European Parliament's draft position on the proposed revised EU law on migrant smuggling is out - crucially states that humanitarian assistance cannot be a crime - www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume... - might not be accepted by majority of MEPs (the rapporteur is a German Social Democrat) 1/

Can Frontex be held accountable for participating in allegedly illegal actions? Arguments at last week's CJEU hearing, summarised by Jan-Hendrik Seelow: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/02/hand... (thanks to @ourborderwatch.bsky.social)

Hands On, Eyes Closed? CJEU Grand Chamber hearing on Frontex’s role in unlawful pushbacks (WS and Others v Frontex, C-679/23 P)

Jan-Hendrik Seelow , Dutch Council for Refugees* *The Dutch Council for Refugees has closely worked with the applicant’s counsel to supp...

eulawanalysis.blogspot.com

Book launch: Ambivalent Humanitarianism and Migration Control - Colonial legacies and the experiences of migrants in Mexico by Erika Herrera Rosales   Date: Feb 26th, 2025 - 16:00 -17:00 UK, Online To attend, register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

🚨 New article from our AFAR project w @francescapalmiotto.bsky.social We explore strategic litigation against newtech in Europe and the various obstacles that must be overcome to reach the litigation stage. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @sociowarwick.bsky.social @refugeestudies.bsky.social

On Tuesday, 4 February at 09:00, the CJEU Grand Chamber will hear a landmark case against Frontex, addressing the crucial question: Can Frontex be held accountable for its role in illegal pushbacks – a practice systematically employed at the EU’s external borders? We will cover the hearing live 🔊

The discovery of 4,500 bodies buried on the site of a former Bristol workhouse in Stapleton reveals a haunting glimpse into Victorian poverty and resilience | Mike Jempson

Unearthing lives of the forgotten: the Stapleton workhouse tragedy

The discovery of 4,500 bodies buried on the site of a former Bristol workhouse in Stapleton reveals a haunting glimpse into Victorian poverty and resilience

westenglandbylines.co.uk

🚨⚠️TRIAL ALERT: Palestinian refugee faces smuggling charges in Lesvos 6 February 2025 in Mytilene⚠️🚨 www.legalcentrelesvos.org #borderviolence #stopthepolicestate #endimpunity #endpushbacksnow

🌍 𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 '𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗙 #𝗕𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥 #𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘' ✊ Over the next year we will publish a series of anonymised testimonies of #pushbacks, to show that behind every statistic, there is a person risking their life to reach #Europe. legalcentrelesvos.org/stories-of-b...

on italian & eu investment in drone surveillance: problems & costs of a militaristic & racist escalation that is misnamed as “migration policy” instead of “promotion of death, systemic crimes & discrimination to bury rights & the rule of law” irpimedia.irpi.eu/sorveglianze...

I silenzi della guardia di finanza sui droni impiegati nel Mediterraneo

Sono in grado di decollare verticalmente dalle navi e saranno utilizzati lungo le rotte dei migranti. Non è chiaro in che modo. Quello che sappiamo dall’esempio di Frontex, però, è preoccupante: potre...

irpimedia.irpi.eu

1/ This goes beyond a criticism of the EU Digital Services Act (on the grounds that the US First Amendment should apply worldwide). It argues the EU should not apply its *competition* law to US tech companies on the EU market either. A rejection of the very idea of the EU regulation of its market.

POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 2y ago

🚨 BREAKING: The U.S. government under incoming President Donald Trump should intervene to stop the EU from fining American tech companies for breaching antitrust rules and other violations, Meta chief exec Mark Zuckerberg said late Friday. Full story: trib.al/IWW9g57

Our chapter 'No alternative but Europeanisation: slow violence and critical imaginaries in/from/with South East Europe' is now out in this important co-edited volume. Writing with @drdeiana.bsky.social and working with the editors and all the authors was a real treat — thank you!

I'm very excited to announce that my new book SUM OF US: A History of the UK in Data will be published this April by Bridge Street Press/ Little Brown. It feels very timely & future-facing considering it's a history book! I had a lot of fun writing it and I can't wait to hear people’s reactions.

Doreen Massey, Athusserian Marxism, computational social science, urban policy and a twist of Mark Fisher: doi.org/10.1111/1468...

WHEN WE WERE ALMOST MODERN? Theory, methods and politics in The Centre for Environmental Studies, 1966–1975

This article re-examines the history of the UK Centre for Environmental Studies (CES) between 1966 and 1975. Using archival materials and interviews, the article details the role of the CES in attemp...

doi.org

Ab excellent opportunity to work and train in the world's most famous library. Go for it!

Isabel Holowaty@iholowaty.bsky.social · 2y ago

Oxford’s one-year full-time traineeships provide an excellent launch pad for subsequent postgraduate qualifications & a professional career. For more on the scheme, see tinyurl.com/mr2ff78h

Historians concerned about potential government plans to destroy millions of historical wills to save on storage costs www.theguardian.com/society/2023...

