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by Suzan Ilcan

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Border criminologies’ new post
‘examines how national-level derogations, cloaked in procedural legality, represent a deeper erosion of mutual trust and constitutional coherence in the EU asylum system.’
Legal Walls, Silent Violations: How Germany and Greece Are
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk

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3 MAGA extremists have re-intro'd a bill that allows South Carolina to execute women who receive an abortion. If you haven't heard about S 323, it's because corporate media has completely ignored it.

Here's the overview, the sponsors, & how to fight back:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...
S. Carolina RE-Intros Bill To Kill Women For Getting An Abortion
Here's what's in the bill, why it is so dangerous, and the meaningful steps you can take to fight back, support women's health, and help block this bill from becoming law
www.qasimrashid.com
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Our episode of Between Borders came out last week 🎉. I enjoyed the conversation with @rachelbenchekroun.bsky.social , Amandas Ong, Sabina Barone and @froeschert.bsky.social on conducting ethical research on migration in the context of social injustice. Please listen and share your thoughts.
Episode Three: Ethical Methods
Podcast Episode · Between Borders · 22/09/2025 · 43m
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We have recently released issue 8 of Migration and Society. The issue engages with solidarity, hope and writing on migration in dark times.

The issue is open access. berghahnbooks.bsky.social

We will have an online launch of the issue on 21 Oct. Let me know if you need the registration details
www.berghahnjournals.com
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by Suzan Ilcan

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Italy’s Border Immigration Paradox
Italy's Borders Immigration Paradox: Rising Numbers, Falling
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk
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In India and the US, protection for asylum seekers seems to rest on political discretion, not legal obligation. Read the new blog post on translating Indian journeys to the US ⤵️

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Reposted by Suzan Ilcan, Anna O. Law, Daniel W. Drezner , and 1 more

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“They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down. We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

The worst of what we feared when Trump’s spending bill gave ICE a blank check is happening.
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
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Reposted by Suzan Ilcan, Jonathan Portes, Anna O. Law , and 20 more

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So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’
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by Naomi Klein — Reposted by Suzan Ilcan

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A bunch of folks have asked about my "Long Arc of Fascism" course - this is my opening lecture at our public teach-in last Spring.
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Centre for Climate Justice @ccj-ubc.bsky.social · Sep 10
Watch @naomiaklein.bsky.social open the Long Arc of Fascism teach-in by challenging the conventional, narrow understanding of fascism, particularly the idea that it is a uniquely European phenomenon that began in the 1920s or ’30s and was defeated in 1945.
@ccms-sfu.bsky.social
Introduction Sketching Fascism’s Long Arc with Naomi Klein
YouTube video by Centre for Climate Justice
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It took less than 72 hrs for as many as a dozen workers detained during a massive immigration raid in Central New York to go from a factory floor in Cato to a landing strip in Central America.
Workers were herded through as many as three different Border Patrol stations & detention centers in 2 days
Speed, confusion, no courts: ICE ships Upstate NY factory workers to Central America in 72 hours
More than 40 workers detained in a massive Central NY immigration raid have been quickly shuttled to the Texas-Mexico border
www.syracuse.com
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The latest Open Access volume of Migration and Society has been published!: bit.ly/4mbOY7L

Featuring research by: @malayfiroz.bsky.social @jenri.bsky.social @ernabodstrom.bsky.social @jesperbjarnesen.bsky.social @djamilak.bsky.social @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social and more!
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by Suzan Ilcan

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“How international aid cuts are eroding refugee protections in the Global South” has been published today on The Conversation.

Here's the link:

theconversation.com/how-internat...
How international aid cuts are eroding refugee protections in the Global South
In light of the U.S. retreat from humanitarian leadership, countries like Canada must assume a more prominent role in sustaining global protection systems.
theconversation.com
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857 people arrested in a single day in London for holding signs opposing Israel’s genocide in Palestine

These include Holocaust survivors, vicars, retired nurses and teachers. So many of them are elderly.

