Navigating Legal Uncertainty – DEMIG Talk with Gisela P. Zapata, Assistant Professor at @ufmgbr.bsky.social 🎙️ “Complexity and Unevenness in Migrants’ Regularization Pathways in Latin America” 🗓️ 13 November 2025 | 🕒 15:00–16:00 CET | 📍 Online 🔗 Details & Zoom link: www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...

sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re... Online resources put together by the @sheffieldmrg.bsky.social as part of the international day of mobilisation @migrationscholars.bsky.social

Happening today :) Join us at the University of Sheffield

Check out Hostile, an award winning feature length documentary, examining the horrifying impact of government policies on migrants and refugees in Britain today. The film asks: What does it mean to be British? How does it feel to be told you don’t belong? 🔗 www.hostiledocumentary.com#trailer

Sociology research post available on Research England-funded project exploring use of AI in doctoral research - 4 years fixed term. jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

I am happy to discuss Environmental Displacement in Latin America with outstanding colleagues Andrea Pacheco Pacífico and Beatriz Eugenia Sánchez-Mojica on the 06/11/2025 1pm-2pm(GMT) online organised by the @rli-sas.bsky.social More info and registration here : rli.sas.ac.uk/events/displ....

📣 The Joint Management Committee of the ECPR Standing Group on International Relations and EISA are looking for a new editorial team to take over the running of ejir.bsky.social from 1 January 2027! 🔗 Find the complete Call for Editors document here: buff.ly/B4O8NdN

🚨 👇 Don't miss the deadline for submission TODAY 👇 🚨

This is your reminder that Global Society has an open call for special issue proposals! We'd love to hear from you, so please follow the steps below!

Our exhibition (with @leocbandarra.bsky.social and Never Such Innocence) on Children and Nuclear anxiety opens on Monday, 03/11/2025, at the Winter Gardens, Sheffield, UK. Check more info here 👇 player.sheffield.ac.uk/exhibits/chi...

Political rhetoric isn't just talk, it has real material implications. "UK charities say toxic immigration rhetoric leading to threats against staff." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

📢 Publication Alert I'm pleased to share that my latest (open-access) article is now available on RPBI. In this piece, I examine the evolution of discussions on nuclear verification in Brazil and Argentina from the 1960s to the 1990s. 🔍 Check out here: doi.org/10.1590/0034...

I am giving this talk today about our project on Humanitarian Visas in Brazil. More info here: fb.me/e/8uWMMBJsa

@patnabuco.bsky.social, our colleagues from NSI and I are organizing an exhibition on children and nuclear anxiety next month in Sheffield, UK. Curious? More info below. 👇👇 @vespotec.bsky.social @inef-duisburg.bsky.social

I am organising this Exhibition with @leocbandarra.bsky.social and the UK-based charity Never Such Innocence on Children and Nuclear Anxiety, part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science at the @sheffielduni.bsky.social More info 👇👇 sheffield.ac.uk/spir/news/ne...

Acabamos (@cintranatalia.bsky.social, Svetlana Ruseishvilli e eu) de publicar uma linha do tempo com os marcos dos vistos humanitários no Brasil. Esse é um dos resultados do nosso projeto HUMANVISA financiado pelo ESRC/UKRI pp.nexojornal.com.br/linha-do-tem...

Brazil initiates @wto.org dispute regarding US tariff measures as inconsistent with GATT provisions www.wto.org/english/news...

Para os colegas do Brasil e falantes de português, participarei do Seminário do DCP-USP com transmissão pelo Youtube, apresentando dois projetos em que analiso desenhos de crianças como metodologias políticas. Seria ótimo ver vocês por lá

My new co-edited book with the amazing colleagues Andrea Pacheco Pacífico and Thalita Melo Silva is out. With 15 chapters from leading authors in the region, we advance the concept of internal environmental displacement in Latin America and the Caribbean :) link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

🔴We have failed Afghans when we owe them so much. We should be outraged. We should be absolutely incensed. My thoughts on yet another government betrayal, a source of national shame. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/notanoth...

“Put a man on the front of our magazine and our donations will drop.” On who gets to be a victim, and why anti-trafficking orgs haven't yet abandoned rescue narratives ✍️ @hannahjlewis.bsky.social www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

We're saying farewell to two incredible team members. Samya is stepping back after 3 years, thankfully it's not a permanent goodbye. Gaby is off to a new frontline role. 🧡 Now, we're looking for driven individuals to join ASSIST and make a difference for people seeking asylum in Sheffield. ⏬

"the moral argument led to more support for refugee admissions..."

