Sangay Mishra

Unfortunately, that is a lot of academics at the American Political Science Association Conference!!

Thanks so much for sharing this, Anna!

For New York's Muslims, Zohran Mamdani's candidacy is a reckoning on 9/11 backlash (RNS) — The mayoral candidate’s popularity is a reflection of 9/11’s impact on New York’s political and cultural landscape.

I wrote about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social- how important is the context of 9/11 and what Muslims and South Asians faced in NYC, and what he represents for these communities!! @religionnews.com.web.brid.gy published the piece today!!
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For New York's Muslims, Zohran Mamdani's candidacy is a reckoning on 9/11 backlash (RNS) — The mayoral candidate’s popularity is a reflection of 9/11’s impact on New York’s political and cultural landscape.

I wrote about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social- how important is the context of 9/11 and what Muslims and South Asians faced in NYC, and what he represents for these communities!! @religionnews.com.web.brid.gy published the piece today!!
religionnews.com/2025/08/20/f...

In India, Immigration Raids Detain Thousands and Create a Climate of Fear

Arbitrary detention and deportation of Bengali-speaking Muslims from India is becoming extremely common!! Horrifying reading from @nytimes.com !!
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At the EWR airport, a student from India pinned to the ground and handcuffed !

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Open Access Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Did you know that University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social has a metric tonne of books #Free2DownloadAndRead in their Open Access page? All available here:

www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/o...

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Thrilled to see this special issue of Social Change, a leading journal published from India, that I co-edited with Jinee Lokaneeta. We brought our interests together by conceptualizing a special issue on rights and exclusions in the context of India and its diasporas!!
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Harvard will no longer have access to the SEVIS system that is controlled by the Department of Homeland Security. Universities can't host international students without access to the SEVIS system.

Current international students at Harvard need to transfer to other institutions or leave the country. Their visas are going to be valid even after this order is implemented; it is Harvard's ability to enroll them as students that is rescinded as per this order.

Among other things, the Trump administration was asking Harvard to share information about any illegal activity by international students-basically asking for pro-Palestine activities among international students. Harvard refused to share that.

Trump Administration Says It Is Halting Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students

This is horrifying. Harvard's ability to have international students has been rescinded. Approximately six thousand of Harvard's students are international, requiring a visa to study there. The currently enrolled international students lose their visa status.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

‘Thrown Into the Sea’: How India Allegedly Deported 38 Rohingya Refugees Without Due Process After being flown to Port Blair under mysterious circumstances, the Rohingya refugees were transferred onto an Indian naval vessel before being thrown into the open sea.

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India Is Accused of Inhumanely Deporting Rohingya Refugees

Horrifying reports from India: Rohingya refugees left on the sea to swim to the coast to survive. They were rounded up during the recent escalation of conflict between India and Pakistan.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/w...

As I argue in the review, this is an urgent and evocative book and I am glad I was able to sit and think with it. This is also a major first for me & for that all thanks to the patient editors of this issue @sangaymishra.bsky.social & Jinee Lokaneeta.

Please DM me if you need help with access🌸

My review of “How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners” by @suchitrav.bsky.social & Francesca Recchia has been published in Social Change!

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Jewish Groups and Synagogues Defend Students Detained by ICE More than two dozen are joining a legal effort to free a Tufts University student the Trump administration is trying to deport because of her pro-Palestinian views.

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According to the New York Times, more than a thousand visas of students and scholars have been cancelled since March!

A new edited book on Policing by Jinee Lokaneeta and Deana Heath!!

A new edited book on Policing by Jinee Lokaneeta and Deana Heath!!

Columbia does not trust its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies program because the Trump administration does not trust the program! They think it needs to managed so columbia is appointing a vice president to “manage” the program!

The Trump administration is going after political speech- horrifying details of another ICE raid on a postdoc scholar’s home and his detention. This Indian origin scholar is being targeted for supporting the Palestinian cause and for being married to a politically vocal Palestinian.

Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans Pentagon leaders have ordered that their websites and social media pages remove articles and images that “promote” DEI.

Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of an effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.

Did Columbia University collaborate with ICE on this raid and arrest? Since he was not arrested from a public area-it is quite likely that the university allowed ICE to arrest him. Columbia needs to clarify!

Marco Rubio’s tweet in response to this news!

ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests, his lawyer says A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring's protests at Columbia University has been arrested by federal immigration agents.

He has a green card but it didn’t matter. I wonder what kind warrant ICE carried- Columbia is keeping quiet on that!

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