Italian court deems deportations to Albania unlawful (2 underage, 2 vulnerable, 12 at risk of violence in home country). yet the EC looks at offshore processing as a way to manage migration. how did we get so low?

Join this important event on Participation and Digitalization: Opportunities and Challenges for Migrants and Refugees in the Netherlands, in Utrecht on 20 November, organized by Noemi Mena Montes

A small offering for those looking. Our Introductory Curriculum 'Palestine: Spaces and Politics' is online. For those in the fields of architecture, geography, urbanism, and planning we situate Palestine beyond colonial erasure. palestine.araburbanism.com

🟡 NOW: Palestine solidarity activists in Berlin push back under the slogan “No Halloween this year. The horror is real.” Protesters are using pyrotechnics and setting up barricades, reclaiming Berlin’s streets in defiance of heavy police repression of Palestine solidarity.

Really looking forward to this!

BBC: “Kenya refugees: Abductions and expulsions taint safe haven image” As some of us have argued for some time, the safe haven image was a ruse all along—a fiction that has served the GoK, int’l donors & NGOs keen to get a piece of the humanitarian pie. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Here's a couple of organisations in Lebanon that I have just donated to - feel free to add others to this thread: Lebanon Resists is fundraising to support the healthcare sector, which has been significantly targeted by the Israeli military lebanonresist.com

Fantastic presentation by Tyler Valiquette , focussing on social capital of LGBTQ+ Venuzuelan asylum seekers in Northern Brazil.

Excellent discussion today focussing on mental health, exploitation, and violence.

We are so happy to announce that the NQIfFM (iranqueerefugee.net) poetry collection "Rainbows on Rugged Terrains: Poetics of Queer Iranians in Exile" is now out! It features poetry from queer Iranians in exile in Turkey, the UK, and Canada. tplondon.com/product/rainbo…

Excited to start the year as a visiting researcher at The University of Manchester, exploring how queer and trans refugees use social media to foster community and drive meaningful activism. If you're in Manchester, let me know - I'd love to connect!

Today's a good day. I finally get to read Gordon Ogutu's fantastic ' Decolonising Refugee Integration', troubling colonial practices and neocolonial understandings of integration used to inform policy actions in the Global South. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

🚨 2 YEARS?! 🚨 It's been TWO years since the Anti-Homosexuality Act passed! 💔 This week, we're diving deep into its impact, the struggle so far, and how we can finally repeal this cruel law. Today, let's start with a quick timeline update! 🗓️ #RepealAHA23 #SAYNOTOHOMOPHOBIA | SMUG🏳️‍🌈

Last chance to express your interest! Want to connect with other researchers or relevant stakeholders to form teams for our Digital Good Research Fund?  We are holding an optional online research team formation sandpit on 1 April. Apply here: digitalgood.net/digital-good-r…

23,000 words left on the PhD thesis draft. Writing from cloudy Windsor, fuelled by tea and existential dread.

Beautiful sunny day in Stockholm and my thesis is slowly taking shape - 5000 words to go 😊

If there’s one book on Colonialism, by a historian, that I would recommend an undergraduate to read, then this is it! I keep learning so much about the historical trajectories of colonial questions every time I read the book. Indeed, a treasure trove that is relevant today!