Alexandria Innes

Do you know about shitposting? It’s cheap humour, rage bait – and now, it seems, US government policy | Robert Topinka Donald Trump’s White House reveals a new ‘portrait’ of Joe Biden – and in his world, if you don’t laugh, the joke’s on you, says Robert Topinka of Birkbeck, University of London

happy to report that the world is now so stupid that my knowledge of shitposting has become valuable enough to publish in the Guardian.

My favorite part is I got to call JD Vance a try-hard who can't even shitpost properly in print.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Any #OntologicalSecurity researchers interested in normative dimensions and looking for a panel for #ISA2026? Let me or @jasonralph.bsky.social know - we have 1 and a half panels together, a couple of additional papers would permit the second 🤩 -(open image to see abstract)

VISION Annual Conference 2025 Effective violence prevention requires a mobilised cross-government response. Join us for a day of presentations and discussions.

Our @vision-research.bsky.social annual conference is coming up, with a fantastic line-up of speakers and expert insight for policy impact -- join us! But do it fast, few tickets left! @violenceandsociety.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vision-ann...

Happy International Women’s Day! I am very lucky to work with some brilliant women @violenceandsociety.bsky.social and @vision-research.bsky.social. You can find some on here @mcmanussally.bsky.social @vanessagash.bsky.social @anniebunce.bsky.social @lizzie-cook.bsky.social @andri-i.bsky.social #IWD

Found!!

If anyone at #ISA2025 finds an earring that looks like this, please let me know 🙏

A zoomed in photograph of a barbed wire border fence

Have you read @andri-i.bsky.social new article in @risjnl.bsky.social? ✏️

'State violence against migrant women: Ontological security, threat, and legitimacy'

Watch a video summary & read the full article here: doi.org/10.1017/S026...

@cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social @citystgeorges.bsky.social

I also made the questionable decision to make a video abstract on a bad hair day... #AcademicSky

New article out on in @risjnl.bsky.social - I've looked at how #ontologicalsecurity can explain ways in which the state weaponises violence against migration women as part of the deterrent architecture of the #hostileenvironment in the UK --linked here www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

https://shorturl.at/zQ8bJ

New paper published @ajpseditor.bsky.social

Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹

Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state?

We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out

shorturl.at/zQ8bJ

I love & appreciate all the academics doing the studies to confirm what feels instinctually obvious.

Want to get rid of Nigel Farage’s support & banish the far right across Europe?
People must be able to access quality public services.

It doesn’t feel like rocket science.

Revealed: ministers to postpone full shift to eVisas next month Exclusive: fears that UK residents could be stranded abroad due to system glitches prompts rethink

A relief the govt has seen sense & will delay the otherwise inevitably disastrous hard deadline for the planned switch to e-visas at the end of the year.

The e-visa system is not ready & people with the right to be in the UK were already getting trapped by it www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Call for Papers | Contested boundaries: migration and citizenship regimes in comparative perspective - Migration Policy Centre The call for papers for the conference 'Contested boundaries: migration and citizenship regimes in comparative perspective' is now open.

Call for papers for the annual conference on citizenship and migration convened by the @mpc-eui.bsky.social and @globalcit.bsky.social.

8-9 May 2025, European University Institute, Florence.

Deadline for applications: 6 January 2025.

#migcitsky #migration

migrationpolicycentre.eu/call-for-pap...

Immigration Reading List: Books to Broaden Your Perspective on Migration (2024) Looking for a good book about immigration? 📚 Thanks to many reader contributions, we’ve got you covered with brand new book recommendations. Plus: sign up for the new Immigration Book Club online.

Immigration Reading List: Books to Broaden Your Perspective on Migration (2024)

Looking for a good book about immigration? 📚 Thanks to many reader contributions, we’ve got you covered with brand new book recommendations.

austinkocher.substack.com/p/immigratio...

Women Research Hub (شبکه پژوهش زنان)

Share these powerful animations exploring economic abuse and coercive control - result of an international collaboration led by Dr Ladan Hashemi, alongside multiple NGOs, universities, the brilliant IKWRO (ikwro.org.uk) and an incredible Iranian production team www.youtube.com/@WomenResear...

As more people join this platform and migcitsky, we'd like to reintroduce ourselves 👋 We welcome submissions about all migration themes from anywhere in the world. You can submit in any style and referencing system (we're "format free") and reference lists don't count towards our 10k word limit.

go.bsky.app/PLhHQgR

Great list! Thanks for the shortcut - please could I also be added. Thank you!

📢📢📢New article out! On violence and insecure #migration status in Globalization and Health journal: read it here rdcu.be/d1gTT Reporting of violence victimization should never result in immigration enforcement. Everyone deserves to be free from violence. W/ Annie Bunce, Hannah Manzur & Natalia Lewis

Was a real pleasure to read and engage with this excellent PhD work, congratulations to Sarah!