Nat Brinham
@natbrinham.bsky.social
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Researcher at University of Bristol working on ID systems, statelessness, genocide.
This is my new article about how
#Rohingya
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#Kurdish
and
#Palestinian
people resist citizenship violence. It urges policy makers and all of us who do anti-statelessness work to be more responsive to people on the ground.
statelessnessandcitizenshipreview.com/index.php/jo...
about 1 month ago
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Our article for 8th anniversary of Rohingya genocide
trt.global/world/articl...
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TRT Global - Myanmar to Gaza: Impotence of courts in preventing genocides and punishing perpetrators
Eight years after Myanmar’s army launched a violent campaign to erase the Rohingya, the global community has done little to bring the perpetrators to book.
https://trt.global/world/article/987955b79e14
about 1 month ago
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Here's my new piece for Forsea It's about violent IDing and the "interoperability" of the infrastructures of genocide.
forsea.co/digitising-s...
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Digitising Statelessness and Genocide in Palestine and Myanmar - FORSEA
The genocides in Palestine and Myanmar have been facilitated by decades of systematic bureaucratic violence and the misuse of state identification systems, linked to mass atrocities.
https://forsea.co/digitising-statelessness-and-genocide-in-palestine-and-myanmar/
about 2 months ago
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Birds of a feather flock together
www.biometricupdate.com/202507/india...
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India pledges support for Myanmar digital ID pilot | Biometric Update
Myanmar and India have formalized their partnership on the pilot phase of Myanmar’s Digital Identity Programme with a Memorandum of Understanding.
https://www.biometricupdate.com/202507/india-pledges-support-for-myanmar-digital-id-pilot
about 2 months ago
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#Statelessness
and
#Genocide
My new brief on Transcend for IAGS "As the quest for a legal identity for all gathers momentum, Rohingya accounts provide a compelling case for integrating genocide sensitivity measures into plans for updating ID systems."
www.transcend.org/tms/2025/07/...
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Statelessness and Genocide
June 2025 - Oral histories of Rohingya genocide survivors highlight how Myanmar’s misuses of state ID systems have enabled the social, political, and physical destruction of their group. ...
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2025/07/statelessness-and-genocide/
about 2 months ago
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Lammy's bloody hypocracy. “There’s nothing clickbait about genocide. He has Palestinian blood on his hands.”
truthout.org/articles/gro...
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https://www.facebook.com/share/1EegMVHbEZ/
4 months ago
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Nat Brinham
Bronwen Manby
5 months ago
@globalvoices.org
on Nicaragua's weaponisation of citizenship law and identity documents to silence dissent and create
#statelessness
globalvoices.org/2025/04/17/n...
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Nicaragua's stateless people seek justice
Nicaragua continues to strip citizens of their citizenship, whether officially or in silence. Nicaraguan exiles are exploring legal avenues to stop this repressive strategy.
https://globalvoices.org/2025/04/17/nicaraguas-stateless-people-seek-justice/
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This is what needs to be said. My academic sibling says it with kindness and compassion.
www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanmars-...
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Myanmar’s resistance faces a moral quandary after the quake
The swift delivery of aid to survivors of the recent earthquake must take precedence over transient political gains in a long-running conflict.
https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanmars-resistance-faces-a-moral-quandary-after-the-quake/
6 months ago
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Nat Brinham
Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees
6 months ago
Just published a new
#BookReview
! Yuriko Cowper-Smith from reviewed "Citizenship and Genocide Cards: IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar" by
@natbrinham.bsky.social
. Read the
#OpenAccess
review here:
refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/re...
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Nat Brinham
Migration Mobilities Bristol
6 months ago
‘Digitising the US-Mexico border with(out) the CBP One app' - Martin Rogard writes in the MMB blog about US how border digitisation is expanding the state's reach beyond pre-existing democratic and legal means 👉👉
bit.ly/4i5m3An
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"The foundations of military-backed reform in Myanmar were built on fault lines that cracked and crumbled amid the 2021 coup. The military’s exploitation of the 2025 earthquake will, I fear, result in similar ends."
theconversation.com/myanmar-mili...
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Myanmar military’s ‘ceasefire’ follows a pattern of ruling generals exploiting disasters to shore up control
Thousands were killed in 7.7 magnitude earthquake. Yet military generals were slow to agree to pause in civil war fighting, and continued airstrikes.
https://theconversation.com/myanmar-militarys-ceasefire-follows-a-pattern-of-ruling-generals-exploiting-disasters-to-shore-up-control-253577
6 months ago
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Judith Beyer
6 months ago
www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...
