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Ben Rosher

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Borders | ontosec | migration | citizenship

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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The UK government is making upwards of £4.9bn in profit from visa fees, citizenship fees & the immigration health surcharge. Meanwhile, people are getting into thousands of pounds of debt or going without food just to afford to these immigration fees. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
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Government makes £5bn a year from immigration fees while applicants…
Home Office’s fees are up to 10 times the processing cost – and rising every year
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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Congratulations to our @drseanhaughey.bsky.social who has just published an article in @govandopp.bsky.social together with @jontonge.bsky.social and @benrosher.bsky.social: "Why Northern Ireland’s Institutions Need Reform" doi.org/10.1017/gov.... #OpenAccess
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Why Northern Ireland’s Institutions Need Reform | Government and Opposition | Cambridge Core
Why Northern Ireland’s Institutions Need Reform - Volume 61
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New paper!! Sean Haughey, Jon Tonge, and I draw on data from the Northern Ireland General Election Survey to chart a way toward some potential reforms that could enjoy popular and political support and (hopefully) improve the stability of the NI institutions. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Why Northern Ireland’s Institutions Need Reform | Government and Opposition | Cambridge Core
Why Northern Ireland’s Institutions Need Reform - Volume 61
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
First class of the year and my students are having discussions about gendered impacts of AI during the break.
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Frances Conroy as Eileen Wood: You Gave Us Hope
ALT: Frances Conroy as Eileen Wood: You Gave Us Hope
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
RIP CTA www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
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Passport to be required for all UK-Ireland ferry crossings
Ferry passengers between Ireland and Britain will need a valid passport from the end of next month, according to requirements of the UK Border Force.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 11/08/2026
Sweden’s leader warned that the Spanish mass regularisation programme could push Europe back to a 2015-style migration crisis and call into question the continent’s free-movement zone. ft.trib.al/s9Hqy9V
Migrants queue to receive food staples as a police officer stands nearby in Ceuta. Text on image reads: Spain’s migrant amnesty a ‘very bad idea’, says Swedish PM (Credit: Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters)
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Very nice of Spain to take back control of some UK borders
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
One must imagine Sisyphus as a good boy. www.reddit.com/r/isthisAI/c...
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From the isthisAI community on Reddit: Dog that keeps losing his ball. When the dog shakes the water off, it seems kind of AI like to me.
Explore this post and more from the isthisAI community
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/07/2026
absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Does he think doing this means it’ll erase the £5m donation because it won’t fall in the 12 month period before he becomes an MP if he wins? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
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Nigel Farage resigns as MP for Clacton, triggering by-election which he says he will stand in
The Reform UK leader's statement follows reports he failed to declare financial support from an ally. He has also faced questions over an unregistered £5m gift from a donor.
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The government will do literally anything bar allowing asylum seekers to work.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
For @theguardian.com I write that ending TPS is the single largest assault on immigrant lives in contemporary US & part of a playbook that couples expanded enforcement with canceling legal status. “Legal” & “illegal” are decisions about whose life is valued. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The US supreme court just put the lives of 1.3 million immigrants in danger| Heba Gowayed
The court’s TPS decision is devastating for those whose countries of origin are deemed unsafe. Congress must act
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Migration is a reserved matter, giving local authorities responsibility without authority over migration is a recipe for disaster. And that’s before we get onto the utter inhumanity of handing responsibility for asylum accommodation to Reform led authorities.
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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Every single municipal budget in the country is unironically the Dril candles tweet but the candles are police
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The Pope has published a Butlerian Jihad cheat sheet
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I think I’m a Catholic now
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
this is so good open.substack.com/pub/samkriss...
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If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you
Did you think I wouldn’t be able to tell? I can tell.
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
In the grand scheme of things it is but a small milestone. But I’m very chuffed with my 100 citations. Thanks to everyone who’s engaged with my work!
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This is fine.
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Boy, do i have a paper for you @escinsight.com www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Starmer should call an election under a PR voting system. FPTP no lingers works for the politics we have. Also, it’ll be hilarious watching reform tying themselves in knots trying to argue that more accurate representation is somehow an elite coup.
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
At this point, is anybody’s first thought not “ah, this is probably a false flag” www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
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Trump unhurt and suspect in custody after shots fired at White House correspondents' dinner - follow live
The US president is rushed out of the event at a Washington hotel, as police say the man, 31, had multiple weapons and was a
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
There are an awful lot of folk getting more upset over the destruction of a white statue than they have been over the destruction of brown people.
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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"The UK’s restrictions on asylum seekers’ right to work do not appear to act as a strong deterrent, yet they drive up asylum costs..." ✍️ @cbarnard.bsky.social, @fionacostello.bsky.social & Ali Ahmadi ask whether the ban on asylum seekers working actually works 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/does-the-ban...
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Does the ban on asylum seekers working actually work? - UK in a changing Europe
Ali Ahmadi, Catherine Barnard and Fiona Costello argue that while the UK’s restrictions on employment for asylum seekers do not act as...
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Just love it when unis try to individualise structural problems
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
New paper! academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic... What does “taking back control of borders” feel like when you are the one being bordered?
