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Liberty Chee

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Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow (most recently) || International Relations || Domestic Work || Migration Governance || Feminist Theory || Taxes to the 🇳🇱, Remittances to the 🇵🇭 https://www.libertychee.nl https://pric.unive.it/projects/knowingdom

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 23d

link.springer.com/book/10.1007... This book, at its core, examines what migration governance looks like when states step back and let markets lead. Out now open access #migcitsky #polisky #IRsky #gendersky

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 15h

Anti immigration protest in AMS today. MAGA hat. Crucifix. God is good. Jesus saves. Geert (Wilders) will be great. Charlie Kirk....

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 19h

Well well well

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 23h

jacobin.com/2025/10/russ... "Cold War competition also had great implications for America... The result was capitalism on its best behavior: high public investment, unionization, income compression, and meaningful, if hard-won, social and racial progress."

When a Superpower Declines, Shared Reality Dissolves

When the Soviet Union fell, Russians lost their sense of past and future at once. Collective hallucinations flourished in the void. In the United States, our reality is now disintegrating in a similar...

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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 10d

Why are migrant workers in Qatar being recruited as cannon-fodder for Russia in Ukraine, and is labour surplus from the 2022 World Cup responsible? Brilliant reporting from @samindrakunti.bsky.social and @bobbyperu.bsky.social in @josimarfootball.bsky.social josimarfootball.com/2025/09/25/t...

The migrant soldiers - josimarfootball.com

For months, the Russian army has secretly recruited hundreds, if not thousands, of jobless migrant workers in Qatar to fight on the frontline against Ukraine.

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 1d

I just reviewed a paper. The keywords all had URL links (in the pdf). The links were mostly news articles. What else could it have been other than LLM-generated...????

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 2d

University workers and students, vote according to your interests.

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 2d

www.ftm.nl/artikelen/vi... Who's going to scrub toilets? Take out the trash? Pick asparagus? Deliver food? Cut meat? Make pizzas? Once upon a time, these were essential workers.

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 2d

Took a while, but hunted down the name of the Chilean worker delegate who recommended that the ILO commission a study on domestic workers in the 1931 ILC. ChatGPT, bless them, made up a fact - that it was Elías Lafertte (a real person btw) who was the worker delegate O.o

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Jess Bier 🌈 @bierjess.bsky.social · 2d

Dutch politics in a nutshell

Fascist: I'm going to murder you

Progressive: Hey let's get out of here

Liberal: Don't be so negative. Come and debate your murderer. He doesn't mean it

Fascist: Oh I totally mean it (shows knife)

Liberal: Isn't it nice we can all sit together like this?

Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 3d

Als je erkent dat de woorden v Wilders c.s. leiden tot politiek geweld, waarom verlang je dat slachtoffers met hun beulen aan tafel gaan? Hoe beschermt dat de slachtoffers v racisme? En hoe versterk je de rechtsstaat door juist de bedreigers ervan als gelijkwaardige gesprekspartner te behandelen?

Rob Jetten @robjetten.bsky.social · 3d

In mijn Nederland kunnen Sylvana Simons, Fleur Agema en ik samen aan tafel zitten. Fel in het debat, maar met respect voor elkaar.

De Nederlandse vlag is niet van één partij, maar van iedereen die vooruit wil. Het kan wél!

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 2d

nltimes.nl/2025/10/10/f... Public unis' loss - private unis' gain. Small boutique schools are going to make hay...

Fewer international students will Dutch economy €5 billion, universities say

A curb on the number of international students at five universities in the Randstad will have negative consequences for the Dutch economy. Gross domestic product will decline by approximately €4 to €5...

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent stuff as always from the Dig. Lots of interesting points made, one of which is that class analysis in the US, w/c ascribes 'working class' identity to lack of college education is 50 years old and needs updating. And of course a gendered analysis as can be expected from Melinda Cooper.

Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 11d

New @thedigradio.bsky.social: first of two w @melindacooper.bsky.social on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. How neoliberalism remade US capitalism into an engine for endless asset appreciation, and the attendant reactionary politics www.thedigradio.com/podcast/coun...

Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper

Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Neoliberalism remade the American economy into an engine for the appreciation of assets stretching from the...

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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 3d

Immigrants make up only 4% of the world’s population but they are more than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prize winners.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

www.nature.com

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 3d

#OpenAccess from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social -

Militarized Social Reproduction and Rebel-to-Party Transformations: Evidence from Female Ex-Combatants in the Philippines - https://cup.org/46KPuFD

- Julia Palik & Jehan Usop

#FirstView

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty morning.

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 4d

nltimes.nl/2025/10/08/a... Oh joy

Amsterdam moves anti-immigration protest from Dam Square to Museumplein on Sunday

The anti-immigration demonstration called “Nederland in opstand,” which is planned for Sunday afternoon in Amsterdam, will now take place at Museumplein instead of Dam Square. Mayor Femke Halsema made...

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 4d

balkaninsight.com/2025/10/06/t... Excellent reporting in the Balkan insight, on how the structural role of employment agencies' control of EU migrant workers housing in their deportability.

The Price of Clean Streets: How the Netherlands Deports Homeless Eastern Europeans

Deportations of unsheltered EU migrants, mainly from Poland and Romania, are on the rise in the Netherlands. Some experts and NGOs regard the policy as barely legal; others argue it gives the often-ad...

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 4d

Cautiously side-eyeing election-related violence in Germany the past few years...

Sky News @news.sky.com · 5d

German mayor Iris Stalzer 'fighting for her life' after being stabbed in Herdecke

The incoming mayor of a German town is said to be fighting for her life after being stabbed multiple times.

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 5d

webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1g... Day 2

THE HAGUE – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings in the advisory proceedings on the Right to Strike – Mauritius; Mexico; Norway; Panama; United Kingdom; Egypt

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings on the request for an advisory opinion concerning the Right to Strike under ILO Convention No. 87 on 7 October 2025.

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 5d

webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1g... Day 1 hearing

THE HAGUE – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings in the advisory proceedings on the Right to Strike – International Labour Office; International Trade Union Confederation; In...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings on the request for an advisory opinion concerning the Right to Strike under ILO Convention No. 87 on 6 October 2025.

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 6d

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings on the request for an advisory opinion on the Right to Strike under ILO Convention No. 87. Livestream here: www.icj-cij.org/multimedia-l...

Live webstream | INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 6d

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... New piece from Santi Regilme #eusky #polisky

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 6d

youtu.be/QMzGBhleKQw?... An incredibly perceptive description of the German labour market from some rando on YouTube. Pretty similar to the NL.

Germany's work life balance myth: What they don't show you

YouTube video by Brit in Germany

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 6d

www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin... OK kids! Today we discuss the pros and cons of universal suffrage. Why should women get to vote?

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poelmanjos.bsky.social @poelmanjos.bsky.social · 7d

#RodeLijn #Amsterdam #Museumplein #GazaGenocide‌ 🍉

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 7d

February 2024. It was small groups like this, protesting at the train stations (here in AMS). Lonely voices. Commuters were curious but just went walking past. It took a while, but we got to the #rodelijn