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German Proposal to Strip Citizenship Endangers Human Rights
A leaked paper reveals that Germany’s conservative political parties want to add a clause to Germany’s Nationality Law to allow the country to revoke German nationality from dual nationals if they are...
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/04/03/german-proposal-strip-citizenship-endangers-human-rights
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Migration Mobilities Bristol
6 months ago
Come along to this public lecture by MMB Director Bridget Anderson on the banality of citizenship - nationalism, labour and mobility controls - on 1 May. Part of the Migrants and Solidarities research project
@tcru-ucl.bsky.social
and
@sriucl.bsky.social
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The Banality of Citizenship: Nationalism, labour and mobility controls
Join us for this lecture by Professor Bridget Anderson on how recognising the banality of citizenship can help reframe debates on migration.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-banality-of-citizenship-nationalism-labour-and-mobility-controls-tickets-1301059145929?aff=oddtdtcreator
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‘Inch by inch’: Myanmar rebels close in on key military base in Chin State
Under heavy Myanmar air force attacks, Chin rebels pay heavy price for success of ‘Mission Jerusalem’.
https://aje.io/wd1faj
7 months ago
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wiser.wits.ac.za/content/citi...
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Citizenship and Genocide Cards : IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar | Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research
https://wiser.wits.ac.za/content/citizenship-and-genocide-cards-ids-statelessness-and-rohingya-resistance-myanmar-14352
7 months ago
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Nat Brinham
Migration Mobilities Bristol
7 months ago
Do join us to launch our new edited volume, 'Rethinking Migration: Challenging Borders, Citizenship & Race' on 25th March! Bridget Anderson will be joined by guest Maya Goodfellow and the book's contributors to discuss our approach to migration and mobility studies. Sign up here 👉
bit.ly/3Xralss
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Book Launch 'Rethinking Migration: Challenging Borders, Citizenship & Race'
Join us for a discussion of MMB's new edited collection, which presents a new, interdisciplinary approach to migration and mobilities.
https://bit.ly/3Xralss
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Nat Brinham
Border Criminologies
7 months ago
In this week’s Book Review 📚💡,
@veronicasoon.bsky.social
reviews Citizenship and Genocide Cards: IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar by Nat
alie Brinham: buff.ly/41plUTh
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A generous review of my book.
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Book Review: Citizenship and Genocide Cards: IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar by Natalie Brinham
https://blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-criminologies-blog/blog-post/2025/02/book-review-citizenship-and-genocide-cards-ids
7 months ago
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Nat Brinham
AmnestyRedhill
8 months ago
We are on a mission to democratise digital forensic knowledge and enhance technical capacity among human rights defender communities across the world. Join us! Visit
securitylab.amnesty.org
for more information.
#security
#digital
#students
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCIy...
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Digital Forensics Training Programme for Human Rights Defenders
YouTube video by Amnesty International
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCIy2Jbyp78
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theweeklylist.org/weekly-list/...
List of the subtle (and not so subtle) shifts in norms in authoritarian contexts - the United States.
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Week 12 — The Return
If reading this week’s list feels frenetic, that is because it is capturing the mood of the country. The return of Trump marks the return of his chaos and dysfunction, as if America is living in some ...
https://theweeklylist.org/weekly-list/week-12-the-return/
8 months ago
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Rest in power Tapan. Your struggle lives in on in all of us
forsea.co/tapan-bose-a...
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Tapan Bose, A renowned documentary filmmaker, rights and peace activist, writer and public intellectual: A Tribute - FORSEA
Tapan was such a grounded and down-to-earth person. He had mentored younger generations of activists and rights defenders across South Asia
https://forsea.co/tapan-bose-a-tribute/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIJpj9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHcjleiZmosNb4XhXxIpKFGmrZUeTwLJdmuQjQdJeNToqhQeKDq0t7f551g_aem_z-ntdaoe51QrGQmfKzImdg
8 months ago
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Nat Brinham
Milk Tea Alliance Calendar
9 months ago
Well another week is upon us
#MilkTeaAlliance
& here is the events thread for the week. B4 we begin, want to add our voice to Sri Lankan civil society groups & activists who are demanding that the gov't doesn't deport 100 Rohingya Refugees back to Myanmar! 1/
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Sri Lankans rally to stop deportation of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan civil society groups and activists are mobilizing to save more than 100 Rohingya refugees rescued off the Indian Ocean island nation last month following a government announcement ...
