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UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined

Separating parents from children, even in the middle of a natural disaster. Shabana Mahmood's Home Office is the same as Suella Braverman's Home Office, is the same as the one that gave us the Windrush scandal

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Ce soir, à Strasbourg, l’assemblée constitutive de la "Europa Power Initiative" lancée par @europanova.bsky.social et soutenue par de nombreux acteurs politiques et sociaux a adopté la Déclaration de Strasbourg, appelant l'Europe a assumer pleinement sa puissance.
europanova.eu/2025/11/27/d...

Thanks, I agree

The ethics of immigration: How biased is the field? Abstract. Methodological nationalism is the assumption that nation-states are the relevant units for analyzing social phenomena. Most of the social science

The distinction between #mild & #heavy #bias is intuitive

Imagine people discussing some principle while referring only to men They are biased but less than if they spent their time arguing it can't apply to women

Now, replace men/women with citizens/ #immigrants

academic.oup.com/migration/ar...

EU Law Analysis Misreading the Temporary Protection Directive? The CJEU sets the record straight on access to subsidiary protection in Framholm (C-195/25)...

The EU's Court of Justice has confirmed that beneficiaries of temporary protection in the EU must be allowed to apply for other forms of protection.

Analysis of the judgment, by Dr Meltem Ineli Ciger: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/11/misr...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Travel rights (which are reasonably robust, if regularly overlooked) can provide a bulwark against these sorts of anti-travel provisions. I wrote about this in Travel Rights in a Culture War, 101 Tex. L. Rev. O. 21 (2022),
texaslawreview.org/travel-right.... But litigants need to assert them!

Christopher Bertram | ‘Core Protection’ Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status should...

"Core protection" is bad news for refugees in the UK

- by Cris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social

"What will now be tested is whether those core Labour supporters are willing to tolerate policies so openly hostile to their professed values."
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

Home Secretary announces major asylum and other changes in new policy paper: "Restoring Order and Control" - Free Movement Following a plethora of media briefings and coverage over the past few days, the Home Secretary has officially published her policy paper on "Restoring Order

In case you missed it: Home Secretary announces major asylum and other changes in new policy paper: “Restoring Order and Control” | Sonia Lenegan

Christopher Bertram | ‘Core Protection’ Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status should...

"Core protection" is bad news for refugees in the UK

- by Cris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social

"What will now be tested is whether those core Labour supporters are willing to tolerate policies so openly hostile to their professed values."
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

How the world's richest man is boosting the British right How the world's richest man is boosting the British right

For nine months, the formidable @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social and I have been investigating if X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. Our findings suggest it does: news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Pope Leo offers his strongest criticism of Trump yet The Pope, who is American, called for "deep reflection" on how migrants are treated, and spoke against US bombing of Venezuelan vessels.

"Speaking in English, and reaching a US audience directly, he reiterated the Catholic belief that every Christian will ultimately be judged on how they welcomed "the foreigner".

Oh, wait: there is no such thing as "christian nationalism" 🤔😇
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Britain Is Having the World’s Most Extreme Immigration Debate The British discourse makes even the Trump administration look moderate.

Imagine a country where hundreds of thousands of legal permanent residents find stripped of their status and forced to reapply for their right to remain. Many no longer meet the criteria, plunged into illegality, subject to deportation.
@emile-chabal.bsky.social

foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/05/b...

From “brain drain” to “care drain” : Women's labor migration and methodological sexism The metaphor of “care drain” has been created as a womanly parallel to the “brain drain” idea. Just as “brain drain” suggests that the skilled migrant…

I strongly opposed framing #women 's migration as #CareDrain & loss to children left behind because

1️⃣it relies on sexist #stereotypes
2️⃣devalues #care work
3️⃣prevents us from understanding #skills in #migration

But metaphors are stronger than arguments 🏋️‍♀️

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The ethics of immigration: How biased is the field? Abstract. Methodological nationalism is the assumption that nation-states are the relevant units for analyzing social phenomena. Most of the social science

On #immigration, true #cosmopolitans should argue that states violating people’s right to #free movement should either be sentenced, or owe compensations to the people harmed, or that States deserve #amnesty
Why has nobody ever considered these positions?

academic.oup.com/migration/ar...

Désolée, mon intention n'était pas offensante, juste descriptive: en Roumanie, la pression religieuse est devenue si grande que le nouveau président mathématicien a dû se marier avec sa partenaire (et on lui demande si les enfants sont baptisés etc.). Si c'est un effet boomerang, apprendre & éviter

L'effet boomerang des politiques à la Ceausescu peut avoir une force insoupçonnée.

30%: #Immigrants are overrepresented amongst #Nobel winners 🏆
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Conservatives pledge to remove 750,000 migrants under borders plan The party unveils new policies on illegal migration as its annual conference begins in Manchester.

Tories really pushing to regain the racist votes back from Reform.

Most people become undocumented thorough no fault of their own. Other countries have shown that policies which make it easier for undocumented migrants to regularise their status are better for everyone.

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

There is a more pressing issue. Ministers must ensure that the vast numbers of immigrants who arrived in the so-called Boriswave of 2020-21 are not automatically absorbed into the permanent population. They are about to cross the the five-year threshold into ILR, yet Labour continues to dither. Ms Mahmood must freeze the status of this huge cohort while a new residency regime is finalised. A million or more extra permanent residents in these islands, let in on the nod, is simply unacceptable. Finally, the home secretary must acquaint herself, and the public, with an accurate estimate of the actual number of foreign nationals living here, what taxes they pay and what services they consume. Without hard data, all the political parties are fumbling around in the dark.

The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally in 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay.

The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism

archive.ph/TFZY9

Work permits are a moral anomaly: they should be abolished

- or so I argue in this v short paper

shs.cairn.info/revue-france...

Beyond trade wars: women garment workers bear the brunt of US tariff recalibration In the latest "This Week in Macroeconomics", Research Fellow Prachi Agarwal exposes a critical consequence of US trade policy: its disproportionate impact on women’s livelihoods across Least Developed...

Trade policy is not gender neutral
Beyond trade wars: women garment workers bear the brunt of US tariff recalibration
odi.org/en/insights/...

watch this.

Les marchés publics de voyagistes - Contributions - 2025 - Aidez-nous à enrichir notre programme de travail - Plateforme de participation de la Cour des Comptes Corps de la contributionLes administrations et opérateurs publics, notamment ceux de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, fond appel à des agences de voyage (FCM, TravelPlanet…) pour l'hôtelle...

Vous pouvez soutenir ma proposition à la Cour des Comptes d'examiner les marchés publics de voyagistes, notamment dans l'ESR :
participationcitoyenne.ccomptes.fr/processes/co...

“According to a thinktank, the Institute of Strategic and International Studies, violence against those in US political life in the four years to 2024 was nearly triple the number of incidents in the previous 25 years combined.”

theconversationuk.cmail20.com/t/r-e-tkejii...

Work permits are a moral anomaly: they should be abolished

- or so I argue in this v short paper

shs.cairn.info/revue-france...

In October 2023, @bboudou.bsky.social offered me to co-edit a handbook on political theory with him. The publisher wanted it published by September 2025. I thought it was a joke. Benjamin did not.

Today, we are very happy to announce the publication of Théorie Politique!

Thank you for initiating and managing such a huge project! You are both so courageous and the book is so important for our community! 🙏😍

A hoard of people march in the streets with protest signs. Even in heels, I am too short to properly show the massive scale of the crowd.

The streets of Chicago are full with tens of thousands of people standing up to ICE and Trump.

Join us.

Thanks 🙏