A windrush in waiting: post-Brexit categories of citizens in Northern Ireland

Northern Irish citizens are entitled to apply for an Irish passport, and many of those concerned about the consequences of Brexit have done so. But efforts to accommodate this, alongside changes to the status of EU citizens, will create no less than nine categories of citizen in Northern Ireland. Ben Warwick (University of Birmingham) looks at what this means for the Good Friday Agreement, and how it is all linked to the ‘hostile environment’ policy pursued by the Home Office.