Kathryn Cassidy

Book cover with open book and quill sculpture on a college campus.

One more month until "All Geographers should be Feminist Geographers!" Published by @ugapress.bsky.social

On 2 Oct 1990, Ukrainian students launched Revolution on Granite on Kyiv Maidan, pitching tents & going on hunger strike.

They rejected the Union Treaty with Moscow & party property nationalization.

The Maidan protest tradition was born, followed by Orange Revolution 2004 & Euromaidan 2013-14.

Constrained agency and everyday borderworkers in public sector institutions Borderwork has often been defined expansively to reveal the multiple actors, processes and practices engaged in bordering. However, not all borderwork…

I also recently published this piece in Geoforum on what these regimes mean for workers in public sector institutions, including HE, and how they negotiate ‘border work’ - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An important piece of journalism by @resprofnews.bsky.social on the costs of visas to UK universities. But the overall burden of border regimes for public sector is much greater & not limited to elite
unis. See my piece in @societyandspace.bsky.social for more -

journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

The European Union was designed for peace – it is never going to be a war machine | Anand Menon Reacting to the Russian military threat would require the bloc to be agile and decisive. It is many great things, but it is not that, says Anand Menon, director of UK in a Changing Europe

Full article 👇

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Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we offer an extensive reading list about border and police ab...

We made a reading list for you.

Photo of a pile of books. The books are 'Debt Trap Nation' by Katherine Brickell and Mel Nowicki. Cover image features a woman and small child in a deep concrete basin or pit with no way of climbing out as the ladder is too short.

Just arrived:

Debt Trap Nation
by @kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki

“A compelling call to action... shows how reimagining policy could deliver economic justice.” - @nicolajanesharp.bsky.social

Author royalties will be donated to @seacharity.bsky.social

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Episode Two: Reproductive Justice Podcast Episode · Between Borders · 15/09/2025 · 28m

Just dropped! Episode two of Between Borders podcast where we explore what reproductive justice means in the context of precarious migration. With @mariammalik.bsky.social @rachelbenchekroun.bsky.social and Julia Fernandez Molina podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

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🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation.

🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...

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Attending the @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference and curious about the Political Geography Research Group?

We're sponsoring more than 30 sessions this year, and having a friendly lunchtime social on Friday 29th - all welcome to join!

More info: polgrg.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/t...

#RGSIBG25

The future of UK-EU relations - UK in a changing Europe Join UK in a Changing Europe and The Open University in Brussels as they bring together leading academics, think tankers, officials and journalists in Brussels to discuss UK-EU relations.

In Brussels in September? Come along! ukandeu.ac.uk/events/the-f...

Can Keir Starmer's EU and US balancing act succeed in an increasingly turbulent world? - UK in a changing Europe Join UK in a Changing Europe and the Institute for Government to discuss Keir Starmer's relationship with the US and EU.

🎟️ Don't miss our upcoming event with @instituteforgovernment.org.uk 🎟️

@anandmenon.bsky.social, @jillongovt.bsky.social and Rachel Ellehuus will reflect on the impact of the US on UK-EU relations

📆 Tues 9 September
📍In-person (London) and online

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Definitely. Starting salaries mask scales, which often have discretionary points at the top too, to add to the complexity. But I think we still need to be cautious when assuming job titles/equivalence in the context of changing academic structures. I think I need to go away and read more on this!

I think the picture is more complex; the pre- and post-92 binary masks huge diversity, e.g. Newcastle & Northumbria unis have the same starting salary of £40,497 on their lecturer scale. Grades & roles don’t always completely align across the sector, esp since moves to US-style academic structures.

New 2025 Special Issue:
“The Spatial Dimensions of Refugee and Migrant Activism: Borders, Liminality, and Porosity.” Editors, Susan Banki & Suraina Pasha. See articles in the Journal of Refugee Studies.

Blogs - UK in a changing Europe

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Macron’s returns agreement gamble: checkmate or misstep? - UK in a changing Europe A look at the political cost of Emmanuel Macron’s migration deal with Keir Starmer — and whether his gamble will pay off....

"After all his rhetoric about European solidarity — all for one and all that — Macron broke ranks, cutting a deal with a country that has always been ambivalent about Europe."

