Reposted by Natalia CintraGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 10/08/2026BBC website leading with small boats I see, despite numbers down 43%. Just unacceptable. 52757173
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Really happy to say I've been promoted to Senior Research Fellow in Race and Migration Politics at the Politics and International Relations Department at University of Southampton - ready to start my new ESRC-FAPESP-funded project with my colleagues at Sheffield and UFSCAR about Humanitarian Visas. 040
Reposted by Natalia CintraMateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments. 3558911659
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026📣 CFP for LASA2027 in Mexico City / Chamada de Trabalhos para LASA2027 na Cidade do México / Convocatoria de Ponencias para LASA2027 en CDMX 📣 on "Humanitarian Migration Policies and the Future of Asylum in LAC" More info below / más infos abajo / veja mais nos documentos anexos 100
Reposted by Natalia CintraCambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 22/06/2026#OpenAccess from @journalrep.bsky.social - Special Issue Introduction: Race and Migration - cup.org/4ahI2mK - @cintranatalia.bsky.social & @patnabuco.bsky.social #FirstView 063
Reposted by Natalia CintraPatricia Nabuco Martuscelli @patnabuco.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Some more information of our ESRC-FAPESP funded research project HUMANVISA with @cintranatalia.bsky.social and Svetlana Ruseishvilli, starting in September 2026 sheffield.ac.uk/spir/news/ne...sheffield.ac.ukNew funding expands research into the impact of humanitarian visas in the Global South.A new project explores the use of humanitarian visas within Brazil and the broader implications for global refugee protection. 032
Reposted by Natalia CintraJasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 26/11/2025LSE Public Lecture "Race and the Question of Palestine" 📍2 Dec, 6PM Speaker: Lana Tatour Discussants: Ralph Wilde, Ayça Cubukcu, Neve Gordon Register here: lselaw.events/event/race-a... 02013
Reposted by Natalia CintraZoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 21/11/2025📢📢📢 Migrant Workers’ Rights – National Emergency Demonstration 📌Saturday 13 December, 12PM 📌Birmingham City Centre (Shabana Mahmood’s constituency) Stand up for our neighbours - your salary DOES NOT define your contribution to the UK!! @regulariseuk.bsky.social 616969
Reposted by Natalia CintraLeonardo Monasterio @lmonasterio.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Edição de colecionador 2248
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 06/10/2025I published an adapted reflection I did as a keynote speech at the international franco-british conference 'New perspectives on migration in Latin America'. I used the concept of encruzilhada to muddle binary categories of migration looking at the Darien Gap. conservancy.umn.edu/items/e55dc0... 030
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 03/10/2025I wrote something (in Portuguese) about why I don't buy Brazil's govt current slogan against Trump's interventions: that 'Brazil belongs to Brazilians'. More below: open.substack.com/pub/nataliac...open.substack.comPor que eu não compro esse discurso do ‘Brasil é dos Brasileiros’Eu entendo por que essa seja a campanha do atual governo – e de alguns movimentos – frente às tentativas de intervenção estadunidenses no Brasil. Mas o que é Brasil? E o que é o brasileiro? 020
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Quer saber mais sobre como os vistos Humanitarios foram historicamente desenvolvidos no Brasil? Dá uma olhada na linha do tempo que fizemos. Abaixo, no @nexojornal.bsky.social 030
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Problem with my approach with Academia is that the rejections feel way more acutely than whatever wins I have, and for a time they feel meaningless in the face of the losses I have to face. I have had many losses and many wins, and have yet to learn to develop a new approach 000
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Still coming to grips that no amount of AI can help me in a transcription of a 2h interview I just did here in my fieldwork in Tijuana that consisted of me and my interviewees speaking in both Spanish and French, and sometimes in Haitian Creole. Does anyone know of any solution? 000
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Today I visited Centro32, such an amazing organisation providing support for migrants in Tijuana, particularly solo women, single moms, children/teenagers, and LGBT+ people. 020
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Today I've been to the La Casita de la UT in Tijuana, a shelter for displaced trans women coming through, to and deported to Tijuana - and also a welcoming place offering amazing services (and activism) to the trans and/or sex worker community of the city. Thanks to Susana for the warm welcome 010
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Anyone doing a database of Brazilians with US visas revoked or should I? 000
