"Need a guide to decode the script behind UK anti-immigration rhetoric? This is your roadmap", @stefano-piemontese.bsky.social argues. It unpacks how #irregularmigration was constructed during one of the most turbulent periods in British politics (2019–2023). zenodo.org/records/1511...

A (research) year-in-review thread from IRIS @unibirmingham.bsky.social We asked our researchers to pick one of their publications from 2025 and share why it stands out for them. Here's what they replied! #migration #refugees #socialsciences #diversity #research

Today we published a report on public understanding & attitudes to #irregularmigration in the UK. this is my a one-line summary: strong opinions, wrong facts. But there is so much more to it. Ultimately the picture is much more nuanced and complex... i-claim.eu/project/publ...

Public understanding and attitudes to irregular migration in the UK - I-CLAIM

This report summarises findings from the February 2025 I-CLAIM survey of 1,147 UK adults, exploring public knowledge of irregular migration, how people define it, and their attitudes toward irregular ...

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This Thursday at 18:00 CET, I'll join the book presentation "Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research", to which I contributed a chapter on remote collaborative ethnography, co-authored with Luxa Leoco. 🔗 Register here: eu.avcr.cz/en/news/Romisticke-utopie-15-May-2025/

The last two movies at #ASA2025 left us with a melancholic smile, reminding us of our shared human connections. #Anthropology

Delighted to see such high turnout at the #ASA2025 conference's second-day film programme – especially impressive for a lunch break at an anthropology conference!

Yesterday, we had the first session of the film programme I'm coordinating with @amartinsjr.bsky.social at the 2025 UK Association of Social Anthropologists (#ASA2025) conference.

Yesterday, I presented our latest @iclaimeu.bsky.social research on food delivery workers and digital borders in #Birmingham, examining the connections between emerging criminalisation narratives and evolving legal and policy frameworks regulating the UK platform economy. (🧵1/4)

After months of challenging work learning new methodology, I've produced what I believe is a valuable piece of research that shows how 'irregular migration' is narratively constructed in UK media, politics, and civil society. Full report: bit.ly/uk-migration.... Key findings and excerpts below👇

IRIS@irisbirmingham.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 New research alert! 🚨 How is #irregularmigration framed in UK media, politics, and civil society? A new @iclaimeu.bsky.social study exposes the narratives shaping public opinion and policy. 🧵⤵️

🚲 Bikes are crucial nodes in the #PlatformEconomy — the core machinery in the food delivery assembly line. Today as part of my fieldwork for @iclaimeu.bsky.social I started following their journey across workshops, from acquisition to repair and electric conversion, all the way into urban mobility.

Hello there! We are the IMISCOE Standing Committee „Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research“ or  “Meth@Mig” for short. We will use this profile to share news about our SC and members. Please follow us to stay up-to-date. Learn more about us: www.imiscoe.org/research/sta...

The advantages of qualitative research – fieldwork for @iclaimeu.bsky.social in the UK is clearly gaining momentum.

Wow, we’ve been publishing really good stuff at @irisbirmingham.bsky.social this year.

IRIS@irisbirmingham.bsky.social · 2y ago

✨ A year-in-review thread from IRIS ✨ We asked our researchers to pick just one publication from 2024 and share why it stands out for them. Here's what they chose and why! 🧵 #migration #refugees #socialsciences #diversity #research

🪴 Application deadline for this amazing #IMISCOE summer school is in a couple of days! Please, share or apply if you haven't already done so.

Stefano Piemontese@stefano-piemontese.bsky.social · 2y ago

Come and learn about "Reimagining Knowledge Production Through #Collaborative and #Multimodal Approaches" with Kitti Baracsi and me! We're part of a beautiful training team at the next #IMISCOE PhD Summer School on "Developing a sensory methodology in #migration studies" in #Lisbon.

"Co-authored with Luxa Leoco, this chapter marks a milestone in my journey of learning how to conduct collaborative research (and reflect on it) in settings characterised by strong power imbalances", says @stefano-piemontese.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap-o...

🍿 Hey folks! You’ve time until tonight at 23:59 GMT to submit your ethnographic film to #ASA2025. Thanks to those who already did!

Stefano Piemontese@stefano-piemontese.bsky.social · 2y ago

🎬 Calling all ethnographic filmmakers! Submit your films for the #ASA2025 conference “Critical Junctions: Anthropology on the Move” (Birmingham, 8-11 April 2025). 🦥 Deadline: Dec 2, 2024. 🐚 Info & submission: www.theasa.org/conferences/...

And another @irisbirmingham.bsky.social member has reached us here!

Seb Rumsby@seb-rumsby.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hi everyone, this is my first BlueSky post ever! I'm researching the lived experiences of recent Vietnamese migrants to/in the UK, fieldwork is ongoing so watch this space for upcoming publications and general musings... sebrumsby.wordpress.com/migration/

Working on expanding my article's theoretical framework around #racial-imaginaries and #racial-landscapes. Found fascinating literature, though heavily US-centric (as usual). Can't decide whether to dive deep into these concepts or just observe them lazily from my imaginary inflatable sea mattres.