@annedaguerre.bsky.social on the political cost of the 'one in, one out' migration deal 🇫🇷🇬🇧

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Kathryn Cassidy & Gill Davidson (2025) entitled 'On the forms of borderwork in public institutions: Bordering social security through conditions and tests' with a black banner at the top. In this paper, we analyse the key forms of borderwork that have emerged in UK social security over the last few decades. We argue that these forms play a role in everyday bordering in the UK, i.e. the embedding of immigration checks into more and more routine encounters, administered not by trained, paid border officials, but by other residents, in order to secure a range of public services for a majoritised population deemed deserving by the state. Legislation plays a role within the formation of public sector bordering practices and processes, but does not pre-determine the exact forms and, therefore, people's experiences of and with these. We argue that far from being a ‘flat’ or ‘uniform’ space, the bureaucratic field in which borderwork is being undertaken is lively and differentiated. We believe that it is important that we as geographers attend to and analyse these variations. To develop these arguments, we explore the uneven topographies of bordering and borderwork in UK social security by focusing on two key forms: conditions and tests. Specifically, we seek to answer the question, what do these forms do, that is, what role do they play in the aggregation of bordering within this specific site? We argue that conditions mean that borderwork both exceeds and persists, whereas tests function to ensure that borderwork proliferates and obfuscates.

#OpenAccess in Area:

'On the forms of borderwork in public institutions: Bordering social security through conditions and tests' by @kathrynlcassidy.bsky.social & Gill Davidson

This paper explores everyday bordering practices in the UK within public services.

doi.org/10.1111/area...

Spatial Justice and the Makeshift City Designing Liveability from Below

I will be speaking on spatial justice at the GRASP festival in Roskilde:
graspfestival.dk/en/programme...

We have long been highlighting the issue of a lack of routes to long-term residence for people displaced from Ukraine - ukandeu.ac.uk/ceasefires-a... - Given the widespread threat to civilians from Russian drone & missile attacks, displaced people need stability & security NOT forced return.

I enjoyed writing this for the Good Growth Hub @acadsocsciences.bsky.social : how might the UK-EU reset contribute to growth through financial services?

🧵1/ How can armed resistance enable—not undermine—democracy, peacebuilding, and the revitalisation of Indigenous socio-ecological relations?

In the Annals of the AAG, I write about post/decolonial approaches to territory & the #SalweenPeacePark
doi.org/10.1080/2469... @geographers.bsky.social

Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy - Migrant Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy and Maternity Care in the UK; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How do immigration policies shap...

Out tomorrow! @brisunipress.bsky.social

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/borders-citi...

Really exciting to finally have a hard copy of this thoughtful, rigorous and thought-provoking piece of scholarship. Highly recommended summer (or any other time of year!) reading for anyone interested in borders, migration and/or reproductive justice. Congratulations @drglonergan.bsky.social

I've just launched a survey exploring the experiences of Britons living in the EU, EEA, EFTA of accessing and securing their post-Brexit rights, five years on. Open to Brits of all ages across the EU - please share widely! #Brexit #BritsinEU lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

In it I explore how higher education and healthcare workers use their agency and involvement in state-mandated borderwork to shape bordering practices and processes and create the potentiality for alternatives to the exclusions and restrictions that the UK’s border regime seeks to create.

Constrained agency and everyday borderworkers in public sector institutions Borderwork has often been defined expansively to reveal the multiple actors, processes and practices engaged in bordering. However, not all borderwork…

One of the final pieces from work I undertook during my @leverhulme.ac.uk research fellowship has just been published in Geoforum - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Constrained agency and everyday borderworkers in public sector institutions

Really looking forward to this conference tomorrow on Migration and Technologies of Un/Bordering www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/wp-content/u... www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/wp-content/u... I’ll be presenting research on refusals in everyday borderwork that was part of a project funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk

Bordering/mothering online book launch Launching Bordering social reproduction by Rachel Rosen + Eve Dickson, and Borders, Citizenship, + Pregnancy by Gwyneth Lonergan.

I'm excited to share that SSAHE will be holding a joint book launch for myself and Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson on 5 June at 5pm online, with Umut Erel as discussant!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/borderingm....