Maarten Vink

Migration Advisory Committee report on fiscal impact of main work migration routes.

Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending.

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Statelessness and Digital Identity | Caribou How digital ID systems affect stateless people, and why inclusion must go beyond registration to ensure rights and recognition

A 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...

Statelessness and Digital Identity | Caribou How digital ID systems affect stateless people, and why inclusion must go beyond registration to ensure rights and recognition

Why "inclusive" digital ID isn't enough.

@bronwenmanby.bsky.social: "For people whose nationality is unrecognized or in doubt, being added to an identity system may not improve their legal status—and, in some cases, may entrench existing forms of exclusion."

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Same impression. Block block block.

Will weakening human rights really stop the far right? | The Latest Keir Starmer has called on European leaders to urgently change human rights laws so that member states can take tougher action to protect their borders and see off the rise of the populist right acros...

The answer is: no.

www.theguardian.com/politics/vid...

Great to see our paper @cpsjournal.bsky.social out now!

Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”.

If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.

Will weakening human rights really stop the far right? | The Latest Keir Starmer has called on European leaders to urgently change human rights laws so that member states can take tougher action to protect their borders and see off the rise of the populist right acros...

The answer is: no.

www.theguardian.com/politics/vid...

EU home affairs ministers agreed yesterday on major changes to how asylum claims are processed.

The measures still need to be negotiated with the European Parliament before they enter into force.

In the meantime, this is what has been agreed upon.

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Visiting the land of the free in the near future? You got to be kidding.

Great to see our paper @cpsjournal.bsky.social out now!

🚨Jobs!🚨

3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you!

Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Opinie | Een nieuwe coalitie die de giftige politieke cultuur ondermijnt: is het überhaupt mogelijk? Machtige Tijden: Het constructieve openingsstuk van Bontenbal en Jetten laat zien dat de giftige Haagse cultuur kan veranderen. Meer moed is noodzakelijk: een nieuwe coalitie die de destructieve krachten met gezag ondermijnt en ontmaskert.

Het constructieve openingsstuk van Bontenbal en Jetten laat zien dat de giftige Haagse cultuur kan veranderen, ziet Tom-Jan Meeus. Meer moed is noodzakelijk: een nieuwe coalitie die de destructieve krachten met gezag ontmaskert.

It would be foolish though to assume that things under Reform wouldn't be worse. What is needed is a government which challenges Reform rather than being led by it, as is happening at the moment. If Labour carries on the same trajectory there is a risk of people thinking "Reform can't be worse". 3/

Good.

Surprise surprise

Good. Better late than never.

Really, was advertising on X consistent with EU goals? They should be doing all they can to support Bluesky.

Opinion | This Is the Kind of Bigotry We Rejected Decades Ago

We should never go back to a system that made collective judgments about the worthiness of specific nationalities to immigrate to the United States — particularly not based on an incident involving a single person.

Well said @amandafrost.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

Updating birthright citizenship 🧵 with this reminder by @juliarosekraut.bsky.social

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Updating birthright citizenship 🧵 with this reminder by @juliarosekraut.bsky.social

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Just leave the platform @ec.europa.eu

www.politico.eu/article/x-ax...

Now that the US Supreme Court is going to rule on this, periodical reminder that all this fuss is about *territorial* birthright citizenship in the US. Acquiring citizenship by descent at birth is *also* birthright citizenship.

Complications and Clarity in Birthright Citizenship The conventional wisdom is right.

There are many constitutional questions that are complicated. There are many questions around the Citizenship Clause that are complicated. The citizenship of the children of unlawful entrants and temporary visitors to the US is not complicated.

blog.dividedargument.com/p/complicati...

Elon Musk is a global enemy to democracy.

‘Elon Musk won’t stop. It’s time the British government g... The platform has become a swamp of disinformation. Politicians should lead the way out of it

‘Elon Musk won’t stop. It’s time the British government got off X’

✍️ @willjennings.bsky.social

https://bit.ly/3LB746A

One Step From Citizenship, Some Find It Eludes Their Grasp

Scandalous.

After 8 years in the US, an Iranian-born mental health worker who emigrated from Austria was just days away from becoming an American citizen when he learned in a four-sentence email that his naturalization ceremony scheduled for Friday had been canceled

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/u...

Good. Now leave that platform.

ICE targets ‘out of status’ immigrants at US citizenship office Attorneys and migrant advocates in San Diego are concerned with a trend happening at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in downtown San Diego.

Reports show ICE has been detaining applicants at citizenship appointments — an escalation that blurs the line between immigration processing and enforcement, leaving families completely unprepared. @BorderReportcom

Read: www.borderreport.com/immigration/...