My first book - on Honduras, migration, and the extended violence of borders - is coming out in March. Preorders are available now through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop.org or directly through @ucpress.bsky.social — with a 30% off discount code "UCPSAVE30."
www.ucpress.edu/books/leave-...
Tracking Every US Strike on Boats in the Caribbean and Pacific
The Trump administration is committing illegal strike after illegal strike. Don’t look away, and don’t lose track, writes @premthakker.bsky.social.
Read now: zeteo.com/p/trump-us-b...
Thank you very much for taking the time to attend and for your kind and generous words. I truly appreciate it, especially coming from you 🙏🏽
Finally had the chance to hear @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social present the findings from her PhD on the everyday experiences of violence and discrimination of women migrants in Tunesia @diis.dk @aau.dk
vbn.aau.dk/da/publicati...
Thank you so much, Mikkel!
Brilliant public presentation by @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social of her PhD “Living and Dying in Transit: Violence, bodies and survival in the Tunisian borderlands” @diis.dk
Last week, I defended my PhD!! 💃🏽🎓🥳
A day I’ll always remember. Thank you to everyone who’s supported me, shown up, cheered me on, and opened doors over the years, deeply grateful
Folding into the everyday ❤️❤️❤️ thank you!!
Thank you so much, Sara – I’m truly honored by your generous words! It means a great deal coming from you. I’m incredibly grateful for your presence and support during this special moment 🙏✨
An absolute tour de force introduction to her PHD defense by @ahlamchemlali.bsky.social - eye opening, captivating - more magisterial than doctoral! . Replete with thick and fine tuned ethnography and new conceptual constructs. Deserved standing ovation at the end. @diis.dk @aau.dk
Externalising asylum is the hottest trend in EU migration policy; but just 10 years ago the European Commission opposed it on humanitarian and legal grounds.
Here's what you need to know.
euobserver.com/migration/ar...
‘Since Libya is not safe, survivors should be taken to Italy or Malta. Yet Italian authorities had started to delay designating a port to both NGO and commercial vessels carrying rescued migrants.’
Jérôme Tubiana on Europe’s complicity in Libyan treatment of migrants:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
What happened in Libya this week wasnt a spat between militias that got out of hand, these are just expressions of a broader power struggle
Bottom line- Dbeiba did what he did to protect his position & protests are being exploited how they are by those who covet it
NEW -- Trump's eroding immigration approval rating follows an iron law of ICE enforcement: the more Americans see what it looks like, the less they tend to support mass deportation www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Trump admin planning to deport migrants to Libya and Rwanda is straight out of the EU’s externalization playbook. This is exactly what I’ve warned about: offshoring asylum, ignoring rights, and copying Europe’s failed deterrence model 1:1.
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
In case you missed: This week's front-page story from Guantanamo Bay explains that those tents Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem inspected have never been used. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...
Trump admin planning to deport migrants to Libya and Rwanda is straight out of the EU’s externalization playbook. This is exactly what I’ve warned about: offshoring asylum, ignoring rights, and copying Europe’s failed deterrence model 1:1 edition.cnn.com/2025/04/30/p...
After deploying AI tools in Israel and on the U.S. border, American tech companies are now powering domestic repression.
Trump admin planning to deport migrants to Libya and Rwanda is straight out of the EU’s externalization playbook. This is exactly what I’ve warned about: offshoring asylum, ignoring rights, and copying Europe’s failed deterrence model 1:1.
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Trump admin planning to deport migrants to Libya and Rwanda is straight out of the EU’s externalization playbook. This is exactly what I’ve warned about: offshoring asylum, ignoring rights, and copying Europe’s failed deterrence model 1:1 edition.cnn.com/2025/04/30/p...
With reports of Trump admin. plan to send migrants to Libya
This analysis by @becingber.bsky.social @scott-roehm.bsky.social is relevant
"Non-refoulement is ... codified in US statutes. It prohibits States from transferring...person would be at risk of certain serious human rights violations."
Breaking News: The Trump administration is planning to send a group of migrants to Libya, in a sharp escalation of its deportation program.
"‘Felt externalisation’ is a way to go beyond the policies, the visible, and spectacular and instead capture the everyday, the slow, granular, and felt experience of border externalisation, be it fear, collective trauma, environmental degradation, or the smell of death."
Read Ahlam Chemlali's post:
In Sonora, Mexico for the ‘Sonora-Sahara’ colloquium, grateful to join brilliant minds exploring arid borders, mobility, smuggling & violence from North Africa to the US-Mexico border.
Thank you so much, Sara!
The day has come - I’ve officially submitted my PhD!!
The dissertation will be publicly available once the defence is announced - stay tuned for the date!
Open-source researchers: whether you’re actively searching for evidence re: conflict-related sexual violence or not, you may find it. We've just launched the pilot Open-Source Practitioner’s Guide to the Murad Code w/ IICI to help www.muradcode.com/open-source-... @berkeleylaw.bsky.social
Maybe you've seen the truly shocking figures for migrant deaths in the Atlantic Ocean, reaching nearly 10,000 for 2024. How should we deal with such numbers, not least when they differ radically to other ac/counts? With Marta Sanchez Dionis in Border Criminologies.
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Grateful my UCLA and Yale research stays were pre-Trump. Pretty sure I wouldn’t get in today. Maddening especially since international students pay full tuition, helping fund scholarships for local students. Everyone loses.
