This is Albs - he says no to cuts and no to casualisation 💪😼
06.03.2026 12:08
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This is Albs - he says no to cuts and no to casualisation 💪😼
Cats on (digital) picket lines!
Another @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social picket line @northumbriauni.bsky.social yesterday. We're loud and proud in our fight for pay and pensions justice! @ucu.org.uk @chionwurah.bsky.social @chroniclelive.co.uk @timeshighered.bsky.social @bylinesnetwork.co.uk
We are on strike because we don't accept the "choice" between a pay freeze (& being taken out of national bargaining) & being forced out of the teachers' pension scheme.
Please support us by writing to the VC: qrcc.me/t5z6wzqmb36u
And/or donate to the solidarity fund: www.ucu-unn.org.uk/hardshipf
I learned a lot and met many fantastic people. I was especially happy that my fellow Human Trafficking Research Network Steering Group colleagues Dr @dayoakin.bsky.social and Dr Maria Turda were also invited to speak.
My presentation looked at trafficked persons' asylum claims and what they teach us about the protection needs of other irregular migrants, and the limitations of existing legal frameworks in that context.
I enjoyed speaking at "Unseen and Unprotected: Modern Slavery in the Shadow of Migration" at Jesus College Cambridge yesterday. @petrebreazu.bsky.social and the other organisers brought together speakers and audience members who genuinely care about trafficked persons and other irregular migrants.
I've been thinking about how UK immigration law practitioners and legal academics could collaborate more effectively for a while now. Read about the rationale behind a JIANL Special Issue on the topic and ongoing research (including how to get involved) on the ILPA blog 👇
Looking forward to speaking at this interesting event alongside my fellow Human Trafficking Research Network Steering Group members Dr Maria Turda and @dayoakin.bsky.social and lots of other fantastic contributors! Thank you for the invitation!
The Human Trafficking Research Network is inviting abstracts for its 2026 conference on the theme of “Reframing Trafficking - Knowledge, Policy, and Practice at a Crossroads”.
Date: 18 and 19 June 2026
Location: Northumbria University, Newcastle (UK)
Abstract deadline: 20 February 2026
All articles from our JIANL Special Issue are now available open access as author manuscript versions here: ilpa.org.uk/journal-of-i...
Thanks very much to @ilpaimmigration.bsky.social for allowing us to bring the Special Issue to a wider audience!
📕🚀 Book launch!
I'll be discussing my book Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law with Professor Elspeth Guild and Dr Liza Schuster, chaired by @gillkane.bsky.social!
15 October, 17:00, online and in-person in London, sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irregular-...
Thank you!
It’s publication day!
My monograph 'Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law: Protection from Dangerous Migratory Journeys' is out with @routledgebooks.bsky.social: www.routledge.com/Irregular-Mi...
If you’re interested, please consider asking your institution’s library to purchase a copy.
I am looking for UK immigration law practitioners to fill in a short survey about their engagement with legal academic work. There is also an option to take part in an interview at the end. Please do consider taking part and share with your networks:
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...
Thank you!
Thank you!!
Would you mind sharing this? (Thank you!)
@ilpaimmigration.bsky.social
@colinyeo.bsky.social (thanks for sharing on LinkedIn!:)
@squeakinglyjen.bsky.social
@danielsohege.bsky.social
@alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social
@stevepeers.bsky.social
@rli-sas.bsky.social
I am looking for UK immigration law practitioners to fill in a short survey about their engagement with legal academic work. There is also an option to take part in an interview at the end. Please do consider taking part and share with your networks:
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...
My thoughts on last week's #Kinsa judgment, now on the @rli-sas.bsky.social blog: rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/06/12/t...
A powerful challenge to the criminalisation of facilitation through Charter rights, but a narrow exception to criminalisation which the Commission seems to plan to introduce anyway.
Thanks to @rli-sas.bsky.social for an amazing #RLIconf2025!
I presented my paper on 'Vulnerability Re-Trafficking and Irregular Re-Migration in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters: A Sliding Scale of Risk' and learned so much from other speakers.
Call for inputs to the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants on externalization of migration - measures to prevent migration, administrative processes beyond national borders and return through the involvement of third countries. Deadline 10 June, info at www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...
The CJEU has ruled that Member States cannot prosecute asylum-seeking mothers who travelled on false documents with their children as people smugglers - in a judgment with broader implications for the criminalisation of immigration.
My analysis: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-ca...
Brilliant keynote by @myrmek.bsky.social at #RLIconf25, discussing how ethnographic methods can inform, inspire and improve refugee law research
Really enjoyed this conference, esp Audrey Macklin’s keynote; @janinapescinski.bsky.social's talk on over-research; @nikkibusu.bsky.social & Sophie Cartwright (@jrsuk.bsky.social) speaking on disability & displacement; and presenting my work in progress on legal academic-practitioner collaboration
Really looking forward to reading all of the fantastic contributions in this book! I've looked at some of them already and they are excellent. A big thank you to the editors for including my chapter ('Who Is the “Vulnerable” Victim? Trafficked and Smuggled Persons as Victims of Crime under EU Law')!
Keir Starmer claims soaring immigration has done incalculable damage to UK economically and politically
Shameful bullish. What's done incalculable damage is a decade of pernicious falsehoods about immigration, while people who should know better refuse to counter the lies of the increasingly normalised far right.
Let's tackle those lies:
Recognising #LivedExperience as #Expertise: a #Workshop on Inclusion in Research on Movement and Exploitation.
📅 June 6th, 10am – 4pm BST (online)
+infos & register here ➡️ asylos.org/recognising-...
Co-hosted with the Human Trafficking Research Network (HTRN) & support from Clifford Chance.
A group of us law academics put together a letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers UK Supreme Court ruling & we are asking other *UK based law folk* (academic activist practitioner etc) to sign
More details 👇
#transrights #trans #transgender #lawsky #academicsky #UKlaw
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Register by 15 May for the forthcoming RLI ANNUAL CONFERENCE 👇 👇 👇 Featuring keynote speakers Professor Maja Janmyr, Dr Katy Long and Dr Jeff Crisp.
"Refugee Law and Forced Migration Studies: Debates, Interactions and Futures’’ 2 - 4 June 2025, Senate House, London
rli.sas.ac.uk/rli-annual-c...