Natalia Cintra

LSE Public Lecture "Race and the Question of Palestine"
📍2 Dec, 6PM

Speaker: Lana Tatour
Discussants: Ralph Wilde, Ayça Cubukcu, Neve Gordon

Register here:
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📢📢📢 Migrant Workers’ Rights – National Emergency Demonstration

📌Saturday 13 December, 12PM
📌Birmingham City Centre (Shabana Mahmood’s constituency)

Stand up for our neighbours - your salary DOES NOT define your contribution to the UK!!
@regulariseuk.bsky.social

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I published an adapted reflection I did as a keynote speech at the international franco-british conference 'New perspectives on migration in Latin America'. I used the concept of encruzilhada to muddle binary categories of migration looking at the Darien Gap.

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Por que eu não compro esse discurso do ‘Brasil é dos Brasileiros’ Eu entendo por que essa seja a campanha do atual governo – e de alguns movimentos – frente às tentativas de intervenção estadunidenses no Brasil. Mas o que é Brasil? E o que é o brasileiro?

I wrote something (in Portuguese) about why I don't buy Brazil's govt current slogan against Trump's interventions: that 'Brazil belongs to Brazilians'. More below:

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Quer saber mais sobre como os vistos Humanitarios foram historicamente desenvolvidos no Brasil? Dá uma olhada na linha do tempo que fizemos. Abaixo, no @nexojornal.bsky.social

Problem with my approach with Academia is that the rejections feel way more acutely than whatever wins I have, and for a time they feel meaningless in the face of the losses I have to face. I have had many losses and many wins, and have yet to learn to develop a new approach

Still coming to grips that no amount of AI can help me in a transcription of a 2h interview I just did here in my fieldwork in Tijuana that consisted of me and my interviewees speaking in both Spanish and French, and sometimes in Haitian Creole. Does anyone know of any solution?

Today I visited Centro32, such an amazing organisation providing support for migrants in Tijuana, particularly solo women, single moms, children/teenagers, and LGBT+ people.

Today I've been to the La Casita de la UT in Tijuana, a shelter for displaced trans women coming through, to and deported to Tijuana - and also a welcoming place offering amazing services (and activism) to the trans and/or sex worker community of the city. Thanks to Susana for the warm welcome

Anyone doing a database of Brazilians with US visas revoked or should I?

Perfect! Thank youu

Omg currently writing a paper about this but with a different approach. I'd love to cite you. Is it cheeky to ask whether I could have an early version? 😬😬 Appreciate it regardless if yes or no. And congrats! Looks fab

I closed 72 tabs today, created a reading list bookmark, and I feel 10kg lighter

The Rise of African Telecom: News Article - Independent Institute Africa’s a land of great untapped potential. The continent is full of natural resources, big cities, and a large, hardworking population. The "untapped"

In 2000, Africa had just 15 million phone lines. By 2025, over 615 million Africans will be online—more than Europe’s population. This isn’t public sector planning—it’s the private sector laying cables, launching satellites, and turning Africa into the world’s fastest-growing digital frontier.

If against all odds you made it in a system that discriminates against you, your job is to do your best to change it from the inside to become fairer, not to say I made it, so can you!

Care work is now closed to overseas recruitment. Will UK employers hire more international students instead?

Little known fact: former international students are actually already a major source of recruitment in UK care, and this can in theory continue until 2028

(link to our analysis in reply)

We must break the link between publisher revenue and article volume Volume-driven publishing pushes up costs and threatens research integrity. We need new agreements with healthier incentives, says Anna Vernon

'A 2021 study estimated that UK academics contribute $391 million worth of unpaid labour annually through peer reviewing alone. These non-cash contributions are essential to the functioning of the scholarly publishing system yet are often overlooked in discussions about cost and value.'

Overheard a conversation today in England and a woman said: 'i will never take the kids to the middle of the jungle in bloody south america'. So here are examples of me in the middle of the jungle in 3 diff countries in bloody south America:

Forgotten Indigenous child slaves of "New France" in Canada have been revealed in new studies.
Current estimates are that there were up to 10,000 enslaved people in the New France colony.
archaeologymag.com/2025/07/forg...

Me, my writing projects, my hobbies, my work commitments, & my poor time management skills.

My conspiracy theory is that pigeons have worked for humans for centuries and developed close proximity with us and our way of life but have been abandoned by us with the development of military and communications technology - and are now reduced as dirty disease carrier urban birds

Excited for this - will deffo get it once out. What a lovely cover too

I am sorry to say, but pinpointing the displacement situation of Venezuelans to Maduro only is very simplistic - in fact, this type of narrative was what far right govts in the region have been using to politicise their displacement.

Venezuelans are returned from El Salvador and suddenly I see a thousand experts in their situation making the most varied statements. Coincidentally, none of these novel experts are Latin Americans nor do they cite, reference, quote, Latin Americans who have studied and published on the situation.

The issue with non refoulement and Venezuela is causing confusion online because 1) people don't understand nor have an interest in how asylum works in Latin America (spoiler alert: it's not the same as US/EU!); 2) Venezuelans are refugees and might have not suffered persecution

Super excited to read it

🎉 What an incredible year for CPE!
We hosted some of the best scholars in political ethnography, launched new series, and ended with our first-ever CPE workshop. Here’s a look back at 2024—and what’s coming next! 🧵

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🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky

I think these convos go in the right direction, but as long as this *really* translates to hiring committees - i.e. Giving preference to quality over quantity in cvs - every junior academic will do what they can to publish as much as they can, even if this compromises a bit of quality