Congratulations! 🎉 @stephaniewanga.bsky.social @gianamar97.bsky.social

It should also be noted that a key "safe route" was suspended by the govt in September, causing untold distress to refugees in the UK, and placing their families overseas in often imaginable danger. Family reunion was already hugely restricted - now no refugee can access it.

Just one week to sign up for our last @ihr.bsky.social Migration & Mobility Seminar with Daniel Renshaw presenting on 'Catholic Refugees and Protestant Churches in Britain during the First World War'. 30th June online and in-person - sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Our next (last of the year!) @ihr.bsky.social Migration & Mobility Seminar will be Daniel Renshaw presenting on 'Catholic Refugees and Protestant Churches in Britain during the First World War'. 30th June online and in-person - sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

An absolute peach of a paper

Last chance to sign up for this fascinating paper!

So glad that Luqman Saeed - an academic at Ulster University - has written this piece about the Belfast riots. I hope I could write this clearly and perceptively were I under similar pressure right now. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

From a friend in Belfast.

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The next @ihr.bsky.social Migration & Mobility Seminar will be a fascinating paper by @conniethomas.bsky.social: Performing Citizenship: Public activism and the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts. 16 June, 5.30, online & in person - sign up here! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Bumping this seminar paper for American friends (but also British friends, as it's likely to be brilliant!)

The next @ihr.bsky.social Migration & Mobility Seminar will be a fascinating paper by @conniethomas.bsky.social: Performing Citizenship: Public activism and the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts. 16 June, 5.30, online & in person - sign up here! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Having been privileged to see this as a work in progress, I'm extremely excited to see it out. Some of the conversations around Calvin's Case have been deeply depressing. This is a corrective: a thoughtful & careful piece of work with much to say about citizenship & law & history

Today! There's still time to sign up online or in-person for this excellent seminar on refugees in Ancient Greece

Just one week to our (very exciting!) hybrid seminar on refugees in Ancient Greece - sign up here! tinyurl.com/zfwf799w

Really delighted that my article '‘Duplex and reciprocal’ obligation: Calvin’s Case (1608) and the development of early modern English citizenship' has been shortlisted for this prize! (Also thank you, I guess, to Donald Trump for making it super relevant): tinyurl.com/5235jvy6

Our next Migration and Mobility Seminar @ihr.bsky.social on 2nd June: Integrating ancient Greece in refugee history: inscriptions, (in)visibility and refugee agency with Benjamin Gray and James Hua. It's sure to be fascinating, and is in-person and hybrid - sign up here! tinyurl.com/zfwf799w

The second @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social x @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility showcase is approaching fast! We have another round of fascinating papers from brilliant young scholars - sign up here! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

These tragic deaths come just over a week after two people died in the Channel. Each death is a tragedy and completely avoidable. Our thoughts are with their loved ones and all who were on the boat. We urgently need safe routes. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Pls stop mangling 17thC English law (& legal practice) to support stripping citizenship. Allegiance conferred protection - access to (rightslike) liberties in the common law *and* prerogative protection. It was not merely subjection! There are articles about this, but never mind, I guess.

Call me a bizarre anthropomorphic rabbit, because I’ve got so many Easter Eggs in my 270th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy the hunt, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

A little thread on early modern immigration control. Feat. a 'commission for strangers' among other experiments... In 16thC and 17thC common law, subjects had access to both 'legal' protection and 'natural' protection by virtue of birth in the monarch's dominions ("in allegiance").

Really pleased to share my (open access!) article on immigration control in early modern England, feat. rights-bearing subjects, rightsless migrants, and experiments in immigration control

Very pleased to share my review of @endeeekay.bsky.social, Subha Mukherji and Rowan Williams' collection, Crossings, an attempt to reorient migration studies through the lens of migrant knowledge(s) & migrant forms: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RXI2X...

Our programme for summer seminars @ihr.bsky.social is up now! Featuring a v timely paper on American citizenship + immigration at the founding; ancient Greek refugeedom; gypsy and Roma mobility; & cross-confessional solidarity with refugees in early 20thC Britain tinyurl.com/3bxsdy32

Please do spread the word about the @srsrensoc.bsky.social Scholars of Colour MA Scholarship Awards -- two pots of £4,000 each, and an optional mentoring opportunity. I've very much enjoyed being a mentor to a fantastic scholar through this scheme!

