Djordje Sredanovic
@djsredanovic.bsky.social
Sociologist - citizenship/Brexit/migration/media/raceðnicity/work
Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Chester/collaborateur scientifique at GERME laboratory, Université libre de Bruxelles
Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Chester/collaborateur scientifique at GERME laboratory, Université libre de Bruxelles
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Our book Brexit and Citizens' Rights is now out. We discuss Brexit and its impact on the rights of different groups of citizens: British, EU27, third country nationals, in the UK and in the EU.
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'#Migrant farm workers and stratification'
New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Giuliana Sanò
Read the blog post ⬇️
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@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Giuliana Sanò
Read the blog post ⬇️
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@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
'#Migrant farm workers and stratification'
New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Giuliana Sanò
Read the blog post ⬇️
identitiesjournal.co...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Giuliana Sanò
Read the blog post ⬇️
identitiesjournal.co...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Call for Papers 📝📣
Citizenship in Displacement: Policies, Practices and Lived Experiences, 25–26 June 2026 in Tangier 🇲🇦
The 2-day workshop will explore how citizenship is reconfigured, negotiated, and contested in contexts of displacement 🔍
📨 Abstract due: 31 Jan 2026
Citizenship in Displacement: Policies, Practices and Lived Experiences, 25–26 June 2026 in Tangier 🇲🇦
The 2-day workshop will explore how citizenship is reconfigured, negotiated, and contested in contexts of displacement 🔍
📨 Abstract due: 31 Jan 2026
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Call for Papers 📝📣
Citizenship in Displacement: Policies, Practices and Lived Experiences, 25–26 June 2026 in Tangier 🇲🇦
The 2-day workshop will explore how citizenship is reconfigured, negotiated, and contested in contexts of displacement 🔍
📨 Abstract due: 31 Jan 2026
Citizenship in Displacement: Policies, Practices and Lived Experiences, 25–26 June 2026 in Tangier 🇲🇦
The 2-day workshop will explore how citizenship is reconfigured, negotiated, and contested in contexts of displacement 🔍
📨 Abstract due: 31 Jan 2026
Mahmood here is moving dangerously towards a Priti Patel/Suella Braverman field: pushing forward her own racial profile to justify mistreating migrants on the basis of 'race relations' claims from the 1960s. She hurts migrants as well as other politicians of colour by playing this game.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood made more explicit her argument that when ethnic minorities face racism, "we have no choice but to ask: what is the cause of our division"
Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)
Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)
November 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Mahmood here is moving dangerously towards a Priti Patel/Suella Braverman field: pushing forward her own racial profile to justify mistreating migrants on the basis of 'race relations' claims from the 1960s. She hurts migrants as well as other politicians of colour by playing this game.
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Canadian citizenship can now be passed down to people born abroad, beyond the first generation, if the parents spent a cumulative three years in Canada before the child's birth. Still contestation around "intercountry adoptees" when it comes to passing down citizenship.
Citizenship in the News 📰🇨🇦
Bill restoring citizenship for 'Lost Canadians' becomes law: Court ruled government must pass law covering some children born abroad
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Bill restoring citizenship for 'Lost Canadians' becomes law: Court ruled government must pass law covering some children born abroad
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Bill restoring citizenship for 'Lost Canadians' becomes law | CBC News
The "Lost Canadians" legislation, which aims to fix Canada's unconstitutional citizenship by descent rules, passed in the Senate Wednesday and received royal assent Thursday afternoon.
www.cbc.ca
November 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Canadian citizenship can now be passed down to people born abroad, beyond the first generation, if the parents spent a cumulative three years in Canada before the child's birth. Still contestation around "intercountry adoptees" when it comes to passing down citizenship.
Things worth repeating, following Nando:
1) irregular migration does not exist at its own, it is an effect of legal categories and labour market demand
2) hardline migration controls can increase the migrant population by turning would-be temporary migrants in long-term, miserable migrants.
1) irregular migration does not exist at its own, it is an effect of legal categories and labour market demand
2) hardline migration controls can increase the migrant population by turning would-be temporary migrants in long-term, miserable migrants.
Across Europe, politicians promise to “stop illegal migration” as if it were a problem that comes from the outside.
