Maja Davidović

This is fantastic, Vjosa! Will do my best to come to London ☺️

Mahmood demands migrants earn right to settlement in UK - BBC News New tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits.

'Earn right to settlement' by 'volunteering in the community' basically means that the government wants migrants to do free labour providing much needed services that the same government fails to provide to British citizens.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mahmood demands migrants earn right to settlement in UK - BBC News New tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits.

'Earn right to settlement' by 'volunteering in the community' basically means that the government wants migrants to do free labour providing much needed services that the same government fails to provide to British citizens.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If anyone is in Roskilde/Copenhagen, I will be giving a book talk on Monday 6 October.

events.ruc.dk/booktalkwith...

Farage: "most migrants rely on benefits"

Reality: migrants without a settled status do not have recourse to public funds, which means no access to benefits; not even access to refuge for some migrant victims of domestic abuse. If I lose my job, I've 60 days to find a new sponsorship or I'm out

After an elaborate process of assigning everyone who reposted a number based on the order in which reposted and asking my husband for his favourite number within the range, I'm delighted to say that the free copy will go to @malgault.bsky.social! 🎉

Say Fire by Selma Asotic | Waterstones Buy Say Fire by Selma Asotic from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

🚨🚨🚨my bestest best friend’s book is available to pre-order in the uk & you should absolutely drop everything you’re doing and go order it rn. it’s brilliant & got a ton of awards in ex-yu countries before being translated into English🚨🚨🚨

www.waterstones.com/book/say-fir...

"Girlhood At War" made it home!

Unlike anything I’ve written before, this book is a personal story about growing up during Serbia's war against Kosovo and about finding myself, at 14, translating for US NATO troops in its aftermath. (Yes, the young girl in these pictures is me.)

I am giving away one *free copy* of my new book "Governing the Past: 'Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project". Simply repost to enter the draw. I will randomly select the lucky reader on Friday 5 September. The book can be shipped within the UK or internationally!

I am giving away one *free copy* of my new book "Governing the Past: 'Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project". Simply repost to enter the draw. I will randomly select the lucky reader on Friday 5 September. The book can be shipped within the UK or internationally!

Go, tell your libraries, quickly! www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

A list of questions from Palestinian children in Gaza, compiled by the staff of the Palestine Trauma Centre in Gaza:

'What is wrong, I am repeatedly asked, with people hearing a ‘different perspective’? ... Those
who see the issue in this light are important assets in the deniers’ attempts to spread their claims.'

'One can believe that Elvis Presley is alive and well and living in Moscow. However ... one’s conviction doesn't make it a legitimate opinion or ‘other side’ of a debate ... we
must not succumb to the silly view that every idea is of equal validity and worth.'

D. Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust

elaborating on the factors that shaped their intensification in recent years, discussing opportunities for creative action against denial, and outlining recommendations to state and international institutions, civil society organizations, the media, and the educational system. 2/2

Killing the truth - genocide denial and historical revisionism in Serbia as state-sponsored violence: trajectories, challenges and opportunities - YIHR.rs This paper explores historical revisionism in Serbia, which includes denial of individual war crimes, denial of the genocide in Srebrenica, and glorification of a number of convicted war criminals who...

Serbia has steadily been "killing" the truth about the Srebrenica genocide and many other atrocities of the 1990s. This is state-sponsored violence.
Youth Initiative for Human Rights and I trace the trajectories of denial and revisionism in Serbia since 2004 1/2
yihr.rs/en/killing-t...

Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv

They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

Violence in the Balkans makes a good story because it fits the existing tropes; but stories of resistance, particularly without Western interventions, not-so-much.

Being a Balkan person in the West = a constant mismatch btw lived experiences back home v media discourse here

For example

When the Western media speaks of 'potential conflict resurgence' in Bosnia, we know it's just Dodik's empty threats

But when we say Vučić is finished, nobody believes us

Thousands set up street blockades in Serbia after crackdown on protesters President Aleksandar Vucic had earlier vowed many more protesters would be arrested, as 38 remain in custody.

Vučić's regime has never been so weak. The protestors are now calling for civil disobedience across the country. Watch this space.

www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.alja...

Now in English:

"IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present."

💅

Selected strategic projects under CRMA Selected strategic projects under CRMA

If you wondered why the EU is ignoring protests in #Serbia, look no further.

The EU (ofc in agreement with Serbia's corrupt regime, how else) has declared the Jadar mining project strategic.

This is bound to devastate an entire region, in the name of "green transition," which is anything but.

The book proofs have arrived—along with all the excitement and trepidation of sharing this deeply personal work with the world.

Girlhood at War: Interpreting War and Liberation in Kosovo — coming soon from Rowman & Littlefield.

IUD insertion is the most painful experience I've ever had (and I've had quite a few). Once I was told to take Ibuprofen, the second time no pain relief at all.

If I hear another medical/cosmetic professional compliment my pain threshold or say 'beauty is pain' ...

🤗 Thanks, Katarina. I'm one step closer to quitting academia to run a dog shelter in central Serbia instead.

And finally, in creating a tiered route to permanent settlement based on "high contribution" to the British society perhaps someone should have stopped to think "are we creating a society migrants want to contribute to?"
Good luck attracting "talent" in the future. 3/

and then switched to a skilled worker visa, the "student years" do not count towards the 5 years.

The net immigration has come down in the last year not because Labour is so great but because Tories made the UK such an unattractive place to migrate to for students and high skilled workers alike. 2/

And regarding Starmer's speech:

Immigration is already *a privilege* not a right as the NHS surcharge alone costs skilled workers more than £1,000 per year per person + visa fees.

Permanent residence is already not automatically granted after 5 years. E.g., if you studied in the UK 1/