Aleks Lewicki

This year I’m doing something different - I’m only going to talk about this one appeal.

Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...

Screenshot of Sociological Review Foundation Zoom event Immigration, Policy and Protest, showing participants. Clockwise from top left: Aleksandra Lewicki, Fizza Qureshi, Aaron Winter, Michaela Benson

🎥 WATCH: Immigration, Policy and Protest

What shapes the UK's conversation on migration? @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social take a closer look in our latest Conversations event.

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Coloniality, Race, and Europeanness: Britain’s Borders after Brexit Abstract. The scholarship on the politics of immigration often frames governments’ responses to far-right mobilization as a return to border closures and a

This might also be useful - in this article, I show how mainstream and far right narratives blend into each other with various repertoires of anti-immigration agitation: academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

In unserem Graduiertenkolleg 2571 „Imperien: Dynamischer Wandel, Temporalität und nachimperiale Ordnungen“ sind 4 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen-Stellen, befristet auf drei Jahre, Teilzeitstelle (65 %), Eintrittstermin: 01.05.2026, zu besetzen!

Diana García-Catena, Anastasios Hadjisolomou and Dennis Nickson Affective labour, blurred work–leisure boundaries, and intensity of exploitation in the hospitality sector https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261251391544 The Sociological Review #OnlineFirst

What can the concept of “affective labour” tell us about how capitalism extracts value from the self?

Diana García-Catena and co-authors on hospitality workers in Spain, precarity and the risk of investing yourself in your work.

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Dictator DNA: individualising Nazism in the context of rising fascism and genocide Bluesky:  @identitiesjournal.bsky.social

I have a new blog out @identitiesjournal.bsky.social #IdentitiesBlog

Dictator DNA: individualising Nazism in the context of rising fascism and genocide

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Have you read our latest #IdentitiesBlog?

Racism, transphobia and the mainstreaming of far-right politics in Britain' by Maddy Clark and @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social

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#farright #racism @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Shabana Mahmood tells Nigel Farage to ‘sod off’ after invitation to join Reform It came after Nigel Farage said the home secretary sounds like a Reform supporter following her controversial proposals to overhaul the asylum system

The Labour government has successfully triangulated itself to somewhere to the right of the Tories, Reform, and "Tommy Robinson" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’ After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign

I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.

What changes to the UK asylum system are being proposed by Labour? Refugees would face longer waits and possible return to their home country if deemed safe, under proposals

Unsurprisingly, privatised humanitarian routes - such as the „Homes for Ukraine” scheme - are the new model for the future. That’s because they provide only temporary protection and are another nail in the coffin of full state based asylum: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“At the summit, Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, said the slave trade was abhorrent but countries should be “looking forward” and addressing current challenges such as climate change.”

Some philosophers — Nuti and Táíwò among them — might have a thing or two to say about that ‘but.’

Or an expression of anti-Muslim racism

UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.

It’s almost become a prerequisite for the office of Home Secretary to demonstrate prowess at the cruelty olympics.

How far and how high can one fly the cruelty flag? That’s the prerequisite.
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Mamdani‘s victory reminds one of the leading German news outlets (FAZ) of Houllebecq‘s „Submission“ (!) - no further comment

Deadline tomorrow! (just to note, the only reason why I am not going for this is because as a former recipient I am ineligible - but it is an absolute recommendation)

Illustration for The Sociological Review magazine's September 2025 issue. Whimsical drawing of three anthropomorphic flowers – orange, green and black against a brown and cream background – protesting together. One holds a black flag, another shouts through a megaphone, and the third listens intently with blue sound waves connecting them. Artist: Raquel Figueira

“Quite often, big social theorists actually formed their ideas in social movements, or in radical or activist spaces – what sociologists call counter-public spheres.”

@alimeghji.bsky.social talks to Iris Pissaride about W.E.B. Du Bois’ legacy in the Magazine’s most recent issue.

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OUT NOW: In this new blog post, Maddy Clark and I examine some of the steps that got us to one of the largest far-right marches in UK history. The expansion of target groups - eg via racist & anti-trans agitation - is one of them:

OUT NOW: In this new blog post, Maddy Clark and I examine some of the steps that got us to one of the largest far-right marches in UK history. The expansion of target groups - eg via racist & anti-trans agitation - is one of them:

📣 Join us this Thursday: Europe's 'Muslim Question' and the politics of gender and sexuality (Felix Meritis, Amsterdam). A public presentation of the main findings of our research on how to better understand the systematic problematization and dehumanization of Muslims in Europe.

Call for Participation: Methodologies and Epistemologies of Social Reproduction Workshop The Sociological Review Foundation Seminar Series Call for participation in a seminar funded by The Sociological Review Foundation exploring methods, ethics and innovative approaches to social reproduction research.

📣 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Methodologies and Epistemologies of Social Reproduction

Apply by 15 Nov to join a 2026 #workshop for scholars, practitioners and activists engaging with social reproduction theories, and employing traditional and non-traditional methods.

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'Racist and transphobic tropes thereby fulfil distinctive, but also complementary functions: both operate via projected scenarios of biological contamination and criminal transgression.'

'Racism, transphobia and the mainstreaming of far-right politics in Britain'

New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Maddy Clark and @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social

Read the blog post ⬇️
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#farright #racism @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

See, all that stuff about the underdeveloped „wild east“ with its animals roaming free is just not true. We even put nappies on our sheep when we take them on the high speed train

NEW ISSUE: The Sociological Review journal 73.6 features 18 new papers and review articles, including 15 #openaccess.

Our contributors turn a sociological eye on au pairing, Uber drivers and bonded labourers, kin-making and houseplants, and much more.

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German Court: Systemic flaws in Poland’s asylum system, especially for people entering via Belarus, mean Germany can’t send them back under the Dublin rules.

Apologies for the late notice, its been unusually busy with external speaking lately 😅

Abstracts for the event advertised in the post

Join us tonight for the online lecture series: „Border Regimes on the Move" - I will share a panel with Hans Kundnani (Eurowhiteness) & discuss how thinking racialisation from its ambiguities helps us to dismantle key myths about race. Details and registration here: uni-goettingen.de/en/694576.html

YouTube video by The Sociological Review Foundation Immigration, Policy and Protest: Michaela Benson, Aleksandra Lewicki, Fizza Qureshi, Aaron Winter

It's been a busy October filled with some great events, including @thesociologicalreview.org Conversation on Immigration, Policy and Protest with @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social, Fizza Qureshi, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social and me.

Here's the recording:

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Screenshot of Sociological Review Foundation Zoom event Immigration, Policy and Protest, showing participants. Clockwise from top left: Aleksandra Lewicki, Fizza Qureshi, Aaron Winter, Michaela Benson

🎥 VIDEO: Immigration, Policy and Protest

Watch our most recent Conversations event as panellists @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social look at the factors shaping a national conversation.

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