📣 join us! We are advertising a 0.6 PT lectureship in #InternationalRelations for 18 months. Closing date 27 July ⬇️ jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Universi...

Resharing the article abstract and link to full-text: doi.org/10.1017/S026... @risjnl.bsky.social

Families Belong Together Check out when @rfuk.bsky.social went to parliament last month to share our 3 yr research on impacts of UK's spouse visa policy Only the most heartless think its ok to separate a child from a parent or block family life in the UK youtu.be/k4CSQY_u0C8

"We now have a 50% tariff on Brazil, because it puts in jail its insurrectionists. And so that means for those of us who drink Brazilian coffee: Your next coffee comes with an insurrection infusion fee, as we try to support those who put the coup in coup-pucino."

📣 Postdoc (75 %, 3 yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social — start autumn 2025 on perhaps Germany’s most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? ⬇️ #PolSci #Postdoc

2/ Please read it, talk about it, and share their voice - so history doesn't repeat itself. gmiau.org/new-report-c...

In case you missed it: The new Climate Mobility Case Database: a new movement to advance the rights of climate-displaced communities | Bella Mosselmans

I'm looking over the Channel policy timeline on our website. It so devastatingly shows the toxic relationship between borders and irregular migration, leading to human rights violations, racism and deep deep harm to people who are seeking asylum. channelcrossings.org/home-2/timel...

Award-winning, open access article on the absurdity of anti-immigration populism from my collage James Hampshire: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I am looking for UK immigration law practitioners to fill in a short survey about their engagement with legal academic work. There is also an option to take part in an interview at the end. Please do consider taking part and share with your networks: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...

🚨We have published a NEW REPORT sharing the experiences of children from our All4One youth group who were wrongly treated as adults by the Home Office. These children arrived in the UK alone seeking asylum, were declared “significantly over 18” at the border and sent alone to adult asylum hotels.

Migrant rights activist @zoejardiniere.bsky.social giving Labour and the Tories both barrels on their failure - and cruelty - around migrants in the UK. We need politicians who don't punch down to distract from their own failures. We need a change.

Amigxs no Brasil, terei o prazer de participar dos Diálogos no CEM nesta sexta-feira, dia 11/07/2025 14h, com a querida Eliza Donda (Missão Paz). Maiores informações e inscrições: doity.com.br/dilogos-no-c...

Last week, #IMISCOE gathered 1,000+ scholars in Paris to “decenter migration studies". Where is the center of migration research? Our Directory shows that 75% of institutes are in Europe & North America, shaping which stories are told. migrationpolicycentre.eu/directory-of...

'The carceral economies of asylum: who's working the border?' In the MMB blog Eda Yazici opens up the conversation about the working conditions and experiences of those working in the UK immigration system. Read the full post here 👉👉 bit.ly/44sxjDz

Autograph ABP are looking for three artists to lead on the creative direction and community engagement for a new project working with artists and communities with experience of displacement. 🗓️ Deadline: 28 July, 10am 🔗 Find out more: autograph.org.uk/blog/news/lead-artists-acts-of-solidarity

Brilliant to have Prof Susan Banki here from the University of Sydney, talking about her work on exile politics!

How did judgements about health shape US migration controls? David S.FitzGerald traces how a system originally aimed at shifting costs to private firms and neighbouring developed into 'remote biopower', paving the way for group-based restrictions under Trump. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/migr...

New article 🥳! Richard Fosu and I have a new piece in @jisb.bsky.social! Open access! We examine UN docs on #YPS to reveal how ideas of youth are constituted by institutional actors. We pay close attn to discursive contestation over the norm of youth inclusion within YPS. doi.org/10.1080/1750...

📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs! Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring: 🔹 Assistant Professor 🗓 Deadline: 25 August 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil... 🔹 Associate Professor 🗓 Deadline: 8 September 🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...

Sign up for our Mentoring Lunch in Chicago at #ASA2025 @asanews.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Lunch is free for the first 25 graduate students who sign up - so act fast! Deadline is July 10. Any questions, please email Andrew Le at [email protected]

So in other fun news, my employer recently instituted a new “international working” policy, which imposes draconian restrictions on the ability of staff to travel abroad for personal reasons. Highlights include: any plans to work from out of the UK, even out of term time, are generally disallowed

Please join me in signing this letter to the UK government condemning the proposed proscription of Palestine Action as a “terrorist” organisation. Proscription criminalises not just membership but any statement that might be construed as support for a group. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Most literature reviews miss the point.
 Not because they’re sloppy. 
But because they treat the literature like a box to tick. In my latest Respect the Marble Post, I carve out a 6-step process to writing a meaningful lit review: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/most-liter... 🧵