So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

A bunch of folks have asked about my "Long Arc of Fascism" course - this is my opening lecture at our public teach-in last Spring.

It took less than 72 hrs for as many as a dozen workers detained during a massive immigration raid in Central New York to go from a factory floor in Cato to a landing strip in Central America. Workers were herded through as many as three different Border Patrol stations & detention centers in 2 days

The latest Open Access volume of Migration and Society has been published!: bit.ly/4mbOY7L Featuring research by: @malayfiroz.bsky.social @jenri.bsky.social @ernabodstrom.bsky.social @jesperbjarnesen.bsky.social @djamilak.bsky.social @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social and more!

“How international aid cuts are eroding refugee protections in the Global South” has been published today on The Conversation. Here's the link: theconversation.com/how-internat...

857 people arrested in a single day in London for holding signs opposing Israel’s genocide in Palestine These include Holocaust survivors, vicars, retired nurses and teachers. So many of them are elderly. Labour is dead www.instagram.com/p/DOTb3nIjYIS/

Heads up, folks.

Our new article just published in Migration and Society, “Transversal Community-Building: Fostering Women's Collaboration and Solidarity Across Differences in Cyprus” Open access: doi.org/10.3167/arms...

Immigration officers forced their way into a confectionery plant near Syracuse on Thursday and detained more than 70 workers, witnesses said, in what appeared to be one of the biggest workplace raids in New York since President Trump’s deportation crackdown began.

Solidarity and support, Thank you ! More than two dozen academic and public sector unions from across the entire country have donated to our cause, thank you! Solidarity is how we will all win fair contracts! Keep Dal Strong Dalhousie Faculty Association #keepdalstrong

Absolutely incredible video of a woman standing up to ICE. This is resistance 1/2

Please join us! I am co-convening 3 Royal Geographical Society panels on Feminist and Gendered Geographies of Resistance with @zalifung.bsky.social and Rebecca Elmhirst at the University of Birmingham next week. A great lineup of presentations. bit.ly/4lgkPnk @rgsibg.bsky.social

“In Gaza, to be an academic today is to refuse to be reduced to a statistic.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Wildfires are burning in parts of Europe as millions of people across the continent struggled to adapt to the new reality: record summer heat.

Researchers in Florida (and nationwide) face significant disruption and uncertainty due to millions stripped from universities by the Trump administration. “When you try to control what experts in scientific fields are researching, then you undermine the entire scientific enterprise.”

🖋 PUBLICATION! 🌟 'Translating sanctuary: Politics of solidarity in a bilingual and plurinational context' 👏 Congratulations to Dr Catrin Edwards and Dr Rhys Dafydd Jones on their new article in The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Antony Loewenstein: Israel has killed more journalists in the last 22 months than were killed in the US civil war, WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

New 2025 Special Issue: “The Spatial Dimensions of Refugee and Migrant Activism: Borders, Liminality, and Porosity.” Editors, Susan Banki & Suraina Pasha. See articles in the Journal of Refugee Studies.

@drdconlon.bsky.social, author of Immigration Detention Inc. speaks with the Make Me Smart Podcast by @marketplace.org about how immigration detention became dominated by private companies in the United States. Listen here: www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...

Studies in Social Justice - New Issue Published (Volume 19, Issue 2) Volume 19, Issue 1 of Studies in Social Justice is published, and can be accessed at: journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SS... Visit the website to read the full announcement.

We are deeply troubled by apparent raids in Southern California, including one involving a Penske truck filled with agents descending on day laborers today. While more investigation is needed, we have serious concerns that the federal government may be in violation of the federal judge's July TRO.

The Trump administration cancelled about $500 million for research into mRNA vaccines. The move slows progress in using the technology to prevent a future pandemic or treat disease, experts say.

“MSF is overwhelmed by the increased number of patients, and we fear the needs will rise as more health facilities shut down.”