What if irregular migration is not something that happens despite the system, but because of it?
#EUmigration #ShabanaMahmood
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/how-eur...
What if irregular migration is not something that happens despite the system, but because of it?
#EUmigration #ShabanaMahmood
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/how-eur...
How Europe’s Migration Rules Keep Creating the “Irregular Migrants” They Claim to Catch
What if irregular migration is not something that happens despite the system, but because of it?
politicalquarterly.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Things worth repeating, following Nando:
1) irregular migration does not exist at its own, it is an effect of legal categories and labour market demand
2) hardline migration controls can increase the migrant population by turning would-be temporary migrants in long-term, miserable migrants.
1) irregular migration does not exist at its own, it is an effect of legal categories and labour market demand
2) hardline migration controls can increase the migrant population by turning would-be temporary migrants in long-term, miserable migrants.
For those interested in the law&procedures of citizenship acquisition, @globalcit.bsky.social has a new resource on 11 European countries - I have contributed a chapter with updates on the Belgian law
New GLOBALCIT study compares the conditions of the citizenship acquisition processes for first-generation immigrants and their descendants in 11 countries 🇦🇹🇧🇪🇩🇰🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇱🇻🇳🇱🇵🇹🇸🇪🇬🇧
📰 Summary and Key Findings: tinyurl.com/56sknbxw
📖 Full Report: tinyurl.com/yc6cdszx
📰 Summary and Key Findings: tinyurl.com/56sknbxw
📖 Full Report: tinyurl.com/yc6cdszx
November 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
For those interested in the law&procedures of citizenship acquisition, @globalcit.bsky.social has a new resource on 11 European countries - I have contributed a chapter with updates on the Belgian law
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A wonderful 2 year Research Associate post working with us on ‘Racial Equality Since Devolution: Divergences, Outcomes and Frontiers'. Deadline for applications 10 December. Please share: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
Research Associate
Job PurposeTo make a leading contribution to the Nuffield-funded project ‘Racial Equality Since Devolution: Divergences, Outcomes and Frontiers’ working with Professor Nasar Meer (PI). The successf...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
A wonderful 2 year Research Associate post working with us on ‘Racial Equality Since Devolution: Divergences, Outcomes and Frontiers'. Deadline for applications 10 December. Please share: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
Labour's announcements on asylum seem part of an 'anything goes' tendency started by the Conservative governments, essentially going towards reneging on basic international law obligations. The confusion in announcements makes it clear that it is about electoral signalling rather than policy itself
November 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Labour's announcements on asylum seem part of an 'anything goes' tendency started by the Conservative governments, essentially going towards reneging on basic international law obligations. The confusion in announcements makes it clear that it is about electoral signalling rather than policy itself
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Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer
Christopher Bertram | ‘Core Protection’
Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status should...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer
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New article out! We rethink ‘meritocracy’ not as a fixed belief but as practical, embodied knowledge transformed through experiences of social and geographical mobility onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/6
Meritocracy, Recognition and Double Consciousness: Why Black and Muslim Italians Move to (and Sometimes Leave) Post‐Brexit Britain
This article rethinks meritocratic ideology as practical knowledge that transforms through biographies of social and geographical mobility. Drawing on 37 interviews with Black and Muslim Italians liv....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
New article out! We rethink ‘meritocracy’ not as a fixed belief but as practical, embodied knowledge transformed through experiences of social and geographical mobility onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/6
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New GLOBALCIT study compares the conditions of the citizenship acquisition processes for first-generation immigrants and their descendants in 11 countries 🇦🇹🇧🇪🇩🇰🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇱🇻🇳🇱🇵🇹🇸🇪🇬🇧
📰 Summary and Key Findings: tinyurl.com/56sknbxw
📖 Full Report: tinyurl.com/yc6cdszx
📰 Summary and Key Findings: tinyurl.com/56sknbxw
📖 Full Report: tinyurl.com/yc6cdszx
November 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
New GLOBALCIT study compares the conditions of the citizenship acquisition processes for first-generation immigrants and their descendants in 11 countries 🇦🇹🇧🇪🇩🇰🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇱🇻🇳🇱🇵🇹🇸🇪🇬🇧
📰 Summary and Key Findings: tinyurl.com/56sknbxw
📖 Full Report: tinyurl.com/yc6cdszx
📰 Summary and Key Findings: tinyurl.com/56sknbxw
📖 Full Report: tinyurl.com/yc6cdszx
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Finally catching up with @djsredanovic.bsky.social’s great thread on our special issue “The Dynamics of Migration Policy Implementation: The Frontline and Beyond” in Social Policy & Administration👇
Very happy to see this collection out and many thanks to all our contributors for their great work!
