Francesca Meloni

🚨It’s publication day!🚨

My book OCCUPIED REFUGE is officially OUT today with Duke University Press. Available to order from all book shops!

Upcoming book launches in Glasgow, Oxford, Nairobi and—perhaps—a city near you!

Read the introduction for free online: www.dukeupress.edu/occupied-ref...

Social Life of Climate Change Attend research seminars in Social Life of Climate Change in the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE.

I'm giving two talks in London-- one today, one tomorrow!

Research is a Land Relation
3 February 2026, 5-6.30pm, LSE, OLD 3.24
www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an...

Counting across worlds
IAS Common Ground, G11, South Wing UCL
Wednesday, Feb 4 from 5 pm to 7 pm
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The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2025: Shahram Khosravi Shahram Khosravi – How to do Migration Studies in Dark Times Recorded live on 27 November 2025 James McCune Smith Building, University of Glasgow In this powerful lecture, Professor Shahram Khosravi explores what it means to produce knowledge about migration in “dark times”. Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s insight that darkness arises not from horror itself but from how horror is obscured or misrepresented, he examines the intellectual and political responsibilities of migration scholars today. As landscapes are ruined and communities displaced on a planetary scale, he asks: What kind of knowledge do we need now? Who needs migration studies, and why? A leading figure in border studies, forced displacement, and the anthropology of Iran, Professor Khosravi weaves ethnographic research with personal narrative to illuminate the crises shaping mobility and immobility across the globe. Speaker: Shahram Khosravi Professor of Anthropology, Stockholm University Author of The Illegal Traveler (2010), Precarious Lives (2017), and editor of After Deportation (2017), Waiting (2021), Seeing Like a Smuggler (2022), and The Gaze of the X-Ray (2024). Chair: Carin Runciman Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh Editor-in-Chief, The Sociological Review Discussant: Karolína Augustová Lecturer in Sociology, University of Glasgow Researcher on migration, violence, borders, and the everyday experiences of people on the move. Poet: Tawona Sitholé Poet, playwright, musician, and educator UNESCO Artist in Residence, University of Glasgow Stay Connected: Subscribe to our newsletter: https://thesociologicalreview.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe Support our work: https://donorbox.org/support-the-sociological-review

Interesting @thesociologicalreview.org annual lecture on why #migrants don't need #migration studies, by Shahram Khosravi

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Latest articles from International Journal of Social Research Methodology Browse the latest articles and research from International Journal of Social Research Methodology

What are the complexities and limitations of #decolonial research #methods?

Looking forward to reading this new special issue on decolonial research methods, curated by Leon Moosavi

www.tandfonline.com/toc/tsrm20/2...

Public understanding and attitudes to irregular migration in the UK - I-CLAIM This report summarises findings from the February 2025 I-CLAIM survey of 1,147 UK adults, exploring public knowledge of irregular migration, how people define it, and their attitudes toward irregular ...

What do Britons know and think about #irregularmigration?
Read new @iclaimeu.bsky.social report out today

i-claim.eu/project/publ...

Exclusion by Design: Digital Identification and the Hostile Environment for… Together with Derya Ozkul (University of Warwick) and Marie Godin (University of Leicester) and Open Rights Group, Migrant Voice have produced the report ‘Exclusion by Design: Digital Identification a...

You can read the full report, detailing how the digital immigration system leaves migrants excluded from society, blocked from working, denied the ability to rent, left in limbo and suffering increased stress and distress here👇
www.migrantvoice.org/resources/re...

Looking forward to reading this!

New special issue on the anti-refugee machine on Migration & Society

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🗣️ The students of KCL have launched a re-occupation of the quad triangle at Strand campus in renewed rejection of the university’s complicity with Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza. There is a staff-student assembly tomorrow Wed 14 May at 1pm. All welcome.

Film Screening & Panel: The UK’s AI Border 7 May, 6.30- 8.30pm Doors open at 6pm Folkestone Bookshop 70-72 Tontine St Folkestone CT20 1JP

Kent has become a testing ground for AI surveillance + other border technologies 👁️

MRN + The Folkestone Bookshop are proud to host a film screening feat. 2 groundbreaking films investigating violence + tech on the border. This will be followed by a panel + Q&A.

Free tickets: buff.ly/u0hMjHV

🇵🇸 PALESTINE: A Sociological Issue 🇵🇸

Join us for the second in our Conversations series as we put a sociological lens on the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

🍉 Thu 8 May 18.30-20.00 UTC+1 online
🍉 Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell & Rafeef Ziadah
🍉 Register: buff.ly/xE1NHos

Met Police to deploy permanent facial recognition tech in Croydon | Computer Weekly The Met Police is set deploy permanent live facial recognition cameras on street furniture in Croydon from summer 2025, but local councillors say the decision – which has taken place with no community...

🛑In this week's Calendar we highlight the Met's plans to install the UK’s first permanent live facial recognition (LFR) cameras in Croydon face objections from local councillors on the grounds of disproportionality & over-policing of certain communities.

www.computerweekly.com/news/3666223...

Ways of Belonging - Rutgers University Press Ways of Belonging examines the experiences of undocumented young people who are excluded from K–12 schools in Canada and are rendered invisible to the educ...

Congratulations 🥳 to the winner of the @hartpublishing.bsky.social SLSA Prize for Early Career Academics - Francesca Meloni @francescameloni.bsky.social for
‘Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth in the Shadow of Illegality’
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/ways-of-belo...