This week we welcome USC Sociology PhD candidate Demetrius Murphy Demetrius Miles Murphy, Ph.D. to our department colloquium!

I am so excited to do a book talk at the UvA Amsterdam in November, sponsored by the Amsterdam Research Center for Migration. Grateful to Floris Vermeulen, @SaskiaBonjour, and Jessica Soedirgo for putting the event together. UvA has always provided me a community since I started

🏆With the award committee I'm excited to share the call for nominations for the 2025 ASA Sociology Jessie Bernard Award for feminist scholarship. Please share widely and nominate by 1/1! asanet.org/about/awards/j….

Delighted🥰 Roundtable I proposed with truly fantastic scholars on "Transnational Repression and Diaspora" is coming to #ISA2025 in Chicago. Looking forward! #TNR #repression #accountability #HumanRights #authoritarian #democracy #diaspora #resistance #policy #AcademicTwitter

Come to the Grand Ballroom for session WD01 to hear us all on #TNR #diaspora -- Dan Slater, Diana Fu, Yehonathan Abramson, Dana Moss, Fiona B. Adamson, Alex Dukalskis, Ga Eun Cho, Ralph Weber, Kennedy Chi-pan Wong, Elena Sánchez-Montijano "This roundtable brings together a diverse

#TNR is a crucial/urgent topic. See new @FreedomHouse Report on Authoritarian Controls on Freedom of Movement freedomhouse.org/report/transna… & Transnational Repression Reporting Act of 2024 legislation by @RepAdamSchiff schiff.house.gov/imo/media/doc/… #democracy #diaspora ISA #ISA2025

Check out our OpEd with @real_deisy based on our special double issue American Behavioral Scientist on the toolbox that a new breed of autocrats around the world deploy to attain & retain power through democratic processes. We point to critical relevance for the U.S. scientificamerican.com/article/meet-t…

Thank you again @real_deisy and Cecilia Menjivar @cecimenjivar.bsky.social for organizing this amazing special issue!

I’m grateful to finally begin consolidating and presenting a series of work after conducting fieldwork over the past five years. The first opportunity to do so is within my home department, surrounded by friends, colleagues, and professors. Looking forward to it!

Drawing on social media posts and survey responses, we examine how Hong Kong-based Trump supporters reconcile two seemingly incongruent understandings of democracy—support for Hong Kong’s democratic future and support for Trump who is often seen to promote democratic backsliding.

#ERSNew🐣 🔓 #SpecialIssue Amanda Cheong UBC Sociology explores how Malaysia's definition of statelessness goes beyond formal law, revealing a paradox: stateless people are often "produced" by legal and bureaucratic processes that deny their claims. By labeling them as

Please stop repeating the recent slur about Puerto Rico, even when condemning it. Repeating it cements the insidious association & normalizes this language. Recognize that t's an insult to all Latinos (and should be reprehensible to decent human beings). #WeAreAllPuertoRicans

I asked my undergraduate political economy class in HK to pick a winner for the US election, and who they would vote for if they had a vote. None of them are US citizens. The sample is small. But here is their prediction and choice (blame Google Form for the colour flip).

I know friends who are on DED—a condition even less secure than TPS—seeking asylum, or are undocumented. Trump’s America will profoundly impact many people, including exiles who struggle to voice their precarious situations as they face transnational repression and exclusion.

why are weibo ultranationalists celebrating Trump's win - ideological alignment: seeing it as a win over feminists, lgbtq activism, racial minorities etc - foreign policy: acknowledging that both parties are anti-China, and Trump's approach to Ukraine & Taiwan likely more China

I am honored to deliver a guest lecture on Transnational Repression at the U of Arizona! We explored several high-profile cases by various autocratic regimes and examined the development of transnational repression tactics by the Chinese Communist Party across the globe.

Glad to moderate and share some of my thoughts during the engaging discussions at two events hosted by the U of Toronto Munk School and Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library. Thanks Prof Diana Fu, Director Maria Lau, Mitchell, and Bernice for organizing the events.

1/ Today was the last working day before our year-end holiday at HKDC and I just learned that I am now a wanted Hong Konger with a HK$1 million bounty for national security offences.

If you are studying immigrant conservatism and planning to attend the 2025 ASA Sociology conference in Chicago in August, please consider submitting a paper/extended abstract to our ASA Int'l Migration session co-sponsored with ASA Political Sociology Section. Please email me if you have any questions.

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