Our 2027 virtual conference #VirtualBISA2027 call & homepage is OPEN NOW 🎉 Submissions for papers open on 5 May 🌟 Find our call for papers here 👉 https://virtualconference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers Simon Rushton Jamie J. Hagen @julietdryden.bsky.social City St George's, University of London

Papers call 📣 (En)countering violence: critical approaches to studying and representing violence, and dangerous and disposable subjects' BISA Critical Alternatives for World Politics Working Group and School of Society & Environment, Queen Mary University symposium! 🌟 👉 https://ow.ly/k8Lv50Z51Xl

Our collective discussion on the Adult Gaze is out at IPS. I am so happy to be part of this amazing group of scholars, contributing with my reflections on my work involving refugee children's drawings :) You can read it here: academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

#JobPost 💼 The University of Liverpool is hiring a permanent Lecturer in Criminology / Critical Social Policy, and welcome expertise in ‘race’ and ethnicity, social exclusion, or quant methods, as well as commitment to social justice. Apply before 26th May

The final report of our study “Mapping the Humanitarian Visa Policy in Brazil” with @cintranatalia.bsky.social and Svetlana Ruseishvilli is out Conducted throughout 2025, it analyses humanitarian visas policies in Brazil to discuss complementary pathways to protection worldwide. +

We would like to welcome you all to our next online MRG Seminar with Dr Abida Younas on 28/04/2026 at 1 pm (BST). More information and sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...

Must read from Shahram Khosravi. Defeat as Method: Thinking from within the ruins. migrationscholarsmobilize.org/blog-posts-2...

Happy to see this finally out! Check out our latest article on children's artistic representations of nuclear war, together with amazing @patnabuco.bsky.social, Katie Salari and Will Dalzeil from NSI:

My new OA article with @leocbandarra.bsky.social, Katie Salari and Will Dalzeil - Never Such Innocence is out :) We draw on children's artistic representations of war to analyse their imaginaries of nuclear war based on nuclear anxiety. Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join us for this very interesting panel co-organised with SYMAAG and other groups on 24/03 - 18h30 at the University of Sheffield Registration and info here: sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...

The MRG Seminar Series is back 🙌 Join us for our in-person MRG Seminar (co-organised with the GLP) with Dr Sara Kunz on 03/03/2026 at the University of Sheffield More info: sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...

Just out: my new research on apostasy and non-religion among asylum seekers in the UK. It explores what it’s like emotionally to leave a religion in countries where it’s dangerous, and seek refuge here. 🧵

Academic friends, UMass PoliSci is recruiting teaching faculty in International Relations as well as other fields of political science. Please share widely!

My Special Issue with Nuni Jorgensen on Families on the Move - Latin American Perspectives is out at @scmrjems.bsky.social We have 9 excellent contribution from amazing Latin American colleagues :) You can read more about it here sheffield.ac.uk/spir/news/ne...

For anyone physically in Sheffield on Tuesday 3rd February we have some places for our screening of @gabrielsilvestre.bsky.social film A Place in the City Check out details here sheffield.ac.uk/urban-instit...

Reflexões de nosso projeto de pesquisa financiado (com @cintranatalia.bsky.social e Svetlana Ruseishvili) pelo @ukri.org sobre a política de vistos humanitários no Brasil form publicados no @nexojornal.bsky.social Leia na íntegra aqui 👇👇

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...