Cathy Conrad Suso
@cathyconrad.bsky.social
Borders and Migration Geography Professor Mom 🇨🇦🇬🇲
As we fight against Trump's murderous "mass deportation" agenda, it is crucial to acknowledge how ever-harsher immigration controls cut across the left-right political spectrum. Anti-migrant politics is part of the structure of nation-states. We need a politics of border abolition.
EU negotiators agree new migrant return law
Change would allow countries to send people who’ve been ordered to leave EU territory to “return hubs” outside the bloc.
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About to dive in to Omar El Akkad’s new book: hoping it gives me hope and not nightmares.
The final solution for AI in academia is a scenario where students are submitting AI-generated homework to be graded by AI-generated faculty using AI agents, all of which is being overseen by highly paid administrators who are extracting money from the students in exchange for a degree. The end.
“The grand political struggle in the twenty-first century is between antiracist democracy and racist dictatorship” - @ibramxk.bsky.social “Chain of Ideas” 2026, p. 496
The EU funds this. Now they’re shooting at their own citizens in international waters.
Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 3mo agoMigrants ‘feared for their lives’ as Libyan gunmen fired on rescue ship https://aje.news/et7hkm
Join! Austin Kocher and Amelia Frank-Vitale talk about her book, *Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds* She tells "stories of deported young men in Honduras whose lives...reflect the broader symptoms of disinvestment, violence, and simplistic enforcement schemes."
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: "Leave If You Can": A Live Conversation with Amelia Frank-Vitale on Her New Book about Life in Honduras After Deportation. After registering, you will recei...
Amelia Frank-Vitale's new book, Leave If You Can: Migration and Violence in Bordered Worlds, challenges one of the most persistent myths in U.S. immigration policy: that deportation works. Drawing on ...
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I know some of the actors in this show… academeblog.org/2026/05/14/t...
The Hidden Costs of Productivity Theater in Higher Education
BY MICHAEL LaGIER Lights, camera, action. In more and more workplaces, leaders unintentionally reward visible busyness over meaningful results, a dynamic often called productivity theater, a term p…
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How international students became cash cows for Canadian universities by @cathyconrad.bsky.social
How international students became cash cows for Canadian universities - Halifax Examiner
By the 1990s, provincial cutbacks to post-secondary education drove institutions to develop active international student recruitment strategies to cover operating costs.
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How international students became cash cows for Canadian universities by @cathyconrad.bsky.social
How international students became cash cows for Canadian universities - Halifax Examiner
By the 1990s, provincial cutbacks to post-secondary education drove institutions to develop active international student recruitment strategies to cover operating costs.
halifaxexaminer.ca
In several provinces, international students have access to public healthcare at no additional cost. In BC, however, they have to pay. And those fees have amounted to more than $400 million since 2020. pressprogress.ca/internationa...
Here’s How Much International Students Have Been Paying for BC Healthcare
Despite federal study-permit caps, the contributions have continued to grow
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The science answer the premier has already paid for Commentary by Jonathan Langdon
The science answer the premier has already paid for - Halifax Examiner
Independence is the cornerstone of reliable research we can trust, and the way the Dalhousie University fracking project is designed shows it is controlled by Houston and his government.
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The Halifax Examiner needs your money Morning File by me
The Halifax Examiner needs your money - Halifax Examiner
Subscriptions are the lifeblood of this operation.
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Over a decade ago my students bought this Gambian bus sticker, brought it back to campus and put it on my door. It’s not obnoxious or unprofessional at all 😗. Yet there it remains, with not a peep from anyone and with silent chagrin from some I’m sure.
Reading @ibramxk.bsky.social newest book and am learning so much, as I always do when reading his work. A very important read…
Ibram X. Kendi@ibramxk.bsky.social · 5mo agoToday, as my newest book is released, nearly three-fourths of the world’s people live under authoritarian rule. Many of those authoritarian rulers are pushing a conspiracy theory that tells people that their life, their job, their status, their nation is all being lost, slipping away.
There is no NYC without unions. A people united and organized cannot be defeated. Together, we're showing the world what solidarity means.
‘Uplift all people’: We must protect Nova Scotian universities by Cathy Conrad @cathyconrad.bsky.social
'Uplift all people': We must protect Nova Scotian universities - Halifax Examiner
Nova Scotia is a province blessed with outstanding higher educational institutions. With 10 universities, we are a knowledge society. And yet some would be quick to critique this fact, arguing that pe...
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‘Uplift all people’: We must protect Nova Scotian universities by Cathy Conrad @cathyconrad.bsky.social
'Uplift all people': We must protect Nova Scotian universities - Halifax Examiner
Nova Scotia is a province blessed with outstanding higher educational institutions. With 10 universities, we are a knowledge society. And yet some would be quick to critique this fact, arguing that pe...
halifaxexaminer.ca
I was interviewed for this piece on Spain's regularisation scheme in @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/13/s...
Spanish Immigration Is Different
Madrid is preparing for one of the most ambitious regularization schemes in European history.
foreignpolicy.com
Really enjoyed recording this episode of Conversation with Iris with Nandita Sharma (@nsharma101.bsky.social). Nandita examines the historical and political production of migration, borders, and national belonging, with a particular focus on the figure of the migrant www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI6L...
Boundaries of membership and the figure of the migrant: Conversation with Nandita Sharma
YouTube video by IRiS - Institute for Research into Superdiversity
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