Summertime is ballot time @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social, thanks to Northumbria University management messing with pay and pensions, taking us out of collective bargaining and not ruling out compulsory redundancies. I've voted yes to strike action and action short of a strike.

The Law & Society Research Group was pleased to welcome Professor David Cantor (@rli-sas.bsky.social) for a talk on "Refugee Law-Making, State Sovereignty and the Paradox of Non-Independent Territories" today! A big thank you to David for visiting Northumbria Law School and sharing his research!

on strike again with @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social this week - Uni executive have walked out of talks and are going to go ahead and cut our pay and pensions, in whatll likely only be a first move in a 'post92' race to the bottom!

It's another digital picket for @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social - great turnout here 😺 #catsagainstcuts

Brilliant photo of a brilliant day. Striking is hard, a last resort, and no-one wants to do it. But if you have to do it, you want to do it with people who understand and share the struggle - for fair pay and conditions, decent pensions, education to be proud of, in a city that deserves the best.

University and College Union (UCU)@ucu.org.uk · 6mo ago

A clear message from the hundreds who turned out yesterday: we are not having it. At Northumbria University, staff are refusing to be forced into worse pensions or pay cuts. This is organised resistance to an organised attack.

Cats on (digital) picket lines!

Northumbria UCU Branch@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 6mo ago

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social members are on strike today in the fight for pay and pensions justice @northumbriauni.bsky.social - but taking time to recuperate and re-energise away from the picket lines, for the struggles ahead! Make the most of it, everyone. ✊✊✊🫶🫶🫶

Another @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social picket line @northumbriauni.bsky.social yesterday. We're loud and proud in our fight for pay and pensions justice! @ucu.org.uk @chionwurah.bsky.social @chroniclelive.co.uk @timeshighered.bsky.social @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

We are on strike because we don't accept the "choice" between a pay freeze (& being taken out of national bargaining) & being forced out of the teachers' pension scheme. Please support us by writing to the VC: qrcc.me/t5z6wzqmb36u And/or donate to the solidarity fund: www.ucu-unn.org.uk/hardshipf

Northumbria UCU Branch@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 7mo ago

THIS IS WHAT A UNION LOOKS LIKE. THIS IS WHAT SOLIDARITY LOOKS LIKE. THIS IS WHAT STANDING UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT LOOKS LIKE. IGNORE AT YOUR PERIL!

I enjoyed speaking at "Unseen and Unprotected: Modern Slavery in the Shadow of Migration" at Jesus College Cambridge yesterday. @petrebreazu.bsky.social and the other organisers brought together speakers and audience members who genuinely care about trafficked persons and other irregular migrants.

I've been thinking about how UK immigration law practitioners and legal academics could collaborate more effectively for a while now. Read about the rationale behind a JIANL Special Issue on the topic and ongoing research (including how to get involved) on the ILPA blog 👇

ILPA@ilpaimmigration.bsky.social · 8mo ago

⚡ Our thanks to @majagrundler.bsky.social for writing our first monthly blog post of 2026 on the benefits of practitioner-academic collaboration. Read her insights 👇 ilpa.org.uk/translating-...

Looking forward to speaking at this interesting event alongside my fellow Human Trafficking Research Network Steering Group members Dr Maria Turda and @dayoakin.bsky.social and lots of other fantastic contributors! Thank you for the invitation!

Petre Breazu@petrebreazu.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨 Unseen and Unprotected: Modern Slavery in the Shadow of Migration 📍 University of Cambridge | 🗓 9 Feb 2026 A one-day event on migration, human trafficking & exploitation, with a focus on women and children. 👉 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unseen-and...

The Human Trafficking Research Network is inviting abstracts for its 2026 conference on the theme of “Reframing Trafficking - Knowledge, Policy, and Practice at a Crossroads”. Date: 18 and 19 June 2026 Location: Northumbria University, Newcastle (UK) Abstract deadline: 20 February 2026

All articles from our JIANL Special Issue are now available open access as author manuscript versions here: ilpa.org.uk/journal-of-i... Thanks very much to @ilpaimmigration.bsky.social for allowing us to bring the Special Issue to a wider audience!

Dr Maja Grundler@majagrundler.bsky.social · last yr.

The new Special Issue of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum & Nationality Law which I co-edited with Violeta Moreno-Lax and @nikkibusu.bsky.social is out! The aim of this SI is to begin to investigate how we can translate legal academic work on immigration and asylum into practical legal arguments

📕🚀 Book launch! I'll be discussing my book Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law with Professor Elspeth Guild and Dr Liza Schuster, chaired by @gillkane.bsky.social! 15 October, 17:00, online and in-person in London, sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irregular-...

Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law

Protection from Dangerous Migratory Journeys

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Dr Maja Grundler@majagrundler.bsky.social · last yr.

It’s publication day! My monograph 'Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law: Protection from Dangerous Migratory Journeys' is out with @routledgebooks.bsky.social: www.routledge.com/Irregular-Mi... If you’re interested, please consider asking your institution’s library to purchase a copy.

