Unfortunately, that is a lot of academics at the American Political Science Association Conference!!

Thanks so much for sharing this, Anna!

I wrote about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social- how important is the context of 9/11 and what Muslims and South Asians faced in NYC, and what he represents for these communities!! @religionnews.com.web.brid.gy published the piece today!! religionnews.com/2025/08/20/f...

I wrote about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social- how important is the context of 9/11 and what Muslims and South Asians faced in NYC, and what he represents for these communities!! @religionnews.com.web.brid.gy published the piece today!! religionnews.com/2025/08/20/f...

Arbitrary detention and deportation of Bengali-speaking Muslims from India is becoming extremely common!! Horrifying reading from @nytimes.com !! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/w...

At the EWR airport, a student from India pinned to the ground and handcuffed ! www.instagram.com/reel/DKsuU6B...

Did you know that University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social has a metric tonne of books #Free2DownloadAndRead in their Open Access page? All available here: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/o...

Thrilled to see this special issue of Social Change, a leading journal published from India, that I co-edited with Jinee Lokaneeta. We brought our interests together by conceptualizing a special issue on rights and exclusions in the context of India and its diasporas!! lnkd.in/gxnvJYym

This is horrifying. Harvard's ability to have international students has been rescinded. Approximately six thousand of Harvard's students are international, requiring a visa to study there. The currently enrolled international students lose their visa status. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

Horrifying reports from India: Rohingya refugees left on the sea to swim to the coast to survive. They were rounded up during the recent escalation of conflict between India and Pakistan. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/w...

As I argue in the review, this is an urgent and evocative book and I am glad I was able to sit and think with it. This is also a major first for me & for that all thanks to the patient editors of this issue @sangaymishra.bsky.social & Jinee Lokaneeta. Please DM me if you need help with access🌸

My review of “How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners” by @suchitrav.bsky.social & Francesca Recchia has been published in Social Change! Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/action/showM...

According to the New York Times, more than a thousand visas of students and scholars have been cancelled since March!

A new edited book on Policing by Jinee Lokaneeta and Deana Heath!!

A new edited book on Policing by Jinee Lokaneeta and Deana Heath!!

Columbia does not trust its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies program because the Trump administration does not trust the program! They think it needs to managed so columbia is appointing a vice president to “manage” the program!

The Trump administration is going after political speech- horrifying details of another ICE raid on a postdoc scholar’s home and his detention. This Indian origin scholar is being targeted for supporting the Palestinian cause and for being married to a politically vocal Palestinian.

Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of an effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.

Did Columbia University collaborate with ICE on this raid and arrest? Since he was not arrested from a public area-it is quite likely that the university allowed ICE to arrest him. Columbia needs to clarify!

He has a green card but it didn’t matter. I wonder what kind warrant ICE carried- Columbia is keeping quiet on that! apnews.com/article/colu...

We are going to see many such cases of racial profiling of legal immigrants and citizens!! www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/n...

Astounding!!

Any work on the use of military planes for deportation?

Musk wants to end institutional racism by shutting down DEI programs. The DEI is living and growing in his head- he can’t make an argument without using the DEI language!

Denial of visa due to political views is atrocious: Kshama Sawant is trying to get to India to see her ailing mother! scroll.in/latest/10786...

The dangers of doing anti-discrimination/DEI work today!!

AsianAmericans&14th Amendment: Birthright citizenship through 14th amendment came to ensure that slaves & descendent of slaves have US citizenship. But it has a deep connection to history of Asian Americans-Asians were not eligible for citizenship because of racial prerequisite for naturalization1/4

AsianAmericans&14th Amendment: Birthright citizenship through 14th amendment came to ensure that slaves & descendent of slaves have US citizenship. But it has a deep connection to history of Asian Americans-Asians were not eligible for citizenship because of racial prerequisite for naturalization1/4

Racism never misses a chance to invoke colorblindness!!

Immigration raids in California farmlands have started- farm workers were asked for their papers in parking lots and detained!! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/u...

Projected decline in immigration and population loss is not too far!! thehill.com/homenews/508...

People in India are most bullish on Trump!! They think he is good for India!!

Pete Hegseth is accused of sexual Harassment - he responded by having a row of women sitting right behind him at his Senate confirmation hearing!! No words!! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/u...

People who care about social security should think hard about the politics of mass deportation!!

Undocumented immigrants paid $25.7 billion in social security taxes in 2022! This is a subsidy to the social security system by undocumented immigrants because they are largely not eligible to benefit form this.The plan of mass deportation is going to be a big hit to this subsidy!!

January 20th is coming: H-1B visa holders are advised by their attorneys not to travel abroad. They fear the rules might change making it difficult for them to come back! globalnation.inquirer.net/260910/india...

Editorial by the NYT in support of more immigration but they believe that US can have complete control over immigration- a completely uninformed opinion if you follow the scholarship on immigration! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...

Chilling over the weekend!!

Sharing a piece that I wrote about the H-1B visa and long wait for green cards. It places H-1B in the larger history of guest worker programs!! Used @alixabeth.bsky.social's wonderful work on time!! You can access the pdf through my academia page if interested. www.academia.edu/99089635/Elu...

Is Stephen Miller is right? There is a place for critiquing H-1B but not saying anything about xenophobia and racism accompanying this discussion does not feel right

Reality of the highly restrictive provisions of the H-1B visa that is not widely known. Children of H-1B visa holders- H4 visa- age out after 21 if the parents don't get the green card. They struggle to maintain legal status and they have to make difficult choices. www.nytimes.com/2022/04/30/u...

I am excited to check this out!

It is astonishing that many Indian high tech workers in the US who are deeply upset by racist attacks and anti-immigrant tirade against them are still fine with mass deportation plans of Trump administration!! They don’t see the link, they only see merit!

Sharing a piece that I wrote about the H-1B visa and long wait for green cards. It places H-1B in the larger history of guest worker programs!! Used @alixabeth.bsky.social's wonderful work on time!! You can access the pdf through my academia page if interested. www.academia.edu/99089635/Elu...

Indian Americans need to create civic infrastructure to challenge the hate and bigotry- we don’t have much of that!! Please don’t rely on market and capital ( innovation, talent, etc.) to create an inclusive and accepting society. History teaches us otherwise!!

Bluesky is a different world- huge fight/debate erupted in the last 48 hours on twitter about H-1B-skilled immigration- from India but almost nothing here!! At least my feed didn't show any thing!! www.wionews.com/world/h1b-vi...

They don't like H-1B but if you say America First enough times and throw in great replacement theory they might make an exception!!

Do you think the Trump world is conflicted about the H-1B visas? There is Elon Musk and likes of him who might favor H-1B. And then there is Laura Loomer who is mad that Trump appointed Sriram Krishnan as his AI advisor, who has spoken in support of making green card process easier for H-1Bs.