It's already started in Australia !! @migrationscholars.bsky.social

Join us: 14 November 7pm SOAS BGLT A performance by Ice&Fire, specially scripted for CMDS and its conversation on "Return -an idea, practice, and contested horizon" Register at: www.eventbrite.com/e/on-the-way... @soasdevelopment.bsky.social @migrationscholars.bsky.social @soasanthro.bsky.social

"the border separates things and people precisely because they are already intertwined rather than preventing them from becoming intertwined" This is a very good way of phrasing it muse.jhu.edu/article/971352

Senate statement on Gaza, Palestine - SOAS www.soas.ac.uk/about/news/s....

HAPPENING TODAY at 5pm! Join us at SOAS (SWLT) or via Zoom as @terminalias.bsky.social offers fresh perspectives on the European migration crisis! @soasuni.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social @laurahammond.bsky.social

I had the honor of participating remotely in this powerful, extraordinarily timely and visionary event organized by Paolo and his colleagues, and look forward to continuing dialogue & collaboration!

This discussion is part of the Global Teach In/out events organised by Migration_Scholars_Global_Network 📍Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square London 📆11 November 1pm Join us! and join the network www.instagram.com/migration_sc... www.facebook.com/profile.php?... @migrationscholars.bsky.social

📌Return - a two-day workshop exploring the concept and practices of return 📅 Day 1: 17 October 2025, 5:30 pm, DLT, SOAS 📅 Day 2: 18 October 2025, 1:00–5:00 pm, SOAS Bar info and registration ➡️https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/return-workshop-idea-practice-and-contested-horizon

The asylum accommodation “ problem” is about how the state organises inequality. Hotels, barracks, flats – all are political battlegrounds where the wider inequalities in our society are exposed. www.soas.ac.uk/about/blogs/...

"The Nazis... imagined their targets would self-deport. Once the myth of self-deportation collapsed, they turned to more punitive measures. On Tuesday, Noem similarly noted the Everglades camp was meant to frighten immigrants into self-deporting. 'If you don’t,' she said, 'you may end up here.'"

Milano, hai bisogno del Leoncavallo effimera.org/in-difesa-de...

Aggressive publishers-driven marketing youtu.be/230--PLGo8o?...

0ut today! Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure is a carto-ethnography of the EU border machine told through the buildings that house it. @SOASDevelopment @soasdevtrac @SOAS_CMDS bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/buildings-of... a thread🧵

Dont miss Gilbert achcar's new book saqibooks.com/books/saqi/t...

Drone spotted above the Madleen is believed to be Israeli Heron drone, operated by Greek coast guard. EU / Frontex pioneered maritime surveillance for targeting migrants, with multi-billion dollar contracts going to Israeli manufacturers. Fortress Europe & Zionist genocide are reinforcing violences.

"The forum moves beyond documenting destruction to consider how infrastructure is both a tool of domination and a terrain of struggle. it highlights how Palestinians resist infrastructural warfare and how international solidarity movements can intervene in the systems that enable it." 👇👌

I have been #nicotine_sober for 44 days and approximately 8 hours and 40 minutes, after roughly 40 years of joyful and committed addiction. Amongst many other contrasting feelings, I feel really sorry for those #academic colleagues whose contributions I have had to #peerreview in this period.

out in one month ebook at £27.99 or 21quid if you subscribe to the @BrisUniPress mailing list. info and marketing to follow Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/buildings-of...

🚨 Disturbing footage shows the brutal arrest of a terrified 16-year-old girl—sobbing, screaming as “ICE agents” abducted her mom without a warrant or ID. At least 4 grown men slammed her face into the pavement. This is child abuse. This is state terror. Worcester police are complicit.

very much looking forward to this talk, which will allow me to set in conversation my book with the idea of 'refugee heritage' (anooradha iyer siddiqi, alessandro petti, emilio distretti, and others)

"emerging jurisprudence of resistance and poetry of liberation provide us with a basis for the kind of critical reflection and engagement we need, from below, in response to the onslaught that seeks to erode and nullify our rights, and the channels through which we express them" 👇

Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

New insights for the #bordermanagement and conflict lecture

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

The idea, the policies, and the practices associated with "return" are full of contradictions. Perhaps this is why "return" is such a fertile terrain of struggle migreurop.org/article3395....

...and that's a wrap! Thank you, MSc Migration Mobility and Development cohort of 2024/25!!! @soasdevelopment.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social @tilley101.bsky.social @andynewsham @feministonmarx.bsky.social @annalindley @irisilim @taniakaiser

first proofs sent back ✅ endorsements are trickling in (and I am delighted) ✅ notebookLM autogenerated podcast ... uhmm ok ☑️ ETA 18 June 2025 bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/buildings-of... @soasdevelopment.bsky.social

join us next week and the week after for some great talks We kick off with Wendy Pearlman

📣SOAS Event 27 Feb Book Launch: Between Nation and Community. Join us tomorrow as we discuss the political history of Muslim universities in post-independence India throughout the 20th century, with author Laurence Gautier. Register bit.ly/4kjNjxh

My new text, just posted today Please share widely!! spectrejournal.com/all-rights-f...

Wonderful book launch yesterday at SOAS CMDS! Download Hassan Ould Moctar'sopen access book, AFTER BORDER EXTERNALISATION: MIGRATION RACE AND LABOUR IN MAURITANIA, if you haven't done so already www.bloomsbury.com/uk/after-bor...

5 books to read this LGBTQ+ History Month 🌈 📚 The SOAS Library @soaslibrary.bsky.social presents a curated reading list featuring books that amplify queer voices, histories, and experiences from around the world. 📚 Read the blog: bit.ly/3Q3n4NI #LGBTQHistoryMonth #Pride

L'étape d'après buenosairesherald.com/human-rights...

When I read articles like this, I am reminded of Don Mitchell's Lie of the Land, where he says: the purpose of landscape is to make a scene appear unworked. Landscape is a social relation of labor, even as it is something that is labored over. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/b...

(Posted on X in December) What happens when borders externalization hits the ground? We address this question in a @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social SI, finallly in a Volume after a long gestation. Most papers out for a while (2years), but Intro and Epilogue are recent. Sneak peek of the papers 👇 1/

Now out in issue 30(1): Re-producing the Humanitarian Border by Paolo Novak @terminalias.bsky.social Download and read for free:

Join us for our second thematic seminar series of the year. Over the next few weeks, our speakers will offer insights on political activism, memories of violence, and the afterlives of revolutions 👇👇👇 @SOAS_CMDS

📢 Hassan Ould Moctar presents "After Border Externalization", exploring the EU's border & migration control in the GS, with a focus on Mauritania. Join the discussion, chaired by @terminalias.bsky.social 📍SOAS SALT & Zoom 📅 6 Feb at 5pm Register ➡️: shorturl.at/k6YO2 @naomihossain.bsky.social

Don’t stop talking about Palestine

Guaranteed growth for the border industrial complex as well See www.techpolicy.press/in-the-war-o... @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/6cfd...

“We acknowledge that we should have been clearer” comes the apology 45 days late “and that the use of the footage here was intended to illustrate the general disorder, and are happy to correct the record.” Unlike the Christ child We were not born yesterday.

Great bus stop!

I hardly remember how not so long ago (10 years? Even less) everything (lecture notes, essay/exam marks, memos, photocopies and offprints, whatever the paper equivalent of emails was called, etc.) was on paper!

Join us this Thursday for the latest instalment of our Homemaking in Fragile Environments seminar series Sanaa Alimia will discuss the precarious conditions faced by Afghans in Pakistan and their vulnerability to state-led violence. @soasCMDS