The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Now online! Hosted by the brilliant @intrrgnm.bsky.social collective interregnum.ghost.io/the-game-of-...

Tonight! Join @intrrgnm.bsky.social & a host of great speakers for the launch of the short comic book on my research with unaccompanied minors in Italy examining the borders of race & childhood. #unaccompaniedminors #hostileenvironment

Join us tomorrow at 7pm for the launch of The Game of Chance: Unaccompanied Minors in Italy and the Risk of ‘Going Back to Square One’ at May Day Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 1DH. interregnum.ghost.io/comic-book-l... #comicbook #booklaunch #comics #london #events #migrants #londonevents

28 days. That's how long many newly-recognised refugees now have to find a home, get a job, open a bank account - to build a whole new life. That means homelessness is inevitable for many people. Read about the slashing of the move on period here 👇 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Link to the paper I wrote w/ #AntonioMirizzi on our short research-based comic 'Il Gioco dell’Oca' (Snakes & Ladders). We discuss how the comic form offers the potential to contest binary logics, and instead draw out the complexities of young migrants' identities www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.3240/...

Israel’s global trade in 2024 consisted of $91.5bn in imports and $61.7bn in exports.

NEW: More than one hundred UK-based political academics have condemned Keir Starmer for “validating” the far-right with his immigration plans

The dystopia does not end. Libya—already frontline of Europe’s remote control migrant detention centres—now also being considered by US as destination for Palestinians of Gaza in the wake of genocide & ethnic cleansing by the Israeli state. The liberation of Africans & Palestinians is inseparable.

"Surveillance Humanitarianism": As Gaza Starves, U.S.-Israeli Plan Would Further Weaponize Food

Israel's "Crime of Apartheid": New Report by U.S. Professors as Palestinians Mark Nakba Day

The Hostile Office never stops. Everyone's talking about the new #Immigration White Paper, but what actually is it proposing? We unpack some of the key points, what this might mean for migrants and where the proposals just don't make any sense. Read more buff.ly/OgPTE5T

"Un luogo in cui abitare: le politiche abitative per minori/giovani adulti stranieri" seminario sui migranti minori senza famiglia organizzato da Istituzione G. F. Minguzzi e Centro Astalli minguzzi.cittametropolitana.bo.it/Archivio_Att...

Opening Monday! 'Asymmetric Visions' at #ZONAK by my colleagues at LIMINAL & Border Forensics focusing on aerial survelliance in the med, the exhibition shines a light on surveillance operations & technologies in the central Mediterranean zonaklife.it/evento/asymm...

15/04 presentazione del fumetto 'Il Gioco dell’Oca: Storie di crescita e migrazioni in un tiro di dadi' nell'ambito del progetto 'TUAS-Tutta un’altra storia' che vuole contribuire al superamento delle narrazioni divisive sulla migrazione. apurimac.it/progetti/ita...

in @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social A court allowed Shin Bet interrogation transcripts as evidence & rejected 46 out of 49 witnesses proposed by the defence, including UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, international humanitarian law experts & aid workers. www.middleeasteye.net/news/italian...

Gaza hospitals face 'unprecedented' medicine shortages, health ministry warns - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-hospitals-face-unprecedented-medicine-shortages-health-ministry

In trying to avoid losses at the local elections Labour is all but guaranteeing losses later on. Labour's cruel and inhumane anti-immigration policies don't combat Reform's narrative. It embeds it as "mainstream". 3/ #r4today westcountryvoices.co.uk/id-cards-and...

