Colonialism & Migration in Global Perspective
@colmigproject.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary project funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social investigating how colonialism has shaped migration governance around the world. Team includes @mcslaven.bsky.social, @evansmithhist.bsky.social, and others who aren't here yet
I have an article in @thirdworldq.bsky.social on why the UK could not fully erase the rights of Commonwealth citizens from ex-colonies. Important for understanding the Windrush Scandal and other things. Broadly part of our @colmigproject.bsky.social research. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New work by our project team member @evansmithhist.bsky.social !
Evan@evansmithhist.bsky.social · 4mo agoHappy to see that my article with @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social on the elite backlash to dismantling the 'White Australia Policy' has been published in the latest issue of @historicaljnl.bsky.social (69/2, 2026). It is open access, so download now! #historians 🗃️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📖 Call for Papers 📖: Our project is hosting a workshop on 8-9 July at the University of Lincoln, UK for scholars working at the colonialism-migration governance intersection. Read the call here: tinyurl.com/bdhhejam Submit a paper here: tinyurl.com/43yh85c4 Deadline: 26 March
Just presented my research as part of the @colmigproject.bsky.social at ANZSOC in Brisbane. First parallel session for the day!
This article by @audieklotz.bsky.social is one of those that has been very helpful for something that I am writing for the @colmigproject.bsky.social project. So shout out to this one! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Imperial migration states
In the past decade, theorising about migration policy has rapidly included more states beyond Western Europe or North America. Expanding the temporal and geographical range of conventional cases de...
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@lunavives.bsky.social wrote a great book about the workers and union of a small spanish maritime agency that resists the state’s order to abandon people at sea. Much needed in this time of countless horrors caused by national border controls!
Our project members Anita Huizar-Hernandez and @mcslaven.bsky.social presented their research on Friday at the Roatch-Haskell Lectures at Arizona State University, on "The Complex Historical and Political Events of the Southwest Borderlands." Thanks to the hosts and everyone who came!
Two of our project members have been recognized by their home institution, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, as best law professor (Mayra Feddersen) and best young researcher in the social sciences (Carla Sepúlveda). Congrats!! www.uai.cl/noticias/der...
Tres académicos de Derecho son reconocidos por su excelencia y trayectoria en el Día UAI 2025
Durante la cuenta anual realizada en el marco del Día UAI 2025, la Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez distinguió a Mayra Feddersen, Sergio Gamonal y Carla Sepúlveda por su labor en docencia, investigación y de...
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We are finishing three great days of project meetings at the invariably beautiful campuses of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago de Chile. Great views and great opportunities to link together our project fieldwork on 6 continents! Stay tuned
My article "The Windrush Scandal and the individualization of postcolonial immigration control in Britain" has passed 25,000 views, enough to put it on the @ersjournal.com most-viewed list. Thanks for (still) reading. If you use it to teach, I'd love to know! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Windrush Scandal and the individualization of postcolonial immigration control in Britain
This article argues a previously little-discussed policy shift, the individualization of UK immigration control, is key to understanding the Windrush Scandal and the wider governance of racialized ...
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Thanks to everyone who stopped by (digitally) to our project panel at #IMISCOE2025, and to our discussant Prof Ipek Demir for her excellent questions/comments! Featuring team members @evansmithhist.bsky.social, @mcslaven.bsky.social, Carla Sepulveda and Hamoon Khelghat-Doost.
Find our project at IMISCOE this week, in the online programme -- Thursday 10:50-12:20 (Paris time). Four papers from project partners who are beaming in from all over the world! Hope to see you there.
Why the Social Sciences Are Important: research showcase @ University Lincoln. Social & Political Sciences colleague @mcslaven.bsky.social talking about his important @britishacademy.bsky.social funded interdisciplinary project on the relationship between colonialism & migration governance
Does calling anti-immigrant policies racist work at opposing them? Much analysis (validly) says no, but I have a new 📖 article 📖 on why this was essential to changing immigration politics in Arizona 🌵. Sometimes the effective arguments aren't already popular! 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Saying racism: calling anti-immigration policies racist as effective pro-immigrant politics in Arizona
Identifying anti-immigration policies as racist commonly features in political discourse in many majority-white countries. Both behavioralist studies of voter attitudes and studies of party positio...
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Found today that Hathi Trust has the South African House of Assembly parliamentary debates from the 1920s and 1950s online and searchable. Game changer for my part of the @colmigproject.bsky.social project!
Just finished a great month of fieldwork in Arizona for @colmigproject.bsky.social — 21 interviews which have given me lots to think about. While at the state capitol I also saw this painting (second image: Megargee, “The Spirit of Arizona,” 1913) which is the most colonial I’ve ever seen in AZ
Had a great time talking at ASU about @colmigproject.bsky.social research, and surprising people with a selfie. Thanks to the School of Politics and Global Studies and their Identity Lab and Security Lab for the excellent venue.
Our new edited book 'Forced Migration' is out in ebook form, with hardcopies coming very soon! Many thanks to my tireless co-editors @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social & @evansmithhist.bsky.social - check it out here: brill.com/display/titl... @dgb-history.bsky.social
Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949
"Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949" published on 24 Mar 2025 by Brill.
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Congrats to our team member @evansmithhist.bsky.social who's on the editorial team of this important journal
Evan@evansmithhist.bsky.social · last yr.The first issue of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (@jich.bsky.social) under the new editorial team is out now, with books reviews edited by me. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/c...
Great new volume co-edited by our team member @evansmithhist.bsky.social
Evan@evansmithhist.bsky.social · 2y agoThe new edited volume “Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949”, co-edited by @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social, @yiannicart.bsky.social and myself, is out in April and now has a website/cover. Pre-order available soon! brill.com/display/titl...
As our community here slowly grows, here is a starting list of people working on critical border studies, #migration journalists, #refugee storytellers, and border abolitionists like @hebagowayed.bsky.social @vwlegal.bsky.social @vanessid.bsky.social @nsharma101.bsky.social @nandosigona.bsky.social
Some of the work we are doing.
Evan@evansmithhist.bsky.social · 2y agoThis is something that our project, led by @mcslaven.bsky.social, is interested in, looking at how border control systems developed concurrently across the world in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Places like Ottoman Empire and South America were developing similar controls to W Europe, Nth America & Oz
This is our team!
Mike Slaven@mcslaven.bsky.social · 2y agoHad a great first day of workshops in Lincoln with all of the partners on our @britishacademy.bsky.social funded project "Colonialism and Migration in Global Perspective," including the always godlike @evansmithhist.bsky.social smiling benevolently over us
