Today is a dark day for anyone who believes in sanctuary in the UK.
People who've fled war and torture should be able to rebuild their lives in peace and security - not live under a constant threat of removal.
We must not stop fighting these appalling anti-refugee laws.
Green party wins Gorton and Denton byelection, pushing Labour to third place in blow to Keir Starmer
Trump’s Davos speech is just one racist, colonial, misogynistic stereotype after another! Rambling and offensive throughout!
There ought to be consequences for the abusive use of meritless prosecutions to harass activists.
Wrote a piece with @davideschmid.bsky.social on the “new” Guest Worker schemes in Europe and how they borrow from practices of the past!
Heading to the The University of Leeds for the day as the lovely people of the political theory seminar series kindly invited me to speak. Looking forward to testing out some of the ideas from the book I have been working on for the last eight years and that I am now in the final stages of editing!
See below EOI for AHRC-funded PhDs at UoL. Keen to supervise a project on critical approaches to migration.
Really excited to be spending the day in the @liverpooluni.bsky.social VG&M with the exhibition “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science where we are also collecting your recipes as a response to the wonderful work of Project Armonia.
Really excited to be involved in a pop up exhibition Migration, Refuge & Solidarity‘ on 7th & 8th Nov at @victoriagallery.bsky.social. I will be sharing audio-visual exhibition ‘A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos’ as a part of it. vgm.liverpool.ac.uk/whats-on/exh...
Congratulations to Dr Sarah Elmammeri, our former PhD candidate and the winner of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of ExcellenceDoctoral Thesis Prize.Her lecture titled ‘Between Layers of Borders: Reflecting on EU Policies and Asylum Seekers’ reflects the very best of our PhD student scholarship.
1️⃣ Reporting on migration & accountability can often feel futile
Not today
The ECHR ruled Greece violated the right to life in the 2018 Agathonisi shipwreck: 16 dead, incl. 7 children & 2 babies
@rsaegean.org fought for the families; We had investigated w/ former @spiegel.de colleagues
Decision ⬇️
Thank you to the SI editors @nawalabu72.bsky.social, Anna Agathangelou and Christian Kaunert for including us in this important collection.
Pleased to share our new article in which we critically engage with the role that the “categories of migration” play in determining who does and does not “belong” in Europe and how they are changing.
“Cinema is a friend for life”. Never a truer word spoken from @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social at the @cinemaforall.bsky.social #100YearsGala
If you would like to support the work of Project Armonia and cook some of these brilliant recipes the cook book is available here- projectarmonia.org/en/support-o...
Loved attending the opening of Lightbulb Moments at the The University of Liverpool yesterday and sharing an object in it. It’s a privilege to work with the amazing Project Armonia and to be able to bring their cook book sharing the power of food and stories to a whole new audience is very special.
“#Gaza is being obliterated, reduced to a wasteland.
Gaza is being emptied from its starving population forced to move into the so called “humanitarian” area of Mawasi.”
Full statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
Some great summer reads!
“I had to break the news to my wife. She hasn’t been able to stop crying since she heard the news. What is the value of this life if you have to be separated from the people you love? Both of us are completely shattered by this."
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
They tried students and they tried care workers, but that wasn't enough. Now they're coming for families.
My impassioned thoughts on today's sickening family reunion announcement.
open.substack.com/pub/notanoth...
This is appalling! People flea unimaginable horrors, claim asylum and will then face another awful challenge of fighting to be back with their family. This is just an added layer of cruelty in a broken system that no longer truly gives the refuge it should! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
“All of those who have influence must use it with determination and a sense of moral duty. Every hour counts," says UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini.
The amount of aid entering the #Gaza Strip is insufficient to meet the scale of humanitarian need. This can be reversed.
Let aid in.
Condemnation and words are not enough. Political figures worldwide need to do so much more in the face of these constant atrocities! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
“In Gaza, to be an academic today is to refuse to be reduced to a statistic.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
The British media keeps calling the situation in Gaza a hunger crisis, but this underplays the reality. What we are witnessing is a starvation crisis, this is an active choice not to deliver aid, not a passive outcome with an unknown cause!
Doctors Without Borders joins more than 100 organizations to sounding the alarm that lifesaving aid must enter #Gaza.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-as...
Gaza: More than 30 people killed 'as Israeli troops open fire towards Palestinians waiting for aid'
What more will it take for the world’s leaders to respond than the killing of children waiting for water! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
