Kristen McCollum

🧑🏿‍💻 Are you writing about elections in Africa?
Africa No Filter has a guide for how not to perpetuate stereotypes:
buff.ly/GMgGRay

Genuinely interested in your opinion on this... what makes you say that about Crockett? My impression is she's incredibly sharp and always well-prepared in sessions.

They shot Renee Good in the face.
They kidnapped Liam Ramos.
They just executed a man on the street.

Unmask them. Prosecute them. No more secret police.

It's beginning to look like all of those guns Americans buy to keep government in check were only ever bought for school shootings.

Texas A&M sent this message to my students repeating a false claims that I declined to clarify the fact that my class address "race, gender, and sexuality." Here were my exact words:

"The topics of race, gender, and sexuality will be addressed throughout the course..."

Why involve the students?

Texas A&M decided to publicly cancel my Ethics class, and share a false statement that I declined to provide information, which made it impossible for [them ] to request an exemption. See for yourself, if this statement is true.

They are getting creative!

My hot take: the dichotomy of 'policy/program' and 'academics' separately is now antiquated. Many PhD researchers *in* UNHCR have an academic eye and policy influence. And this was the trend in humanitarian agencies before funding cuts bc it's the best way to do good evidence work in that sector.

Register to our upcoming seminar series, where speakers will explore the causes and consequences of the changing debate on immigration across Europe.

📌 Online & in person (Oxford)
⏰ Thursdays, 3:45–5:00 PM (GMT)
🌍 Free & open to all
🔗 zoom.us/meeting/regi...

“Hello, it's me, The Dean of Yale. I read your thesis, I think it could be a bestseller. Now you must decide between Yale and marrying the hometown barista guy.”

It's the highest of high art. If you're an academic you need to watch it ASAP.

1. Less skilled labor is abundant. 2. Skilled emigration is a brain drain. 3. Development substitutes for migration. 4. Migration substitutes for failing development, but doesn't cause development.

The International Monetary Fund asked me to review the literature on migration economics to draw lessons for low-income countries.

In a new @iza.org paper, I argue that policy for the 21st century must discard four outdated ideas.

www.iza.org/publications...

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How does cinema shape our understanding of migration?

Join me for the first @mpc-eui.bsky.social seminar of next year (in-person/online), where I will share ideas based on a global dataset of 410 documentaries, films, and television series on migration.

migrationpolicycentre.eu/events/?id=5...

Featuring research from @unhcr.org (panel organizers), @chriswblair.bsky.social, @isdcberlin.bsky.social, @wfp.org, and @iom.int .

- and special thanks to @norad.no and @bmz.de for making this year's Forum possible!

Did you miss this year's @wfp.org Global Impact Evaluation Forum? Here's my round-up of the evidence panel on #refugee and #IDP returns in an @odid-qeh.bsky.social blog:

www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/blog/look-re...

#MigrationResearch #EvidenceForImpACT

If in need see the division between chapters 17 and 18

Open access

book.declaredesign.org

Just donated! because Cornyn has been absolutely 🎤useless🎶 in this disaster of a year

🚨 #CallForPapers We invite submissions to the RFBerlin Migration Forum.
🗓️ Deadline: 2 Nov 2025.
Submit your work now and share with colleagues! #MigrationForum2026 app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79526...

Texas House approves redrawn maps sought by Trump ahead of 2026 elections Texas’ House of Representatives is approving a new map that creates up to five new, winnable congressional seats for the GOP.

The Texas legislature is morally bankrupt and blatantly corrupt. What an absolute farce. The whole place needs to be emptied out and reset.

apnews.com/article/texa...

🔥 Call for papers for EPSS 2026 in Belfast: migration, forced displacement, mobility, borders, asylum, diaspora, and other migration-related topics.

Excited to co-chair the Migration Politics section with @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social. Submit proposals by Nov 7!

#EPSS2026

My Democratic colleagues and I just left the state of Texas to break quorum and stop Trump’s redistricting power grab.

Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections right before our eyes. But first he’ll have to come through us.

It’s time to fight back.

Excited to share a report I worked on jointly with @wfp.org and the World Bank - a snapshot of #gender and #socialcohesion in eastern #DRC shortly before the most recent conflict escalation.

Featuring the first example of our innovative #socialnetwork data approach

www.wfp.org/publications....

Actual inequality and the inequality that people perceive can be wildly different, depending on people's social networks. This has big implications for public sentiment!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@mamunuru.bsky.social et al. document this in Karnataka, India.

Flashback: McCain tells supporter Obama is 'a decent... YouTube video by CNN

I sometimes go back to this one as well:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIje...

How can humanitarian orgs ⬆️ impact when funding is ⬇️? With 300m+ ppl in urgent need of aid, emerging evidence can pinpoint promising solutions & guide investments to help save lives. 📊 New Evidence Effect blog shows what works & where we have more to learn. buff.ly/DZQKREQ

I'm just a girl, standing in front of my fellow researchers, asking them to PUT THE CONTEXT of your study in the ABSTRACT of the paper <3

Migration and Mobility History The IHR Migration and Mobility seminar provides a space for historians and scholars from other disciplines to come together to discuss migration and mobility in history.

Really pleased and proud to announce a new @ihr.bsky.social seminar - Migration and Mobility History. We want to cover migration across time and space and speak with colleagues across disciplines. If you're interested in attending/presenting, get in touch: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

We’ve opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowships. We provide three years of funding for early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a significant piece of publishable research
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/post...

I have a new review article w/ Alessandra Voena on women's power in the household in LMICs (just submitted to JEL).

I've written ~6 review articles, and I think this is the best one. We make some useful conceptual points IMO. But you decide! Comments welcome!

seemajayachandran.com/womens_power...

What happens when humanitarian aid is cut or delayed? Humanitarian aid systems are under mounting pressure, with key donors like the US and UK cutting funding despite growing needs. New research in one of the world’s largest refugee camps shows that aid ...

🆕What happens when humanitarian aid is cut or delayed?

A 20% aid cut in one of the world's largest refugee camp didn’t just reduce what and how much refugees eat; it also triggered a cascade of effects across households and markets. voxdev.org/topic/instit...

with Vittorio Bruni and @wfp.org

And for the latest (and to meet scholars working) on #migrationresearch in Africa/LMICs, start with the round-up blog I did from this year's CSAE conference:

bsky.app/profile/kris...

Archive - Migration Literature Review of Lauren Policy Full archive of all the posts from Migration Literature Review of Lauren Policy.

Just spotted this 'living literature review' on migration by @lgilbert.co -- esp good for those interested in latest evidence on immigration to the US and Europe

www.laurenpolicy.com/s/migration-...