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.

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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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.

Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 3w ago

In case there was any doubt. Restricting access to benefits isn't enough for Conservatives/Badenoch. They want to deport/"remigrate" people who came here on legal work visas, not because of (debunked) claims about benefits/fiscal costs but because they've embraced an openly ethnonationalist agenda

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.

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.

Simon Cox@simonfrcox.bsky.social · 4w ago

It is NOT a “loophole” that Commonwealth citizens who have been permanent UK residents since before 1973 cannot be deported. It was Parliament’s deliberate decision in the 1971 Immigration Act. It is based on hundreds of years of free movement between the Commonwealth/Empire, abolished in 1973.

"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.

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

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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#Brexit didn't only redraw borders. It also brought together EU citizens in the UK & Britons in the EU in an unprecedented transnational mobilisation for citizens’ rights, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social, Catherine Craven and I argue in @jcms-eu.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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....

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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.

Jill Rutter@jillongovt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

am going to try my policy reform. @samfr.bsky.social can tell me why its a bad idea. This is as someone who was v good at school and uni exams but failed their driving test multiple times - but then passed. Our exam system suffers from conflating the need to rank with the need to show achievement.

"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...

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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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

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...

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...

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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Our colleagues at @autismmanchester.bsky.social are organising a Café Autistic to foster conversations between the autistic and research communities. It will be on May 27 in the afternoon at the Contact Theatre in Manchester. More info here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cafe-autis...

Café Autistíque - 27th May 2026

A space where autism researchers can discuss their recent work with the public. In an inclusive space with tea and biscuits.

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If my count is up-to-date European countries without integrationist requirements are now sadly down to 2

Maarten Vink@maartenpvink.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sounds pretty scandalous. > tougher rules [on citizenship acquisition] will apply even to pending applications when they come into force on June 6th

I don't often shout at EU legal texts while reading them, but this opinion is, to use a legal term, utter fucking bullshit. (With great respect 😀) More precisely, it deals with two scenarios: being removed from Italy to Albania to be detained as either an irregular migrant or an asylum seeker. 1/

Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social · 3mo ago

CJEU, EU asylum law Advocate General's opinion: Italy/Albania deal is compatible with EU law as regards detention in Albania, as long as guarantees for migrants/asylum-seekers are upheld curia.europa.eu/site/jcms/d2...

For those reading Italian, there is a new open access special issue on migratory stratification looking at the composition of populations with migrant background, urban transformations, and differentiated legal statuses journals.openedition.org/qds/7288

98 - LXIX | 2025 Per una stratigrafia delle mobilità umane. Tempi,...

« Quaderni di sociologia » è una rivista quadrimestrale di sociologia generale

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Join @bronwenmanby.bsky.social, Sharon Cowan, Ruvi Ziegler & me today at IALS for the launch of Devyani Prabhat’s fantastic new @uolpress.bsky.social book Migrating Borders and Citizenship in Law. Chaired by IALS Director Carl Stychin. @ials.bsky.social All welcome! ials.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Book Launch: Migrating Borders and Citizenship in Law by Devyani Prabhat

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Long thread alert 🧵 1. Applying earned settlement rules retrospectively is wrong. But the proposal to extend the default settlement period to ten years for all future migrants is, in terms of long-term damage, an order of magnitude more serious. It has received far less attention than it deserves.

A rare Substack piece from me on the biggest problem with the earned settlement proposals. It's not the unfair treatment of those already here, as bad as that is. It's the forward-looking, permanent change for all future migrants. open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...

"A carefully crafted assemblage ethnography that should be essential reading not only for medical anthropologists and STS scholars but also oncologists, cancer care nurses, surgeons and health policy officials" I am very grateful for Ayo Wahlberg's thoughtful and generous review of my book.

👣“In our case, you really have to be able to provide us with three Swiss citizens by ancestry.” - naturalization caseworker Article by Wegahta B. Sereke, Stefan Manser-Egli & Barbara von Rütte: “Swiss by ancestry: Genuine and strategic nativism in naturalization procedures” shorturl.at/P2jTY

The impact of Brexit on foreign-born workers in the UK - my analysis with @johnspringford.bsky.social now in @voxeu.org cepr.org/voxeu/column...

I don't know where this narrative of "permanent" refugee status came from (right wing press), but it is wrong. The change is from a single grant of five years' leave followed by the ability to apply for settlement

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/

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 theconversation.com/uks-new-pass...

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.

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Come work with me! We are recruiting for a Head of Comms and Marketing to help us communicate the work of @britishacademy.bsky.social and the power of the humanities and social sciences in making sense of our changing world app.loxo.co/job/MzM2MzQt...

The British Academy - Head of Communications and Marketing - £70,000 (London, ENG)

OUR CLIENT:The British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social...

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An event to celebrate the launch of this brilliant new #OpenAccess book, published with @ials.bsky.social: uolpress.co.uk/book/migrati...

Migrating Borders and Citizenship in Law - University of London Press

Borders not only demarcate nations and territories, but transform people into migrants. Hand-in-hand with law and law enforcement, borders create residents and foreigners. The law ascertains who cross...

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Bronwen Manby@bronwenmanby.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Excellent panel discussion coming up at IALS @sas-news.bsky.social - launching new book by Devyani Prabhat (@bristoluni.bsky.social) 'Migrating Borders and Citizenship in Law', feat Ruvi Ziegler, Sharon Cowan, @evehayes123.bsky.social and myself @icws-sas.bsky.social ials.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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....

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...

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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

Pontus Odmalm@podmalm.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🤔 (h/t @blairwilliams26.bsky.social)