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Catherine Ruth Craven @catherineruth.bsky.social · 7h

🤩 Stay tuned to learn more about the contents of the book, and to hear me gushing about all the wonderful people who've helped to make this happen!!!

Catherine Ruth Craven @catherineruth.bsky.social · 7h

📖 Diaspora Governance in Practice will offer a new perspective on how power operates in an entangled international system, through a practice-centered study of diaspora governance as it is encountered (remade and resisted) by a globally mobilizing Tamil diaspora.

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Catherine Ruth Craven @catherineruth.bsky.social · 7h

🔊 I've been quiet about this, but can't hold it in any longer ...

🍾 Beyond happy to say that my first book "Diaspora Governance in Practice" - which will be published with @brisunipress.bsky.social next year - now officially has a cover!!!

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Catherine Ruth Craven @catherineruth.bsky.social · 3d

The fabulous @oulakadhum.bsky.social and I are planning on putting together a panel on diaspora politics and decolonization for @mybisa.bsky.social annual conference, if anyone is interested in joining?!

More info below, please get in touch via [email protected]

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Sheffield UCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social · 23d

BREAKING: Our members at the University of Sheffield have voted overwhelmingly for strike action against the University Executive Board’s ongoing campaign of job cuts, and the threat to staff workload and wellbeing that they represent.

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Catherine Ruth Craven @catherineruth.bsky.social · 22d

Latest research from MIGZEN now out in
@jcms-eu.bsky.social

We advance understanding of emergence of transnational communities of practice in global politics, exploring how Brexit opportunity structures shape transnational political mobilisation in Europe. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Brexit and the Emergence of a Transnational European Community of Practice: From Grassroots Mobilisations to Supranational Political Opportunity Structures in the Struggle for Citizens' Rights

Brexit ignited an unprecedented sense of shared European identity and belonging, catalysing pro-EU social movements among EU nationals in the United Kingdom and amongst British citizens residing in t...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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IRIS @irisbirmingham.bsky.social · 24d

#publicationalert
New article by @michaelacbenson.bsky.social Catherine Craven
& @nandosigona.bsky.social on the political mobilisation of #EUcitizenship during #Brexit drawing @ukri.org www.migzen.net

Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 24d

#Brexit and the Emergence of a Transnational European Community of Practice: From Grassroots Mobilisations to Supranational Political Opportunity Structures in the Struggle for Citizens' Rights

Journal of Common Market Studies
(@jcms-eu.bsky.social)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Brexit and the Emergence of a Transnational European Community of Practice: From Grassroots Mobilisations to Supranational Political Opportunity Structures in the Struggle for Citizens' Rights

Brexit ignited an unprecedented sense of shared European identity and belonging, catalysing pro-EU social movements among EU nationals in the United Kingdom and amongst British citizens residing in t...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Hannah Lewis @hannahjlewis.bsky.social · Jul 11

It was a pleasure to welcome @susanbanki.bsky.social to a well-attended end of semester @sheffieldmrg.bsky.social seminar to hear about her dedicated work on the Ecosystem of the little-known Bhutanese exile politics & to hear excellent provocations from @catherineruth.bsky.social around #precarity

Susan Banki @susanbanki.bsky.social · Jul 11

UK academic recap: spruiked book @ox.ac.uk @soasuni.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @durhamuniversity.bsky.social . Reunion with many colleagues @alexanderbetts.bsky.social Nich Van Hear Anita Fabos @hannahjlewis.bsky.social Alice Bloch Fiona Adamson Michael Hutt Martin Jones Alice Nah. Joy

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Dr. Lucy Mayblin @mayblin.bsky.social · Jul 7

I have been working on building this database of crimes of solidarity&humanitarianism for a few years. It's a resource for research and legal cases and activists -to get an overall sense of patterns across different locations. If you would like to help please get in touch www.crimesofsolidarity.org

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Hannah Lewis @hannahjlewis.bsky.social · Jun 24

Join us for: The ecosystem of exile politics: The importance of physical location in diaspora mobilisation

⌚ Thu 26th June, 1130

Susan Banki, University of Sydney

University of Sheffield 🏢 & online 💻

Register ➡️ www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...

@sheffieldmrg.bsky.social & Activism Network

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Sheffield UCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social · May 29

We are screening The Big Meeting - a film about the Durham Miners' Gala

📅Thursday 5th June 2025 from 7:15 at the Broomhall Centre

Open to all! Please sign up here: forms.gle/iHeJCWRKfrE1...

@sheffieldtransformed.org

Movie Poster - The Big Meeting - A documentary about the Durham Miners' Gala

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Catherine Ruth Craven @catherineruth.bsky.social · May 14

Made it to page 13 of the Immigration White Paper but was ultimately defeated by this paragraph/sentence/string of words?!

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Catherine Ruth Craven @catherineruth.bsky.social · May 14

Phew I thoucht it was me and my no-math brain.

Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · May 13

As soon as I looked at the graphs in the immigration white paper, I knew they were insane.

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · May 13

This chart from Immigration White Paper illustrates quality of government's underlying "analysis."

1. Numbers are completely wrong (in fact non-EU employment in health/care rose by over 100K).

2. Doesn't say what time period this is.

3. Footnote to source says data is from OECD (it's from HMRC)

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Sheffield UCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social · May 7

Sheffield UCU took part in the Workers Day of Action on Trans Rights from our picket lines today! The UK Trade Union movement stands behind our trans siblings
#tradeunionists4transrights

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Dr. Lucy Mayblin @mayblin.bsky.social · May 7

Day 3 of striking today and we're voting on an offer from management tomorrow! Amazing work getting them to the table @sheffielducu.bsky.social & all our striking and picketing comrades!

Joseph Ward @jward232.bsky.social · May 7

Standing strong at The Wave and Elmfield today. We're on strike for the most fundamental reason - to protect colleagues jobs from management vandalism #UCUstrikes @sheffielducu.bsky.social

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