Nicola Palmer

Christopher Bertram | ‘Core Protection’ Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status should...

‘The sections of “Restoring Order and Control” that mention children are chilling, suggesting that many asylum seekers bring their children not because they love and care for them but as a “fact” to “exploit ... in order to thwart removal”.’

Christopher Bertram:

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

The imperative to expand access to Rhodes Scholarships in South Africa Multi-year efforts to expand access to the Rhodes Scholarships in South Africa have culminated in proposed settlements that could widen the eligibility pools for the four ‘Schools Scholarships’, which...

Pushing for positive change in the selection of South African #RhodesScholars. One open letter at a time…

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

@dailymaverick.co.za @rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk @uctlaw.bsky.social

I’m on @thedigradio.bsky.social. We talk about the intertwined histories of capitalism and extraction; the origins of OPEC & new geopolitics of supply chains; what I think about degrowth; green development in the Global South; green economic populism in US; Chinese industrial policy & much more

UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.

Wrong in every way

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PUBLIC LAW CONFERENCE 2026 - Call for Papers deadline extended to 8 December 2025! @nicolapalmer.bsky.social

Happening today 13:00-14:30 (UCT +2) @uctlaw.bsky.social

Register in-person or online:

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Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure.

Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.

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In May 2025, the UK Labour government published a new immigration white paper. Ananya Kumar-Banerjee discusses how it uses the spectre of illegal migrants to obscure the systematic exploitation of those on the move.

Read the full post here ⤵️
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Mapping Deportations – U.S. Immigration Control since 1790 Mapping deportations invites you to see the history of U.S. immigration enforcement not as a series of disconnected events, but as a pattern. For more than two centuries, U.S. immigration enforcement…

If you haven't seen this incredible historical data project yet, make it a priority! Mapping Deportations: Unmasking the History of Racism in U.S. Immigration Enforcement.

mappingdeportations.com

Public Law and the Future of Constitutional Democracy - Conference | University of Cape Town The 2026 Public Law Conference will be held in July 2026 at the Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town, on the theme ‘Public Law and the Future of Constitutional Democracy’.

Next year's Public Law Conference is hosted by UCT Law on the theme ‘Public Law & the Future of Constitutional Democracy’ in July 2026. Call for papers closes 14 Nov. Have you submitted yet? Details at law.uct.ac.za/publiclawcon... #PublicLaw #ConstitutionalDemocracy @nicolapalmer.bsky.social

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

“so much of what is so diffcult for so many people at this moment is the feeling that they are merely subjects”

In one line Zohran channels the whole corpus of his father’s pathbreaking post-colonial work into a grassroots political campaign in NYC.

📣 Only a few tickets left! Join us this Wed (5:15pm, St Anne’s College, Oxford) for the Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture. Lea Ypi will read from her book Indignity: A Life Reimagined and reflect on the enduring legacies of migration, displacement, and forced removal.

🎟️ Register now: bit.ly/lea-ypi-rsc

Next up at @uctlaw.bsky.social, Prof Justin Deystone (University of Colorado) will be discussing his recent co-edited collection 'Race, Racism, and International Law’ (Stanford University Press).

12 November from 13:00-14:30 (UCT +2)

Register in-person or online:

law.uct.ac.za/criminology/...

Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper Podcast Episode · The Dig · 30/09/2025 · 1h 54m

Even having read (and reviewed!) @melindacooper.bsky.social book, I found this hugely illuminating, especially on the confusions and fantasies of class identities that underpin reactionary populist movements podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Searing truths about Israel, the West and complicity in genocide from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

54. Recognition, the United Nations and the Question of Palestine In this episode, host Dr Ntina Tzouvala is joined by Professor Ardi Imseis (Queen’s Law School, Canada) for a timely conversation about international law, the United Nations, and the long struggle for

I was lucky enough to sit down with Ardi Imseis and discuss the law, politics and history of the recent Western recognitions of the State of Palestine for Called to the Bar: soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

🔥 These things got us talking at our annual workshop: creatively disrupting hostile border systems; navigating abolition; borderless empires vs bordered reparations.

Watch to find out more! 👇

@juliawinkler.bsky.social @mfbosworth.bsky.social @smilivojevic.bsky.social
@cambridgelaw.bsky.social

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0 If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...

My essay on stupidology (originally published in N+1) is in today's Guardian www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

Ziyanda Stuurman & Irvin Kinnes in conversation with Justice Edwin Cameron, Rebecca Gore & Sohela Surajpal discussing reform and abolitionist possibilities in South African prisons @uctlaw.bsky.social

The best of @uctlaw.bsky.social with @pierredevos.bsky.social & Nomfundo Ramalekana hosting Chriscy Blouws and Khuliso Managa from the Women’s Legal Centre talking about their role in making the decriminalisation of sex work in South Africa a real political & legal possibility.

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The Public Law Conference @uctlaw.bsky.social 1-4 July 2026.

With Justice Steven Majiedt & Dr Nomfundo Ramalekana on the organising committee race, reparation & resistance to authoritarianism are firmly on the agenda.

law.uct.ac.za/publiclawcon...

@madlingozi.bsky.social @pashukanist.bsky.social

Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts detained by ICE agents The superintendent of the largest school district in Iowa has been detained by federal immigration officials. Superintendent Ian Roberts of Des Moines Public Schools was arrested Friday after fleeing ...

There's going to be attention to whether there are/were issues with Roberts's visa and imo it's important to not let that stuff matter. The fight shouldn't be 'only deportations where the paperwork is correct!' it should be against deportations and ICE per se

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William Davies · Repeal the 20th Century: Pre-MAGA To understand the intellectual coordinates of Trumpism requires us to look in less conventional places and to pay more...

‘A distinctive set of proto-Trumpian sentiments began to seep into the American public sphere no sooner than the rubble of the Berlin Wall had been tidied away.’

@will-davies.bsky.social on how the political scene in the 1990s sowed the seeds for Trumpism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Dr. Nomfundo Ramalekana on racial redress in post-apartheid South Africa:

"Whether from looking at reparations, remedial measures, or redistributive justice, the exclusion of the (noncitizen) 'black African other' is illegitimate, and we need to decolonise this form of remedy"

#BorderCrim2025

Our afternoon panel on Law and the Courts starts with Dr Nicola Palmer.

"we're seeing an extension, both of the sentencing and also of the notion of dangerousness" on immigration cases in the US

#BorderCrim2025

@cambridgelaw.bsky.social

Good morning from Clare College, Cambridge!

We kick off the first day of our annual #BorderCrim2025 workshop this morning with a fantastic panel from our Border Policing and Emotions thematic group.

Find the whole program here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

Reminder: CALS is looking for candidate legal practitioners to join our team in January 2026

The closing date for applications is 19 September 2025

Cover of Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion, edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky. The cover features a photo of a small concrete building painted with red polka dots, set in an arid landscape under a clear blue sky. The house is part of an art installation by Álvaro Enciso, "La Casa de los Puntos Rojos." The image is placed against a black background with minimalist white and pale blue text. Small red dots accent the corners of the design.

The Weekly Read is "Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion," edited by Ananya Roy & Veronika Zablotsky. This collection examines how the liberal democracies of the West rarely grant sanctuary and refuge. Read the entire book now for free.
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I am excited that this special issue of the @ajil.bsky.social —on reparations in international law—is now out! 1/