There is a legal term for gov agents detaining someone and refusing to provide info on their fate or whereabouts: enforced disappearance. Enforced disappearance has long been used as a tool of border management in the US, but this administration has pushed this strategy into hyper drive.

The point is to subject immigrants to enforced disappearance for long enough to either execute a deportation or make it easier to deport someone. Cutting victims off from advocates prevents people from getting timely or timelier legal relief.

You can read my and Dr. Leal’s article, which lays out a typology of the different ways that DHS forcibly disappears immigrants, here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"All that will be left outside of Oxbridge ... will be a scattering of AI-infested hubs for the accelerated production of hyper-indebted ‘graduates’. All of this is a colossal and entirely avoidable act of self-harm" - Lorna Finlayson newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

"Ten years ago I passed through this landscape in a state of almost perfect unknowing. I made mistakes. I shelved the experience at the back of my mind, like a pebble plucked from the shoreline, and its lustre wore off. Too late, now, to pick it up again." longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/dutch-river

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Stefan Collini on “the present pattern of dilution, damage and decline” in HE - how we got here and what needs to change www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It's publication day! This Little World begins with a sixteenth-century refugee writing from Norwich to his wife abroad. It ends in the aftermath of civil war and revolution, asking what belonging and identity might mean in a world shaped by migration, empire and violence. (1/4)

Shameful bullish. What's done incalculable damage is a decade of pernicious falsehoods about immigration, while people who should know better refuse to counter the lies of the increasingly normalised far right. Let's tackle those lies:

· #AcademicSky · “For decades, we have mistaken competence for identity and output for meaning. AI does not simply disrupt this model – it exposes its limitations. The problem is not that machines are becoming more capable but that our definition of capability has always been incomplete.”

What Are Words Worth 2U2? is an interdisciplinary festival that asks what language does,who it belongs to, & what it costs.We explore the translingual; reclaimed,unstable vocabularies; vernacular&informal speech; legal languages;& poetic,invented forms.  erratic-front-a98.notion.site/349111eaa4bd...

In ‘Border Afterlives’ Gabriella Soto examines postmortem journeys, revealing how border policies generate deaths. Soto argues these deaths should be understood as structural homicides & that the forensic neglect they face is a form of ongoing violence uapress.arizona.edu/book/border-...

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...

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...