Do not miss this interview with @kamrank.bsky.social on the linguistic angle of the politics of citizenship and belonging. newbooksnetwork.com/radio-reorie...

Just wanted to give a shout to @marinegueguin.bsky.social @kamrank.bsky.social , and @carlgibson.bsky.social for the great conversation we had on 'Rethinking the Pedagogies and Politics of “Terrorism”' at @leedsbeckett.bsky.social ! I had a great time and 1st visit to Leeds!

What is actually happening when a state racially profiles someone for the way they use language (e.g. saying salaam alaykum)? 🤔 To find out, Claudia and I spoke to linguist @kamrank.bsky.social for this new episode of Radio ReOrient from @reorient.bsky.social and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social 🎙️🌙

🎉Yesterday @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social held their annual conference! 👏Many thanks to the amazing convenors; @amnakaleem.bsky.social , Alice Finden and @rmkhan.bsky.social for all of their hard work! ⭐️The #virtual conference was extremely successful in its critical engagement of terrorism studies.

Just in case you are not yet bored of articles by me coming out this summer, here is a new one out today on ‘Theorising Historiographical Islamophobia’ which has basically been my intellectual project of the last half decade! 🤓 It’s open access here: www.scienceopen.com/document_fil...

Are you from a high income country? Do you live abroad? Ever thought about taking up a new citizenship? Then, check out my new paper with Floris Peters (Utrecht) doi.org/10.1002/psp.... @migcitpol.bsky.social @migcitizenapsa.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social

New to BlueSky and interested in #citizenship? Here’s a Starter Pack with some folks working in the field of citizenship studies, or on related issues #migcitsky There’s still space to add people to the list! go.bsky.app/5vLDGon

Trying out Bluesky again. Who’s around?

I wrote about my own complicated, expensive immigration visa application for Vox in 2019, and I still hear from people about how it is one of the very few in-depth articles about the immigration process not written by a law firm: www.vox.com/the-goods/20...

The War on Terror, esp under Bush & Obama, was an effort at creating ungoverned spaces where killing specific kinds of proposed subhumans (eg Arabs) didn’t trigger rule of law or human rights concerns. MAGA is simply expanding these spaces stateside to a new proposed subhuman: “the brown immigrant”

I really can’t describe how much generous you are my supporters, you are the most generous people in the world, we are the most close we are 99% 🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂 gofund.me/a625d5ba

it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

"I have a colleague...his fingers were crushed... They showed him a picture of his wife & said 'we're going to gang rape her in front of you if you don't admit you're Hamas.'" Dr Mark Perlmutter, in Gaza, on what Israel is doing to Palestinian doctors. My full interview: zeteo.com/p/us-embassy...

Consider this. 6 people in plainclothes approach you, and begin to cover their faces. At least one appears armed. As they grab your phone and backpack, they do not prove who they are. They say they're going to take you, but they're not saying why. What would you call that?

www.channel4.com/programmes/n... don't miss watching this very important and beautiful Oscar winning documentary @jvp.bsky.social @pscupdates.bsky.social #peaceinpalestine #stopgazagenocide

Grateful to Cambridge University for putting together such an abysmal legal case full of so many omissions that the Judge quite properly and firmly dismissed their application for a long term injunction on Israel-Palestine protests www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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Confused about birthright citizenship? Have you heard of jus sanguinis v jus soli, but no clear idea what these terms mean? Why do countries apply different rules? Why does this matter? Check out the profiles of these brilliant citizenship scholars ✨ (and happy to add more) go.bsky.app/5vLDGon

In case you missed it: Home Secretary’s decision on national security is sufficient to revoke refugee status | Keelin McCarthy

One of the biggest achievements of the attack on “wokeness” (a piece of purely far-right framing) was that it made a lot of people have contempt for the demographics who were giving the earliest warnings of what Musk was up to. It’s hard to listen to those who you don’t consider to be fully human.

