Kamran Khan

Do not miss this interview with @kamrank.bsky.social on the linguistic angle of the politics of citizenship and belonging.

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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 “Terrorism”' at @leedsbeckett.bsky.social ! I had a great time and 1st visit to Leeds!

What is actually happening when a state racially profiles someone for the way they use language (e.g. saying salaam alaykum)? 🤔

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 🎙️🌙

🎉Yesterday @ctsworkinggroup.bsky.social held their annual conference!

👏Many thanks to the amazing convenors; @amnakaleem.bsky.social , Alice Finden and @rmkhan.bsky.social for all of their hard work!

⭐️The #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 ‘Theorising Historiographical Islamophobia’ which has basically been my intellectual project of the last half decade! 🤓

It’s open access here: www.scienceopen.com/document_fil...

Citizenship by Choice, Not Necessity: Political and Emotional Drivers of Naturalisation Intentions Among Migrants From High Income Countries In the growing body of research on immigrant naturalisation, migrants from high income countries have received scant attention in their own right because of their relatively low baseline citizenship ....

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....

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@migcitizenapsa.bsky.social
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🙏🏾 yessir!

New to BlueSky and interested in #citizenship? Here’s a Starter Pack with some folks working in the field of citizenship studies, or on related issues #migcitsky

There’s still space to add people to the list!

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Trying out Bluesky again. Who’s around?

I 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...

The War on Terror, esp under Bush & Obama, was an effort at creating ungoverned spaces where killing specific kinds of proposed subhumans (eg Arabs) didn’t trigger rule of law or human rights concerns. MAGA is simply expanding these spaces stateside to a new proposed subhuman: “the brown immigrant”

I really can’t 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% 🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂

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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

"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?

No Other Land (2024) Oscar-winning film offering a powerful view of destruction in the West Bank

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

Top university loses court battle to stop Israel-Palestine protests on campus The order was ‘urgently’ needed ahead of a Saturday graduation ceremony, lawyers said

Grateful 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...

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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 ✨

(and happy to add more)

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Home Secretary’s decision on national security is sufficient to revoke refugee status - Free Movement Once the Home Secretary concludes that a refugee is a danger to national security she is entitled to revoke his refugee status. She does not have to go on to

In case you missed it: Home Secretary’s decision on national security is sufficient to revoke refugee status | Keelin McCarthy

When we inevitably get drawn against yanited

Usually white at funerals etc

One of the biggest achievements of the attack on “wokeness” (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. It’s hard to listen to those who you don’t consider to be fully human.

The 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

Deprivation of British citizenship process is procedurally unfair, says Court of Appeal - Free Movement The Home Secretary's appeal in a deprivation case has seemingly backfired as the Court of Appeal has held that the deprivation process being operated, where

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

Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully For the past week, Palestinians in Gaza have been returning to their homes, now mostly reduced to rubble – and to their dead who still…

Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik

Reports of Navajo people being detained in immigration sweeps sparks concern from tribal leaders The DOJ argued in court that Indigenous people don't have birthright citizenship, even though they have for 100 years

The DOJ argued in court that Indigenous people don't have birthright citizenship, even though they have for 100 years

via @diinsilversmith.bsky.social

You Blamed DEI for Hurting Your Career. Now What? For people who pin their failures on diversity, corporate America’s DEI retreat removes a barrier—or maybe an excuse.

this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...