Mary Bosworth

There's still time to register for our annual workshop next month! We'll be in Cambridge exploring resistances to oppressive border practices and envisioning alternative futures.

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Check out this review of @mfbosworth.bsky.social's @princetonupress.bsky.social book Supply Chain Justice by Travis van Isacker: networks.h-net.org/group/review...

It's easy to dismiss academic work as abstract. But as our network has shown over the past year, academia can also mean:

🔵 films made
🔵 spaces for solidarity created
🔵 collaborations with civil society
🔵 contributions to policy

See our annual report for more!

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YouTube video by AVID Detention What Really Happens in UK Immigration Detention? | Removed Exposes the Truth

In just over 11 minutes, Removed reveals the harsh reality of immigration detention for racialised women. This powerful film was created by @aviddetention.bsky.social, Unchained Collective, Francesca Esposito, survivors and grassroots groups.

Watch here ⤵️

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Volunteer with the fundraising director in writing grants, contacting new donors and working on a variety of fundraising projects. Read more about this role and sign up at www.oxfordmutualaid.org/remote-roles

Annual Report 2024-2025

Very excited to share this' year's bumper edition of the @bordercrim.bsky.social annual report. everyone has been very active and is doing amazing things... we just need more funding... like everyone else.. : blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Come and join us in Public Law @uctlaw.bsky.social.

Five positions in international law, environmental law and criminal law.

It is a fantastic department with a wonderful collection of colleagues doing cutting edge legal research.

Further details below

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How the literary and spiritual trajectories of two Afghan-Australian writers have been shaped by displacement, tradition, and border thinking

Read part 2 by Mujib Abid ⤵️

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Greece's Migration Ministry say they intend to worsen food quality in refugee camps. The plan is part of a policy to further normalise harmful living conditions.

Read the new blog post by @andrianifili.bsky.social ⤵️
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UK border officials to use AI to verify ages of child asylum seekers Trial of technology comes as official report warns existing system has been failing for at least a decade

Given what we know about AI reproducing existing racial bias, and the inaccurate and racist results of facial recognition technology, this has to be there with the worst proposals the Home Office has ever made, and believe me, the bar is high

Weekend read from @saradejong.bsky.social and me on selective state secrecy, accountability and the harm potential of the Afghan data leak 👇🏽
@statewatch.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social

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Greece's Asylum Suspension Denies Rights, Puts Lives at Risk Greece has suspended the ability for people coming by boat via North Africa to seek asylum –violating their rights, potentially putting their lives at risk and flouting its obligations under EU law.

As #Greece suspends the right to seek asylum, the European Commission's silence is not neutrality—it's complicity. The body meant to uphold EU law is instead enabling lawlessness and cruelty at Europe's borders.

Read my @hrw.org dispatch for more: www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

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Exiled Afghan writers use the lens of Sufism to imagine worlds across borders. In doing so, they unsettle colonial and nationalist narratives of identity, Islam, and belonging.

Read part 1 of 2 by Mujib Abid ⤵️

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

✍ Some texts don’t just tell stories - they challenge systems, expose injustice, and demand accountability.

@criminologyuom.bsky.social invites you to a symposium exploring what it means to work with writing that unsettles and resists.

Find out more and register here ⤵️

‘One in, one out’ Channel deal is just another cruel gimmick Don’t be fooled by Labour’s show of providing safe migration routes. It’s justifying a cruel trade in people

"New deterrents” are not the solution. This new deal will cause considerable further harm, resulting in the forcible transfer of people back to France.

Read @vickytaylor.bsky.social's new piece for @opendemocracy.net :

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Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025 History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.

Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
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‘One in, one out’ Channel deal is just another cruel gimmick Don’t be fooled by Labour’s show of providing safe migration routes. It’s justifying a cruel trade in people

@vickytaylor.bsky.social on the continuity of cruelty in the UK/France deal and the lack of evidence about deterrence. Of interest to @bordercrim.bsky.social folks too: www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

The right to access interpretation in court is necessary for equal justice. But in practice, interpretation can lead to censorship and information gatekeeping.

Read the blog by Ria Rampersad ⤵️

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Super interesting, though very depressing, study with workers in immigration detention and removals. A lot to think on here, from a precarious work perspective as much as a border violence one.

Lecturer in History at Ulster University Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in History on jobs.ac.uk!

Job Opportunity!

Lecturer in History
Ulster University - School of Arts and Humanities

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Many thanks to the British Society of Criminology for a fantastic #BSCC2025 conference 🎉

You can still get 50% off all our #Criminology books using the code BUP07 until the end of July: buff.ly/pszYeAa

Duh. Ok thanks. I couldn’t see them. But will look now!

Ooh exciting… I love discussions of and teaching methods and find my more law oriented students sometimes a bit worried abt what methods are for them. So I’ll be sure to share as these come out

Shock as Historic England chief challenges independent cinema's protection bid The Ultimate Picture Palace first opened in 1911 however the head of Historic England led a challenge against a community's attempt to protect it.

Oriel college does not have a great reputation in how it has historically dealt with Town issues.

I hope that they can change their approach and show some leadership here in securing the UPP’s future for college and community to use: it’s in their gift (1/2)

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[New blog 🖋️] Belgian's legal framework for migrant solidarity has long been viewed as more protective than elsewhere. But civil society are increasingly being criminalised there.

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