After a horrific antisemitic atrocity that took two lives yesterday, the Met essentially commits to devoting more resources to arresting pensioners protesting genocide than protecting Jewish communities and "focusing on serious crimes" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Read our response to the Government’s announcement that university maintenance grants will be reintroduced for certain courses, funded through a levy on international student fees https://bit.ly/4gPz7uO

"We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less."

Astonishing drone footage released by @amnesty.de of today's All Eyes on Gaza protest in Berlin.

We talked at the annual conference of Committee on Migration Research of Polish Academy of Science abt ongoing humanitarian crisis on Poland-Belarus border, especially after the suspension of right to asylum, introduced by the pro-european & liberal Civic Coalition. All quiet on the Eastern border.

I am genuinely baffled and distressed as to why the UK government is intent on destroying UK's genuinely world-leading universities, who bring £265 billion into the economy and support more than 250,000 jobs. This tax will kill us. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

I have come to the conclusion the EHRC guidance on single sex spaces should not even come to Parliament. It is misleading and has caused distress for my trans constituents. I urge @bphillipsonMP to reject it on grounds of practicality and human rights. sianberry.org.uk/publications/l…

The issue is not whether 'Britain is far right' but why far-right politics have become so normalised Rather than accepting this is a bottom-up, people-driven push, I argue that we must look at those who have the power to shape the agenda and public discourse www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

“The alleged abuses by British forces range from murder, torture, expulsion and collective punishment which the submission says repressed the Arab Palestinian population amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity”.

I'm really appreciating the applied turn in philosophy of race over the past few years, toward examining concrete *institutional* effects of particular conceptions of race. Here @malinowska.bsky.social showing off great glasses & talking about distortions in European health outcome research

For those interested in the history of British immigration control, I am going to do quick thread of my academic writing on the subject. In 2014, Marinella Marmo and I wrote this book, 'Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control'. link.springer.com/book/10.1057...

Given broad interest we gave our best to speed up the translation of our study of self-censorship and perceptions of academic freedom infringements in Germany since 7 October 2023! An english version of our report and codebook are now available on our website: interact.fu-berlin.de/en/News/Grim...

Please see the super line-up in our Autumn series of talks below 👇🏾 bsky.app/profile/iden...

next week at FU: Race, Racialisation, and Racism in the European Context w/ @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social, @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social, Urs Lindner, Magali Bessone, Murad Idris, Lee Medovoi & many others info and program: tinyurl.com/4udeeae7

Can't wait to read this:

Such an important paper!

Three people died trying to cross the Channel last night, including two children. A woman died earlier in the day. Three others are missing www.lemonde.fr/internationa... I was in Northern France over the weekend and witnessed boats launching on Sat morning. Plan to share something on that soon

Its been great to share a panel on ‘East-West Inequalities & Gendered Labour Mobilities in Europe’ with Roxana Barbulescu (Leeds), Peter Birke (Göttingen), Anda Nicolae-Vladu (Bochum) & @probursula.bsky.social (Berlin) @britsoci.bsky.social #wesconf25 Thanks for the stimulating conversation!

OUT NOW: 'Vigilant Whiteness: Racism, Transphobia and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Politics in Britain' - by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & Maddy Clark @identitiesjournal.bsky.social - a brief summary🧵(2-11) below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣 Workshop: Race, Racialisation, and Racism in the European Context: Crossdisciplinary Perspectives 25–26 Sept 2025 Department of Philosophy, Free University of Berlin. www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we01/institu...

A great, bone-chilling (pardon the pun!) report on the treatment of Romanian workers in Dutch meat plants by Dia Radu, Anna Milovanovic, Job Doornhof. So many implications for #unequalEuropes, migrant racialization in West & East, and the divide & rule of fragmenting labor struggles!!

What do the experiences of cross-border care workers tell us about inequalities between Eastern and Western Europe? Zuzana Uhde @sociologicky.bsky.social on marketisation, everyday bordering and the position of “white-but-not-Western”. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/4F7eSDs

At last I also got a hard copy of the @berlinerjournal.bsky.social article that @fabios.bsky.social & I co-authored! Happy to see that our maps & illustrations make sense in black-and-white, too, but you can check out the color original. Open Access here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

what if the UK had a major political party that appealed to people who didn't love pogroms

This is what the emboldening and legitimating of Vigilant Whiteness looks like: „‚Starmer on X: we will not reward illegal entry. If you cross the Channel unlawfully, you will be detained and sent back’“ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias

These are not „symbolic” acts of „bottom up frustration” it’s emboldened White supremacy kicking down: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

The current contestations to the safety of people seeking sanctuary are a case in point really - they’re enactments of belligerent vigilant Whiteness

Great to have this evidenced. 'Many research participants represented themselves as ‘left behind’ or ‘marginalised voices’, yet were in relatively powerful and privileged political positions with access to Whitehall, and chose to engage with the far-right on various levels.'

