Amelia Frank-Vitale

Escapes – laboratorio di studi critici sulle migrazioni forzate

Le iscrizioni per partecipare alla VII conferenza Escapes #escapes2025 (Milano, 11-12 settembre 2025) sono aperte fino al 30 agosto
https://escapes.unimi.it (https://escapes.unimi.it/)

Important News about SAPIENS

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THREAD: It’s with deep regret we share the news that SAPIENS will halt publication of new content by the end of this year. We are so proud of everything SAPIENS has achieved and for our role in furthering public anthropology. Wenner-Gren’s letter to our community. wennergren.org/important-ne...

SAPIENS to Cease Publication

This is really sad news. Sapiens was a fantastic medium to share, promote and diversify anthropology and the platform where many people (like me) learnt and developed skills in science communication. Times are tough, but Sapiens’ niche is now left empty ☹️ wennergren.org/article/sapi...

We're continuing to report.

If you have information about the deportation operation or the Venezuelan immigrants who were deported, we want to hear from you. You can reach out via Signal at 917-512-0201, on WhatsApp at 917-327-4868, or fill out the form below ⤵️

Volunteer with FFI’s national immigration detention hotline! Support the movement to abolish detention by advocating alongside people inside ICE detention. Swipe to learn more.

FFI’s National Immigration Detention Hotline is a vital tool used to build power with people inside detention, expose abuse, and move us closer to our goal of abolishing the detention system.

More information We’re looking for Haitian Kreyol, French, Russian, Arabic, and Vietnamese speakers; Volunteers work a consistent 2-3 hour shift weekly Role description Respond to calls to the hotline from people in immigration detention; Monitor detention conditions, report abuses, and request support on behalf of callers; Commit an additional 30 minutes after your shift for follow-up on your calls; Looking for volunteers who can project their empathy and understanding over the phone and reassure people in detention, as well as set boundaries.

📞 Calling all volunteers, organizers, and freedom fighters!

Want to support the fight to abolish immigration detention? Become a hotline volunteer!

Hotline volunteers further our mission of creating a world without cages by providing critical support & solidarity to people inside ICE detention.

George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award Visit the post for more.

***Graduate students studying migration and/or ethnic history***

Apply to the Pozzetta Dissertation Award! IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations.
More information is available here:

iehs.org/awards/georg...

🚨 Trump's border "invasion" declaration was just ruled unlawful

"nothing in the INA or the Constitution grants the President or his delegees the sweeping authority asserted in the Proclamation and implementing guidance."

one-year lecturer position in environmental studies and the social studies of science and technology:

puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

US signs agreements with Guatemala and Honduras to take asylum-seekers, Noem says Guatemala and Honduras have signed agreements with the U.S. to accept asylum-seekers from other countries. U.S.

apnews.com/article/guat...

Ghoul Stephen Miller warns NYC is what happens when a society “fails to control migration”

Careful guys, if you don’t control migration you might turn out like <checks notes> the greatest, wealthiest city in the world.

This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

Mr. Reuveni's disbelief following the meeting with Bove is now a relic of a different time. Overthe next three weeks, Mr. Reuveni was involved in three separate cases involving the legality ofthe Administration's immigration removal operations under its newly implemented priorities during which time he directly witnessed and reported: • DOJ officials undermining the rule of law by ignoring court orders; DOJ officials presenting “legal” arguments with no basis in law; • • high-ranking DOJ and DHS officials misrepresenting facts presented before courts; and DOJ officials directing Mr. Reuveni to misrepresent facts in one ofthese cases in violation of Mr.Reuveni's legal and ethical duties as an officer ofthe court.2. 22 Mr. Reuveni'sinternalreporting and ultimately his refusal to obey this illegal order directly resulted in his suspension and termination.

Top Justice Department officials consistently lied to federal courts and ignored their orders as part of a willful campaign to deport migrants without due process. Just a shocking series of allegations, especially about Bove.

And Bove's Senate hearing is tomorrow. static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin:

- Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela
- Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard
- Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.

How ICE Is Seeking to Ramp Up Deportations Through Courthouse Arrests

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

Office of the Chief Immigration Judge

Some big moves at EOIR. The Acting Chief Immigration Judge is now Anna C. Little (a NY IJ). Jeffrey Miller who was hired as Acting Regional Deputy Chief Immigration Judge in January appears to be out. Miller was also ACIJ over the Houston courts. More... www.justice.gov/eoir/office-...

🚨 The Bukele regime has arrested Ruth Eleonora López, a prominent human rights defender and the head of the anti-corruption and justice unit at Cristosal, a leading Salvadoran human rights organization.

Cristosal has denounced her detention as an enforced disappearance.

Trump Administration Plans to Send Migrants to Libya on a Military Flight

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

It would reduce the rule of law to lawlessness
and tarnish the very values for which Americans of diverse views and persuasions have always stood."

“Facilitation” does not sanction the abrogation of habeas corpus through the transfer of custody to foreign detention centers in the manner attempted here. Allowing all this would “facilitate” foreign detention more than it would domestic return.

Many key lines here, including:

"“Facilitation” does not permit the admittedly erroneous deportation of an individual to the one country’s prisons that the withholding order forbids and, further, to do so in
disregard of a court order that the government not so subtly spurns.

Strongly worded, clear as day decision from the 4th circuit, denying the government's request for a stay in the Abrego García case.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

CHNVParole041425

BREAKING: Federal judge in Boston halts Trump administration's mass cancellation of CHNV (Cuba/Haiti/Nicaragua/Venezuela) parole. Indira Talwani (Obama) says it was premised on legal error & lacked required individualized assessment. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

if you’ve recently traveled into or out of the US and had any unusual interactions with CBP, i’d like to hear about them (regardless of immigration status—citizens, permanent residents, visa holders)
email: gaby @ the verge dot com, i’m also on signal ✨

Harvard says no to Trump.

He is saying he will not do so in coordination with Trump. International law, due process, human rights - both men have contempt for such things and delight in the opportunity to defy them. As others have noted: if they can do this to this person they can do it to anyone.

Abrego García was removed to El Salvador in violation of US law and in violation of our obligations under international law. US courts have ordered the US government to fix its "mistake." To be very clear: if Trump asked Bukele to return him, he would.

Reporting a disappearance to the Working Group

If your client or loved one has been disappeared by the US gov, whether to Guantánamo, a Salvadoran gulag, or some other incomunicado/unregistered ICE or CBP facility, I urge you to report it to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (thread): www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...