Delighted that my work is part of this exhibition,opening Friday- DISSONANT LAWS unpicks the relationship between citizens, authority,& rebellious invention. How do laws create/engender artistic resistance?How can creative dissent encourage new forms of legality?

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.

The U.S. now operates the world's largest immigration detention system. Here's what that actually looks like by the numbers. 🧵

“Opening up, sharing stories, making, holding, extending space – walking together with respect for those we share that space with – is the opposite of planting a flag and claiming dominance” @thelrm.bsky.social theconversation.com/loitering-wi...

LIVE NOW! Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond. Stream here:

I’m shocked 🙄

“The brokenheartedness of revolutionary consciousness requires a redirection towards the collective…brokenheartedness thins our skins so we become open to others. The boundaries between us can seem to dissolve” - Gargi Bhattacharyya www.plutobooks.com/blog/we-the-...

The Line is drawn! Don’t cross it - join it! @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk 💪 We dispute! The pension steal is shameful! is the VC offering a salary cut? Mhmm - thought so! 😡

UCU - 10 strike days begin tomorrow at Northumbria University over pension 'robbery'. See you on the pickets. Wellies and umbrellas advised! www.ucu.org.uk/article/14401

Labour is creating a vulnerable migrant underclass @zoejardiniere.bsky.social

Check out our website for the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire research network! The network brings together a wide range of scholars engaged in the praxis of embedding the teaching of race, colonialism and empire into their work. sites.google.com/view/critica...

"As the coercive arm of the state, the police—including CBP and ICE—are the primary instruments of state violence ... keeping us safe is not the objective. Instead, the modern police force—whether local, state, or federal—wages domestic war."

"As borders multiply, so too must resistance. Borders are not neutral lines: they are weapons that extend colonial violence under the guise of security" @plutopress.bsky.social www.plutobooks.com/abolish-the-...

"sovereign over-reach exposes the vulnerabilities of legal and political systems, and barely covers the actual weaknesses of these rapacious states. The assertion of sovereign exceptionality is never the end of the matter" @stewartmotha.bsky.social criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/20/g...

I have a poem in the new @new-sinews.bsky.social, thanks to @illepitaph.bsky.social. The poem — Grains of Rice — is long, complicated; traces inheritances, internalizations, and overlapping violences in my family's history (in Guangzhou, Hiroshima); and takes place at a Wendy's in New Jersey.

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...