Stephanie Schwartz
@stephrschwartz.bsky.social
Political Science | Forced Migration | Assistant Professor @LSEIRDept | Views my own
What is policy relevance in refugee and forced migration research? Rethinking the dual imperative with @lmourad.bsky.social Rawan Arar, @marthabalaguera.bsky.social , Karen Jacobsen, Loren Landau and James Milner in Journal of Refugee Studies academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-...
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Dr @stephrschwartz.bsky.social has published a new research article titled, "Refugee Return without Refoulement: Rethinking State Strategies to Evade Asylum Norms" in International Migration Review. 🔗 Read the full article to find out more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Refugee Return without Refoulement: Rethinking State Strategies to Evade Asylum Norms - Stephanie Schwartz, 2025
How do states avoid hosting refugees? Whereas scholars have documented at length the strategies that rich democracies use to avoid hosting refugees, conventiona...
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"From what I can tell, ICE is a secret police when acting in a public space...The comparativist in me wants to think about other police forces in history which had such broad and ill-defined powers. But such comparisons are too frightening." adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/week-19
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With unrest continuing in #LosAngeles and #Trump calling in more troops from the National Guard, where did this heavy response to anti-deportation #protests emerge from, and what is its aim? @stephrschwartz.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social and @abbeyst.bsky.social for @lseusablog.bsky.social
How the US immigration crackdown undermines democracy | USAPP
Trump's harsh immigration actions are part of the administration’s strategy for dismantling democracy by amassing coercive power.
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re-upping this piece with @stephrschwartz.bsky.social @lseblogs.bsky.social on how the immigration crackdown is a convenient cover for Trump to dismantle democracy -- given the developments in LA blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
How the US immigration crackdown undermines democracy | USAPP
Trump's harsh immigration actions are part of the administration’s strategy for dismantling democracy by amassing coercive power.
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This was predictable and exactly what people warned the USIP takeover was a stepping stone to. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
DOGE sought to assign a team to an independent nonprofit group
A representative of DOGE met with leaders of the Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit organization that advocates for lower incarceration rates.
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This is the second video of ICE agents shattering a window in the last week rather than have some patience. And in this case, they're allegedly detaining someone who already has asylum through his wife, with no reason given at all! www.borderreport.com/news/video-s...
Video shows ICE agents shatter car window during Massachusetts arrest: attorney
Federal immigration agents are accused of shattering a car window in Massachusetts while detaining a Guatemalan man on Monday in a caught-on-camera incident – despite his attorney saying they had t…
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The Justice Department’s latest filings make it abundantly clear that it is creating a black site for migrants in El Salvador that’s worse than Gitmo. slate.com/news-and-pol...
I've spent time in the midst of three civil wars and multiple authoritarian regimes, and a weird normalcy is very typical. People still have to work their jobs and feed their families. Markets are still held, and religious services go on. The threats just behind the surface can be easy to forget.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last yr.It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.
GRIID is hiring! 2-year post-doc at the University of Amsterdam @rpa-cs-uva.bsky.social on government responses to displacement project w/ me, @abbeyst.bsky.social & Adam Lichtenheld. - Closing date 30 April, starts fall 2025. - More info & to apply: werkenbij.uva.nl
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📣 excited to announce a 2-year post-doc at the University of Amsterdam @rpa-cs-uva.bsky.social on government responses to displacement project w/ me, @stephrschwartz.bsky.social & Adam Lichtenheld. - Closing date 30 April, starts fall 2025. - More info & to apply: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — Postdoctoral Position with the Conflict & Society Team
Are you a recent social sciences PhD who has conducted cutting-edge research on forced displacement and migration? Do you have experience conducting mixed-methods research? The “Conflict & Society” Re...
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100% this. This is a feature not a bug, this is what the policies are designed to do. @abbeyst.bsky.social and I write about that more here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
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Jason Linkins@dceiver.bsky.social · last yr.There's going to be a tendency to cover disappearances like this as "what a huge mistake/so incompetent," but this is not a mistake: The entire point is to indiscriminately catch up law abiding people in these dragnets to sow fear and compliance. www.npr.org/2025/03/27/n...
Watching the cascade of asylum norm death in real time... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Poland suspends migrants' right to apply for asylum
The law will allow Polish authorities to temporarily spend asylum rights at the border with Belarus.
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The full story is here, and it includes multiple other cases of people, including other people who entered at ports of entry (not illegally) who were clearly detained and shipped to El Salvador solely on the basis of their tattoo and nothing more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos
The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.
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The immigration crackdown is central to Trump's strategy to undermine democracy. What it can do that purging opponents or controlling the power of the purse cannot is enable military deployment on US soil & rally militia to enact their agenda unchecked. w/ @abbeyst.bsky.social for #USAPP
LSE Blogs@lseblogs.bsky.social · last yr.On the USAPP blog @stephrschwartz.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social and @abbeyst.bsky.social look at the #Trump administration's harsh #immigration policy. They argue these actions are part a strategy for dismantling #democracy by amassing coercive power & rallying pro-government right-wing militias.
@stephrschwartz.bsky.social and I wrote a post for @lseblogs.bsky.social on how the immigration crackdown can help the administration mobilize US troops on US soil, and rally militia -- which would enable even more harm to groups this administration targets, like Trans Americans.
