Djordje Sredanovic
Sociologist - citizenship/Brexit/migration/media/raceðnicity/work
Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Chester/collaborateur scientifique at GERME laboratory, Université libre de Bruxelles
- Mass regularisations used to be almost an undeclared structural component of migration policies in countries such as Spain and especially Italy.
- Spain gets it: “The Spanish government on Tuesday unexpectedly issued a decree that gives undocumented migrants a path out of legal limbo, putting Spain at odds with many countries around the world that have grown increasingly tough on illegal immigration.” Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/w...
- (an opinion universally reviled on Bluesky, and with 0 reactions on the other place)
- Opinion | To Avoid More Tragic Deaths, ICE Needs Higher Education and Training Standards Higher ed can play an important role in making federal immigration enforcement safer. bit.ly/4bRR5fx #EDUSKy #HigherEd #AcademicSky
- By Daniela Trucco: Bureaucrats and lawyers in the implementation of Italian naturalization: a relational approach to ‘highly discretionary powers’ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Djordje SredanovicJoin us in Florence on 14-15 May for this year's Annual Conference of the @mpc-eui.bsky.social and @globalcit.bsky.social ! CfP: www.eui.eu/events?id=57... Deadline: 3 February
- 📣 Call for Papers: Annual GLOBALCIT and @mpc-eui.bsky.social Conference: Architectures of Global Mobility We invite scholars, researchers, and practitioners from all disciplines to explore the complex system governing the movement of people across borders Abstract: 3 Feb 🔗 tinyurl.com/2cp2f2yd
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- I am not sure how much the different parties and pressure groups understand the interests of those would be impacted by an ID policy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- Homing infrastructures: Central and Eastern European families between precarity and cosmopolitan identity in post-Brexit Britain www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Djordje SredanovicCo-authored by @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @catherineruth.bsky.social and @nandosigona.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... this @jcms-eu.bsky.social article examines how #Brexit ignited an unprecedented sense of shared #European identity and belonging in the UK and EU
- Reposted by Djordje SredanovicA short brief from me on #statelessness and digital identity just published by Caribou; thanks to @emryss.bsky.social & @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social for their inputs and support #legalidentity #digitalID caribou.global/publications...
- Reposted by Djordje SredanovicNEW Publication featuring a great lineup of citizenship scholars!! :) “The Archipelago Capitalism of Citizenship-By-Investment”, Comparative Political Studies, lnkd.in/dQPG4Q7J @maartenpvink.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social @eui-ggp.bsky.social
- This is not only (unsurprisingly) discriminatory and cruel but also (again unsurprisingly) poorly thought. If the UK really attempted to denaturalise and deport all dual citizen criminals, the other countries of citizenship could simply run to denaturalise them first. Begum's case was similar.
- Reposted by Djordje SredanovicWith the US Supreme Court now reviewing Trump’s attempt to curb birthright citizenship, our new open-access article examines how actors in France and the US frame *ius soli* as a ‘magnet’ for migration to justify reforms. Full text: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #BirthrightCitizenship #IusSoli
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- Reposted by Djordje SredanovicGreat work by @migrantvoice.bsky.social and researchers from Warwick University and Leicester University. Congratulations to former colleague @mariegodin.bsky.social who co-authored the report www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- I was looking for updates on the 'gold card' but @jdzankic.bsky.social had already done so two months ago. We also have confirmation that the US government is currently floating one of the most blatantly money-grabbing approaches to gold passport/residence as it is a 'gift' rather than 'investment'
- I’ve been waiting for this since February, and it is quite a bit of an anticlimax. See 🧵 for a few thoughts on the #goldcard, #residence, #US www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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In this blog post, I explore the ongoing restrictions on Finnish citizenship, examining their causes as well as implications for applicants and the Nordics. Thank you @globalcit.bsky.social @koneensaatio.fi and @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social- New Blog Alert 📣 @ninaca.bsky.social analyses how radical-right influence is driving a three-phase tightening of Finland’s naturalisation regime 🇫🇮 A shift that signals a harsher, more exclusionary model of Nordic citizenship across the region 🔍 Read 📖 shorturl.at/md5zK
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- I was one of the sceptics when the Leave campaign promised that Brexit would have opened opportunities to Commonwealth migrants. But maybe some Tories were really fine with getting the visa-fee-paying, No Recourse to Public Funds, low-right migrants in place of EU citizens /1
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- Among other things, I was wondering whether Mahmood's changes to settlement would be UK's first major disalignment with the EU on migration after Brexit. In particular with the 2003 Directive on long-term residents.
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- Reposted by Djordje SredanovicCall 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
- 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.
- Note that there is no discussion of how and whether actual migratory flows, social contact, or whatever else might be causing the division (or indeed what is the proof of such division). This is taking up the talking points of a political rival and turning it from complaints to legitimate points.
- Reposted by Djordje SredanovicCanadian 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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