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In the Shadow of the Damoclesian Border
Abstract. In the contemporary international order, control of borders is the central totem of statehood. The call to “take back control” of borders was the
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Martina Tazzioli @smartitaz.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum implies a tactical use of geography and temporality to hamper migrants from getting access to asylum "The Spatiotemporal Disguises of Asylum" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... out in @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Video abstracts are a great way to introduce your newest research. Check out Zoë Jay's video abstract for her article: "'If it makes you happy, it can’t be that bad’: Liberal enjoyment and complicity in popular culture." 📺➡️ buff.ly/PUKAza6
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Can we at least agree that Paddington should be on every banknote, walking various luminaries into the afterlife
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Whole bunch of academics, charity workers, legal practitioners, and policymakers are gonna end up in jail. Very silly performative policymaking with no reasonable chance of being operationalised.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/03/2026
Bailiffs board Ryanair plane after airline refuses to pay delayed flight compensation
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Bailiffs board Ryanair plane after airline refuses to pay delayed flight compensation
Austrian officials took action after airline ignored court order to pay €890 to unnamed women Bailiffs have boarded a Ryanair aircraft after the airline refused to pay compensation to a passenger whose flight was delayed. Austrian officials took action after the airline ignored a court order to pay the unnamed woman €890 (£742) in legal costs and compensation for a delayed flight two years ago. Continue reading...
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
So @asanews.bsky.social emailed its membership its refusal to put a petition to Boycott, Divest, & Sanction Israel up to a vote, one that already had 438 signatures. This undemocratic decision, they wrote, is because they're worried about membership dropping. Well do I have news for you.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Just so we’re clear: ❌ Travelling clandestinely or in a small boat to seek asylum: wrong ❌ Travelling safely and regularly to seek asylum: also wrong
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UK puts emergency brake on study visas for four countries’ nationals
Shabana Mahmood says UK’s generosity abused as study visas halted for nationals from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan
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Peter Rees @peternrees.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Really enjoyed reading this article, well worth your time!
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
My takeaway from the latest AI discourse is that the methods bros have spent so long relying on R they’ve forgot they’re supposed to understand at least some fundamentals of research.
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Even *if* machines could do these jobs better than humans, why would we want them to? If we outsource intellectual curiosity and critical thinking to machines, what is left of the human? As one of my students frequently tells me, “unbridled convenience rots the soul”
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Zoë Jay @zoecharlottejay.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
if you think this or are acting upon it you don’t deserve an academic job. people who boast publicly about how they’re too lazy to do their own research and writing and by extension make it harder for anyone else to do it properly are scabs and should be shunned by any serious researchers
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The problem with Labour is they think immigration is the battleground that they need to win. All people want is to have a stable job, see a gp, and be able to afford a house. All else is distraction
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Apropos of nothing, you should all read this by @ngellwitzki.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The positions of ontological (in)security in international relations: object relations, unconscious phantasies, and anxiety management | International Theory | Cambridge Core
The positions of ontological (in)security in international relations: object relations, unconscious phantasies, and anxiety management - Volume 17 Issue 1
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Putting this back to the top of my IR reading lists read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/1... Students gonna be learning *a lot* about the future birth of the affective fact
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Ontopower: War, Powers, and the State of Perception
Color coded terror alerts, invasion, drone war, rampant surveillance: all manifestations of the type of new power Brian Massumi theorizes in Ontopower. Thr
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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a cartoon character in a suit and tie stands in front of a city
ALT: a cartoon character in a suit and tie stands in front of a city
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Kathryn Cassidy @kathrynlcassidy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I cannot recommend enough this paper by @benrosher.bsky.social published in @politicalgeography.bsky.social a few days ago to anyone interested in borders. Such a careful and nuanced analysis of the EU settlement scheme and accountability for the effects of state border regimes.
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was university travel agents
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
New paper! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Where does accountability lie in contemporary border regimes?
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Devolution, delegation, and digitisation: Accountability gaps in fragmented border regimes
Contemporary borders are increasingly fragmented and dispersed, variously through externalisation practices and inwardly through everyday bordering ch…
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Filip Ejdus @filipejdus.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Call for Papers, Contesting Imperialism(s), CEEISA Annual Conference, Sarajevo 17-19 June 2026. Submit your papers or panels until March 2026! Program chairs: Aida Hozić and Dženeta Karabegović ceeisa2026.com
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
New paper! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Where does accountability lie in contemporary border regimes?
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Devolution, delegation, and digitisation: Accountability gaps in fragmented border regimes
Contemporary borders are increasingly fragmented and dispersed, variously through externalisation practices and inwardly through everyday bordering ch…
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
More on the High Court ruling that the proscription of Palestine Action is unlawful - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...
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Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful but group remains proscribed for now - live updates
Three judges rule against the Home Office in a massive blow to the government, but say the ban must remain until a further hearing.
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Olga Tokarczuk casually throwing out the most poetic description of ontological security ever written.
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
He can (and should) do all of these things. But until he can call reform racists with his full chest instead of pandering to their voters he is nothing but harmful to the country
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Bang on the money @judeinlondon.com www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
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