Okay, so I am definitely going to have to go freelance, at least for a while. So, if anyone has any advice on actually building up and finding freelance policy and comms works, including providing media and advocacy training, campaign planning and strategy please let me know.
We’re hiring a press and media manager 📢
Play a key part in our fight against authoritarianism, democratic backsliding, and the targeting of marginalised communities.⬇️
https://goodlawproject.org/vacancy/press-media-manager/
Thank you! I’m most pleased for Anthony since he had had a grant from The National endowment for the humanities (NEH) for this year stolen by DOGE. My project is exciting too. A new area for me. Outside of custody! Let’s hope I can do it. New beginnings. Finally.
Thank goodness for the @britishacademy.bsky.social & @leverhulme.ac.uk I’m
Very pleased to have received a small grant for my new project on the local consequences of border control. And my partner just awarded a senior research fellowship for a humanities project. Very lucky & thankful.
Ten years after his detention, this author asks, “how committed can Canada be to human rights, if the people it detains are disproportionately Black men?”
Read the first of our two part series on structural racism in Canada's detention system 👇
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Are you a PhD student/postdoc/early-career scholar studying immigration?
Want to spend time this summer in Mexico City w other immigration scholars?
Apply to the UC Davis Global Migration Center summer school!
I'll be there w 3 other amazing economists!
globalmigration.ucdavis.edu/summer_school3
The statement of changes to the immigration rules www.gov.uk/government/p... and the written statement (which goes wider than the rules changes) are now out questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...
Help make the law a lived reality for communities across the UK
Join our team as a Legal Writer!⚖️
📆 Deadline: 22 March
https://goodlawproject.org/vacancy/legal-writer/
New from Free Movement: Extended deadline for Senior Legal Officer role | Free Movement
Senior Policy Officer, Dr Sophie Cartwright, has written for @bordercrim.bsky.social about access to legal advice in detention.
JRS UK's research last year highlighted how difficult it was for people in immigration detention to access any legal support.
📖Read more: www.jrsuk.net/accessing-le...
Hostile systems are designed to strip us of feeling. Creativity defies that attempt. Our co-director @mfbosworth.bsky.social is hosting this exciting event in two weeks time. Join us in Oxford/ online on 16 March to find out more about artists and activists opposing and documenting border control👇
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In case you missed it: Home Office announces a further extension to the Ukraine Permission Extension Scheme | Jasmine Quiller-Doust
Research by @jrsuk.bsky.social found that most people incarcerated in immigration detention in the UK cannot access meaningful legal advice and representation. Read the new post by Sophie Cartwright ⤵️
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Join author Lambros Fatsis at an event to celebrate his new book, 'Policing the beats: Black music, racism and criminal injustice'.
Appearing at @conwayhall.bsky.social, @faneproductions.bsky.social, @imaginebelfast.bsky.social & @housmansbookshop.bsky.social.
More info on our Events page.
One of the sub-themes for this year's BSC Conference is "Hope, transformation and justice: Developing capacity for change." Our plenary speaker Dr Jason Warr, Associate Professor in Criminology @uniofnottingham.bsky.social will address this sub-theme! @britishcriminology.bsky.social
#BSCC2026
Come work with me! We are recruiting for a Head of Comms and Marketing to help us communicate the work of @britishacademy.bsky.social and the power of the humanities and social sciences in making sense of our changing world
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As border control is increasingly staged for the camera, the visual now functions as a core component in consolidating an emergent multilateral deportation regime in the US. New post by Juan Antonio Del Monte Madrigal ⤵️
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February 26, 2026 Dear members of the Columbia community: This morning at approximately 6:30 a.m., federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security entered a Columbia Residential building and detained a student. We are working to gather more information, working to reach the family, and providing legal support. Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a "missing person." We are working to gather more details. It is important to reiterate that all law enforcement agents must have a judicial warrant or judicial subpoena to access non-public areas of the University, including
It is important to reiterate that all law enforcement agents must have a judicial warrant or judicial subpoena to access non-public areas of the University, including housing, classrooms, and areas requiring CUID swipe access. An administrative warrant is not sufficient. If law enforcement agents seek entry to non-public areas of the University, ask the agents to wait to enter any non-public areas until contacting Public Safety. Public Safety will contact the Office of the General Counsel to coordinate the University's response. Do not allow them to enter or accept service of a warrant or subpoena. We will update our community as additional information becomes available. Sincerely,
BREAKING: Columbia President Claire Shipman says DHS agents entered a residential buliding this morning and detained a student.
"Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a 'missing person.'"
📣 We’re looking for a new Chair of Trustees (voluntary role) to help guide Asylum Welcome at a crucial time.
A chance to use your leadership skills to support people rebuilding their lives in safety.
Interested or have someone in mind? See more details on our website: www.asylum-welcome.org/chair/
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ #TheoreticalCrim is pleased to announce the 2025 Best Article Prize has been awarded to Samuel Singler for his article 'Surveillance evangelism: Private technology companies and the digital futures of crimmigration control.' Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.....
An EU Rwanda policy for asylum-seekers?
My analysis of the new changes to EU law on "safe third countries" and "safe countries of origin"
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/02/asyl...
The number of people held in ICE detention on any given day rose by over 75% in 2025, with a record 73,000 people being held in detention as of mid-January.
And with Congress authorizing $45 billion in new detention funding, the system could more than triple in size over the next four years.
End arbitrary detention of forcibly displaced people in inhumane conditions.
With #Sudan’s ongoing conflict and continued instability in parts of Syria, Egypt has become a primary host country for those fleeing violence.
Afghan women have been exposed to severe forms of violence at the border, after Iran initiated a major crackdown on migrants. Read the blog post by Neela Hassan ⤵️
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📆 Happening next month! Hear from three artists about their creative responses to immigration detention, and the role of art in activism and academia. Sign up 👇
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
What about if you had measles? Does that give life long immunity or is it worth having the jab?
Frances Hand from @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social reflects on the campaign by TV star Louise Thompson to appoint a UK Maternity Commissioner and what this could mean for the thousands of women who give birth in the NHS every year.
Find out more⬇️
Thanks so much to @bordercrim.bsky.social for hosting this blog. One of the core findings of my book was around how models which were intended to support legal practitioners in helping their clients to show that they are, for example, a gay man were actually often working as a reason for refusal.
