🔊 I've been quiet about this, but can't hold it in any longer ... 🍾 Beyond happy to say that my first book "Diaspora Governance in Practice" - which will be published with @brisunipress.bsky.social next year - now officially has a cover!!!

The fabulous @oulakadhum.bsky.social and I are planning on putting together a panel on diaspora politics and decolonization for @mybisa.bsky.social annual conference, if anyone is interested in joining?! More info below, please get in touch via [email protected]

BREAKING: Our members at the University of Sheffield have voted overwhelmingly for strike action against the University Executive Board’s ongoing campaign of job cuts, and the threat to staff workload and wellbeing that they represent.

Latest research from MIGZEN now out in @jcms-eu.bsky.social We advance understanding of emergence of transnational communities of practice in global politics, exploring how Brexit opportunity structures shape transnational political mobilisation in Europe. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#publicationalert New article by @michaelacbenson.bsky.social Catherine Craven & @nandosigona.bsky.social on the political mobilisation of #EUcitizenship during #Brexit drawing @ukri.org www.migzen.net

It was a pleasure to welcome @susanbanki.bsky.social to a well-attended end of semester @sheffieldmrg.bsky.social seminar to hear about her dedicated work on the Ecosystem of the little-known Bhutanese exile politics & to hear excellent provocations from @catherineruth.bsky.social around #precarity

I have been working on building this database of crimes of solidarity&humanitarianism for a few years. It's a resource for research and legal cases and activists -to get an overall sense of patterns across different locations. If you would like to help please get in touch www.crimesofsolidarity.org

Join us for: The ecosystem of exile politics: The importance of physical location in diaspora mobilisation ⌚ Thu 26th June, 1130 Susan Banki, University of Sydney University of Sheffield 🏢 & online 💻 Register ➡️ www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re... @sheffieldmrg.bsky.social & Activism Network

We are screening The Big Meeting - a film about the Durham Miners' Gala 📅Thursday 5th June 2025 from 7:15 at the Broomhall Centre Open to all! Please sign up here: forms.gle/iHeJCWRKfrE1... @sheffieldtransformed.org

Made it to page 13 of the Immigration White Paper but was ultimately defeated by this paragraph/sentence/string of words?!

Phew I thoucht it was me and my no-math brain.

Sheffield UCU took part in the Workers Day of Action on Trans Rights from our picket lines today! The UK Trade Union movement stands behind our trans siblings #tradeunionists4transrights

Day 3 of striking today and we're voting on an offer from management tomorrow! Amazing work getting them to the table @sheffielducu.bsky.social & all our striking and picketing comrades!