The final episode of #MAGA & #migration #podcast series dropped last week: whodowethinkweare.org/podcasts/who... @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & I reflect back on our conversations with 4 excellent guests: Cecilia Menjívar; Rachel Humphris, Ernesto Castañeda and Heba Gowayed Brief recap🧵

‘We don’t have to consume the shitty cake or crime plots baked for us by corporate entertainment, or live off tragically meagre cultural crumbs. Small presses show us there is so much more out there, styles of survival, ways of knowing and acting” - Lucy Mercer @artreview.bsky.social

📢 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻: #2026Roundtable – “𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦”, convened by Dr @Róisín Á Costello (Trinity College Dublin), meeting on 𝟭𝟵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Papers engaging recent arts productions (theatre, fiction, visual art) are warmly encouraged.

My conversation with James Campbell is featured in this episode of Mapping the Arts and Humanities, which 'dives into the creative & disruptive world where law meets the arts': using arts & humanities to explore law and justice, and the collaborative & productive role of mapping @ials.bsky.social

Book Review by Holly Bird - Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control by @mfbosworth.bsky.social blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Look, for fuck’s sake, humans have been migrating continuously for our entire existence. Every single human in the world is the product of migration. It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human. That’s never going to change. Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.

Another day another migration story. Terrifying in here tho is the reform of the ECHR she will attempt. This will be Labour's biggest and most dangerous mistake, I GUARANTEE. It will set up the infrastructure for a Reform govt. to dismantle all our protections. news.sky.com/story/home-s...

Delighted to have my chapter 'Place Making, Pomparles Bridge and Public Space Protection Orders' published in Cultural Practices of Place, edited by Sarah Earnshaw #lawandliterature #place #PSPOs link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

CFP for the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography, Concepción, Chile: 17-20 March 2026 “the South should not be reduced to a source of raw data that are to be inserted or simply included into the Northern theory factories” Diana Ojeda & Nicholas Blomley (2024) ‘Grounding…

'A cinematic jurisprudence of homemaking in His House' - engaging with the 'subversive' act of homemaking in the asylum process through law-as-film, based on a critical reading of Remi Weekes' 2020 film His House - JPPEL www.emerald.com/jppel/articl...

The lines from the ledge(r): ink, paper, photograph, mountain "I started to draw pictures. Not of people, or buildings or street scenes. Of mountains. It was fun at first, then a fascinating pastime, building a mouontain on a blank sheet of paper...Memories crowd in on you as you delicately bring…

Archives of Arrival: Place is not a backdrop; it’s part of the record. open.substack.com/pub/therefug...

Commentary on asylum hotels considering how govt can develop dignified community-based housing that meets multiple social needs. Warehousing people in camps and continuing a failed experiment in privatisation causes nothing but further harm @geogdurham.bsky.social theconversation.com/after-the-ep...

The 'spatiotemporal politics of the asylum system linger well after an ‘end’ point of the state decision has been reached...the fragmented governance of the asylum system is made visible in its temporal margins [& in] the extension of this system beyond its legal edges' @sarahhughes90.bsky.social

So shocked Conor Gearty has died He was a fearless lawyer, teacher and writer He was also one of the wittiest, smartest people you’d ever meet. It was an honour to call him a friend I will miss him, terribly. Thoughts with his family, in London and Longford www.matrixlaw.co.uk/news/profess...

surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity

“At its root, it is a story of public penny-pinching and market forces causing a problem that is then made worse by politicians promising a quick fix or finding a convenient scapegoat” @trillingual.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My article on asylum accommodation and the construction of the home in law & film just published in JPPEL - A cinematic jurisprudence of homemaking in his house (2020) url: www.emerald.com/jppel/articl...

Great article by @trillingual.bsky.social that highlights the way in which Starmer perhaps embodies the ambivalence of human rights law:the capacity for radical change on the basis of universal dignity vs a conservative reaffirmation of nation state neoliberalism www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives

‘centrist parties amplify crisis talk, catering to simplistic and dangerous control fantasies, offering only more borders, as well as “border spectacles” – performative but nonetheless violent & racist acts of exclusion’ @mauricestierl.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Rather than stay asleep alone amongst the colonial ruins of utopia, we invite you to dream radically together otherwise” @jochamb.bsky.social www.uu.nl/en/opinion/t...

Criminalise all elements of the genocide machine, sanction Israel, secondary sanctions on its trading partners.

The police (wrongly) inform a peaceful protestor that holding a Palestinian flag and signs deploring genocide is an offence under the Terrorism Act. This is the deranged policing environment the government has created.

"Feminism must mean more than slogans for empire" @maryamaldossari.bsky.social www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/when...