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 12/08/2025I closed 72 tabs today, created a reading list bookmark, and I feel 10kg lighter 000
Reposted by Natalia CintraCharles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · 01/08/2025In 2000, Africa had just 15 million phone lines. By 2025, over 615 million Africans will be online—more than Europe’s population. This isn’t public sector planning—it’s the private sector laying cables, launching satellites, and turning Africa into the world’s fastest-growing digital frontier.independent.orgThe Rise of African Telecom: News Article - Independent InstituteAfrica’s a land of great untapped potential. The continent is full of natural resources, big cities, and a large, hardworking population. The "untapped" 1176
Reposted by Natalia CintraProf Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 28/07/2025If against all odds you made it in a system that discriminates against you, your job is to do your best to change it from the inside to become fairer, not to say I made it, so can you! 720744
Reposted by Natalia CintraMigration Observatory @migobs.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Care work is now closed to overseas recruitment. Will UK employers hire more international students instead? Little known fact: former international students are actually already a major source of recruitment in UK care, and this can in theory continue until 2028 (link to our analysis in reply) 147
Reposted by Natalia CintraSamuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 22/07/2025'A 2021 study estimated that UK academics contribute $391 million worth of unpaid labour annually through peer reviewing alone. These non-cash contributions are essential to the functioning of the scholarly publishing system yet are often overlooked in discussions about cost and value.'timeshighereducation.comWe must break the link between publisher revenue and article volumeVolume-driven publishing pushes up costs and threatens research integrity. We need new agreements with healthier incentives, says Anna Vernon 16326
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Overheard a conversation today in England and a woman said: 'i will never take the kids to the middle of the jungle in bloody south america'. So here are examples of me in the middle of the jungle in 3 diff countries in bloody south America: 010
Reposted by Natalia CintraUAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Forgotten Indigenous child slaves of "New France" in Canada have been revealed in new studies. Current estimates are that there were up to 10,000 enslaved people in the New France colony. archaeologymag.com/2025/07/forg... 56819
Reposted by Natalia CintraTarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Me, my writing projects, my hobbies, my work commitments, & my poor time management skills. 0325
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 19/07/2025My conspiracy theory is that pigeons have worked for humans for centuries and developed close proximity with us and our way of life but have been abandoned by us with the development of military and communications technology - and are now reduced as dirty disease carrier urban birds 010
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Venezuelans are returned from El Salvador and suddenly I see a thousand experts in their situation making the most varied statements. Coincidentally, none of these novel experts are Latin Americans nor do they cite, reference, quote, Latin Americans who have studied and published on the situation. 031
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 19/07/2025The issue with non refoulement and Venezuela is causing confusion online because 1) people don't understand nor have an interest in how asylum works in Latin America (spoiler alert: it's not the same as US/EU!); 2) Venezuelans are refugees and might have not suffered persecution 010
Reposted by Natalia CintraCentre for Political Ethnography @polethnography.bsky.social · 18/07/2025🎉 What an incredible year for CPE! We hosted some of the best scholars in political ethnography, launched new series, and ended with our first-ever CPE workshop. Here’s a look back at 2024—and what’s coming next! 🧵 133
Reposted by Natalia CintraLeafia Ye @leafiaye.bsky.social · 16/07/2025🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky 212187
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 14/07/2025I think these convos go in the right direction, but as long as this *really* translates to hiring committees - i.e. Giving preference to quality over quantity in cvs - every junior academic will do what they can to publish as much as they can, even if this compromises a bit of quality 010
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Me: not even 1% nationalistic Also me: omg a gigantic Havaianas in the middle of Cornwall I wonder how much it'd be to bring it to my flat also can you please take a picture of us both thank you 020
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Somebody pinch me cause I am in the same photo as @pinheiromachado.bsky.social ! What an honour to have welcomed you at Southampton - come back soon! 181
