Do not miss this interview with @kamrank.bsky.social on the linguistic angle of the politics of citizenship and belonging.
newbooksnetwork.com/radio-reorie...
@kamrank.bsky.social
Director of MOSAIC research at the University of Birmingham | Borders, CVE, surveillance and multilingualism | Security, Citizenship Testing, Race and Language
Do not miss this interview with @kamrank.bsky.social on the linguistic angle of the politics of citizenship and belonging.
newbooksnetwork.com/radio-reorie...
Dr Marine GuΓ©guin , Kamran Khan, Carl Gibson, and Amal posing by a Proud Leeds Sign
Just wanted to give a shout to @marinegueguin.bsky.social @kamrank.bsky.social , and @carlgibson.bsky.social for the great conversation we had on 'Rethinking the Pedagogies and Politics of βTerrorismβ' at @leedsbeckett.bsky.social ! I had a great time and 1st visit to Leeds!
27.11.2025 23:34 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0What is actually happening when a state racially profiles someone for the way they use language (e.g. saying salaam alaykum)? π€
To find out, Claudia and I spoke to linguist @kamrank.bsky.social for this new episode of Radio ReOrient from @reorient.bsky.social and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social ποΈπ
πYesterday @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social held their annual conference!
πMany thanks to the amazing convenors; @amnakaleem.bsky.social , Alice Finden and @rmkhan.bsky.social for all of their hard work!
βοΈThe #virtual conference was extremely successful in its critical engagement of terrorism studies.
Just in case you are not yet bored of articles by me coming out this summer, here is a new one out today on βTheorising Historiographical Islamophobiaβ which has basically been my intellectual project of the last half decade! π€
Itβs open access here: www.scienceopen.com/document_fil...
Are you from a high income country? Do you live abroad? Ever thought about taking up a new citizenship?
Then, check out my new paper with Floris Peters (Utrecht)
doi.org/10.1002/psp....
@migcitpol.bsky.social
@migcitizenapsa.bsky.social
@populationeu.bsky.social
ππΎ yessir!
09.09.2025 08:50 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New to BlueSky and interested in #citizenship? Hereβs a Starter Pack with some folks working in the field of citizenship studies, or on related issues #migcitsky
Thereβs still space to add people to the list!
go.bsky.app/5vLDGon
Trying out Bluesky again. Whoβs around?
08.09.2025 07:03 β π 18 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0I wrote about my own complicated, expensive immigration visa application for Vox in 2019, and I still hear from people about how it is one of the very few in-depth articles about the immigration process not written by a law firm: www.vox.com/the-goods/20...
18.04.2025 14:20 β π 692 π 212 π¬ 10 π 5The War on Terror, esp under Bush & Obama, was an effort at creating ungoverned spaces where killing specific kinds of proposed subhumans (eg Arabs) didnβt trigger rule of law or human rights concerns. MAGA is simply expanding these spaces stateside to a new proposed subhuman: βthe brown immigrantβ
02.04.2025 02:57 β π 60 π 20 π¬ 4 π 4I really canβt describe how much generous you are my supporters, you are the most generous people in the world, we are the most close we are 99% π«π«π«π«π«
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it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
26.03.2025 20:00 β π 7984 π 2487 π¬ 44 π 46"I have a colleague...his fingers were crushed... They showed him a picture of his wife & said 'we're going to gang rape her in front of you if you don't admit you're Hamas.'"
Dr Mark Perlmutter, in Gaza, on what Israel is doing to Palestinian doctors.
My full interview: zeteo.com/p/us-embassy...
Consider this. 6 people in plainclothes approach you, and begin to cover their faces. At least one appears armed. As they grab your phone and backpack, they do not prove who they are. They say they're going to take you, but they're not saying why.
What would you call that?
www.channel4.com/programmes/n... don't miss watching this very important and beautiful Oscar winning documentary @jvp.bsky.social @pscupdates.bsky.social #peaceinpalestine #stopgazagenocide
04.03.2025 07:46 β π 7 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0Grateful to Cambridge University for putting together such an abysmal legal case full of so many omissions that the Judge quite properly and firmly dismissed their application for a long term injunction on Israel-Palestine protests www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
28.02.2025 08:56 β π 46 π 11 π¬ 2 π 0π₯π₯π₯Happening Tomorrowπ₯π₯π₯
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Confused about birthright citizenship? Have you heard of jus sanguinis v jus soli, but no clear idea what these terms mean? Why do countries apply different rules? Why does this matter?
Check out the profiles of these brilliant citizenship scholars β¨
(and happy to add more)
go.bsky.app/5vLDGon
In case you missed it: Home Secretaryβs decision on national security is sufficient to revoke refugee status | Keelin McCarthy
13.02.2025 12:31 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1When we inevitably get drawn against yanited
10.02.2025 10:35 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Usually white at funerals etc
10.02.2025 10:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0One of the biggest achievements of the attack on βwokenessβ (a piece of purely far-right framing) was that it made a lot of people have contempt for the demographics who were giving the earliest warnings of what Musk was up to. Itβs hard to listen to those who you donβt consider to be fully human.
03.02.2025 17:34 β π 423 π 127 π¬ 5 π 3The weaponisation of free speech by reactionaries has been incredibly successful and core to the mainstreaming of their ideas
It's shocking so many fell for the idea that power doesn't matter when it comes to it
It should be obvious that free speech without equal access to it is undemocratic
The whole citizenship deprivation process seems increasingly chaotic and driven by political expediency and grandstanding without regard to basic considerations of fairness and justice. Good piece by @sonial77.bsky.social
27.01.2025 09:50 β π 33 π 18 π¬ 2 π 1Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik
27.01.2025 06:20 β π 1408 π 447 π¬ 34 π 59The DOJ argued in court that Indigenous people don't have birthright citizenship, even though they have for 100 years
via @diinsilversmith.bsky.social
this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of βaffirmative actionβ or βDEIβ as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
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