Performative cruelty (again); refugee status is already temporary. Shortening it causes massive distress to refugees, many of whom have been waiting for leave for years. Given the HO already has a huge backlog, how will they resource reviews for every refugee at 30 months? tinyurl.com/ycx5ewty

V pleased (& scared) to be sharing some of my research at the Oxford Early Modern Britain seminar on how the legal status of "infidel" was deployed in early modern England in different ways to control Jewish migrants and enslaved Africans: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/e1f...

This looks like an amazing intervention into thinking about bordering (thinking particularly as someone who is banging the drum for bringing the law back into early modern migration history - which revolves around (legally enforced) internal borders)

The next @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar is on 3rd March - @conniethomas.bsky.social will be presenting 'Public activism and the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts' - of (huge) interest to those interested in migration, citizenship & US history. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/3s6yym7t

The next @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar is on 3rd March - @conniethomas.bsky.social will be presenting 'Public activism and the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts' - of (huge) interest to those interested in migration, citizenship & US history. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/3s6yym7t

It was a real pleasure and privilege for the @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar to host a showcase of postgrad students' work in migration history with @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social last night - some fascinating papers on academic mobility, gender, vikings and Irish "displaced patriots"

I am once again imploring people to not abuse Calvin's Case to argue against birthright citizenship in the US: it simply summarised a bunch of (contested) legal thinking. More important is that in 17thC legal practice, birthright subjecthood most certainly *was* a thing tinyurl.com/2rjyvwnb

Less than a week to sign up for our exciting showcase of new research directions in migration and mobility history, ft. Vikings, Germans in interwar Turkey, Cumann na mBan & female Indian scholars in England with @ihr.bsky.social @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social 3rd Feb, book here: tinyurl.com/3bxsdy32

Hello, I have a new book out in the spring with Picador and I would love it if you could help me spread the word. IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it. Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

Wonderful paper yesterday from Nadia Joseph @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar on mobility, Apartheid, exile, & the personal and political. Next up, an exciting showcase of new research on migration in partnership with @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social! 3rd Feb, book here: tinyurl.com/3bxsdy32

Thank you Sheffield (and my mum)!

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Really delighted to have Nadia Joseph at the first @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar of 2026 speaking on anti-apartheid activism and mobility. Sign up here! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

In addition to academic stuff about migration, I am Director of a small charity providing group therapies to torture survivors: vital work as the govt seeks to marginalise & isolate refugees. We have a match funding campaign this week, pls give if you can: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

From the government that first refused to allow unaccompanied children seeking asylum to access family reunion, then suspended *all* family reunion.

As the UK moves towards redefining what constitutes a refugee (in questionably legal ways), I want to highlight my piece looking at previous English experiments in refugee protection. There is a long (long) prehistory of exclusion - and if refugee resistance to this

"Palestinians experience the displacement of the 2020s genocide not as a singular event, but as part of a repeated cycle." Anne Irfan on the importance of writing Gaza's history.

Great paper at the @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar yesterday by Ben Braber on media depictions of migrants in 19th & 20thC British media. We'll be back in 2026 with...

Cannot wrap my head around the fact that Labour's new policies for refugees are both performatively cruel but also obviously nonsensical. People seeking asylum won't get financial support if they "can work" but the ban on asylum seekers' working won't be lifted? Meaningless and stupid "announcement"

To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists. Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.

Our next @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar will be on 25th November. We will be welcoming Ben Braber to present on depictions of immigrants in British media between 1841 and 2021 - sign up link here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

New post on refugeehistory.org: were there refugees in 16thC England? Answer: it's complicated - migrants and the state were in the process of negotiating a form of refugee protection, which helps us to complicate notions of Britain's "proud history of welcome": tinyurl.com/bdyevr4d

Great session of @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar - fantastic paper from Anne Irfan on the displacement-immobility nexus and Palestinian refugees - and some great questions in the Q&A afterwards

New post on refugeehistory.org: were there refugees in 16thC England? Answer: it's complicated - migrants and the state were in the process of negotiating a form of refugee protection, which helps us to complicate notions of Britain's "proud history of welcome": tinyurl.com/bdyevr4d