European Parliament's draft position on the proposed revised EU law on migrant smuggling is out - crucially states that humanitarian assistance cannot be a crime - www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume... - might not be accepted by majority of MEPs (the rapporteur is a German Social Democrat) 1/

Can Frontex be held accountable for participating in allegedly illegal actions? Arguments at last week's CJEU hearing, summarised by Jan-Hendrik Seelow: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/02/hand... (thanks to @ourborderwatch.bsky.social)

Book launch: Ambivalent Humanitarianism and Migration Control - Colonial legacies and the experiences of migrants in Mexico by Erika Herrera Rosales   Date: Feb 26th, 2025 - 16:00 -17:00 UK, Online To attend, register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

🚨 New article from our AFAR project w @francescapalmiotto.bsky.social We explore strategic litigation against newtech in Europe and the various obstacles that must be overcome to reach the litigation stage. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @sociowarwick.bsky.social @refugeestudies.bsky.social

On Tuesday, 4 February at 09:00, the CJEU Grand Chamber will hear a landmark case against Frontex, addressing the crucial question: Can Frontex be held accountable for its role in illegal pushbacks – a practice systematically employed at the EU’s external borders? We will cover the hearing live 🔊

The discovery of 4,500 bodies buried on the site of a former Bristol workhouse in Stapleton reveals a haunting glimpse into Victorian poverty and resilience | Mike Jempson

🚨⚠️TRIAL ALERT: Palestinian refugee faces smuggling charges in Lesvos 6 February 2025 in Mytilene⚠️🚨 www.legalcentrelesvos.org #borderviolence #stopthepolicestate #endimpunity #endpushbacksnow

🌍 𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 '𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗙 #𝗕𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥 #𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘' ✊ Over the next year we will publish a series of anonymised testimonies of #pushbacks, to show that behind every statistic, there is a person risking their life to reach #Europe. legalcentrelesvos.org/stories-of-b...

on italian & eu investment in drone surveillance: problems & costs of a militaristic & racist escalation that is misnamed as “migration policy” instead of “promotion of death, systemic crimes & discrimination to bury rights & the rule of law” irpimedia.irpi.eu/sorveglianze...

1/ This goes beyond a criticism of the EU Digital Services Act (on the grounds that the US First Amendment should apply worldwide). It argues the EU should not apply its *competition* law to US tech companies on the EU market either. A rejection of the very idea of the EU regulation of its market.

Our chapter 'No alternative but Europeanisation: slow violence and critical imaginaries in/from/with South East Europe' is now out in this important co-edited volume. Writing with @drdeiana.bsky.social and working with the editors and all the authors was a real treat — thank you!

I'm very excited to announce that my new book SUM OF US: A History of the UK in Data will be published this April by Bridge Street Press/ Little Brown. It feels very timely & future-facing considering it's a history book! I had a lot of fun writing it and I can't wait to hear people’s reactions.

Doreen Massey, Athusserian Marxism, computational social science, urban policy and a twist of Mark Fisher: doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Ab excellent opportunity to work and train in the world's most famous library. Go for it!

Historians concerned about potential government plans to destroy millions of historical wills to save on storage costs www.theguardian.com/society/2023...

Register here for this online launch population-europe.eu/events/beyon...

Researchers @crossdale.bsky.social @berglundoscar.bsky.social, & @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social et al published on climate protest crack downs and unfortunately #auspol comes out on top of some worrying statistics. It isn't your imagination, we are being arrested more than other comparable nations...

Register here for this online launch population-europe.eu/events/beyon...

Joint Statement for the State Crime of Pylos #Refugees

As part of @biggive.bsky.social's Christmas Challenge, every donation made to INQUEST until midday 10 December will be DOUBLED! Help us to continue supporting families bereaved by deaths in police custody, prisons and mental health services. Please donate & share if you can bit.ly/biggive-2024

The UK Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) is taking evidence from individuals affected by the minimum income requirement (MIR). If you are a UK citizen living abroad with non-UK/Irish family members affected by the MIR please use this link to contact the MAC. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Here's the debate from yesterday's vote on the Assisted Dying Bill. It's worth a read wherever you sit on this. hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2024...

Need to check this out!

"An expert report commissioned by Die Linke from the scientific services in the Bundestag revealed the biggest obstacle...governments would have to decide to define the drowning of refugees in the Mediterranean as a ‘crisis’. Member states ..can only then activate the EU crisis response mechanism.."

troubling www.statewatch.org/news/2024/no...

🚨 The 4th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now! This issue covers changes to deportation law and the effects of Frontex-led reintegration policies in The Gambia and Nigeria. It also makes over 15 documents from EU institutions public: buff.ly/4fH1Mkm

Modern Slavery in the Fishing Industry - SOAS 29 November 2024. A super line up of speakers include my colleague Professor Parosha Chandran, and @vmantouvalou.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/modern-sla....

On tomorrow’s House of Commons order paper there’s a written statement with the title ‘Border Security and Asylum’. No idea what it will be on commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/Document/884...

A 39-year-old migrant was found dead on Friday (23 August) after the Greek coastguard opened fire on a vessel carrying migrants off the island of Symi in the eastern Aegean Sea, authorities said. www.euractiv.com/section/migr...

The immigration stats show how Labour inherited an asylum system that had ground to a halt as a result of the Illegal Migration Act. In the months before the election productivity was at its lowest since the height of the Covid pandemic, with the lowest numbers of decisions & interviews in 2 years.

Grim insight into conditions of some delivery riders for companies like Deliveroo, with workers often making below minimum wage (because they’re classified as ‘independent contractors’) for long days unable to afford rents and living in a dilapidated encampment www.theguardian.com/business/art...

Annina Van Neel (Environmental Officer for Saint Helena’s airport project) learned of the island’s most terrible atrocity - an unmarked mass burial ground of an estimated 9,000 formerly enslaved Africans. youtu.be/vtX1fZfEk-E?...