The weaponisation of free speech by reactionaries has been incredibly successful and core to the mainstreaming of their ideas It's shocking so many fell for the idea that power doesn't matter when it comes to it It should be obvious that free speech without equal access to it is undemocratic

The whole citizenship deprivation process seems increasingly chaotic and driven by political expediency and grandstanding without regard to basic considerations of fairness and justice. Good piece by @sonial77.bsky.social

Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik

The DOJ argued in court that Indigenous people don't have birthright citizenship, even though they have for 100 years via @diinsilversmith.bsky.social

this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

Hello all and happy new year to you! We are pleased to announce this years plenary speakers for BAAL 2025. They are as follows: Professor Angel Lin Dr Kamran Khan Dr Lucy Jones Dr Spencer Hazel We will also be launching the BAAL 2025 website in the coming weeks so stay tuned for more information.

Thank God. Ceasefire seems to be moving forward. But also a reminder that ceasefire is not enough. We deserve more than just an end to slaughter.

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says nearly all of Gaza’s 1.1 million children need mental health and psychosocial support amid the ongoing Israeli bombardment, displacement and dire living conditions. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/0f9als

Finally fully published after 3 years and things have only got worse The argument I put forward is that 'the immigration issue' is one that is created in a top down manner to divert attention from real crises and the radical change needed to address them journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

At Literary Hub, @julie-phillips.com writes about Ursula's activism, and her essay "The Election, Lao Tzu, a Cup of Water."

Conservative peer Nigel Biggar asked why Black people should feel aggrieved about racism, when he had no complaints about discrimination against his Presbyterian ancestors. Right wing historical false equivalences arise from a fundamental refusal to listen: alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-rig...

"The debate on European Muslims – and not just among far-right politicians – has taken on even darker undertones. "The accusations of Muslims being permanent outsiders are a new version of what was once said about Europe’s Jews." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hoping for a year of less genocide

Happy Birthday to all our elders who designated today as their birthday

Indeed. www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/the-...

‘They thought they were going to die’: the asylum seekers who survived rioters trying to burn down their accommodation

"Migrants" does the work of general dehumanisation in headlines like this (in place of "three people" or just "three"), and specifically implies the people in question are not refugees and so "undeserving" (99% of small boat arrivals apply for asylum, most successfully) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

To what extent is hoarding a direct consequence of displacement? @aminiarchives.bsky.social speaks to immigrant families and clutter experts to find out. Illustration by Dania K hyphenonline.com/2024/12/23/h...

“There is no reason to believe that any nonstandard vernacular is in itself an obstacle to learning. The chief problem is ignorance of language on the part of all concerned. Our job as linguists is to remedy this ignorance.”-Labov, in 1972. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...

Multiple Palestinian babies have died from extreme cold in Gaza, as thousands forcibly displaced by Israel’s war endure harsh winter conditions in flimsy tents. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: https://aje.io/7zkxmc

Merry Christmas to everyone except the guy who organised a deportation flight to Brazil on Christmas Day.

At some point liberals are going to start saying, okay there was a genocide but it’s really the fault of the left for how annoying they were about pointing it out

Cowardly for Cooper kick this to touch. At very least should could have pegged it at the previous £18.6K until MAC report back. Such separation engages the ordinary person's sense of deep injustice. Insult literally added to injury when HO tells people they can maintain relationships over Skype

A few words from me on higher education under Trump @AJEnglish #AJOpinion.

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...

“By refusing to accept the designations of genocide & ethnic cleansing, […]Israel’s allies force an adaptation on to the world after which it simply becomes accepted that rights are not bestowed by humanity, but by the parties who decide who is human” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Assimilationist is *always* somewhat racist because it requires the erasure of cultural distinctions. Here's an under-cited article that lays it out very well: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

If you are working in UK HE, consider donating to Brismes - the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, fundraiser to support Gazan universities & students: gofundme.com/f/the-brisme...