UN says 40,000 displaced in West Bank as Israel accused of readying annexation - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-displaced-west-bank-israel-readying-annexation

interesting some Labour MPs concerned 'the government could return to the “hostile environment” for irregular migrants fostered by Theresa May as home secretary' following govt's increase in immigration raids. hostile environment never really went away www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

❌ Say NO to the Bill. A new immigration Bill is working its way through Parliament. The second reading of the new Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (a.k.a the Border Security Bill) is on Monday 10th February and we're asking MPs to vote against it. #SayNoToTheBill #RefugeesWelcome

"Se il mondo è narrazione, cambiare narrazione può cambiare il mondo?" ... Il nuovo numero di #AnimazioneSociale- include anche il fumetto basato sulla mia ricerca di dottorato e postdoc (finanziato dalla The Leverhulme Trust) 'Il Gioco dell'Oca' realizzato con #AntonioMirizzi e #ChiaraSuanno

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The role of AI is rapidly expanding in migration technologies but who controls it - the State or technology providers? Albert Sanchez-Graells questions the security of current regulation in his blog on privatised border regulation, AI, MigTech and public procurement 👉👉 bit.ly/42nfSnc

While a wildfire rages along the US-Mexico border, military transports—including C-130s and Ospreys—are landing near Otay Mesa, not to fight fires but to stage a show of force on the border for the Trump admin ADS-B data shows the collision of crisis response and border theatre

The events not to be missed in Bologna during Arte Fiera 2025 https://www.internimagazine.com/agenda/fairs/gli-appuntamenti-da-non-perdere-bologna-arte-fiera-2025/ From 7 to 9 February, Bologna will host the 2025 edition of Arte Fiera: the last one led by artistic director Simone …#architecture

Save the date! Event in London 4-7 Feb organised by #LIMINAL. Taking place over three days and across multiple locations, Lexicon II brings together scholars, artists, writers and activists to unpack two interrelated terms: "hostility" and "infrastructures of care”.

This is a gigantic story that almost nobody seems to be talking about. The chaos in incoming travel to Britain is scheduled to begin TODAY, 8 January 2025. www.ceotodaymagazine.com/2025/01/uk-i...

Sociology in the Times of Genocide: call for expressions of interest for a forthcoming Special Section of The Sociological Review journal. Editors: @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social and Karis Campion. Submission deadline is 13 January. buff.ly/4izyRjO Keffiyeh artwork: buff.ly/41uSBir

There is nothing new under the sun with anti-asylum policies. That Blair looked at offshoring is well-documented. We've had decades of pointless, inhumane, policies, and current government is carrying on the pattern, when it could be shifting course. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

the Special Issue of the journal Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa, "Understanding comics-based ethnographies and ethno-graphic novels in qualitative research", on the use of comics in ethnographic research, is finally out! www.rivisteweb.it/issn/1973-31...

Delighted to be part of this #TSRWaste issue, packed with fascinating articles on waste, including Françoise Vergès in conversation with @asiyaislam.bsky.social on how colonisation and racial capitalism are based on wasting thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/dec...

So much unnecessary harm & UK government states that arrangementhave been made to ensure no "backdoor migration route" is created, citing a deal to send future arrivals to St Helena - another UK territory some 5,000 miles away.

I have updated the interactive dashboard of #asylum #migration statistics with the Eurostat data for 2023. anonyms.shinyapps.io/asylum/ You can use the dashboard to explore trends in asylum applications, decisions and recognition rates across the EU 🇪🇺 since 2011.

Excellent in Race & Class - Rachel Rosen & S. Khan set out "not only to make an intellectual intervention by demonstrating how age is made, racialised and weaponised in the service of a violent border regime" but also call for the abolition of age assessment. Absolutely agree

Your helpful reminder that not only may offshoring and outsourcing deals be found to be unlawful, they're also hugely costs, impractical, and counterproductive (they can actually increase undocumented population and exploitation). They are not something to emulate www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Join next Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment webinar on Monday, 25 November 2024, 17:30-19:00 No child is illegal! Education and the hostile environment with Louise Ryan, María López and Alessia Dalceggio, @jenpersson.com, Deborah Gwynn. ssahe.net/2024/11/20/n...

A short blog summarising some of my work on young African migrants who sought asylum in Italy and the transition to adulthood: ‘Youth migration and the border of childhood’,- part of the Childhood, Law and Policy Network @clpn.bsky.social blog series. www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-vi...

How many of these do we have?