Karen Schouw Iversen

Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement:

"Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?"

Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.

How the Trump administration instrumentalised a 1798 relic of wartime legislation to facilitate the removal of over 200 Venezuelans ⬇️

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I wouldn’t have thought many Labour MPs came into politics to strip the rights of torture survivors to be reunited with the spouses & children.

They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with.

State strategies and gendered labour: neoliberalism’s impact on Tunisia’s working class composition This paper examines the role of the state in shaping the technical composition of the working class in Tunisia. Drawing on dependency theory and autonomist Marxism, it argues that states in the Sou...

🧵My new paper "State Strategies and Gendered Labour: Neoliberalism's Impact on Tunisia's Working Class Composition" is now out in Third World Quarterly. It builds on my earlier state theory work, adding a crucial dimension: how dependency shapes state action in the South
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As predicted, Starmer’s far-right targeting of food delivery drivers has led to an attack.

My former supervisor (and great friend) @terminalias.bsky.social just published a new book on EU asylum infrastructure!

[Book Review 📖] @imenelamouri.bsky.social reviews Dr. Hassan Ould Moctar's book, a powerful analysis of how EU migration control reshapes race, labour, and everyday life in Mauritania. The book offers a vital, de-Eurocentric perspective on border externalisation: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Defend free speech on Palestine! Defend the SOAS 2! Drop the charges now! Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

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"We are not going to come forward with a wealth tax"
Labour spelling it out for anyone who had any doubt.

Squarely in the corner of the richest. Refusing to tax assets & property anywhere near as high as they tax people in work. The poor will have to pay again.
#r4today

Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure; This book examines the buildings used as reception centres for asylum seekers in central Italy to reveal how they reflect the Euro...

first proofs sent back ✅
endorsements are trickling in (and I am delighted) ✅
notebookLM autogenerated podcast ... uhmm ok ☑️

ETA 18 June 2025

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@soasdevelopment.bsky.social

Next week is World Social Work Day & I'm delighted to be celebrating by helping to launch a series of meetings on how we stand up to the hostile environment in all our work with @migrantsorganise.bsky.social

join us next week and the week after for some great talks
We kick off with Wendy Pearlman

This is going to be an incredible event. Can’t wait!

Are you in London this afternoon? Make sure to attend this event at birkbeck 2-4pm to launch this incredible new handbook on histories of socialism and development with @sulinlewis.bsky.social @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social and @jessicareinisch.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 online link available too, just lmk!

What Francis Fukuyama failed to mention is when you get to the End of History the tape automatically rewinds

Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says

This is not a drill: Cardiff is closing its internationally renowned music department. My god. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Book Review: ‘Picturing the Border,’ by Nadiah Rivera Fellah “Picturing the Border” collects photographs of the United States-Mexico boundary dating back to the 1960s.

When I read articles like this, I am reminded of Don Mitchell's Lie of the Land, where he says: the purpose of landscape is to make a scene appear unworked. Landscape is a social relation of labor, even as it is something that is labored over.

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Between ‘Trochas’, Orphans and Mourning: Migrant Mobilities and the Effects of US ‘Soft’ Remote Control in Ecuador This article proposes a two-scale analysis of how US border externalisation is spatially embedded in Ecuador, producing place-making transformations. On a national scale, it has turned Ecuador into...

In "Between ‘Trochas’, Orphans and Mourning" Soledad Álvarez Velasco illustrates how US border externalization is spatially embedded in Ecuador, producing both places of mourning and spaces of resistance.
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In Salomé Ietter's article in @jpolideologies.bsky.social, she argues that the "Gilets jaunes represented a space of ingenuity and creativity [...] fostering the reconstitution of the antagonisms suppressed by the neoliberal discourse"

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Join us for our second thematic seminar series of the year. Over the next few weeks, our speakers will offer insights on political activism, memories of violence, and the afterlives of revolutions
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@SOAS_CMDS

I thought I’d start putting together a list for people working within queer and trans Marxism.

Please let me know if that’s you, so I can add you!

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📢 As part of our #16DaysOfActivism series, Dr Falak Mujtaba shows how systemic violence still features in Canada’s Alternatives to Detention scheme, and calls for the complete abolition of immigration detention: https://buff.ly/3D1ETti

You cannot claim that the UK has ever had an "Open Borders" policy. The Conservatives implemented policies which have seen families ripped apart and people's lives destroyed. You also can't realistically implement a cap. They just can't work, and don't factor in people leaving. #r4today

This is Lady. She just moved from Kentucky to Montana. Winter looks different here, and she’s making her feelings on that very clear. 13/10

“These repeated attacks forced the committees to back out, effectively crippling the plan, which came during a critical period in northern Gaza when children were dying of malnutrition and dehydration on an almost daily basis.”

An important investigation into the deliberate targeting of aid!

'Not allowing asylum seekers to work is an extraordinary own goal' Analysis estimates allowing people in the asylum system to work sooner could result in a net benefit of £1.2 billion to the UK economy

Other estimates put net benefit of the providing asylum seekers with the right to work at about £8billion, between increased income and reduced government expenditure. Either way, it is the morally, and economically, right thing to do. It's a win win for everyone.
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This is a really helpful lecture — situates Palestine within fossil fuel-based & US-led global capitalism and punctures liberal accounts centered on humanitarianism or the power of the Israeli lobby

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Former Amazon worker here; do not cross this picket line. Don't do it. Don't even order from them (unless absolutely necessary). They're a disgusting company to work for and the reason for my knee problems that required years of physical therapy.

Fuck Amazon. We stand with the workers! 👊🏻✨

The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volu Architecture and the urban are connected to challenges around violence, security, race and ideology, spectacle and data. The first volume of this handbook

Nikolina Bobic & Farzaneh Haghighi (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume II: Ecology, Social Participation and Marginalities – Routledge, November 2024
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The Introduction available open access. Vol I published in 2022.

Immigration Reading List: Books to Broaden Your Perspective on Migration (2024) Looking for a good book about immigration? 📚 Thanks to many reader contributions, we’ve got you covered with brand new book recommendations. Plus: sign up for the new Immigration Book Club online.

Immigration Reading List: Books to Broaden Your Perspective on Migration (2024)

Looking for a good book about immigration? 📚 Thanks to many reader contributions, we’ve got you covered with brand new book recommendations.

austinkocher.substack.com/p/immigratio...