Very happy to see this collection out and many thanks to all our contributors for their great work!
For those interested in how migration governance works day by day, Émilien Fargues and I have edited a special issue of Social Policy & Administration collecting ethnographic and historical studies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679515...
Special Issue: Dynamics of Migration Policy: Social Policy & Administration: Vol 59, No 4
Click on the title to browse this issue
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Finally catching up with @djsredanovic.bsky.social’s great thread on our special issue “The Dynamics of Migration Policy Implementation: The Frontline and Beyond” in Social Policy & Administration👇
Very happy to see this collection out and many thanks to all our contributors for their great work!
Very happy to see this collection out and many thanks to all our contributors for their great work!
Some further complexities of (post-)colonial British citizenship and overzealous checks of citizenship rights
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Clear parallels’ with Windrush as UK-born toddler denied passport
Campaigners say lessons not being learned as three-year-old’s mother is asked to prove right to free NHS treatment
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Some further complexities of (post-)colonial British citizenship and overzealous checks of citizenship rights
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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People seeking asylum are given only seven days to challenge their removal to France. Predictably, the system in place to provide legal support for people in detention is failing. Some are unable to obtain legal representation and end up missing crucial deadlines.
October 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
People seeking asylum are given only seven days to challenge their removal to France. Predictably, the system in place to provide legal support for people in detention is failing. Some are unable to obtain legal representation and end up missing crucial deadlines.
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🤔 Curious about our new open access dataset on migrant electoral rights?
Join us for the webinar to get an overview. 📊
Join us for the webinar to get an overview. 📊
🚨 Webinar Alert 🚨
Join us for the online launch of the new Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset, the most comprehensive global dataset on migrant suffrage to date 🌐
📅 Oct 15 | 17:00 CEST
📍 Online
🔗 Register www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
Join us for the online launch of the new Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset, the most comprehensive global dataset on migrant suffrage to date 🌐
📅 Oct 15 | 17:00 CEST
📍 Online
🔗 Register www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
October 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
🤔 Curious about our new open access dataset on migrant electoral rights?
Join us for the webinar to get an overview. 📊
Join us for the webinar to get an overview. 📊
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#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
Journal of Common Market Studies
(@jcms-eu.bsky.social)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Journal of Common Market Studies
(@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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:24 AM
#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
Journal of Common Market Studies
(@jcms-eu.bsky.social)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Journal of Common Market Studies
(@jcms-eu.bsky.social)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Labour had this idea as a citizenship requirement in the 2008 Green Paper. It was bad policy then, and nothing came from it because they lost the 2010 elections. Aren't there any new ideas that Labour could think of?
"Migrants will have to carry out community work or volunteering to qualify to permanently remain in the UK, according to the Home Secretary." [Telegraph]
September 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Labour had this idea as a citizenship requirement in the 2008 Green Paper. It was bad policy then, and nothing came from it because they lost the 2010 elections. Aren't there any new ideas that Labour could think of?
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1/ There’s quite a lot of misunderstanding by good journalists about how right to work checks operate. It’s not illegal to work without having provided proof of your right, as James goes on to say later in the thread. And employers are not under a legal duty to conduct checks: ID is not mandatory.
Not sure day one of the latest ID card rollout went very well at all, not least because the government couldn’t answer the absolute core question about why they’re being introduced.
The case is that digital ID will be required for anyone to get work. The problem is ID is already mandatory. 🧵
The case is that digital ID will be required for anyone to get work. The problem is ID is already mandatory. 🧵
September 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
1/ There’s quite a lot of misunderstanding by good journalists about how right to work checks operate. It’s not illegal to work without having provided proof of your right, as James goes on to say later in the thread. And employers are not under a legal duty to conduct checks: ID is not mandatory.
