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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 10h

That's the definition of ethnography/participant observation from Malinowski on, but I am not sure whether this is what you had in mind.

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Detention Action @detentionaction.bsky.social · 18h

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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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 7d

Minor point but was the item 'extreme' or 'racist' views? I think there are slivers of the public that consider Reform racist but not extreme, or extreme but not racist

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Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 9d

#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/...

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

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 10d

Also this is an old failed policy from 2008 (at the time it was for citizenship rather than for permanent residence). It's as Labour had a side project to recycle policies that were scrapped in 2010.

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 10d

This (but for citizenship rather than ILR) was already in a Green Paper under Labour in 2008. It was criticised a lot already at the time, and was scrapped as undoable under the Coalition.

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 10d

Dora Kostakopoulou wrote everything that was wrong about this idea in 2010 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... I interviewed people in the Home Office some years ago and their take was roughly "we would never have convinced businessmen to volounteer to qualify for citizenship, so it was scrapped"

Matters of Control: Integration Tests, Naturalisation Reform and Probationary Citizenship in the United Kingdom

In the new millennium there has been a shift away from multiculturalism and the politics of difference towards integration, assimilation and a gradual ‘thickening’ of political belonging. The alleg...

www.tandfonline.com

Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 10d

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?

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10d

"Migrants will have to carry out community work or volunteering to qualify to permanently remain in the UK, according to the Home Secretary." [Telegraph]

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 10d

I am not based in London but Skoob is the best for me, among other good shops. However I am mostly after paperbacks from the 1970s on, not mid-century hardbacks as the author of the blog.

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 11d

The society named after the idea of waiting as the best policy is now apparently "radical left"

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 11d

There is a 2019 High Court decision confirming the discriminatory effects of Right to Rent, and the research of Colin and others

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 11d

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.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11d

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. 🧵

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 12d

I would say Britain has a residual tendency to think in terms of 'freedom from the state', rather than 'freedom through the state' as happens on the continent. But yes, the British Home Secretary has some scary powers (although luckily they do not exercise them personally).

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 12d

4) Generalised digital IDs have downsides and some upsides. Dematerialising the compulsory ID of most non-citizens in the UK had very little upside and made people vulnerable. That one would have been the policy to actually complain about

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 12d

3) The government is pushing the line that digital ID is necessary to avoid unauthorised work. There are already major checks that employers have to complete - if the idea is avoiding people to work on the identity of others it might add something, but at cost of even more cumbersome checks.

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 12d

2) Digital-only ID is a Global South creation, introduced by countries that would have struggled to find the resources to register and document the whole population. British arguments for digital-only ID (anti-forgery, avoiding ID confiscation from exploiters) are not very convincing

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 12d

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.

Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 13d

The biggest losers of this are undocumented migrants, who will see even less spaces in society they are not excluded for, but I am sadly confident that this government too sees this as a plus.

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 13d

I do not think there is ultimately a valid reason for digital ID, but I can see some for a mandatory ID (as long as it is free or almost free of costs, and there are extensive resources to get more vulnerable populations on the system)

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 13d

3) the pilot EU Settled Status was probably digital mostly to cut on costs. The UK probably would have the resources to put in infrastructures for routine in-person registration and the production of physical IDs as most European countries, but it would cost and take more time

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 13d

2) with the dematerialisation of almost all migration statuses (a much worse idea IMO), ID for all could normalise the procedures non-citizens go through, and if both groups are on the same digital platform it might make checkers more lenient of temporary server issues

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 13d

That said: 1) having undocumented (no passport or driving license) citizens in an age of extensive private ID checks is a major factor of exclusion, even without bad policies such as the Hostile Environment or voter ID to make things worse

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social · 13d

Digital ID is the worst of both worlds, but it is attractive for governments because the infrastructure needed to produce it is much cheaper (even if a lot of the costs is simply passed on to the individual)