Happy to announce the 1st ever @isanet.bsky.social conference in South Asia in August 2026. Hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we welcome proposals from scholars based in and/or studying South Asian politics & international relations, but also broader global themes ofc www.isanet.org/Conferences/...

Absolutely mind-blown! 🤯 What an honour to receive this prize. Enormous thanks to the prize committee, everyone who helped sharpen the argument & my incredible interlocutors in Crimea for whom the struggle for human rights continues.

OPEN ACCESS - The colonial migration state, by @fionaadamson.bsky.social and Hélène Thiollet, www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to share that my first publication is out on IPS! 🥳 In this paper, I offer a new approach to securitization which aims to anchor contemporary securitization processes targeting postcolonial populations in colonial history. Check it out: academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

Really happy to share that I have successfully defended my PhD yesterday! Thanks to my supervisors @irenefmolina.bsky.social and @briegp.bsky.social for their support throughout the journey and to examiners Martin Thomas and @fionaadamson.bsky.social for their generous and constructive feedback.

NEW— Nearly 200 US college presidents affirm their schools as places where "faculty, students, and staff are free to exchange ideas and opinions…without fear of retribution, censorship, or deportation." Signers include Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, UPenn, Brown, Tufts Notably absent: Columbia

Worth noting that a number of universities have now sued over withheld and canceled grants, but no university has yet sued over the arrest, detention, and threatened deportation of its foreign students. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

BREAKING: Army will control land on the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a base, a move that could allow troops to detain migrants, AP sources say.

The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who: –has green card –was Columbia Buddhist club president –saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier –said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

Great article! Straight into the syllabus!

Yes, this. I was happy to see a recent @iajournal.bsky.social article by @fionaadamson.bsky.social and Kelly Greenhill about forced migration that begins and ends with this point.

The Trump book burnings are beginning.

🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨 This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️ 👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Since our administration would not fight the Trump administration in court, the faculty had to assume the responsibility of doing so to protect academic freedom. www.reuters.com/world/us/col...

Among other things, this is an invitation for states to seek USG cooperation against their dissidents in exile in the US

This is so dire, particularly after the lecture Vance gave Europeans on the evils of censorship. Breathtaking hypocrisy.

"In essence, the same forces that benefited from Archbishop Romero’s murder in the 1980s are those that profit from Bukele’s dystopian carceral state machinery today"

Will even one powerful institution stick to their principles? "Columbia agreed to ban masks, empower 36 campus police officers with new powers to arrest students and appoint a senior vice provost with broad authority to oversee the department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies"

Scenes from Turkey today: University students protesting, police beating up citizens, Erdogan regime arresting social media users and bandwith throttling

Britain has in recent weeks revised its advice for citizens traveling to the United States to include a warning that anyone found breaking its entry rules could face arrest or detention reut.rs/41FPanJ

Istanbul’s popular mayor was about to be anointed formally as the opposition candidate to challenge Erdoğan in the next election. So what happens? He gets detained.

GUEST POST: We Are Professors at Columbia. Here is How We Would Respond. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

Understand that this El Salvador gulag deportation was done partly in order to make the fascist video that the president now transmits, with his fascist message. The cameras are all set up in advance.

Job alert! Fully-funded PhD @facultyofartsug.bsky.social, with myself, @karimeltaki.bsky.social and @bherborth.bsky.social on post-imperial geopolitical imaginations in/of the Arab world. Please help spread the word among interested candidates! Full details here: karimeltaki.com/phd-position...

[🇪🇺 EU Pact Series 📝] ‘The intra-Schengen borderlands, once relatively unexamined, are now becoming focal points of mobility control—risking a two-tiered system of movement where some enjoy freedom while others face increasing restrictions,’ writes Prof. Maartje van der Woude: buff.ly/Lhrk9DN

Valid visa and now gone. BTW, she was here to SAVE LIVES. Doctor and Professor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

Stop pretending that the authoritarian repression is BECAUSE of the problems in {higher education, the media, the law, government, immigration policy, etc.}. This is what authoritarians do. If they didn't focus on these justifications, they'd come up with other ones.

I hope the upside of the nonsense that keeps coming out of JD Vance’s mouth would be to incentivise the EU to truly become more in solidarity with each other, to stop the current race to the bottom -especially when it comes to human rights- and show that an alternative to hatred is imaginable.

I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

Ranjani Srinivasan is an international student from India pursuing a doctorate in urban planning. She received a Fulbright scholarship. She was forced to flee to Canada to escape ICE, which was pursuing her for nonsense reasons. Columbia kicked her out of the doctoral program.

This is a great piece. One thing it’s important for folks to recognize is that the right has been working to whitewash the way US history is taught and publicly discussed for over a century now. What’s relatively new is how aggressively they’re using the power of the federal government to do it.

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

I even had slides! bsky.app/profile/chan...

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

"University leaders would help themselves, and the country, by emerging from their defensive crouches and making a forthright case for inquiry, research, science and knowledge." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/o...

even if I hadn’t been lucky enough to spend time at USIP this would read like a bad dystopian joke

And let’s not forget that thousands of U.S. citizens, including Native Americans, were arrested and deported in Operation Wetback in the early 20th Century. No reason to assume anything will be different now. No one is truly safe under authoritarianism.

I am happy to share that my article on the EU's responses to transnational repression is now out in EJIS. In this article I examine the extent to which transnational repression has been securitised in the EU. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Despite Rubio’s grandfather’s “insistence that he was fleeing oppression, immigration officials raised suspicions that he might harbor communist sympathies…That charge, had they pursued it, could have led to a conclusion that he was a national security threat.” Oh. The. Irony.

You apparently can now be fired from a university for stuff an AI hallucinated about you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

This is draconian. And absolutely shameful and anti intellectual behaviour from the uni of Essex. www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-pro-...

From Adam Przeworski's Diary: "I grew up under a dictatorship but could never imagine I would die under one. Today I entertain this possibility." (Just in case it's not obvious: this is one of the most sober political scientists writing today, someone with a minimalist definition of democracy).

Jewish students at Columbia university today organized a demonstration in solidarity with anti-war student organizer Mahmoud Khalil and to denounce Trump's attacks on public education and protest. Photo via @/Columbia_psc

The way this works is that you either defend Khalil's First Amendment rights, no matter what you think about his specific views, or else you acquiesce to a totalitarian dystopia where the government can disappear people for expressing opinions opposed by the regime. There's really no middle ground.