Very excited to see this - we’re almost there, after almost 7 yrs of collaboration on this project… 🤗

I'm inordinately proud of this book, which took a lot of hard work. It's properly interdisciplinary, properly empirical, properly theoretical, and properly historical. Great chapters from the project team and so many insights throughout. (Plus the endorsements are so lovely!)

A terrific book.

Asylum applications run like a parlour game. This kind of policy can only come from people privileged enough to see everything as a game and ignorant enough to have never read a single study about the intricacies of providing evidence in an asylum case.

📖🎉 Congratulations to our project colleague Elisabeth Badenhoop on her new book! Access it here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

All chapters of the "Research Handbook on Irregular #Migration" are now available as PDFs on this website, including the chapter I co-authored with Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani: handbookirregularmigration.sites.uu.nl

Finally, I get to post the compulsory ‘our new book just arrived’ tweet…. Genuinely over the moon about this, the product of multi-year collaboration with Emile Chabal (also: emile-chabal.bsky.social), Mike Slaven, Sara Casella, Elisabeth Badenhoop Seeing Immigrants Economic and Social Research Council ❤️🙏

There are few joys quite so pure as the one felt when taking delivery of a new book, especially one filled with brilliant insights from the Seeing Immigrants team. I hope some of you (especially historians!) will read it, if you can. For more details: cambridge.org/gb/universityp…

In this case, it gives me no joy to emphasise topicality, but our book has loads of insights into the long histories that led to today's Supreme Court ruling on #Rwanda, especially in the chapters by Mike Slaven.

a rare public quantification from the UK government here of how many immigrants within a particular category they have lost track of Seeing Immigrants

Super-excited about our Seeing Immigrants book launch for 'States of Ignorance' with Ċetta Mainwaring, Enda Delaney & Abdellali Hajjat. 29 Jan, 17:00-19:00 in Meadows Lecture Theatre, U of Edinburgh. Come if you can! Details: ed.ac.uk/history-classi…

Edinburgh folks -- Emile Chabal (also: emile-chabal.bsky.social), Christina Boswell and I will be launching the Seeing Immigrants project book, "States of Ignorance", on Mon 29 January. Cohosted by SKAPE and CSMCH Edinburgh. Event information in the link. It would be great to see you there! ed.ac.uk/history-classi…

We had a great time discussing our new book "States of Ignorance" yesterday evening. Thanks to everyone who attended, to SKAPE and CSMCH Edinburgh for hosting, and to our excellent discussants Ċetta Mainwaring, Enda Delaney, and Abdellali Hajjat. Book: cambridge.org/core/books/sta…

My article in Ethnic and Racial Studies about how the Windrush Scandal emerged from long-run changes in the basic ideas guiding UK immigration control now has more than 15,000 views. Thanks for (keeping on) reading! Seeing Immigrants tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Today is #WindrushDay 22nd June marks the anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush in 1948. Here is a link to an article by Mike Slaven about how the individualisation of UK #Immigration control is key to understanding the Windrush Scandal... doi.org/10.1080/014198…

Germany announces changes for asylum seekers politico.eu/article/german…

Worrying to see the immigration minister Seema Malhotra MP take such a complacent view of the full transition to eVisas. As I wrote this summer in this report for UK in a Changing Europe, rethinking this is one big thing the govt could do to learn from the Windrush Scandal media.ukandeu.ac.uk/wp-content/upl…

E-visas are going to create big problems. Wrote about this in this summer's @politicalquarterly.bsky.social special collection on UK immigration policy edited by James Hampshire. If the Labour government wants to show anything has been learned from Windrush it needs to reassess now theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/o…

Very happy to see this first review of our project book in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. 📖 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…