It’s publication day! My monograph 'Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law: Protection from Dangerous Migratory Journeys' is out with @routledgebooks.bsky.social: www.routledge.com/Irregular-Mi... If you’re interested, please consider asking your institution’s library to purchase a copy.

I am looking for UK immigration law practitioners to fill in a short survey about their engagement with legal academic work. There is also an option to take part in an interview at the end. Please do consider taking part and share with your networks: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...

I am looking for UK immigration law practitioners to fill in a short survey about their engagement with legal academic work. There is also an option to take part in an interview at the end. Please do consider taking part and share with your networks: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...

My thoughts on last week's #Kinsa judgment, now on the @rli-sas.bsky.social blog: rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/06/12/t... A powerful challenge to the criminalisation of facilitation through Charter rights, but a narrow exception to criminalisation which the Commission seems to plan to introduce anyway.

Thanks to @rli-sas.bsky.social for an amazing #RLIconf2025! I presented my paper on 'Vulnerability Re-Trafficking and Irregular Re-Migration in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters: A Sliding Scale of Risk' and learned so much from other speakers.

Call for inputs to the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants on externalization of migration - measures to prevent migration, administrative processes beyond national borders and return through the involvement of third countries. Deadline 10 June, info at www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...

The CJEU has ruled that Member States cannot prosecute asylum-seeking mothers who travelled on false documents with their children as people smugglers - in a judgment with broader implications for the criminalisation of immigration. My analysis: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-ca...

A candle in the dark: the CJEU rules against criminalising parents for smuggling their children

Professor Steve Peers , Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit : Bologna, taken by  Ввласенко , via Wikimedia Commons Introd...

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Brilliant keynote by @myrmek.bsky.social at #RLIconf25, discussing how ethnographic methods can inform, inspire and improve refugee law research

Really enjoyed this conference, esp Audrey Macklin’s keynote; @janinapescinski.bsky.social's talk on over-research; @nikkibusu.bsky.social & Sophie Cartwright (@jrsuk.bsky.social)‬ speaking on disability & displacement; and presenting my work in progress on legal academic-practitioner collaboration

Ellen Allde@ellenallde.bsky.social · last yr.

Queen Mary’s interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Migration and the (B)Orders Centre for the Study of Borders, Migration and Displacement are co-hosting a two-day conference on 29 and 30 May 2025 Find the programme below and register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/migration-...

Really looking forward to reading all of the fantastic contributions in this book! I've looked at some of them already and they are excellent. A big thank you to the editors for including my chapter ('Who Is the “Vulnerable” Victim? Trafficked and Smuggled Persons as Victims of Crime under EU Law')!

Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi@liliantsourdi.bsky.social · last yr.

Our Intertwining #criminal justice & #migration control book v/N. Vavoula & V. Mitsilegas out in Aug! www.routledge.com/Intertwining.... Check out @ssrn.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @profjacob.bsky.social @stevepeers.bsky.social @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social @majagrundler.bsky.social

Shameful bullish. What's done incalculable damage is a decade of pernicious falsehoods about immigration, while people who should know better refuse to counter the lies of the increasingly normalised far right. Let's tackle those lies:

Recognising #LivedExperience as #Expertise: a #Workshop on Inclusion in Research on Movement and Exploitation. 📅 June 6th, 10am – 4pm BST (online) +infos & register here ➡️ asylos.org/recognising-... Co-hosted with the Human Trafficking Research Network (HTRN) & support from Clifford Chance.

A group of us law academics put together a letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers UK Supreme Court ruling & we are asking other *UK based law folk* (academic activist practitioner etc) to sign More details 👇 #transrights #trans #transgender #lawsky #academicsky #UKlaw docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A Law Letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers

A coalition of legal academics have drafted a letter setting out our support for trans rights and our concerns about the FWS v Scottish Ministers UKSC ruling. We are opening it up for signature to ev...

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Register by 15 May for the forthcoming RLI ANNUAL CONFERENCE 👇 👇 👇 Featuring keynote speakers Professor Maja Janmyr, Dr Katy Long and Dr Jeff Crisp. "Refugee Law and Forced Migration Studies: Debates, Interactions and Futures’’ 2 - 4 June 2025, Senate House, London rli.sas.ac.uk/rli-annual-c...

The new Special Issue of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum & Nationality Law which I co-edited with Violeta Moreno-Lax and @nikkibusu.bsky.social is out! The aim of this SI is to begin to investigate how we can translate legal academic work on immigration and asylum into practical legal arguments

More grim findings on the care sector, with just 45% of UK-based care workers in a global survey reporting feeling safe at work, more than a fifth reported suffering an injury at work with effects lasting more than a month and one in five satisfied with salary www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

Nearly one in five UK care workers feel unsafe while on shift, survey finds

Exclusive: ‘Wake up call’ as healthcare workers detail abuse and harassment amid fears of global staff shortages

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