Thousands of French people held a massive rally and march in Paris, standing against Israel's genocide in Gaza, they chanted "Nous sommes la résistance (We are the resistance)" #FreePalestine #3E

As famine looms in Gaza, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz faces pressure to drop staunch support for Israel and allow Brussels to penalize Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

Our op-ed following the report launched yesterday, on the medical aspect of the genocide prohibition under Article II(c) of the Genocide Convention. The Death of Gaza in Slow Motion www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times examines Trump administration policies and actions affecting immigration and migrants and their communities. It adopts a broad perspective, seeing immigration policies in the context of constitutional law and principles, US history…

They fled violence, sexual assault, and death threats. Now thousands of legal immigrants, many of whom developed deep roots in the US, are at risk of deportation, marking the single largest delegalization campaign in US history.

#OpenAccess in Area: 'Mediating atmospheric bordering: Migratory journeys in hostile environments' by @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social This paper is part of a forthcoming Special Section on 'Atmospheric Borders'. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

New from HRW: Jordanian authorities is forcibly evicting the Bedul Bedouin community from their historic homes in Petra — cutting water, suspending salaries, and detaining residents without charge. www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

Three years (!!) to finally release this Special Issue in the Jnl of Refugee Studies, of which I am immensely proud. We wrestle with concepts of space, bordering and activism. Worth the wait? U decide! @kimrygiel.bsky.social @eolivius.bsky.social @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jrs/issue

A new publication in Geopolitics: “Nested Borders: Migration, Sovereignty and Liminality along the Green Line in Cyprus” Seçil Dağtaș & Suzan Ilcan doi.org/10.1080/1465...

Great article from @vickytaylor in @opendemocracy on Labour's new one in one our policy: "Labour has done what they said they wouldn’t – introduce performative gimmicks to convince voters they’re in ‘control’ of migration." www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

“Fares was issued with a deportation order to Lebanon and held in a police detention centre on the outskirts of Cyprus’ capital, Nicosia. He remained there for five months, before he was released ahead of a decision by the Supreme Court in a Habeas Corpus application he submitted.”

On July 17 “Greece announced a draft law wherein people without authorization to live in Greece will face a minimum prison term of three years if they do not leave…”

Frontex wants €11,000 in court fees from us. So we converted the amount into life jackets. 700 of them now lie in front of your office in Brussels, @frontex.bsky.social. Now do the job you're paid for. Or abolish yourselves. 🧵

A new paper published in Area, part of Special Section on Atmospheric borders. Open Access: ‘Mediating atmospheric bordering: Migratory journeys in hostile environments’ doi.org/10.1111/area...

Understanding how borders impact people's emotions is key to understanding how people make decisions during migratory journeys. New research with displaced Syrians has shed light on these emotional borders. Read the blog post by @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social ⤵️ www.google.com/url?q=https:...

As #Greece suspends the right to seek asylum, the European Commission's silence is not neutrality—it's complicity. The body meant to uphold EU law is instead enabling lawlessness and cruelty at Europe's borders. Read my @hrw.org dispatch for more: www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

Major speculation that this raid was a photo op, but it’s worth noting that activists who were tipped off showed up to the park early to throw up flyers and comb through the park to alert neighbors A full soccer field that was active this morning was completely cleared by the time ICE arrived

📢June Issue of Area📢 This latest issue pulls together the fully #OpenAccess 'Rivers as Borders' Special Section alongside papers on topics including de-development, AI, and diary methods. Read all the papers here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762... #geosky

The Politics of Feeling, with @ajsecor.bsky.social , is now out! It’s a book of propositions about the affective politics of three political forms - right wing populism, progressivism, liberalism - in the present post 2008 conjunctural crisis: mitpress.mit.edu/978191598329...

NEW: As ICE begins to disappear immigrants into every federal facility in NYC that can hold them, agents are now detaining people with open immigration cases, who would normally not be subject to detention. People are being held incomunicado for days and weeks. hellgatenyc.com/how-trumps-d...

Repression and Resistance in the Work of Artist Ateş Alpar - my latest writing for @markaz-review.bsky.social on exhibition at Istanbul's Depo cultural center through this Saturday, 5 July. themarkaz.org/repression-a...

This week, Greenpeace had its first hearing in a Dutch court to use the EU’s new protections against these types of spurious lawsuits to shut down free speech – the first time this EU law will be put into action.

An interesting new blog post last Friday @bordercrim.bsky.social on the India/Myanmar border: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...