NO RELEASE (2025) Bertha DocHouse, London, 18 June, 4:00–6:00pm. Follows two migrant men living under electronic tagging imposed by the UK immigration system @monish.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @bschcnetwork.bsky.social @irrnews.bsky.social Free at dandelion.events/e/noreleaseb...

No Release

Thu 18th Jun 2026, 4pm – 6pm BST (UTC +01:00)

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No Release, 7 May 2.30-4, Loughborough Uni. The story of two migrant men released from prison but face further punishment: continuous GPS surveillance enforced by the UK immigration system @monish.bsky.social @amycortvriend.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/no-release...

No Release film screening

Please join us for the No Release film screening and Q&A with the director and researcher

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We recently supported @Medact and other civil society human rights and health organisations in raising concerns over Palantir's contract with the NHS www.medact.org/2026/resourc...

Monish Bhatia ( @monish.bsky.social ) has co-edited and published The Palgrave Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance. buff.ly/nPFLMjo

This is truly some of the meanest shit I’ve ever heard of and I firmly believe the intended this to end with his death The Rohingya have already survived one genocide, one driven by lies spread on Facebook. The horror show is now continuing here.

Blind Dad of 2 Is Found Dead After Being Released by Border Patrol and Left to Find His Way Home 5 Miles Away

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a refugee from Burma who was visually impaired and spoke limited English, was found dead on Tuesday, Feb. 24 in Buffalo, N.Y. after he was dropped off at a coffee shop by Border ...

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Book to join us for the Bristol screening of 'No Release' on 18th March with @monish.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/no-release...

NO RELEASE: Immigration, Location Tracking and Control

The Social Harm, Crime and Violence Research Centre (School for Policy Studies) invites you to the screening of the film No Release.

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Published today! The Palgrave Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance. Editors: Thalia Anthony, Monish Bhatia, Kathryn Pillay, and Jason Williams. More soon

@monish.bsky.social published an article on air-deportations and liberal violence in the UK in Critical Criminology #Deportation #Violence #UK #Criminology

“… Here I Went Through Deportation – Which was also Torture for Me”: Air-Deportations and Liberal Violence in Great Britain - Critical Criminology

This article contributes to understanding violence in deportation. Drawing on data from eight months of fieldwork conducted between 2015 and 2017 and interviews with asylum seekers and practitioners, ...

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Costs of asylum accomodation are down to firms making vast profits off of providing poor quality for people seeking safety and Home Office cruelty and ineptitude. It is not the fault of those forced into using them by a system which doesn't give them a choice. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

Home Office 'squandered billions' on asylum accommodation, MPs say

"Flawed contracts" and "incompetent delivery" left the department unable to cope with demand for asylum accommodation, a report by MPs suggests.

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I have joined as a series editor for the Palgrave Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Indigeneity and Criminal Justice. More details here: link.springer.com/series/15777 Feel free to get in touch via email to discuss your ideas and/or if you are thinking of putting in a proposal.

The issue is not whether 'Britain is far right' but why far-right politics have become so normalised Rather than accepting this is a bottom-up, people-driven push, I argue that we must look at those who have the power to shape the agenda and public discourse www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

Is Britain far right?

Do most people in Britain really sympathise with far-right views? As Reform UK rises in the polls, we asked the experts.

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For those in London

Monish Bhatia (He/Him🌈)@monish.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Hey You'll 🙂✊🏾 "No Release" - a film based on my recent BA project on immigration GPS ankle monitors, directed by amazing Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. More details and registration link below. dandelion.events/e/no-release...

But... Great to be in great company : @monish.bsky.social whose work I admire so much! and so many promising early career scholars and some more established ones. Yes it was @uniofnottingham.bsky.social 🧑‍🎓🧑‍🎓🧑‍🎓🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🧑‍🎓🧑‍🎓🧑‍🎓

Thanks to the organizers of the British Society of Criminology Midland group Symposia on politics, harm and justice for inviting me to speak about war and punitive emotions, as keynote speaker. A sad reminder of the centrality of war in criminology in these dark times. But

Hey You'll 🙂✊🏾 "No Release" - a film based on my recent BA project on immigration GPS ankle monitors, directed by amazing Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. More details and registration link below. dandelion.events/e/no-release...

