📢 BREAKING: The Home Office announce changes affecting 1.9m EU citizens* with EU Settlement Scheme pre-settled status:
🔸Expiry dates of status will not be visible to employers, landlords and other checkers
🔸Pre-settled status extensions are being increased to 5 years

My interview on FRANCE 24 FRANCE 24 English

'Spain's Vox to gather European far-right figures in Madrid for a conference'
f24.my/ALA9

Why does the UN proclaim that there is a 'universal and non-negotiable right to seek asylum' but then do absolutely nothing to enable Palestinians in Gaza to exercise that right?
Answers here:
against-inhumanity.org/2024/04/16/pal…

100% this

My review of the BBC's migration coverage was published yesterday. It's quite long so here is the 6-point summary.
bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/20…

EU #citizenship has been a vehicle of positive change for decades. In 2024 it continues to do so: change of #gender is to be recognised in other member EU states in new landmark case

Today we launch our new report on agricultural work in the UK. This report – the 2nd in our series on the seasonal worker visa – sheds light on the conditions that are leaving thousands of people trapped in cycles of debt. Read it here:bit.ly/3UpNYRD 🧵

Millions will cast their votes in #LocalElections2024 . But it will be the last local elections in which all EU citizens will have the right to vote. I had this article published in Brussels Morning as Migrant Democracy Project explained new rules for England and N.I. lnkd.in/eNxH96Hm

Thinking of proposing a Special Issue?

The deadline is TOMORROW: 30th April

You can find more information about it here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/ethnic-and-rac…

PoliticsJOE

CJEU, EU citizenship II

New judgment: Member States can remove their nationality (therefore EU citizenship) from dual citizens, subject to judicial review of proportionality

This might be the best thing I've ever read about the economics of publishing. Brilliant, clear, important for everyone connected to the book industry to internalize: elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-…

A tragedy occured on the French coast yesterday when five people, including a 7 year old child, died in a small boat. The context that you need to understand it is in this report alarmphone.org/en/2024/01/28/… #channel

TOMORROW!! Join us for the first seminar setting the scene in this COMPAS Seminar Series titled 'Migration Governance in the Global South' convened by Myriam Cherti

This opening seminar deals with the terminology of migration governance, its actors, and specific features

Bravo!
A very critical UN statement on the UK-Rwanda refugee deportation deal, that was finally approved by parliament last night:
unhcr.org/news/press-rel…

UK passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda - but we still need to keep up our opposition to these cruelty at the heart of the UK's approach to immigration - this, from Denisa Delić of international rescue committee UK really stood out to me buff.ly/4b4Hsq9

Across the EU, highly qualified immigrants are consistently more likely to be unemployed, underemployed and overeducated for their jobs, in a pattern of structural labour market discrimination that also has high macroeconomic costs.
lighthousereports.com/investigation/…

An interview about my book Recognition Politics Cambridge University Press & Assessment features in the New Books Network 📚 podcast. Thanks to Miranda Melcher for inviting me and hosting the episode! Available here and on main podcast platforms newbooksnetwork.com/recognition-po…

Role of social media in platforms in exploitative recruitment of migrant farmworkers exposed in FLEX report.
We invited #Meta , #TikTok & #Telegram to outline how they monitor & remove content containing false promises of employment conditions
business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news…

Poll from Lord Ashcroft this morning finds more people would scrap the Rwanda scheme (41%) than implement it straight away (38%)
lordashcroftpolls.com/2024/04/rwanda…