Labour is dead

www.instagram.com/p/DOTb3nIjYIS/
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Heads up, folks.
ICE Is Said to Have Begun Operation in the Boston Area
www.nytimes.com
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by Suzan Ilcan

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Our new article just published in Migration and Society, “Transversal Community-Building: Fostering Women's Collaboration and Solidarity Across Differences in Cyprus”

Open access:
doi.org/10.3167/arms...
doi.org
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Immigration officers forced their way into a confectionery plant near Syracuse on Thursday and detained more than 70 workers, witnesses said, in what appeared to be one of the biggest workplace raids in New York since President Trump’s deportation crackdown began.
U.S. Agents Raid Upstate N.Y. Plant and Detain More Than 70 Migrants
Local law enforcement officers helped federal agents carry out an immigration raid near Syracuse. Witnesses said the agents used police dogs in the raid and wielded crowbars to gain entry.
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by Tony R. ‎Walker — Reposted by Suzan Ilcan

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Solidarity and support, Thank you !

More than two dozen academic and public sector unions from across the entire country have donated to our cause, thank you!

Solidarity is how we will all win fair contracts!

Keep Dal Strong
Dalhousie Faculty Association
#keepdalstrong
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Reposted by Suzan Ilcan, Cas Mudde, Manisha Sinha

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Absolutely incredible video of a woman standing up to ICE. This is resistance

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“In Gaza, to be an academic today is to refuse to be reduced to a statistic.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focused as an academic in Gaza
It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter
www.theguardian.com
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drvanessalamb.bsky.social
Please join us! I am co-convening 3 Royal Geographical Society panels on Feminist and Gendered Geographies of Resistance with @zalifung.bsky.social and Rebecca Elmhirst at the University of Birmingham next week. A great lineup of presentations. bit.ly/4lgkPnk @rgsibg.bsky.social
Panel description feminist and gendered geographies of resistance
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Wildfires are burning in parts of Europe as millions of people across the continent struggled to adapt to the new reality: record summer heat.
Parts of Europe burn as millions are facing record heat
Wildfires are burning in parts of Europe as millions of people across the continent struggled to adapt to the new reality: record summer heat.
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by Suzan Ilcan

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New 2025 Special Issue:
“The Spatial Dimensions of Refugee and Migrant Activism: Borders, Liminality, and Porosity.” Editors, Susan Banki & Suraina Pasha. See articles in the Journal of Refugee Studies.
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Researchers in Florida (and nationwide) face significant disruption and uncertainty due to millions stripped from universities by the Trump administration.

“When you try to control what experts in scientific fields are researching, then you undermine the entire scientific enterprise.”
Florida’s universities face research overhaul courtesy of Trump and DeSantis
Led by the governor, Florida's government accountability DOGE team is auditing university research projects and even recommending grants for termination.
www.politico.com
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🖋 PUBLICATION!

🌟 'Translating sanctuary: Politics of solidarity in a bilingual and plurinational context'

👏 Congratulations to Dr Catrin Edwards and Dr Rhys Dafydd Jones on their new article in The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social

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The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
The paper examines the significance of translating sanctuary in an officially bilingual (and multilingual in practice) national polity. By examining the different meanings of the translation of 'sanc....
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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Reposted by Suzan Ilcan, Felicity Callard, Ingrid Robeyns

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Antony Loewenstein: Israel has killed more journalists in the last 22 months than were killed in the US civil war, WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
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by Suzan Ilcan

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Studies in Social Justice - New Issue Published (Volume 19, Issue 2)

Volume 19, Issue 1 of Studies in Social Justice is published, and can be accessed at: journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SS...
Visit the website to read the full announcement.
Vol. 19 No. 2 (2025) | Studies in Social Justice
journals.library.brocku.ca
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@drdconlon.bsky.social, author of Immigration Detention Inc. speaks with the Make Me Smart Podcast by @marketplace.org about how immigration detention became dominated by private companies in the United States.

Listen here: www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...
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Reposted by Suzan Ilcan, Michael Kevane

npr.org
The Trump administration cancelled about $500 million for research into mRNA vaccines. The move slows progress in using the technology to prevent a future pandemic or treat disease, experts say.
Public health experts dismayed by RFK Jr.'s defunding of mRNA vaccine research
The Trump administration cancelled about $500 million for research into mRNA vaccines. The move slows progress in using the technology to prevent a future pandemic or treat disease, experts say.
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