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2586138/world
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Zarni Soe
9 months ago
Junta air strikes on a densely populated fishing village in Rakhine's Ramree township kill at least 41 civilians & injure 50, most of them
#Rohingya
, say rescue workers. “I think they targeted crowded civilian areas,” an emergency responder said.
#Myanmar
.
myanmar-now.org/en/news/junt...
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Junta airstrikes kill 41, injure 50 in Rakhine State’s Ramree Township
Emergency responders say the junta deliberately targeted a displaced community from the air
https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/junta-airstrikes-kill-41-injure-50-in-rakhine-states-ramree-township/
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Nat Brinham
Burma Action Ireland
9 months ago
New report by Blood Money Campaign 'Close the Sky: The dire consequences of inaction on aviation fuel in Myanmar' highlights devastating impacts of airstrikes on civilians in
#Burma
& intl. govts' inaction on aviation fuel sanctions. 👇
drive.google.com/file/d/1XXkM...
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Nightmare Passage: new report exposes terrifying smuggling ordeals of Rohingya women A new report by community researchers exposes the terrifying ordeals suffered by Rohingya women at the hands of abusive smuggling gangs when seeking escape.
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https://kaladanpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/NightmarePassageInside-final-01.pdf
9 months ago
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Nay San Lwin
9 months ago
BREAKING: Hundreds of Rohingya houses in Ward 4, Buthidaung Township, have been burnt to the ground by the Arakan Army (AA). The incident began around 2 PM. As you know, the AA has been in complete control of the town since mid-May this year.
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Migration Mobilities Bristol
9 months ago
Why is it important to research migration and citizenship? MMB Director Bridget Anderson and MMB colleagues from Law, Arts, Social Sciences and Education give voice to Bristol's creative, conceptual and critical approach to studying migration. Learn more about it here 👉
bristol.ac.uk/campaigns/mi...
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Nat Brinham
10 months ago
#Syrian
Refugee Ban: The Latest UK Foreign Policy Evil - FORSEA
forsea.co/syrian-refug...
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Reading for coming months...am I missing anything significant on the same theme?
10 months ago
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Migration Mobilities Bristol
10 months ago
Does the 'legal identities for all' agenda always do more good than harm? Natalie Brinham, author of 'Citizenship and Genocide Cards', explores the downside of this agenda in anti-trafficking work when it serves to legitimise state borders and shift focus away from state policies 👉
bit.ly/4hZbgsR
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The darker side of promoting legal identities for all in anti-trafficking work – Migration Mobilities Bristol
https://bit.ly/4hZbgsR
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Nat Brinham
Forced Migration Review
about 1 year ago
Informed litigation is vital to uphold the rights of
#migrants
subject to automated decision-making. The 'NewTech Litigation Database' is a tool for anyone seeking to contest the use of automated systems in
#migration
&
#asylum
processes. See:
www.fmreview.org/digital-disruption/palmiotto-ozkul/
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Contesting automation: the NewTech Litigation Database - Forced Migration Review
Informed litigation is vital to uphold the rights of migrants subject to automated decision-making. This article introduces the NewTech Litigation Database, a tool for anyone seeking to contest the us...
https://www.fmreview.org/digital-disruption/palmiotto-ozkul/
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HIDDEN publication - HIDDEN Cost Action
New HIDDEN publication
https://hidden-costaction.eu/hidden-publication-2/
10 months ago
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Nat Brinham
Zia Hero
10 months ago
Surviving Genocide:
#Rohingya
Refugee woman, Khaleda's Journey from
#Myanmar
to Refugee Camp in
#Bangladesh
.
#Refugees
#RohingyaCrisis
www.rohingyatographer.org/post/survivi...
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Surviving Genocide: Khaleda's Journey from Arakan to Refuge in Bangladesh
Word by Khaleda Lobid Khaleda Lobid was only eight years old when she fled to Bangladesh with her family. "The memories are still sharp, as if it happened yesterday—losing everything in a single hour....
https://www.rohingyatographer.org/post/surviving-genocide-khaleda-s-journey-from-arakan-to-refuge-in-bangladesh
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Bronwen Manby
11 months ago
Come to the official launch on 4 December of a new guide on litigating the right to a nationality &
#statelessness
- jointly published by UNHCR & OSJI, and written by me. In person (London) and online. Sign up here:
commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/events/launc...
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Launch: Litigating the right to a nationality – a guide for practitioners
https://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/events/launch-litigating-right-a-nationality-a-guide-practitioners
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