The deportation of an Eritrean man under 'one-in, on-out' has been halted by a judge after an NRM decision indicating reasonable suspicion he'd been trafficked. Charity Medical Justice say vast majority detained under scheme are torture and trafficking survivors www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

UK deportation of Eritrean man to France under ‘one-in, one-out’ halted by judge

The 25-year-old claims to be trafficking victim and won high court challenge in what may prove major blow to Labour policy

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NO RELEASE - A film based on my recent British Academy project on immigration GPS ankle monitors (aka tagging/electronic monitoring), directed by brilliant Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. Free registration. dandelion.events/e/no-release...

Hey You'll 🙂✊🏾 "No Release" - a film based on my recent BA project on immigration GPS ankle monitors, directed by amazing Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. More details and registration link below. dandelion.events/e/no-release...

Releasing at the end of 2025 (hopefully). The Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance.

30 chapters. 30+ amazing contributors. 300,000 powerful words. 24+months in the making. AND we finally pressed that 'send' button and off it goes to the publisher. What a pleasure it was to work with Thalia, Kathryn and Jason.

BSC regional group symposium 18th Sept 2025 at Uni of Nottingham. registration now open! Free for all to attend. Great speakers lined up, on theme of politics, harm and justice. Register here forms.office.com/e/qH3qgUNwQj. @stephenfarrall.bsky.social @warrcrim.bsky.social @monish.bsky.social

New work from the www.channelcrossings.org team! We have been gathering a dataset of contracts that the government has with private companies related to Channel crossings. We are calling this the ‘border economy’. We have identified over £3billion worth of contracts...

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Visit the post for more.

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It's criminal justice/crimmigration day in my 2nd year UG understanding 'race' & migration module. Thinking back to a year ago when lucky students had @monish.bsky.social deliver the lecture in person 🙌. Many were deeply affected & chose this topic for their final reflexive learning assessment.

🔥Another vital contribution from @monish.bsky.social shining a light on the violence of 'everyday' detention practices and deportability on women. Not sure I'm exactly 'looking forward' to reading, more approaching with trepidation, but appreciation for this important work. #TheseWallsMustFall

Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power@identitiesjournal.bsky.social · last yr.

'Reproductive injustice in Britain: punishing illegalized migrant #women from the Global South and separating families' by @monish.bsky.social From #Identities' International Women's Day Special Collection: http://doi.org/10.10... #IWD2025 @tandfresearch.bsky.social

'Reproductive injustice in Britain: punishing illegalized migrant #women from the Global South and separating families' by @monish.bsky.social From #Identities' International Women's Day Special Collection: http://doi.org/10.10... #IWD2025 @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Elon Musk, Nazi salutes and the reactionary redefinition of fascism. What a stunning (and enraging) piece by @aaronwinter.bsky.social Here's the link: www.identitiesjournal.com/blog-collect...

Elon Musk, Nazi salutes and the reactionary redefinition of fascism

Bluesky:  @identitiesjournal.bsky.social

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'Reproductive injustice in Britain: punishing illegalized migrant #women from the Global South and separating families' by @monish.bsky.social From #Identities' International Women's Day Special Collection: http://doi.org/10.10... #IWD2025 @tandfresearch.bsky.social

🔥🔥🔥Happening Tomorrow🔥🔥🔥 Online and free to attend. Few tickets remaining. Registration compulsory. Follow the link below 👇

Monish Bhatia (He/Him🌈)@monish.bsky.social · 2y ago

🔥 Race and Justice Seminar 2025🔥 🚨The Fabrication of Homeland Security: Tracing policing entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel. Speaker: Rhys Machold. ⏲️Thursday 27th Feb 12:00-13:30 🖱️Registration Link: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-fabric...

We argue that the proposed new offences will imprison more people trying to seek safety and a better life in the UK This is already happening - over 550 people have been imprisoned 2022-24 for crossing the Channel. @captainsupportuk.bsky.social works in solidarity with them.

Border Criminologies@bordercrim.bsky.social · 2y ago

New on the blog! @vickytaylor.bsky.social and Catriona Götz discuss the new offences on Labour's Border Security, Asylum and Immigration bbill, which would significantly expand the state’s ability to use criminal powers against those it labels as having played a role in ‘facilitating migration’.

Member's new book! Bhatia, M., Poynting, S. and Tufail, W. (eds) (2023) Racism, Violence and Harm: Ideology, media and resistance, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. link.springer.com/book/10.1007... This book examines connections between racism, violence, and social harms... #migration #sociology

Racism, Violence and Harm

​This edited book examines connections between racism, violence, and social harms.

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