The UNHCR archives in Geneva are at risk; reading room already closed - and there's a much broader 'humanitarian archive emergency' ongoing with aid budget cuts. www.aretenews.com/unhcr-refuge...

As aid funds shrink, archivists warn of risks to the humanitarian record

UNHCR's archives are a test case for humanitarians struggling to preserve institutional memory in an era of retrenchment.

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My latest article on the Algerian War, insurgent normativity, and international norms for armed conflict

International Organization@iojournal.bsky.social · 2w ago

Who gets to shape the global normative order? @boydvandijk.bsky.social draws on Algerian and Southern African archives to show how the FLN challenged it through South-South legal politics, establishing a model of insurgent legal activism that persists today. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My latest (future) article, "Authoritarian Borders? Turning Authoritarian International Law Inside-Out," forthcoming in the International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, is now available as a preprint as part of @mobileucph.bsky.social's Working Paper Series osf.io/preprints/so...

This year @durham.ac.uk I coached both our Jessup and @iccmoot.bsky.social moot court teams. Both performed well and I was delighted the ICC team received a prize at the world championships in The Hague for one of the best written submissions. More on the latter: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Durham ICC moot team wins award at world championships in The Hague - Durham University

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We're recruiting another Charles Wallace India Trust fellow to join us on our project "Confronting Climate Apartheid: Law, Economy, Culture" @durhamias.bsky.social in Jan-March 2027. Must have a PhD, work in humanities/social sciences, be a resident of India. Details: www.dur.ac.uk/research/ins...

New publication: my chapter in this volume, coauthored with Lina Venturas of Panteion University in Greece. The chapter focuses on geopolitical factors behind the expansion of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM) to focus on global refugees

When did today’s migration debates really begin?

The rise of repatriation: Global South refugees and forerunners of the International Organization for Migration in the long 1970s

Contemporary international migration debates have been marked by a confrontation between the requirements of refugee and asylum law, on the one hand, and accusations they are being abused, concerns...

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In new research, published in Third World Quarterly, Christopher Szabla, Assistant Professor in International Law at Durham University, traces the roots of contemporary migration debates to the “long 1970s.”, which was a key turning point in global migration governance.

Starting tomorrow!

Christopher Szabla@c-szabla.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Happening next week: "Interrogating Climate Apartheid," our @durhamias.bsky.social project conference examining the appropriateness, understanding, and interpretation of this controversial concept. Schedule / online participation registration link now out events.teams.microsoft.com/event/778e41...

The rise of repatriation: Global South refugees and forerunners of the International Organization for Migration in the long 1970s www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The rise of repatriation: Global South refugees and forerunners of the International Organization for Migration in the long 1970s

Contemporary international migration debates have been marked by a confrontation between the requirements of refugee and asylum law, on the one hand, and accusations they are being abused, concerns...

tandfonline.com

Happening next week: "Interrogating Climate Apartheid," our @durhamias.bsky.social project conference examining the appropriateness, understanding, and interpretation of this controversial concept. Schedule / online participation registration link now out events.teams.microsoft.com/event/778e41...

My latest article now out in @thirdworldq.bsky.social on the "rise of repatriation" through the lens of the IOM and predecessor orgs' increasing focus on refugees and the "long 1970s" as a formative period for current debates and practices in migration management www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The rise of repatriation: Global South refugees and forerunners of the International Organization for Migration in the long 1970s

Contemporary international migration debates have been marked by a confrontation between the requirements of refugee and asylum law, on the one hand, and accusations they are being abused, concerns...

tandfonline.com

Reminder: proposals for this conference are due at the end of this week

Christopher Szabla@c-szabla.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Call for Papers: Our project @durhamias.bsky.social is hosting a conference in March on the concept of "climate apartheid": what it means, its usefulness, its coherence, etc. Deadline is now 16 Jan.! Proposals from any discipline welcome. Details and submission form: docs.google.com/forms/d/13M6...

Call for Papers: Our project @durhamias.bsky.social is hosting a conference in March on the concept of "climate apartheid": what it means, its usefulness, its coherence, etc. Deadline is now 16 Jan.! Proposals from any discipline welcome. Details and submission form: docs.google.com/forms/d/13M6...

Submission Form: Interrogating Climate Apartheid

March 24-25, 2026 Institute for Advanced Study, Durham University Organisers Professor Andrew Baldwin (Geography, Durham University) Dr Simona Capisani (Philosophy, Durham University) Dr Christopher...

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