Delighted to share word of this special issue of @ersjournal.com co-edited by our own Dominic Pasura and colleagues. 'Roaming and Rooted' brings together 11 articles rethinking migration via lived religion/spirituality and African epistemologies across Nigeria, Zimbabwe, South Africa & the UK.
📌A NEW PAPER by @james-carr.bsky.social and I - we review research about Islamophobia and anti-Mulsim racism and suggest some possibilities for future work in @ersjournal.com
Have a read here 👇: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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SEMINAR:
🗣️'Sexual Violence in Racial Capitalism' - Alison Phipps
📅1-2.30pm, 23 April 2026
📌Hybrid (Manchester and online)
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We're looking for Special Issue proposals! 📢
You have until the end of April to submit. We are keen to amplify research on regions/topics historically neglected, including the Global South, Indigeneity, and Decolonial approaches.
Full details below:
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#AAS2026 is coming up, and we'll be attending! Ken Wissoker and Rob Dilworth are joining you in Vancouver, and you can browse our books at the Ingram Academic booth (#507) in the exhibit hall. #AsianStudies buff.ly/2hOr05t
How does refugee resettlement function not just as a process, but as an institution shaped by a complex web of actors, relationships and practices?
Join us tomorrow for the launch of the Special Issue Refugee resettlement as an institution @compasoxford.bsky.social
Sign up: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
1/ So happy that my article “Disinformation as repression signaling: the cost of dissent in Russia” is out in @ersjournal.com! I show how autocrats use disinformation as part of the transnational digital repression toolkit to signal their capacity to repress.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Next week! #Identities online event, in collaboration with Stuart Hall Archive Project at University of Birmingham
The Asian Gang Revisited: Race, Youth Culture, Policing, and the Afterlives of Community
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Stuart Hall Foundation @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgcp.bsky.social
Our new article is out!
Stuart Hall helps us to examine how evidence & expertise are used to help race slide into the mainstream in policies on integration & migration in Sweden & the UK
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In a #ERSNew study examining Census results in Puerto Rico, Ricardo Lowe Jr. finds support for Vargas-Ramos’ “racial statistics puzzle” thesis, highlighting the growing instability of racial measurement on the island.
Check out this paper here: doi.org/10.1080/0141...
New rules for dual citizens reflect how states are adapting citizenship to a digital age of control and surveillance.
👉 Read the full analysis on @theconversation.com UK’s new passport rules for dual citizens are a result of border control in the digital age
theconversation.com/uks-new-pass...
Image text refers to: Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable', a free online @bsatheory.bsky.social event, 26 March
Book now for 'Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable', a free online @bsatheory.bsky.social event, 26 March
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A huge thank you to Philip Kasinitz, Professor at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social, for this thoughtful endorsement of ERS.
It means a lot to have our work’s impact and relevance acknowledged by a respected expert in the field.
Next Friday, 27th, we're closing our Anti-Racism in Education webinar series with:
#Decolonization as Praxis: On Safe(r) Spaces and Counter-Narratives
Grab your free ticket here: www.eventbrite.com/e/anti-racis...
Book cover of Laboring in the Shadows: Precarity and Promise in Black Youth Work by Bianca J. Baldridge
Laboring in the Shadows by Bianca J. Baldridge explores the critical role of Black youth workers, especially in the lives of vulnerable youth, and the challenges they face in their unstable, underappreciated position.
https://ow.ly/SoHZ50YgWmg
#ERSNew 🐣
Integration isn’t just about minority-majority relations.
New research by Muhammet Öksüz & @ilsevanliempt.bsky.social shows Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands, while facing othering, also reproduce those same boundaries across generations to hold onto a "middle" status.
Next #Identities online event, open for registration!
The Asian Gang Revisited: Race, Youth Culture, Policing, and the Afterlives of Community
In collaboration with the Stuart Hall Archive Project at the University of Birmingham
Register:
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Stuart Hall Foundation
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Our new themed issue is live! Football, #Migration & #Racism: Global Perspectives (V. 49, Issue 4) examines the crucial intersections of race, mobility, and anti-racism in the global game.
Read the issue to better understand the forces shaping football today: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rers20/4...
VACANCY (2 of 2...)
Lecturer in Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social with research expertise in the field(s) of racial inequalities, anti-racism and theoretical debates in ‘race’.
Please share - thanks!
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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A huge thank you to our authors, reviewers, and readers worldwide. Your engagement helps advance vital research on race, ethnicity, migration, and ethno-nationalism.
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The publishing process as an ECR can feel uncertain.
We’ve created a hub that covers everything from submission to decision with guidance on peer review, article prep, and advice from our community.
Demystify the journey and submit with confidence.
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Still time to register for our annual lecture this Thursday: Bridget Anderson shares her research on migration and citizenship 👇🏾
#ERSBookReview 📕
"Here, Jemma DeCristo traces processes of gentrification in black neighbourhoods in Oakland, St Louis and Chicago, from the 1960s onwards, and the role of black art and artists in these processes, often branded as community development". @dukepress.bsky.social
"In 2025, the average length of stay in Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) custody quadrupled to 117 days; Guatemalan children now make up roughly 35 percent of all detained minors."
@laurenheidbrink.bsky.social wrote about deportation from the US and Guatemalan children on the SUP blog
Congratulations to @academicdiary.bsky.social on the @britsoci.bsky.social presidency! We are so thrilled to have such a caring and visionary leader in our community at a time when we need Sociology more than ever! 🎉
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#ERSNew #OpenAccess 🐣🔓
"Our aim is not to discount the role of empirical inquiry and evidence but to draw attention to the changing styles, grammars and policy mechanisms through which racial classifications continue to gain mainstream legitimacy".
