Pip McKnight

IRIS 2026 Conference | Unsettling Communities 7-9 September, University of Birmingham CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS AND WORKSHOPS Deadline: 16 March 2026 All submissions via the online submission page. We  are living in times  where profou…

Call for Papers, Panels and Workshops | IRIS 2026 Conference: Unsettling Communities: Diversity, Mobility and Displacement in an Age of Growing Authoritarianism
7-9 September 2026, @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Deadline for proposals: 16 March 2026
superdiversity.net/iris-2026-co...

This year I’m doing something different - I’m only going to talk about this one appeal.

Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...

Episode Two: Reproductive Justice Podcast Episode · Between Borders · 15/09/2025 · 28m

Just dropped! Episode two of Between Borders podcast where we explore what reproductive justice means in the context of precarious migration. With @mariammalik.bsky.social @rachelbenchekroun.bsky.social and Julia Fernandez Molina podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Episode One: Friendly Spaces Podcast Episode · Between Borders · 08/09/2025 · 31m

🎙️ Exciting news—we’ve just launched a new mini podcast series, Between Borders!

Across three episodes, we dive into the challenges of precarious migration and the difficulties of researching it. Available on all good platforms, listen to our first episode here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy - Migrant Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy and Maternity Care in the UK; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How do immigration policies shap...

I am very excited to announce that my first book, Borders, Citizenship and Pregnancy, will be published by @brisunipress.bsky.social this June.

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/borders-citi...

#academicsky

For #IWD The Royal College of Midwives are running a webinar on childbirth in the UK asylum system, including a screening of our film When You Know. Register on the link below 👇

Intended as learning resource for any healthcare professionals involved in the care of pregnant asylum seekers, the film is now available on the @nhs-rho.bsky.social website with more resources to follow! www.nhsrho.org/resources/wh...

Yesterday we launched our film 'When you know: childbirth in the asylum system' in Portcullis House thanks to the support of Kim Johnson MP. The event provoked urgent calls for change to make the UK asylum system safer for women, birthing people and their babies.

Attending a conference on forced migration the week the world’s race to the bottom entered its end stage was always going to be a wild ride but I’m leaving IASFM20 with a heart full of love and hope. 📸 One of many evenings setting the world to rights: here with the incredible Sisterhood from Jakarta

Dr Veronica Finn Bruey opening IASFM20 at the beautiful Universitas Gadjah Mada

A breakfast of champs in Chengi, en route to Yogyakarta for IASFM. Kopi bun, tea paste, kopi coffee and room temp soft boiled eggs. A hundred million times better than it looks

✨ A year-in-review thread from IRIS ✨
We asked our researchers to pick just one publication from 2024 and share why it stands out for them. Here's what they chose and why! 🧵
#migration
#refugees
#socialsciences
#diversity
#research

'Move on' period for refugees doubled to 56 days in victory for the Standard The Standard has secured a major victory in its A Place to Call Home winter appeal

Some positive news! The Home Office are piloting giving newly recogised refugees 56 days before they lose their asylum support instead of the current 28 days. Some concerns about the details, but 28 days isn’t long enough to find somewhere to live & another income
www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Dancing in the face of arbitrary state violence 🩵🩷🤍

Sign the Petition We are Virginia Wairimu - Let her stay!

Virginia Wairimu is fighting the Home Office ruling that she will be safe to return home as long as she keeps her sexuality hidden. Sign her petition here!

Thanks Nando!

Press Release: MI v Switzerland Outcome MI v Switzerland – the European Court of Human Rights judgment ruling gay man from Iran cannot be deported from Switzerland – African Rainbow Family FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On 12 November 2024, the E…

🥳🥳 Last week the ECHR ruled a gay man must not be deported to Iran to spend his life hiding his sexuality in order to be safe.

He must be allowed to rebuild his life!❤️

A HUGE WIN for LGBT+ asylum seekers in Europe!
Congrats @africanrainbowfam.bsky.social africanrainbowfamily.org/2024/11/12/p...

Really look forward to next IRIS (@irisbirmingham.bsky.social) talk with prof Hannah Jones (@uncomfiest.bsky.social). Hannah will be talking about student antiracist activism on 2 Dec, 3-4.30pm, Muirhead Tower, University of Birmingham. Book a place at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/learning-f...

Decolonise this- 2,000 sexy Fenians in Nottingham last night #kneecap #saoirsedonphalaistín

Our research found that making a claim for asylum on SOGI grounds increases a claimants risk of violence and abuse both at home and in the UK. So no, this doesn’t track. Read more about it here: www.birmingham.ac.uk/documents/co...

TBT Monday and Wendy Olayiwola from NHS England singing the praises of our film When You Know. This film is intended as a learning tool for midwives and other HCP to better understand the challenges of giving birth in the UK asylum system. Link in bio if you fancy a preview 😉