Today we have the official government statements on digital ID and I would add a few things to what I am seeing on here. 1) The UK is an ID-poor country. The relative difficulty of getting a recognised ID, and the share of citizens without a recognised ID would be unthinkable in continental Europe.
With the government moving to introduce mandatory digital ID, I will repeat myself: digital ID is the worst of both worlds, as it keeps the dimension of government control while leaving people without a physical document to autonomously prove their rights www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The vulnerability of in-between statuses: ID and migration controls in the cases of the ‘Windrush generation’ scandal and Brexit
In this article, I argue that identity documents (ID) and migration statuses are both tools of population control and subjectivities that individuals have an interest in holding. I use documentary ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Today we have the official government statements on digital ID and I would add a few things to what I am seeing on here. 1) The UK is an ID-poor country. The relative difficulty of getting a recognised ID, and the share of citizens without a recognised ID would be unthinkable in continental Europe.
With the government moving to introduce mandatory digital ID, I will repeat myself: digital ID is the worst of both worlds, as it keeps the dimension of government control while leaving people without a physical document to autonomously prove their rights www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The vulnerability of in-between statuses: ID and migration controls in the cases of the ‘Windrush generation’ scandal and Brexit
In this article, I argue that identity documents (ID) and migration statuses are both tools of population control and subjectivities that individuals have an interest in holding. I use documentary ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
With the government moving to introduce mandatory digital ID, I will repeat myself: digital ID is the worst of both worlds, as it keeps the dimension of government control while leaving people without a physical document to autonomously prove their rights www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Wow! Considering that paracetamol (acetaminophen) is basically the only drug the pregnant woman can take, I think that if we follow this reasoning, basically everyone should be autistic.
Trump administration set to tie use of acetaminophen during pregnancy to autism.
The announcement will also promote a medication called leucovorin as a treatment for autism.
(Leucovorin is currently used to treat folate deficiency.)
🎁🔗
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The announcement will also promote a medication called leucovorin as a treatment for autism.
(Leucovorin is currently used to treat folate deficiency.)
🎁🔗
wapo.st/4nkMdCO
Trump administration set to tie Tylenol to autism risk, officials say
The Trump administration plans to tie Tylenol to autism risk while touting another drug, leucovorin, as a potential autism treatment.
wapo.st
September 21, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Wow! Considering that paracetamol (acetaminophen) is basically the only drug the pregnant woman can take, I think that if we follow this reasoning, basically everyone should be autistic.
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I closed mine a while ago, mostly because I couldn't bear the amount of spam emails it generated.
I think that the best alternative, if you are looking for one, is the French archive HAL.
Here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_(op...
and here hal.science
I think that the best alternative, if you are looking for one, is the French archive HAL.
Here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_(op...
and here hal.science
September 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I closed mine a while ago, mostly because I couldn't bear the amount of spam emails it generated.
I think that the best alternative, if you are looking for one, is the French archive HAL.
Here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_(op...
and here hal.science
I think that the best alternative, if you are looking for one, is the French archive HAL.
Here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_(op...
and here hal.science
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Juliet Samuel in The Times today, giving a remarkably selective account of the ECHR's development, especially when the UK was using torture techniques in the 1970s in NI, and was only held (partially) to account under the ECHR. The sort of triumph of forgetting in which London columnists specialise.
September 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Juliet Samuel in The Times today, giving a remarkably selective account of the ECHR's development, especially when the UK was using torture techniques in the 1970s in NI, and was only held (partially) to account under the ECHR. The sort of triumph of forgetting in which London columnists specialise.
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I'm very excited to share that the next SSAHE webinar will be a celebration of my new book - Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy - and of Bordering Social Reproduction by Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson. Please register and join us online, 9 October, at 5pm #AcademicSky
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Next webinar: Bordering/Mothering, 9 October
Register on EventBrite to receive a Zoom link. In this event, we will celebrate two new books by SSAHE members: Bordering social reproduction: Migrant mothers and children making lives in the …
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September 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I'm very excited to share that the next SSAHE webinar will be a celebration of my new book - Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy - and of Bordering Social Reproduction by Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson. Please register and join us online, 9 October, at 5pm #AcademicSky
ssahe.net/2025/09/03/n...
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August 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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