Djordje Sredanovic

Djordje Sredanovic

@djsredanovic.bsky.social

Sociologist - citizenship/Brexit/migration/media/race&ethnicity/work Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Chester/collaborateur scientifique at GERME laboratory, Université libre de Bruxelles

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Djordje Sredanovic
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I have been thinking for some time that Mahmood is un-re-electable in Ladywood, but I am sure there are people in Birmingham who have a better understanding. She could always parachute elsewhere.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social

A small feature of Electoral Calculus MRP poll (Labour 353 seats, Conservative 90, Reform 81, LibDems 70, SNP 28, Plaid 5, Greens 4) is that Greens only projected at four seats but shown gaining Home Secretary's Birmingham Ladywood constituency. www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/blogs/ec_vip...

electoralcalculus.co.ukMRP Poll October 2026

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The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
@jich.bsky.social

Hot off the press! Read 'Practically White: Syrian/Lebanese and Australia's Immigration Restriction Act' by Anne Monsour: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

doi.orgPractically White: Syrian/Lebanese and Australia's Immigration Restriction ActAlthough little attention is paid to Syrian/Lebanese in studies of the Immigration Restriction Act, its passing in 1901 was a seminal moment in the history of their migration to Australia. The most...

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Emiliano Mellino
@mellino.bsky.social

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...

thebureauinvestigates.comGovernment 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
Djordje Sredanovic
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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

Adrian Berry KC@berryadrianc.bsky.social

Italian citizenship by descent and Brexit rights under the Withdrawal Agreement: Home Office error as to foreign nationality law #ItalianCitizenship #WithdrawalAgreement #UKImmigrationPolicy #NationalityLaw See here: tinyurl.com/4ju5x5rb

tinyurl.comItalian citizenship by descent and Brexit rights under the Withdrawal Agreement: Home Office error as to foreign nationality lawItalian citizens who have resided in the United Kingdom prior to the end of Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020 (when EU law cease to apply in the UK) have been impacted by a serious Home …
Djordje Sredanovic
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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.

Institute for Public Policy Research@ippr.org

🚨 NEW REPORT: UK citizenship fees are more than 5x the cost of processing an application. We need a system that’s more accessible and does more to build participation, integration and belonging. Our new report sets out how 🔗 www.ippr.org/publications/from-strangers-to-citizens

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Djordje Sredanovic
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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...

bristoluniversitypress.co.ukImplementing Citizenship, Nationality and Integration PoliciesImplementing 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...
Djordje Sredanovic
@djsredanovic.bsky.social

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.

Institute for Public Policy Research@ippr.org

🚨 NEW REPORT: UK citizenship fees are more than 5x the cost of processing an application. We need a system that’s more accessible and does more to build participation, integration and belonging. Our new report sets out how 🔗 www.ippr.org/publications/from-strangers-to-citizens

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Djordje Sredanovic
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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

Djordje Sredanovic
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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.

Djordje Sredanovic
@djsredanovic.bsky.social

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.

Institute for Public Policy Research@ippr.org

🚨 NEW REPORT: UK citizenship fees are more than 5x the cost of processing an application. We need a system that’s more accessible and does more to build participation, integration and belonging. Our new report sets out how 🔗 www.ippr.org/publications/from-strangers-to-citizens

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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

Djordje Sredanovic
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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.

Djordje Sredanovic
@djsredanovic.bsky.social

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.

Institute for Public Policy Research@ippr.org

🚨 NEW REPORT: UK citizenship fees are more than 5x the cost of processing an application. We need a system that’s more accessible and does more to build participation, integration and belonging. Our new report sets out how 🔗 www.ippr.org/publications/from-strangers-to-citizens

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Free Movement
@freemovement.bsky.social

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.

freemovement.org.ukStatement of changes HC 584: sponsorship rules eased for modern slavery victims and return of Erasmus+ - Free MovementThe latest statement of changes stop skilled worker visa holders who are recognised victims of modern slavery from being tied to their sponsors.
Djordje Sredanovic
@djsredanovic.bsky.social

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

Neill Cameron@neillcameron.bsky.social

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Humphrey Bogart reluctantly gets involved in the admin regarding an associate’s immigration issues.

Djordje Sredanovic
@djsredanovic.bsky.social

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

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

Djordje Sredanovic
@djsredanovic.bsky.social

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.

Djordje Sredanovic
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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.

Djordje Sredanovic
@djsredanovic.bsky.social

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.

Djordje Sredanovic
@djsredanovic.bsky.social

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

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.

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Nando Sigona
@nandosigona.bsky.social

#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/...

onlinelibrary.wiley.comBrexit and the Emergence of a Transnational European Community of Practice: From Grassroots Mobilisations to Supranational Political Opportunity Structures in the Struggle for Citizens' RightsBrexit 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....
Djordje Sredanovic
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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

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.

Djordje Sredanovic
@djsredanovic.bsky.social

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

Maarten Vink@maartenpvink.bsky.social

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

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Steve Peers
@stevepeers.bsky.social

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

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...

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Djordje Sredanovic
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I argue that the cumulative effect of the changes in policy has not only transformed the migratory flows, but also created a not-fully-planned mix of legal statuses among the British population with migrant backgrounds

Djordje Sredanovic
@djsredanovic.bsky.social

For those who don't read Italian, the editors of the special issue (Francesco Della Puppa, Giuliana Sanò, Giulia Storato) have presented the main lines of their approach to migratory stratifications in this book www.tplondon.com/product/migr...

tplondon.comMigratory StratificationsMigratory Stratifications: A New Perspective on Migration and Social Change through the Italian Lens | Edited by Francesco Della Puppa, Giuliana Sanò, Giulia Storato | Published: 20 August 2024 [Mi…
Djordje Sredanovic
@djsredanovic.bsky.social

I contribute with an analysis on the turns in British migration policies (the management of post-colonial migrations, management of EU freedom of movement, the search for 'highly qualified' migrants) journals.openedition.org/qds/7374

journals.openedition.orgColoniali, europei e qualificati: la stratificazione degli status m...1. Introduzione Le politiche migratorie nei paesi che vedono significanti livelli di immigrazione tendono ad essere caratterizzate da ineguaglianza e volatilità. Ineguaglianza in quanto politiche o...

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Free Movement
@freemovement.bsky.social

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.