Eleanor Paynter

congrats on the book, looking forward to reading!

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...

"Iran’s aim now seems to be not to secure victory but to raise the war's cost to prohibitive levels. What follows is a strategy of endurance and attrition. The Islamic Republic has prepared for the possibility that the US and Israel might opt for direct confrontation."

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Hi! Immigration lawyer here! Mahmood's view of the Refugee Convention as providing temporary protection just isn’t correct & AFAIK isn’t one anyone has ever adopted.

On the contrary, the Convention is clearly predicated on a long-term need for protection.
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Rescue workers carry a casualty of an Israel and US strike on a police station in Tehran, Iran. [Majid Khahi/ISNA/WANA via Reuters]

The Azadi sport complex on the day Azadi stadium was attacked, amid the US-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran. [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]

Smoke rises over damaged Azadi Stadium following an US-Israeli attack. [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]

Missiles fired by the US and Israel have hit two schools in the town of Parand, southwest of Tehran, amid ongoing strikes on the country. [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]

Israel, US intensify Iran strikes, targeting homes, hospitals, stadium https://aje.news/olna4h

Comps! I think I might have been prepping these lists exactly a decade ago...

1. migration and border studies
2. postcolonial and cultural studies
3. testimony / narrative ethics / politics of storytelling

If you can't access at this link, happy to share -- just lmk
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Applying the concept of “asylum timescape” (Meier & Donà) to contexts of reception, I demonstrate how crisis oral history can create narrative space for making visible converging temporal & affective experiences that shape individual lives & emergent placemaking & counter-temporalizing practices
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This article reflects on how “crisis oral history” can illuminate layered, nonlinear temporal experiences of displacement and resettlement. I draw on interviews w Ukrainians in Italy... & discuss how narrators w temporary protection represent or reflect on crisis time & its affective dimensions
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Crisis Oral History and the Asylum Timescape: Temporalities, Solidarities, and Affect in Interviews with Ukrainians with Temporary Protection in Italy This article reflects on how “crisis oral history” can illuminate layered, nonlinear temporal experiences of displacement and resettlement. I draw on interviews I recorded with Ukrainians displaced...

New article out in the Oral History Review:

Crisis Oral History and the Asylum Timescape: Temporalities, Solidarities, and Affect in Interviews with Ukrainians with Temporary Protection in Italy
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The 14th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now.

This month’s bulletin contains details about the EU's newest plan for 'degressive’ reintegration support, other means of ‘incentivising’ self-deportations, and twenty newly-obtained Council documents.

Find the issue here: buff.ly/dmMS8AK

@dandipiero.bsky.social FYI

Devolution, delegation, and digitisation: Accountability gaps in fragmented border regimes Contemporary borders are increasingly fragmented and dispersed, variously through externalisation practices and inwardly through everyday bordering ch…

New paper!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Where does accountability lie in contemporary border regimes?

FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely!

philjobs.org/job/show/30997

Writing tip #1: No matter where you are in the writing process, imagine your ideal audience and write for it – small, large, simple, complex: friends, family, community, scholars, activists, children, theatre-goers, the general public. You pick the combination & decide to whom you want to speak.

just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war

Reform’s “British ICE” — Why it would never work Podcast Episode · The Bunker – News without the nonsense · 4 March · 26m

Really good @bunkerpod.bsky.social podcast on Reform’s ICE plans and how to fight the narrative, with the excellent @sundersays.bsky.social and @zoegrunewald.bsky.social

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Gli Stati Uniti hanno affondato una nave da guerra nell’oceano Indiano

This “it’s not a war but a special military operation” is very Kremlin March 2022. As is the propaganda that we are not starting a war but ending one. As is the confusion of oligarch media as it tries to be faithful in the confusion…

"Through a focus on ICE'ss National Detainee Handbook and counter-media produced by activist-artists, I show how custodial media perform an epistemic practice and orchestrate the services incarcerated people must engage in to maintain the media infrastructures of their own incarceration."

È pieno di video falsi sulla guerra in Medio Oriente Realizzati con l'intelligenza artificiale, vecchi oppure fatti in altri luoghi, riconoscerli spesso è difficile e a volte infatti fanno milioni di visualizzazioni

È pieno di video falsi sulla guerra in Medio Oriente

Greece sends warships, fighter jets to defend Cyprus after drone strike The deployment comes after a Shahed-type unmanned aerial vehicle hit Britain’s airbase at Akrotiri in Cyprus overnight.

Greece has ordered the deployment of a military force to Cyprus following drone incursions on the Mediterranean island that have dragged an EU member state into the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran.
www.politico.eu/article/gree...

Greek F-16s have arrived in Cyprus in response to Iranian drone attacks. Greece is also deploying two navy frigates to the region. #Iran

Why the UK should think twice before copying Denmark’s asylum policies A migration researcher based in Denmark explains the downsides of its “zero asylum” policy and returns system.

A migration researcher based in Denmark explains the downsides of its “zero asylum” policy and returns system.

Today, our aircraft spotted a boat in distress with ~40 people on board. What followed was NOT a rescue. A Frontex aircraft was already on scene, complicit – from above – in an interception by the so-called Libyan coastguard.

Europe Expands Its Carceral Edge into Albania - Failed Architecture Italian offshore detention centers turn Albania into one of the EU’s border outposts.

Europe Expands Its Carceral Edge into Albania failedarchitecture.com/europe-expan...

Home Secretary makes written statement on coming asylum changes - Free Movement The Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has made a formal written statement in Parliament on the upcoming changes to asylum protection. There's still little

New from Free Movement: Home Secretary makes written statement on coming asylum changes | Colin Yeo freemovement.org.uk/home-secreta...

BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has barred the U.S. from using Spanish military bases for attacks on Iran.

Francia e Belgio hanno sequestrato una petroliera sospettata di far parte della flotta fantasma russa nel mare del Nord

Francia e Belgio hanno sequestrato una petroliera sospettata di far parte della flotta fantasma russa nel mare del Nord

How to View the ‘Blood Moon’ Total Lunar Eclipse on March 3 Next month, the Earth will come between the sun and the moon, causing the moon to take on an eerie reddish hue.

Next month, the Earth will come between the sun and the moon, causing the moon to take on an eerie reddish hue.

Iran in Crisis: Seven Essays on the Obstacles to Freedom (Introduction) This dossier starts from a basic question. How did we arrive at a moment in which imperialist powers that have waged war across the region and enabled Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, can appear as ...

reading...
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47192 (from January)