Hi, I love you, authors of this.

New article out! @luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social, @k8ebrown.bsky.social & I teamed up to explore whether the concept of 'cordon sanitaire' remains useful in the current stage of mainstreaming of far right politics Read the full article, open access, here 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

OUT NOW: 'Vigilant Whiteness: Racism, Transphobia and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Politics in Britain' - by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & Maddy Clark @identitiesjournal.bsky.social - a brief summary🧵(2-11) below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is such a great article

If you live on the coast (as I do), you literally live in a sea of plastic, from that pumped dumped into the sea to oceans of single-use garbage on land. The 'failures' of global diplomacy are a euphemism. Boycott supermarkets, stop buying shit www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The frontlines in Donbas are strategically the same for 2yrs now. Ru can’t conquer it. If Ru truly cared about control of Donbas only, it would have proposed “land for peace” 2yrs ago. “We just want Donbas” is the new version of “we just want Crimea” and it’s the exact same bald-faced lie.

While Putin and Trump are carving up Ukraine and Netanjahu is erasing Gaza, the crowds are gathering in Eastbourne for the annual spectacle of war planes. For those who hadn’t heard of #Airbourne - yes, war planes in the sky for „entertainment”.

This is a brilliant (and rare!) opportunity for a scholar who works in postcolonial/anticolonial/decolonial historical sociology to work with @alimeghji.bsky.social on a project entitled 'Theorizing the global field: the de-Americanisation of Pan-Africanism'. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52165/

So good to see everyone and many thanks for the discussion #ICCEES2025

If you're at #ICCEES2025 @uclssees.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social in London, pop into the roundtable on 'Hostile & Hospitable Environments in Eastern Europe' on Wednesday at 4.30 pm - with Karolina Follis, @kamilafialkowska.bsky.social Kasia Narkowicz, Roch Dunin-Wasowicz and yours truly:

🇬🇧 London’s calling! First UK visit post-Brexit 👀Where better to talk abt hostile environments than in the country that named it? 🗓️ Wed 23 July, 4.30–6pm 📍 UCL IOE, Room 417 Panel: Hostile & Hospitable Environments in Eastern Europe run by #KarolinaFollis #ICCEES2025 Come say hi! 👉 www.iccees2025.org

Our book now has a website! As it was getting hard to keep track of materials around "Creolizing the Modern" @cornellupress.bsky.social, we put them all in one place. Many thanks to Louise Link @uni-freiburg.de! We hope the overview is helpful & a possible teaching resource. creolizingthemodern.com

My book is on sale for just £12 online on the @edinburghup.bsky.social store right now. If you want a critique of the digitality of human rights politics and it's imbrication with capitalism, this is the book for you. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-inf...

A few weeks ago I had “feedback” - I should find “neutral” names for interview respondents as “Arabic” or “Eastern European” synonyms would make them more identifiable. Right folks, where to start? Please define “neutral” for me? And any speakers of “Eastern European” out there who can help me out?

How useful is the concept of extraction for understanding the algorithmic society we live in? @bnjacobsen.bsky.social @uoy-sociology.bsky.social on the AI industry, technocolonialism and the exploitation of human labour and natural resources. #OnlineFirst in the journal buff.ly/SGRiQvs

How did rulers in the Middle Ages control who entered and who exited their territories? In 🎧Migration Unboxed🎧 @bristoldublin.bsky.social joins colleagues across the disciplines to think through new ways of understanding migration through the ages. Listen to the full episode here 👉👉 bit.ly/4kvmp4H

@vickytaylor.bsky.social on the continuity of cruelty in the UK/France deal and the lack of evidence about deterrence. Of interest to @bordercrim.bsky.social folks too: www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

Further endangering the lives of refugees in an attack timed to coincide with an imminent UK-France summit where similar dangerous and illegal "pullbacks" are set to be announced as policy. The UK government orders this violence and we pay for it (€191m last year). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Labour government ministers told tech companies they want their help to create a "prison outside of prison" www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

“The entire UK higher education sector is currently engulfed by mass redundancies and talks of ‘crisis’. Industrial relations between staff and employers in many institutions are at a historic low, and it seems that worse is yet to come.” Steven Brown reviews Shaping for Mediocrity buff.ly/vsJReUq

Oh I dunno actually. Maybe it's good to warn people off an environmentally destructive infrastructure based on highly exploited labour that often can't do even the basic things its creators put on the 'tin'.