Both the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press reported that ICE agents started the violence in LA over the weekend.

Read how the U.S. externalized its borders using health controls beginning in the 1800s, laying the groundwork for controls that were repurposed during the Covid-19 and Title 42 era to keep out asylum seekers. Open access in Migration Studies. academic.oup.com/migration/arti…

In downtown LA

Alistair Kitchen, SoA ’24, published a series of essays on campus protests while he was a Columbia student in spring 2024. Customs and Border Protection officers detained and deported him June 12. l8r.it/kX9Z

The largest Jewish population outside Tel Aviv is in NYC. Zohran Mamdani spoke out against antisemitism yet stood firm on Gaza. No hedging, no moral cowardice — and now he’s winning the primary. That’s what principled politics looks like.

📢Postdoc Opportunity- immigration, opinion publique and integration The Immigration Research Initiative Concordia University (Montréal) is hiring a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher! ⏳Application deadline: August 1st, 2025 🚀 Start date: September 2025 (negotiable) 🔗All the details:

Washington has paid 70% of Israel’s military costs since Oct 7, 2023. At same time Washington is cutting Pell Grants awarded to 7.4 million poor students during the 2025-26 school year, at a cost of $38.1 billion by 23% to just $5,710 a year. How much is going to Israel?

If the bill passes, it could make ICE the nation’s largest jailer, with more funding for detention than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons. It would give ICE enough money to have more officers on board than the entire FBI. This alone could transform American society forever.

New paper out Journal CMS! China is often seen as a source—not a host—of refugees. But during the Cold War, it took in nearly 500k from SE Asia. Why? We analyze 382 People’s Daily articles to show how China redefined “refugee” for shifting political goals. doi.org/10.1186/s40878…

Journal CMS May be of interest to scholars on diasporas, refugees, Chinese politics, discourse analysis, and Cold War geopolitics.

📅 Save the Date! Our exhibition, 'After the Assembly: Constituting India' opens 17 July at SOAS Gallery, London! We bring together art, archives, films, and a new digital platform exploring the making of the Indian Constitution. Do join us! More info: soas.ac.uk/about/event/af…

I condemn US reprisals against my fellow UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt for her legitimate advocacy to hold Israel & others accountable for violations of international law in Palestine. I urge all UN member States to denounce this attack on the United Nations & human rights

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced sanctions against the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Francesca Albanese. This is a shameless and transparent attack on the fundamental principles of international justice. Special Rapporteurs are not

📣Apply for the Postdoctoral position in international migration studies (REGENDERING Project) at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 📌Start date: 1 January 2026 ⏳Application deadline: 7 Sept 2025 🔗All the details: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige…

Still in a state of shock how little attention this story has received.

Defend our Juries We have entered the era of the "might makes right, with no exceptions". Dark times await us all, unless we, the global society, wake up and protect our rights. No one is free unless everyone is free.

#Newbooks #BorderBooks 📗From #Frontiers to #Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality 🖋️ Kerry Goettlich 🗓️ August 2025 🏢 Cambridge University Press 🔎 cambridge.org/gb/universityp…

Aid cuts are driving migrants to Europe, warns UN refugee chief ft.com/content/976f57… via @ft Sad to see this “we need more aid otherwise migrants will come” threat narrative still being used. Here’s what we wrote about this last year: thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2024/1…

“The more than $175 billion that Congress handed to the nation’s immigration enforcers when it passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is larger than the annual military budget of every country in the world except the United States and China” theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'International refugee norm sabotage: An analysis of anti-migration groups in the UK' by Mabel Newton. 🔗: buff.ly/jK0a21C Political Studies Association