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paolo novak @terminalias.bsky.social · 3h

This discussion is part of the Global Teach In/out events organised by Migration_Scholars_Global_Network

📍Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square London
📆11 November 1pm

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Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity and Resistance Network @migrationscholars.bsky.social · 2d

Join us for the launch of the latest issue of Migration and Society, an international peer-reviewed journal exploring global research on migration, solidarity, and refugee experiences.

📆 October 21st
⏰ 16:30 - 18:30 (GMT +1)
📍 Online (register to receive the link)

www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Migration and Society launch: solidarity and the “Anti-Refugee Machine”

The latest issue of Migration and Society explores global research on migration, solidarity, and refugee experiences, offering fresh insights into movement, belonging, and social connection worldwide.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity and Resistance Network @migrationscholars.bsky.social · 5d

📚 Important Read: insightfully reviewed by anthropologist Fiona Murphy, “Small Boat” is a novel written by Vincent Delecroix. This devastating novel examines the institutional indifference which led to the drowning of 27 people in the English Channel in 2021.

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Small Boat: this slim, devastating novel about a real migrant shipwreck reminds us of the cruelty of indifference

The International Booker Prize nominee follows a French coastguard operator haunted by the deaths she did not prevent.

theconversation.com

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Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity and Resistance Network @migrationscholars.bsky.social · 10d

📚Upcoming Book Talk: Refugee Dehumanisation and Migrants as Moral Agents: The Current Repressive Movement Through the Lens of Two Books.

📆 Thursday, October 9th
⏰ 3pm
📍79 5th Ave, Room 1618, New York

🔗 Don’t miss out! Register here: event.newschool.edu/booktalkrefu...

Book Talk | Refugee Dehumanization and Migrants as Moral Agents:The Current Repressive Moment Through the Lens of Two Books

A discussion led by Vytis Čiubrinskas, Nina Glick Schiller, and Tricia Redeker-Hepner based on Transnationalites of Migrant Moral Economies in a Transforming World (Čiubrinskas and Glick Schiller, Berghahn 2025) and The Anti Refugee Machine: Interpreting Global Migration Control (Redeker-Hepner and Treiber, forthcoming 2026)

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Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity and Resistance Network @migrationscholars.bsky.social · 11d

Essential reading for those on the front lines protecting migrant and refugee rights: city officials, community organizations, legal advocates, and researchers, produced by Soli*City Research Network and the Zolberg Institute.

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Sanctuary and Resistance 2025: Evolving Strategies in an Uncertain Landscape

Between January and May 2025, the Soli*City Research Network and the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility brought together people who care deeply about protecting migrants and refugees in the U...

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Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity and Resistance Network @migrationscholars.bsky.social · 12d

Check out Hostile, an award winning feature length documentary, examining the horrifying impact of government policies on migrants and refugees in Britain today. The film asks: What does it mean to be British? How does it feel to be told you don’t belong?

🔗 www.hostiledocumentary.com#trailer

Hostile Documentary Homepage - Hostile Documentary :: Galeforce Films

EXPOSING THE HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT Hostile is an award-winning feature-length documentary written, produced and directed by BAFTA-longlisted filmmaker Sonita Gale. Told through the stories of four p...

www.hostiledocumentary.com

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Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity and Resistance Network @migrationscholars.bsky.social · 21d

This is what grassroots organizing looks like! How the working class people fight back as a class. Watch the Unión del Barrio in action in this clip; ‘A City Fights Back: How LA Defends Itself From ICE’.

🔗 youtu.be/e9lRq9nfevs?...

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Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity and Resistance Network @migrationscholars.bsky.social · 23d

Check out these open-access articles in Migration and Society on contemporary forced migration and the multitude of global and local efforts to control, steer, manage, and profit from it.

🔗 www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

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Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity and Resistance Network @migrationscholars.bsky.social · 28d

‘Why Wouldn't You?' - a short film created by the DCU Irish Refugee Integration Network and Sanctuary. It gives voice to the lived experiences of forcibly displaced people in Ireland and honours the everyday acts of welcome and justice happening across communities.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qDs...

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Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity and Resistance Network @migrationscholars.bsky.social · Sep 14

The Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity and Resistance Network: scholars, teachers, students, and activists committed to defending academic freedom, speaking the truth about migration, and standing in active solidarity with migrants and refugees everywhere.

Four fists are raised in the air. Beside them a text box reads: “Don’t Mourn - Organize. Resist. Build Solidarity.”

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