Ministry of Justice plan to destroy historical wills is ‘insane’, say experts

Department hopes to save £4.5m a year by digitising – then binning – about 100m wills that date back 150 years

theguardian.com

Register here for this online launch population-europe.eu/events/beyon...

School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol@uob-policystudies.bsky.social · 2y ago

18 Dec launch of 'From Uncertainty to Policy: A Guide to Migration Scenarios' Chapter by @annsingleton.bsky.social on the challenges of using official data with embedded racialised concepts to develop migration scenarios for policymaking #InternationalMigrantsDay population-europe.eu/events/beyon...

Researchers @crossdale.bsky.social @berglundoscar.bsky.social, & @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social et al published on climate protest crack downs and unfortunately #auspol comes out on top of some worrying statistics. It isn't your imagination, we are being arrested more than other comparable nations...

Chris Rossdale@crossdale.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy to have worked on this with @berglundoscar.bsky.social @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social Tie Franco Britto and Christina Pantazis. UK leads on arrests, but bigger story is the global elite consensus on repressing activism to avoid real action on climate change. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Register here for this online launch population-europe.eu/events/beyon...

School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol@uob-policystudies.bsky.social · 2y ago

18 Dec launch of 'From Uncertainty to Policy: A Guide to Migration Scenarios' Chapter by @annsingleton.bsky.social on the challenges of using official data with embedded racialised concepts to develop migration scenarios for policymaking #InternationalMigrantsDay population-europe.eu/events/beyon...

Joint Statement for the State Crime of Pylos #Refugees

Joint Statement for the State Crime of Pylos • Sea-Watch e.V.

Der Beitrag Joint Statement for the State Crime of Pylos erschien zuerst auf Sea-Watch e.V. .

sea-watch.org

As part of @biggive.bsky.social's Christmas Challenge, every donation made to INQUEST until midday 10 December will be DOUBLED! Help us to continue supporting families bereaved by deaths in police custody, prisons and mental health services. Please donate & share if you can bit.ly/biggive-2024

The UK Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) is taking evidence from individuals affected by the minimum income requirement (MIR). If you are a UK citizen living abroad with non-UK/Irish family members affected by the MIR please use this link to contact the MAC. www.gov.uk/government/c...

Family visa financial requirements

The MAC is calling for evidence from individuals and organisations to inform its review into financial requirements for family visas.

gov.uk

Here's the debate from yesterday's vote on the Assisted Dying Bill. It's worth a read wherever you sit on this. hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2024...

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill - Hansard - UK Parliament

Hansard record of the item : 'Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill' on Friday 29 November 2024.

hansard.parliament.uk

Need to check this out!

Andrew Geddes@andrewpgeddes.bsky.social · 2y ago

Contested boundaries: migration and citizenship regimes in comparative perspective Call for papers for the @mpc-eui.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social annual conference May 8-9 2025 EUI, Florence, Italy migrationpolicycentre.eu/call-for-pap...

"An expert report commissioned by Die Linke from the scientific services in the Bundestag revealed the biggest obstacle...governments would have to decide to define the drowning of refugees in the Mediterranean as a ‘crisis’. Member states ..can only then activate the EU crisis response mechanism.."

Matthias Monroy@matthimon.bsky.social · 2y ago

14 organisations are proposing an EU-led #SeaRescue programme #MareSolidale in the Mediterranean lead by the Civil Protection Mechanism. The Left Party in Germany had already campaigned for this in 2020. However, they found one mayor obstacle:

troubling www.statewatch.org/news/2024/no...

Statewatch | France, Germany and the Netherlands push for EU-wide "tracking and bugging of vehicles"

Germany, France and the Netherlands are advocating for a reform of the European Investigation Order (EIO) to simplify cross-border surveillance of vehicles. A joint non-paper sent to other EU member s...

statewatch.org

🚨 The 4th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now! This issue covers changes to deportation law and the effects of Frontex-led reintegration policies in The Gambia and Nigeria. It also makes over 15 documents from EU institutions public: buff.ly/4fH1Mkm

Modern Slavery in the Fishing Industry - SOAS 29 November 2024. A super line up of speakers include my colleague Professor Parosha Chandran, and @vmantouvalou.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/modern-sla....

www.theguardian.com/law/2024/sep...

Tony Bunyan obituary

Journalist and champion of civil liberties who monitored the state’s activities and provided a voice for marginalised groups

theguardian.com

On tomorrow’s House of Commons order paper there’s a written statement with the title ‘Border Security and Asylum’. No idea what it will be on commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/Document/884...

A 39-year-old migrant was found dead on Friday (23 August) after the Greek coastguard opened fire on a vessel carrying migrants off the island of Symi in the eastern Aegean Sea, authorities said. www.euractiv.com/section/migr...

Greek coastguard fires on migrant boat, one dead

A 39-year-old migrant was found dead on Friday (23 August) after the Greek coastguard opened fire on a vessel carrying migrants off the island of Symi in the eastern Aegean Sea, authorities said.

euractiv.com