I wrote about Trµmp's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, the trial of Mitsuye Endo, the example of Japanese American incarceration, pledging allegiance to war, the inherence of fascism, and my grandfather's Alien Enemy Wind-Up Doll™ @thebaffler.com: t.ly/n07l7

For years, human rights advocates have warned of the criminalisation of migrants & activists at Europe’s borders. With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we shed light on the opaque role of Frontex and Europol in drawing thousands into this dragnet. wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

Surreal is the right word. Two completely indistinguishable positions on small boats from a Tory & a Labour MP on Newsnight yesterday. Neither one of them capable of making a case that stands up to the slightest logical pushback. Pathetic.

"The #weaponisation and securitisation of #migration has a long history,” says Stierl, “the hybrid warfare narrative [...] is just the latest attempt to justify European deterrence efforts in places like #Libya, where the humanitarian situation is unimaginable for those stuck there.”

The Mediterranean continues to be a graveyard for people attempting to seek asylum in Europe. 🔊We must never accept such tragedies as normal. Let’s continue to advocate for EU migration and asylum policies that protect and support people in need.

Today, the UK government intends to ban the non-violent protesters Palestine Action as a "terrorist" group, exposing anyone supporting them to terrorism charges. In 2 days, 380,000 people have watched this video on YT alone. You're going to need a bigger prison. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkV...

It’s publication day of my new book, Legal Geographies of Water The Spaces, Places and Narratives of Human-Water Relations. Even better: it’s on sale!

The German government will stop funding civilian sea rescue operations. 🔔Saving lives is not a favour. It's a moral and legal obligation.

My review of Immigration detention and social harm – The collateral impacts of migrant incarceration edited by @michpeterie.bsky.social for @carceralgeography.bsky.social carceralgeographies.co.uk/book-review-...

@drdconlon.bsky.social & @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social discuss their new book 'Immigration Detention Inc' @plutopress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0nkE...

Read @aviddetention.bsky.social's review of @mfbosworth.bsky.social's Supply Chain Justice: "[I]t is people who are the 'product' — people who arrive or stay in the UK and are subject to detention, people who are sorted, managed, moved, and monetised." www.aviddetention.org.uk/article/refl...

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

“Mapping the Border Patrol’s history from its bigoted and violent Wild West beginnings through the legal precedents that have unleashed today’s militarized force” - ‘Nobody is Protected’: @reecejones.bsky.social in conversation with @austinkocher.com open.substack.com/pub/austinko...

Great paper on narratives of liberation by political prisoners from the Maghreb region as collective forms of resistance by @yosra999.bsky.social at ‘Narratives of Captivity’ symposium, convened by Tony Ward

Enjoyed hearing @stephemmabrown.bsky.social speak about narratives of liminal space & the shaping of national identity through carcerality, & Alessandra Calanchi discussing domestic entrapment and surveillance in Louisa May Alcott - ‘Narratives of Captivity’ @northumbriauni.bsky.social

V interesting presentation by @cgregoriou.bsky.social & @iaras22.bsky.social at yesterday’s ‘Narratives of Captivity’ conference @northumbriauni.bsky.social on narratives of human trafficking in Peter Robinson’s crime fiction, exploring the framing of agency and exploitation in the novel

“Technologies of vision entangled with state violence often involve and provoke another politics of vision, that is, politics of witnessing and evidencing” - Amin Parsa criticallegalthinking.com/2025/06/09/t...

youtu.be/33r17KyIhN8?... #GrenfellUncovered (dir. Olaide Sadiq)

Here is my argument for why science fiction should be an integral part of legal education. Among other things, I argue that it is useful for understanding the meanings made by legal history and so aids law's speculative imagining of the end of racial injustice. folukeafrica.com/law-racial-j...

Working on #migrationlaw, #bordercriminologies , #bordercontrol, #asylum policies in law and film/literature? Do consider submitting an abstract for the Border Crossings and the Law stream at the Critical Legal Conference, 4-6th September 2025 #ExeterCLC sites.exeter.ac.uk/clc2025/call...

New on the blog! What does it mean to research violence in spaces designed to conceal it? In a powerful new post, @andrianifili.bsky.social reflects on the ethics, limits, and emotional labour of fieldwork in Greek detention centres.

NEW ARTS REVIEW: 'Performing Spacial Justice in the Shadow of Grenfell'. Dr Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social delves deep into significance of testimony when brought into theatrical space: Gillian Slovo's @nationaltheatre.org.uk play 'Grenfell: in the Words of Survivors': shorturl.at/Q4BQx

My review of 'Grenfell: in the Words of Survivors' by Gillian Slovo, a verbatim play based on the testimonies of #Grenfell residents @nationaltheatre.org.uk www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

ICYMI: Listen to @ruthhoughton.bsky.social from @lawresearch-ncluk.bsky.social discuss Law, Utopianism, and Feminist Utopias with @aoifemod.bsky.social. bit.ly/3Yys2XA