@alasirriyeh.bsky.social
Sociologist at Lancaster University working on child and youth migration, migrant & antiracist activism, & sociology of emotions in migration. BA Mid Career Fellowship 2024-25- Britain's Child Migrants.
A powerful analysis @alasirriyeh.bsky.social ‘bringing into conversation theoretical interventions on ‘making’ the migrant – migratisation – and ‘unmaking’ the child – unchilding’ in British immigration politics
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New data🔈 Latest Government data shows there has been an 25% increase in deportations and incidents of force during removals have more than doubled from last year 🚨
Read the data breakdown over on our Substack: buff.ly/hkxCBTP
'You lose yourself. You lose your sense of identity.' Powerful words from mothers living with #NRPF in this latest Shadows piece for @theconversation.com Rachel Rosen & Eve Dickson show how mothers and their children make lives in the absence of state support.
theconversation.com/homelessness...
Ala Sirriyeh Bordering through unchilding: The case of Britain’s child migrants https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261251366887 The Sociological Review #OnlineFirst
How are racially minoritised children central to the bordering of Britain?
@alasirriyeh.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social reflects on theories of migratisation, the work of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and the erasure of belonging.
#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/vkEHpXp
I'm very excited to share that the next SSAHE webinar will be a celebration of my new book - Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy - and of Bordering Social Reproduction by Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson. Please register and join us online, 9 October, at 5pm #AcademicSky
ssahe.net/2025/09/03/n...
Well, Yvette, maybe refugees are applying for family reunification as soon as they can because 1) they've spent ages waiting for status and miss their kids; 2) it takes ages for reunification applications to be approved; and 3) their kids are ineligible once they turn 18 www.gov.uk/government/s...
01.09.2025 19:04 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Why bother with a discussion of what family reunion actually is & an analysis of the impact of changes with, say, @ramfel.bsky.social who recently published an excellent report excoriating the system’s EXISTING failures that keep families apart?
Nah. It’s #r4today🤷♀️ www.ramfel.org.uk/family-reuni...
Advance article (open access): Student antiracist activism and institutionalised equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in UK universities by Hannah Jones and Ala Sirriyeh - @uncomfiest @alasirriyeh.bsky.social -
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Image of article abstract text reading: This article presents research into trajectories of racially minoritised students to and through antiracist and decolonial activism in Higher Education. For some student antiracist activists, neoliberal equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) agendas provide entry points to antiracist activism which enable them to build knowledge, networks and platforms and make institutional changes, often exceeding these institutional roles to become more independent and radical. This is despite and in tension with the documented limitations of EDI and Student Voice measures of which the activists were well aware. We draw on narrative biographical interviews with racially minoritised undergraduate and postgraduate antiracist activists from seven universities across England, taking a broad understanding of activism to include everyday as well as more spectacular acts of resistance.
Wait ages for an article then 2 come along at once: w @alasirriyeh.bsky.social in @csp-journal.bsky.social
"Student antiracist activism & institutionalised equality, diversity & inclusion in UK #universities"
on #EDI #DEI in #HE as gateway to actual #antiracism
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Yet another child death linked to NRPF. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024... #NRPF
30.11.2024 11:28 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1
Image description: a red and black tatreez pattern in the background, with a collage cut out of an orange sky, as well as olive trees, a dove, and black and red triangle cut outs of tatreez embroidery. Text in green and white reads: Everyone should be free to move. No one should be forced to move.
On Intl Solidarity Day with the Palestinian people, we reaffirm our position on migrant justice: all people should be free to move + no people should ever be forced to move.
We can't have migrant justice without an end to settler colonialism, genocide + displacement.
General strike march in Florence
General strike march in Florence
General strike march in Florence
General strike march in Florence
Today is a general strike in Italy - organised by the main unions against, amongst other issues, budget cuts in the education system & the militarisation of universities, & in solidarity with Palestinians. Today is also The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
In Florence
Great to see this out in the world! Our new publication led by Prof Milfrid Tonheim on relational and cultural continuity for migrant children in foster care. Learned a lot from our conversations.
29.11.2024 09:18 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 8 📌 0
