Monish Bhatia

Home Office 'squandered billions' on asylum accommodation, MPs say "Flawed contracts" and "incompetent delivery" left the department unable to cope with demand for asylum accommodation, a report by MPs suggests.

Costs of asylum accomodation are down to firms making vast profits off of providing poor quality for people seeking safety and Home Office cruelty and ineptitude. It is not the fault of those forced into using them by a system which doesn't give them a choice. #r4today

www.bbc.com/news/article...

I have joined as a series editor for the Palgrave Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Indigeneity and Criminal Justice. More details here: link.springer.com/series/15777

Feel free to get in touch via email to discuss your ideas and/or if you are thinking of putting in a proposal.

Is Britain far right? Do most people in Britain really sympathise with far-right views? As Reform UK rises in the polls, we asked the experts.

The issue is not whether 'Britain is far right' but why far-right politics have become so normalised

Rather than accepting this is a bottom-up, people-driven push, I argue that we must look at those who have the power to shape the agenda and public discourse

www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

For those in London

But... Great to be in great company : @monish.bsky.social whose work I admire so much! and so many promising early career scholars and some more established ones.

Yes it was @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
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Thanks to the organizers of the British Society of Criminology Midland group Symposia on politics, harm and justice for inviting me to speak about war and punitive emotions, as keynote speaker. A sad reminder of the centrality of war in criminology in these dark times.
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"No Release" - a film based on my recent BA project on immigration GPS ankle monitors, directed by amazing Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. More details and registration link below.

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UK deportation of Eritrean man to France under ‘one-in, one-out’ halted by judge The 25-year-old claims to be trafficking victim and won high court challenge in what may prove major blow to Labour policy

The deportation of an Eritrean man under 'one-in, on-out' has been halted by a judge after an NRM decision indicating reasonable suspicion he'd been trafficked. Charity Medical Justice say vast majority detained under scheme are torture and trafficking survivors www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

NO RELEASE - A film based on my recent British Academy project on immigration GPS ankle monitors (aka tagging/electronic monitoring), directed by brilliant Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. Free registration.
dandelion.events/e/no-release...

Hey You'll 🙂✊🏾

"No Release" - a film based on my recent BA project on immigration GPS ankle monitors, directed by amazing Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. More details and registration link below.

dandelion.events/e/no-release...

Releasing at the end of 2025 (hopefully).

The Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance.

30 chapters.
30+ amazing contributors.
300,000 powerful words.
24+months in the making.
AND we finally pressed that 'send' button and off it goes to the publisher.
What a pleasure it was to work with Thalia, Kathryn and Jason.

BSC regional group symposium 18th Sept 2025 at Uni of Nottingham. registration now open! Free for all to attend. Great speakers lined up, on theme of politics, harm and justice. Register here forms.office.com/e/qH3qgUNwQj.
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New work from the www.channelcrossings.org team!

We have been gathering a dataset of contracts that the government has with private companies related to Channel crossings. We are calling this the ‘border economy’. We have identified over £3billion worth of contracts...

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Photo of journal header Bhatia, M. 2020 Crimmigration, imprisonment & racist violence: Narratives of people seeking asylum in Great Britain. Journal of Sociology 56(1)

It's criminal justice/crimmigration day in my 2nd year UG understanding 'race' & migration module. Thinking back to a year ago when lucky students had @monish.bsky.social deliver the lecture in person 🙌. Many were deeply affected & chose this topic for their final reflexive learning assessment.

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🔥Another vital contribution from @monish.bsky.social shining a light on the violence of 'everyday' detention practices and deportability on women. Not sure I'm exactly 'looking forward' to reading, more approaching with trepidation, but appreciation for this important work. #TheseWallsMustFall

'Reproductive injustice in Britain: punishing illegalized migrant #women from the Global South and separating families' by @monish.bsky.social

From #Identities' International Women's Day Special Collection:
http://doi.org/10.10...

#IWD2025 @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Elon Musk, Nazi salutes and the reactionary redefinition of fascism Bluesky:  @identitiesjournal.bsky.social

Elon Musk, Nazi salutes and the reactionary redefinition of fascism.

What a stunning (and enraging) piece by @aaronwinter.bsky.social

Here's the link: www.identitiesjournal.com/blog-collect...

'Reproductive injustice in Britain: punishing illegalized migrant #women from the Global South and separating families' by @monish.bsky.social

From #Identities' International Women's Day Special Collection:
http://doi.org/10.10...

#IWD2025 @tandfresearch.bsky.social

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We argue that the proposed new offences will imprison more people trying to seek safety and a better life in the UK

This is already happening - over 550 people have been imprisoned 2022-24 for crossing the Channel.

@captainsupportuk.bsky.social works in solidarity with them.

Racism, Violence and Harm ​This edited book examines connections between racism, violence, and social harms.

Member's new book!

Bhatia, M., Poynting, S. and Tufail, W. (eds) (2023) Racism, Violence and Harm: Ideology, media and resistance, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
This book examines connections between racism, violence, and social harms...
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“… Here I Went Through Deportation – Which was also Torture for Me”: Air-Deportations and Liberal Violence in Great Britain - Critical Criminology This article contributes to understanding violence in deportation. Drawing on data from eight months of fieldwork conducted between 2015 and 2017 and interviews with asylum seekers and practitioners, ...

Great new article by @monish.bsky.social in Critical Criminology:

“… Here I Went Through Deportation – Which was also Torture for Me”: Air-Deportations and Liberal Violence in Great Britain.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🔥 Race and Justice Seminar 2025🔥

🚨The Fabrication of Homeland Security: Tracing policing entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel.
Speaker: Rhys Machold.

⏲️Thursday 27th Feb 12:00-13:30

🖱️Registration Link: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-fabric...

I'm looking forward to speaking about my book, Racial Justice and the Limits of Law:

Thursday 23rd January, 12.00-13.30

Online, register at www.eventbrite.com/e/racial-jus...

India's pioneering female anthropologist who challenged Nazi race theories: Irawati Karve led a life that stood apart from those around her. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@bmalkani.bsky.social

🔥 Race and Justice Seminar 2025🔥

RACIAL JUSTICE AND THE LIMITS OF LAW
📡Dr Bharat Malkani
🚨Thursday 23rd January 12:00-13:30
🖱️Registration link: www.eventbrite.com/e/racial-jus...