublin system. But given that it has done so, the Member State requesting the transfer becomes responsible instead after six months - curia.europa.eu/site/upload/... 1/

UK’s new passport rules for dual citizens are a result of border control in the digital age The number of people holding both British and EU passports increased significantly between 2011 and 2021.

New rules for dual citizens reflect how states are adapting citizenship to a digital age of control and surveillance.
👉 Read the full analysis on @theconversation.com UK’s new passport rules for dual citizens are a result of border control in the digital age
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An event to celebrate the launch of this brilliant new #OpenAccess book, published with @ials.bsky.social:

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Brokers of citizenship. Justices of the peace as intermediaries in Sierra Leone’s digital identification project Like many countries in the Global South, Sierra Leone has recently embarked on the biometric identification of its citizens and residents in the aim to achieve ‘legal identity for all’ (Sustainable...

Excellent new article by Laura Lambert on the role of Justices of the Peace in certifying citizenship in Sierra Leone - from the DIGID project @leuphana.bsky.social #citizenshipinafrica www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'll bite: 'long-term, higher volume migration that creates demand for "ethnic" goods and then an offer of the same for the rest of the population is good, short-term, small scale migration is bad'. Was this the line of reasoning? /irony

I am not sure if anyone got access for ethnographic street-level work recently. Monish Bhatia wrote ethnographic analyses link.springer.com/article/10.1... and Fabrice Langrognet is doing a historical street-level analysis onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... so they should probably have insight

I can understand that between the changes in political climate and the reactions to the increase in refugee arrivals since 2015 (2011 for some of the countries involved) this might come as a surprise.

Mass regularisations used to be almost an undeclared structural component of migration policies in countries such as Spain and especially Italy.

(an opinion universally reviled on Bluesky, and with 0 reactions on the other place)

By Daniela Trucco: Bureaucrats and lawyers in the implementation of Italian naturalization: a relational approach to ‘highly discretionary powers’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join us in Florence on 14-15 May for this year's Annual Conference of the @mpc-eui.bsky.social and @globalcit.bsky.social !

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Division of Medical Education Events and Initiatives to Discuss Autism and ADHD Diagnoses in Context (for Staff and Students) Colleagues in the Division of Medical Education have been involved in a series of events exploring the history of autism and ADHD diagnoses, and related topics concerning the study of neurodevelopment, developmental psychology, and neurodiversity. In June 2025, CHSTM, together with the network Autism@Manchester, hosted the interdisciplinary workshop “Rethinking Neurodevelopment: From WHO Policies to Neurodiversity and Care”, with three speakers, Dr Anna Stenning (University of Southampton), Dr Bonnie Evans and Dr Cinzia Greco (both SMS). The workshop was an opportunity to rethink neurodevelopmental conditions, their historical and contemporary transformations, and to explore the future direction of research in the field. Growing interest in, and diagnosis of, conditions such as autism and ADHD has generated new and sometimes controversial debates. The workshop was an occasion to discuss the history of autism, and the role of international agencies, such as the WHO, in defining this diagnosis, and how other personal identities, such as gender, can influence the experience of autistic people. Dr Erin Beeston (a CHSTM alumna now working with Autism@Manchester) requested support from Dr Greco and Dr Evans to organise an “Autism student journal club”, an ongoing initiative for neurodivergent students to discuss research on the topic and connect with other students with similar experiences. On 16th October, Dr Bonnie Evans and Professor Jonathan Green spoke at a new CHSTM seminar series on Mind, History and Society, bringing together historians and doctors to support understanding healthcare practices. Dr Evans discussed how the history of child development studies within social and political context can help to explain changes in the meaning of the autism diagnosis over time, and why these historical changes are vital to interpreting epidemi…

CHSTM and the Division of Medical Education at UoM are organising/have organised a few interesting events on neurodiversity. Have a look here:
blogs.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/blog/2025/12...

A system of cheap, physical IDs with limited requirements for the holders could solve many of the issues in this field, but apart from some migrant groups I do not see political actors willing to take up that position.

Right-to-work checks should become digital (which is an issue in terms of proving rights), with the promise of making the checks more systematic and traceable. The latter could improve workers' rights and facilitate proving time in employment, but that is still to prove

British citizens without a passport or driving licence will likely remain ID-less. If the new digital ID does get implemented it could be an improvement, but the vulnerability is likely to remain.

The exception is obviously undocumented migrants, for whom a reduction in ID check is welcome

Almost all non-citizens in the UK are already subject to mandatory digital ID, and have no alternatives to it being digital, so there is no improvement on that front. Rather, a divide will remain between those who have to have a digital ID and the majority that has alternatives

Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK There will still be digital checks on those starting a new job, but people will not need to hold a digital ID.

I am not sure how much the different parties and pressure groups understand the interests of those would be impacted by an ID policy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

CJEU, asylum law - an Italian court has asked the CJEU whether the Italy/Albania deal on processing asylum-seekers is as such a breach of EU law - curia.europa.eu/juris/showPd...

This year, I published my first monograph—a comprehensive exploration of breast cancer in Europe, based on 10 years of ethnographic research. I would love to discuss my research further in seminars and classrooms, and if you want to review it, I still have physical copies I can send!

Homing infrastructures: Central and Eastern European families between precarity and cosmopolitan identity in post-Brexit Britain This article examines how young people and their families from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) narrate experiences of home and belonging in post-Brexit Britain. While Brexit debates have largely c...

Homing infrastructures: Central and Eastern European families between precarity and cosmopolitan identity in post-Brexit Britain www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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 Brexit ignited an unprecedented sense of shared European identity and belonging, catalysing pro-EU social movements among EU nationals in the United Kingdom and amongst British citizens residing in t....

Co-authored by @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @catherineruth.bsky.social and @nandosigona.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... this @jcms-eu.bsky.social article examines how #Brexit ignited an unprecedented sense of shared #European identity and belonging in the UK and EU

Oh, and The Nanny season 2 episode 13 is surprisingly pro-union (less surprisingly if you consider Fran Drescher's history)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor... - only a few of these are from the US, but Norma Rae for example stands out, and I would add the single-season series Damnation

Statelessness and Digital Identity | Caribou How digital ID systems affect stateless people, and why inclusion must go beyond registration to ensure rights and recognition

A short brief from me on #statelessness and digital identity just published by Caribou; thanks to @emryss.bsky.social & @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social for their inputs and support #legalidentity #digitalID caribou.global/publications...

The part I think has not been explored is: in how many cases it is transmitted without registration? How many are citizens in potentiality but don't become so until the paperwork is done? Doing research on external Irish and Italian external citizenship showed it can be important.

NEW Publication featuring a great lineup of citizenship scholars!! :)

“The Archipelago Capitalism of Citizenship-By-Investment”, Comparative Political Studies, lnkd.in/dQPG4Q7J

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