LSE Blogs@lseblogs.bsky.social · last yr.On the USAPP blog @stephrschwartz.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social and @abbeyst.bsky.social look at the #Trump administration's harsh #immigration policy. They argue these actions are part a strategy for dismantling #democracy by amassing coercive power & rallying pro-government right-wing militias.
In case it’s not clear, ICE is getting the names of pro-Palestine students to target from infamous pro-Israel watchdog groups Campus Watch, Canary Mission, etc Those groups — not part of govt in any way — have enormous power right now with a direct pipeline to the deportation machine.
NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.
![I am the immigration attorney for Jerce Reyes Barrios, born in January 16, 1989 in Venezuela. 2. In February and March 2024, Mr. Reyes Barrios marched in two demonstrations in Venezuela protesting the authoritarian rule of Maduro. At the second demonstration, he was detained and taken to a clandestine building where he was tortured (electric shocks and suffocation) along with other demonstrators. 3. Shortly after his release, he fled Venezuela for the United States. He registered with CBP One in Mexico, then presented himself to CBP officials on the day of his appointment. He was taken into custody and detained at Otay Mesa Detention Facility in September 2024. 4. We applied for asylum, withholding of removal, and CAT protection in December 2024. His final individual hearing is set for April 17, 2025 before Judge Robinson at the Otay Mesa Immigration Court. 5. On March 15, 2025, Mr. Reyes Barrios was deported to El Salvador with no notice to counsel or family. It was not until March 18, 2025 that counsel was able to reach an ICE official and learn that he had in fact been deported. 6. Mr. Reyes Barrios was/is a professional soccer player in Venezuela. He has never been arrested or charged with a crime. He has a steady employment record as a soccer player, as well as a soccer coach for children and youth. 7. Initially, Mr. Reyes Barrios was placed in maximum security at Otay Mesa and accused of being a Tren de Aragua gang member. The accusation is based on two things. First, he has a tattoo on his arm of a crown sitting atop a soccer ball with a rosary and the word "Dies." OHS alleges that this tattoo is proof of gang membership. In reality, he chose this tattoo, because it is similar to the logo for his favorite soccer team Real Madrid. See logo below. [pictures of the tattoo and the pictures of the logo]. 8. Second, OHS reviewed his social media posts and found a photo of Mr. Reyes Barrios making a hand gesture that they allege is proof of gang membership.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifncv2sfxob3h7ozdkoymku3wfpbknlroa6bric46v5y7asbrzrim)
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last yr.Rubio’s position seems to be: - We get to say who is a terrorist. Our decision is final. It can’t be challenged. Just trust us. - Once we decide you are a terrorist, we can immediately deport you. No judges. - After we deport you, we can make you rot in a foreign prison. No criminal charges needed.
"lack of specific information"..."actually highlights the risk they pose" confirms ICE is targeting people because of *who they are*, not for what they have done. in polisci, this is known as collective targeting & it is the basis for eliminationist politics by expulsion, murder, disappearance.
Adam Isacson@adamisacson.com · last yr.You've probably seen it, but we should keep raising up what an ICE official actually wrote to a court on Monday: "The lack of a criminal record does not indicate they pose a limited threat. In fact… the lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose."
Inter-con, USIP security contractor, had contract terminated by USIP but still had one physical key to building. DOGE went to contractor VP's house and said "you either let us in or we're gonna cancel all your other government business." Inter-con then turned on USIP, and used key to let DOGE in.
USIP owns their building. DOGE is vandalizing a building the federal government DOES NOT OWN.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last yr.After breaking into the US Institute of Peace (USIP) Monday, DOGE members immediately got to work taking down signs to erase the independent agency. Photos taken yesterday shared directly with me:
At the risk of being a parody of myself I think the roots to the "new" misogyny lie in the theology of slavery and the rationalization of mass rape for centuries by people who thought of themselves as the most devout people in the country www.liberalcurrents.com/guys-win-and...
Guys Win: Andrew Tate, Rape Politics, and the Authoritarian Right
Misogyny is a preeminent feature of authoritarian politics.
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Honestly, what the fuck www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
DOGE plays hardball in U.S. Institute of Peace takeover
DOGE, which stands for Department of Government Efficiency, took over the U.S. Institute of Peace after threatening its officials with criminal prosecution.
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Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · last yr.bsky.app/profile/reil... this is bonkers and deeply disturbing. Private security, DOJ, DOGE, and the DC police together worked to take control over a private building the government *does not own* and dismiss the staff *whom the president does not employ,* removing them, it seems, with armed force
Sources inside NIH say DOGE is at one of their buildings right now. If you have additional info, i’m marisakabas.04 on Signal.
bsky.app/profile/mari... the government *does not own this building.* they are vandalizing private property. this is pure and simple thuggery.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last yr.After breaking into the US Institute of Peace (USIP) Monday, DOGE members immediately got to work taking down signs to erase the independent agency. Photos taken yesterday shared directly with me:
bsky.app/profile/reil... this is bonkers and deeply disturbing. Private security, DOJ, DOGE, and the DC police together worked to take control over a private building the government *does not own* and dismiss the staff *whom the president does not employ,* removing them, it seems, with armed force
Patrick Reilly@reillykp.bsky.social · last yr.WashPost has a tick-tock this morning (gift link): wapo.st/42dj8kl
