The most sweeping asylum reforms in modern times? Let's interrogate Labour's asylum policy. Join us ONLINE for this event that we're organising as part of Refuge Week.

Job opportunity at the University of Sheffield (UK) for a Danish speaking researcher interested in the business of bordering, political economy and related topics

Research Associate - The Business of Bordering at University of Sheffield

Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Associate - The Business of Bordering. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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Postdoc job opportunity! We're looking for a Danish speaker to work with us on the Business of Bordering project. All the info is here: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

…state crimes against people on the move and people who don’t sign up to or support fascism masquerading as migration policy…

Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The latest Greek migrant boat shipwreck and Greece's criminalisation of solidarity Analysis by Georgios Athanasiou - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

The next event in the Amal Treacher Kabesh Annual Lectures, hosted by #ICEMiC at University of Nottingham featuring distinguished speakers: - Dr Lucy Mayblin - Dr Tesfalem Habte Yemane Knowing the border: Epistemic friction and irregular Channel crossings

Fascinating research on FOIs as method, and charter flights as practice, from William Walters and Travis Van Isaker. Recommend. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Must read from Shahram Khosravi. Defeat as Method: Thinking from within the ruins. migrationscholarsmobilize.org/blog-posts-2...

Migration Scholars Mobilize Network

By Shahram Khosravi Originally published in Cabinet Magazine . 2026. Issue 21 (July) https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/khosravi.php See original article for images that accompany the…

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Excited to receive copies of our beautiful new textboook!

The launch of 'The Modern World After Colonialism', a @brisunipress.bsky.social textbook developed from the Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project resources 📍March 4th 2026, 11am, Zoom @sumingkhoo.bsky.social @mayblin.bsky.social @thesociologicalreview.org bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom ...

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We have added the case of Alex Pretti to our global crimes of solidarity database. Do you know of other cases where activists have been criminalised for standing up to ICE agents in recent weeks? Visit www.crimesofsolidarity.org to find out more or to add a case.

Crimes of Solidarity and Humanitarianism

Documenting legal cases against people helping irregular migrants, known as crimes of solidarity and humanitarianism.

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French authorities have carried out their first on-water interception of a suspected smuggling boat under new Channel patrol tactics. The UK and France are expanding returns and enforcement measures aimed at preventing small boat crossings. www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6936...

France intercepts 'taxi-boat' in first on-water operation to reduce Channel crossings

French authorities have carried out their first on-water interception of a suspected smuggling boat under new Channel patrol tactics, as the UK and France expand returns and enforcement measures aimed...

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The 1st #ICC trial concerning #CrimesAgainstHumanity against 'migrants' starts in 2026. Front-Lex will be there to represent the victims. The cases of 122 #EU officials are still waiting to be processed, front-LEX co-director @omershatz.bsky.social told Catalan TV. www.3cat.cat/3cat/liders-...

Telenotícies - Líders europeus denunciats al Tribunal de la Haia pel tracte dels migrant al Mediterrani central - 3Cat

Front Lex, un consorci d'advocats, ja van acusar la UE el 2019

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It’s not necessary to keep highlighting the qualities of exceptional immigrants as a reason for them to be treated well by their governments. We don’t have to be on our best behaviour to receive a basic level of human decency: that‘s why they’re called “human rights”, and not “human privileges”.

Brexit was a bad idea but I'm tired of hearing this being given as the reason for small boat Channel crossings. As though (a) nobody was crossing irregularly before -they WERE!, and (b)Imagining they weren't crossing because they were scared of the Dublin Regulation? That's just stilly (see: Rwanda)

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat" "Today we have 46,000 a year" "And do you know why?" "Brexit" "Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage" *audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT

It's almost like every single reputable expert who has been saying this exact thing for years was right. Home Office recognised this fact 15 years ago. Successive governments, globally, continue to ignore it, and continue to push harmful "tougher" policies. 1/ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Hardline migration policies are fuelling people smuggling, report finds

As leaders try to break smugglers’ business model, research suggests strategy so far has had opposite effect

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Great work by @migrantvoice.bsky.social and researchers from Warwick University and Leicester University. Congratulations to former colleague @mariegodin.bsky.social who co-authored the report www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

UK’s new digital-only immigration system creating exclusion and fear, study finds

Obtaining an eVisa to prove their status or right to legally reside in Britain is causing migrants high levels of stress

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Management at Sheffield have aggressively ramped up their attacks on striking staff, but we @sheffielducu.bsky.social are unbowed: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

University of Sheffield staff 'intimidated' by pay forfeit warning

University of Sheffield to withhold pay if staff do not make up for teaching missed while striking.