🧵 That’s a great piece, indeed! And we’re excited to announce at @irisbirmingham.bsky.social we’ve just started our collaborative #ethnography on platformisation of domestic work in the #WestMidlands! We look forward to joining the conversation and contribute bridging these knowledge gaps! (1/5)

Natalie Sedacca@nataliesedacca.bsky.social · 2y ago

Good piece from Veronica Deutsch on the need to pay more attention to care workers in the gig economy, inc more research on the care workforce and specific problems they face, alongside the diversity of platform models, from 'on-demand' to 'marketplace' views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/2024/10/why-...

With farm owners protesting today over the prospect of paying a highly discounted inheritence tax, I'm sure you've seen quotes about how they "feed the nation". But nobody is talking about the migrant workers who actually pick the crops on horticulture farms, so here's a short thread about them.

If you'd like to stay up to date with UK immigration issues on BlueSky, we've created this new Starter Pack! This is a list of excellent organisations and experts working at the forefront of immigration in the UK, so please follow them to stay up to date on these crucial issues: go.bsky.app/gzfKcc

Here we are!

Nando Sigona@nandosigona.bsky.social · 2y ago

It was about time - the University of Birmingham's Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity is now here! Follow them at @irisbirmingham.bsky.social

This is super relevant to our ongoing research within the i-claim.eu project. We're now finalising our analysis of how irregular migration narratives are constructed in media, political, and civil society discourses across 🇳🇱🇩🇪🇵🇱🇫🇮🇮🇹🇬🇧. The next step is to launch a survey exploring public perceptions!

Lorenzo Piccoli@lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social · 2y ago

These are examples of what we call "migration communication campaigns". In our new article (with @jamesrdennison.bsky.social and @mcarmoduarte.bsky.social), we present a database to explore how diverse campaigns shape our perceptions of migration. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Learn about "Reimagining Knowledge Production Through #Collaborative and #Multimodal Approaches" with @BaracsiKitti and me! We're part of a beautiful training team at the next #IMISCOE PhD Summer School on "Developing a sensory methodology in migration studies" in #Lisbon.

Come and learn about "Reimagining Knowledge Production Through #Collaborative and #Multimodal Approaches" with Kitti Baracsi and me! We're part of a beautiful training team at the next #IMISCOE PhD Summer School on "Developing a sensory methodology in #migration studies" in #Lisbon.

Trump's mass deportation will face several legal challenges and many financial and logistical hurdles, but it is already spreading among millions of people, migrants and citizens alike. theconversation.com/what-a-trump...

What a Trump presidency means for millions of migrants and their families in the US

Looking past the bombastic electoral rhetoric, deportation campaigns face significant hurdles.

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New to Bluesky? If you want to understand the far right, violent extremists, White Supremacists, and Christian nationalists, these are the journalists, researchers, academics, and other experts that monitor, research, and provide analysis on all the flavors of the far right and extremist movements.

🎬 Calling all ethnographic filmmakers! Submit your films for the #ASA2025 conference “Critical Junctions: Anthropology on the Move” (Birmingham, 8-11 April 2025). 🦥 Deadline: Dec 2, 2024. 🐚 Info & submission: www.theasa.org/conferences/...

ASA2025: Critical Junctions: Anthropology on the Move

8 - 11 April 2025, Department of African Studies and Anthropology (DASA) at the University of Birmingham. Conference artwork by Letizia Bonanno

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🎬 Calling all ethnographic filmmakers! Submit your films for the #ASA2025 conference “Critical Junctions: Anthropology on the Move” (@unibirmingham 8-11 April). 🦥 Deadline: Dec 2, 2024. 🐚 Info & submission: theasa.org/conferences/as…

The chapter (and the book) is available #OpenAccess at this link bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap-oa/…

8: Luxa’s Prism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Im/mobilities in Pandemic Times

The purpose of this chapter is to reflect on the ‘experimental collaborations’ that guided the authors in designing and conducting a collaborative ethnography of the social and geographical mobilities of disadvantaged European youth during the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapter is based on 30 online video conversations between the two authors: an Italian white male postdoctoral researcher and a Romanian Roma woman who spent most of her youth homeless in Madrid. Together, they examine the practical and conceptual implications of collaborative methodologies involving individuals with diverse socioeconomic and experiential backgrounds. They do so by tracing the multiple origins, arrangements and meanings of their collaboration through a deeply reflexive dialogue that recovers and validates their situated memories, emotions and experiences as legitimate sources of ethnographic knowledge. The chapter particularly emphasizes the potential of digital technologies in reconfiguring the modes of ethnographic collaboration, shedding light on the positive role of uncertainty and failure in reducing power asymmetries within participatory research encounters.

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