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Francesca Meloni

@francescameloni.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer at King's College London #migration, #citizenship, #racism and #belonging https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/francesca-meloni-2

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

www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

17.10.2025 08:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ—£οΈ 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.

13.05.2025 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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

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 πŸ‘οΈ

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

24.04.2025 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ PALESTINE: A Sociological Issue πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ

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

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

14.04.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 7
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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...

πŸ›‘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...

17.04.2025 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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 πŸ₯³ to the winner of the @hartpublishing.bsky.social SLSA Prize for Early Career Academics - Francesca Meloni @francescameloni.bsky.social for
β€˜Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth in the Shadow of Illegality’
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/ways-of-belo...

17.04.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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