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We will resist the bullies with our usual courage and resolve - for the good of our students, our university, and our city. We won't allow the dismantling of higher education without resistance. @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucuhallam.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

University of Sheffield staff 'intimidated' by pay forfeit warning

University of Sheffield to withhold pay if staff do not make up for teaching missed while striking.

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Great to see media coverage of the hostile and punitive approach taken by management at @sheffielduni.bsky.social towards @sheffielducu.bsky.social staff striking to protect jobs. Threats and intimidation won't work. We're out until we win! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

University of Sheffield staff 'intimidated' by pay forfeit warning

University of Sheffield to withhold pay if staff do not make up for teaching missed while striking.

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Sensible universities see their staff as assets to be nurtured and protected. Foolish universities see them as a cost to be minimised. Really stupid universities see them as an enemy to be defeated. @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Calling all researchers in forced migration, apply now for the RSC Michaelmas Term (Oct – Dec) 2026 Visiting Fellowship programme & the new Sally Hogg Prize to support applicants from low-income countries or with lived experience of forced displacement. More info: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/news/the-sal...

Visiting Fellowship applications and the Sally Hogg Prize

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Check out this post about our current situation from a colleague at another university. @sheffielducu.bsky.social

How to use critical discourse analysis in your research: 2-day, in-person workshop for PhD students & early career researchers. 15 & 16 January 2026 Sheffield, UK Details: www.discourseacademy.org/event-detail...

#PalestineSolidarity roving picket visiting the excellent picket at Firth Court. #UCUstrike @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucuhallam.bsky.social #sheffield

The Amnesty International International Secretariat have just published a report. It explicitly highlights how racial discrimination in the context of visa policies and processes impacts activists from outside of Europe. Good to see Amnesty doing this kind of work. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Europe: Closing the door? How visa policies in Europe's Schengen area fail human rights defenders - Amnesty International

This report highlights the obstacles faced by human rights defenders (HRDs) from visa-restricted countries who want to access the Schengen area to fulfil their right to defend rights. It presents a…

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This is an excellent summary of this week's UK asylum announcements from Free Movement. freemovement.org.uk/home-secreta...

Home Secretary announces major asylum and other changes in new policy paper: "Restoring Order and Control" - Free Movement

Following a plethora of media briefings and coverage over the past few days, the Home Secretary has officially published her policy paper on "Restoring Order

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Dismayed to hear more divisive and hostile rhetoric from the latest Home Secretary? Depressed by more cruel and punitive policies which will harm people who are seeking asylum and will do nothing to stop the rise of Reform or reduce small boat Channel crossings? ...

ASSIST Winter Solidarity Appeal | ASSIST Sheffield

The ASSIST Winter Solidarity Appeal provides a vital safety net for destitute asylum seekers in Sheffield. Choose your action: Donate, Act, or Share their story.

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The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world" That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims

Tomorrow @sheffielducu.bsky.social begins four weeks of strike action over the continuous restructuring of programs and departments and threats of compulsory redundancies imposed by university management. We are holding a joint rally with our sister branch at SHU which is facing similar threats.

UCU Hallam@ucuhallam.bsky.social · 9mo ago

JOINT RALLY ANNOUNCEMENT: Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.

Looking forward to this workshop! Join me, @kranertmichael.bsky.social , Tom Bartlett and Jane Mulderrig to work on using CDA in your research!

Discourse Academy@discourseacademy.org · 9mo ago

How to use critical discourse analysis in your research: 2-day, in-person workshop for PhD students & early career researchers. 15 & 16 January 2026 Sheffield, UK Details: www.discourseacademy.org/event-detail...