I learned a lot and met many fantastic people. I was especially happy that my fellow Human Trafficking Research Network Steering Group colleagues Dr @dayoakin.bsky.social and Dr Maria Turda were also invited to speak.

🚨 Unseen and Unprotected: Modern Slavery in the Shadow of Migration 📍 University of Cambridge | 🗓 9 Feb 2026 A one-day event on migration, human trafficking & exploitation, with a focus on women and children. 👉 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unseen-and...

Looking forward to speaking at this interesting event alongside my fellow Human Trafficking Research Network Steering Group members Dr Maria Turda and @dayoakin.bsky.social and lots of other fantastic contributors! Thank you for the invitation!

Freedom did not equal restoration. #TransatlanticSlaveTrade

The Human Trafficking Research Network is inviting abstracts for its 2026 conference on the theme of “Reframing Trafficking - Knowledge, Policy, and Practice at a Crossroads”. Date: 18 and 19 June 2026 Location: Northumbria University, Newcastle (UK) Abstract deadline: 20 February 2026

One thing that annoys and depresses me is how utterly unimaginative, uncreative, trite, predictable, uninspiring, unproductive, self destructive, unclever, uninsightful, unoriginal, stagnated, pedestrian, antediluvian and uncivilized racism and racists are.

This is grim - inc making volunteering a requirement when people are working long hours and facing high childcare costs, exacerbated by visas limiting labour mobility and no recourse to public funds, and penalising claiming benefits for those who have that option www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

White supremacy is not a “legitimate view.” Vilifying migrants is not “reasonable debate.” Eugenics is not a “controversial belief.” Genocide is not a “justified action.” These are all examples of violent racism. We should recognise this basic fact and reject such politics unapologetically.

"...among its myriad functions, jurisdiction also operates as powerful racial technology."

Thank you to everyone who attended the 2025 LSA Annual Meeting! We are sad to see the meeting come to a close…but we look forward to seeing everyone in San Francisco next year! #LSACHICAGO2025 #GlobalCommunity #LawAndSociety

More MLS staff updates from the annual #LSA conference in Chicago, including presentations by 1) Dr Rossella Pulvirenti: 'Prosecuting Witnesses' Suspicious Deaths at the ICC' 2) Dr Kay Lalor: 'Prefigurative Legalities and Transnational LGBTQI+ Rights [...]'

At the annual #Law&Society conference in Chicago, MLS staff member @senthorun.bsky.social launched the Queer Judgment book, contributing to important discussions on law and justice! Pictured here with a number of colleagues, including MLS staff member Dr Kay Lalor. #LSAChicago2025

Fascinating presentation by Dr Adedayo Akingbade (MLS) titled 'Trapped in the Migration Lens: The Misguided Approach to the Protection of Victims of Human Trafficking' at the annual #Law&Society conference in Chicago. #LSAChicago2025 #anti-trafficking&coloniality

I think if you keep telling people that they are rubbish, being strangers is the best you can hope for...

Infamy persists because of a lack of bravery.

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:

This essay contains thoughts that led to a chapter I wrote, “Educating for the End of a Necropolitical World" (link in essay). My question remains: does and can the work we do open up possibilities for living differently in the world? Or is it all more of the same? folukeafrica.com/law-necropol...