38 people in distress were rescued by a courageous merchant vessel captain who wants to bring them safely to Crete. The
Greek coastguard blackmails him by threatening to arrest the crew if they go to 🇬🇷 instead of unsafe Libya. We call for solidarity with the crew & all who uphold international law!
📆 Join us next week! *Supporting Survival and Resistance in an Era of Border Harms* 17 March, 1-4pm, Oxford
We'll bring together activists, practitioners, survivors & academics to collaboratively engage in knowledge sharing and toolkit building. Contact v.canning@lancaster.ac.uk to attend.
"What has changed is not the harm women face, but the interpretive strategies used to acknowledge – or deny – it." @catbriddick.bsky.social yesterday on #InternationalWomensDay ⤵️
The Ireland-Northern Ireland border is often described as ‘soft’, but it does not operate equally. For many, it is a contemporary site of racialised border violence. Read the new post by @lynseyblack.bsky.social and @niamhkeady-tabbal.bsky.social 👇
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Ten years after his detention, this author asks, “how committed can Canada be to human rights, if the people it detains are disproportionately Black men?”
Read the first of our two part series on structural racism in Canada's detention system 👇
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A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
This is an *excellent* opportunity for students interested in refugee/migration issues in political philosophy
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In 1938, the German Reich invalidated all German Jewish passports.
They must surrender them, after which their ID will mark them as a Jew.
In 2026, the state of Kansas invalidated all correct trans drivers licenses.
They must surrender them, after which their ID will mark them as trans.
🫰Why is Meloni crying? Because 🇮🇹 has to pay for its crimes: Palermo's court ruled that Sea-Watch will be compensated €76k for Italy's unjust blockade after Carola Rackete brought 53 survivors to Lampedusa in 2019. If she's mad, we’re doing it right: https://tinyurl.com/3yfmuy6f
At least 15 bodies have washed up on the shores of Calabria and Sicily in recent days. Fifteen people who tried to cross the Mediterranean. Fifteen lives that ended at Europe’s borders. And these are only the ones we see. www.corriere.it/cronache/26_...
"Too often there is a tendency to treat official national security assessments as solemn expressions of a neutral truth by the elected guardians of the people."
une amie me dit de contacter SINGA Lyon où il y aura sûrement des gens de la commu pour l'aider: singalyon.fr
Help réseau : ami afghan réfugié politique sur Lyon, cherche désespérément asap stage en SAP / RH sur la métropole. Double licence sciences politiques / mathématiques, master en relations internationales, niveau B2 proche C1 en français, anglais fluent. Méga smart et rigoureux. RT please.
🚨It’s publication day!🚨
My book OCCUPIED REFUGE is officially OUT today with Duke University Press. Available to order from all book shops!
Upcoming book launches in Glasgow, Oxford, Nairobi and—perhaps—a city near you!
Read the introduction for free online: www.dukeupress.edu/occupied-ref...
Caged Histories brings together over a decade of research on Greek immigration detention, shedding light on violence – and resistance – in these blind spots. On writing her book and making detention visible @andrianifili.bsky.social 📚⤵️
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This morning the High Court found that the government's decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was unlawful. Explanation and analysis from @finishedloading.bsky.social and me below.
This means that even if Palestine Action ad not won on Human Rights Act/ECHR grounds, Palestine Action would have won on another ground.
No doubt this will be missed by a lot of media reporting of this judgment, but even if HRA repealed etc, Palestine Action would have *still won*.
Will people on the move soon be branded as terrorists? A new decree escalates Italy's war on migration. Yesterday, Meloni's ultra-right government published a proposal, including measures to deny our vessels entry into 🇮🇹territorial waters for 1-6 months.🧵https://t.co/Eot8NjJQHs
It's appalling to treat men, women & children fleeing violence as threats to national security. It is cowardly to send people back to countries where they face persecution. This is not security, it is inhumanity. We will redouble our efforts to save those whose lives are at risk.
The Backstage of the Care Economy examines the migration of women from Eastern Europe to provide domestic and care work in Western Europe – revealing the dynamics of households fractured by mobility.
Read the book review 📚⤵️
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📣📆 Italy-based friends & colleagues! Our co-director @andrianifili.bsky.social will present her new book, Caged Histories, at the University of Bologna on 16 Feb. The book brings together 10 yrs of research on violence & resistance in Greek detention. More info ⬇️
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People fleeing war deserve safety, not forced deportations. Tell EU to reject the dangerous, inhumane law that would put people at risk: action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-01...
Karim is a young asylum seeker from Sudan. He is trapped in Libya living under constant threat of abduction, extortion, & arbitrary detention by armed groups. Karim has been diagnosed with diabetes and needs consistent care,medication,and safe access to food
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✍️ Are you conducting research, or have first-hand experience of border control? Want to share your perspective with the wider public? Write for us! We welcome contributions from practitioners, academics and people with lived experience.
More info & how to submit ➡️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
@peopleandplanet.bsky.social is looking for a treasurer to join our board as a non-student trustee.
We are seeking someone with a strategic grasp of Third Sector issues, and who is keen to support young people in achieving the aims of People & Planet.
Please share among your networks! More info:
Check out this fascinating method for studying immigration detention centres. More great work from @andrianifili.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social
Let the left rebuild starting from catbongos
The bodily remainder, therefore, is not simply trauma that is left over. Nor is it even gratuitous or ‘surplus’ violence. The remainder speaks to the generative aftermath of harm. Indeed, these new aches are shaped — and made legible — by the shadow of spectacle.
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Beautiful reflection on what remains after the spectacles of violence by immigration enforcement. How does activism and solidarity continue when the spotlight moves away?
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