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 01/07/2025This is tomorrow already! Are you around and want to be indoors to avoid the sun while listening to what promises to be an incredible lecture? Come and hear Rosana speak! 010
Reposted by Natalia CintraDr Mariana Borges @marianaborges.bsky.social · 24/06/2025We’re so excited for our first CPE Workshop this July! @cintranatalia.bsky.social has brought together an amazing group of participants from across disciplines for a rich day of discussing the ethnography of politics around the globe. 131
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Can't wait for this to happen and to listen to Rosana's keynote! Are you around? If so, this is unmissable! 010
Reposted by Natalia CintraCentre for Political Ethnography @polethnography.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Register here to save your spot (places are limited): 🔗 www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/sho...ncrm.ac.ukTraining course: Political EthnographyThis course aims to teach participants how to conduct qualitative field research, particularly participant observation and ordinary language interviewing. The course provides an understanding of the 121
Reposted by Natalia CintraCentre for Political Ethnography @polethnography.bsky.social · 12/06/2025We’re excited to share that our co-director @marianaborges.bsky.social will be delivering an in-person Political Ethnography methods course this September, in partnership with @ncrm.ac.uk The course offers hands-on activities and a deep dive into what makes a good ethnography in political research. 155
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Here's how you get your chocolate: you buy it. Here's how I get mine: I become friends with someone that makes them, then bring them organic cacao from Latin America (this one from ElSalva) and they turn it into chocolate (this one with fresh allotment raspberries - and a Portuguese name!) 000
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 10/06/2025One of the most interesting finds of Reghid relates to this as women's self perception of health would alter (be worse) if they didn't have their families with them See the key findings at: nascernobrasil.ensp.fiocruz.br/wp-content/u... @piariggirozzi.bsky.socialnascernobrasil.ensp.fiocruz.br 010
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 10/06/2025I have a piece that is half poetic half academic with around 5,000 words that doesn't seem to fit any journal. About the Darien. Id need to readjust it a lot and make it either more poetic or more academic to do so, and I like the in between of the piece. Where would you recommend I pitch this to? 000
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 02/06/2025This essay has two parts. One personal, the other more political. Both are intertwined & discuss migrants' linguistic experiences of unbelonging and the unequal power relations that underpin this linguistic out-of-place-ness. open.substack.com/pub/nataliac... 151
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 01/06/2025a bit of work and a bit of play in El Salvador. Gracias a la Federación Luterana Mundial por la bienvenida y la oportunidad de realizar una investigación tan interesante sobre las nuevas dinámicas migratorias de la región. Ojalá podamos trabajar juntos más veces 🙏 010
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 01/06/2025⚠️ New paper out! We examine the governance of humanitarian protection, and argue for a shift toward gender-transformative protection—one that centres dignity, autonomy, and women's political agency. Published OA on Migration Studies. See more below 👇 academic.oup.com/migration/ar...academic.oup.comVulnerabilities in displacement: Can humanitarianism protect women?Abstract. This article develops a conceptual and normative framework for addressing the question of the protection of female forced migrants. While the pla 020
Reposted by Natalia CintraPatricia Nabuco Martuscelli @patnabuco.bsky.social · 30/05/2025This month we had the field visit of the BR HUMANVISA team, (with Svetlana Ruseishvili and @cintranatalia.bsky.social) our ESRC-funded project. We visited partners and organised a forum to discuss humanitarian visas from a comparative perspective. More info here: sites.google.com/view/humanvi... 141
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Anyone out there with a spare ticket for the concert of ca7riel & paco amoroso in London in June? Alguien con un ticket que no va a usar pa'l concierto de Ca7riel&Paco amoroso en Londres? Aquí se encuentra una latina desesperada!! Porfis 000
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 18/05/2025A bit of an issue with or registration link, but it's been sorted! See below for more info. Also, can't wait to receive @pinheiromachado.bsky.social at Southampton for a keynote in the workshop! 020
Reposted by Natalia CintraCentre for Political Ethnography @polethnography.bsky.social · 08/05/2025🗓️🔔 CfP for CPE's upcoming workshop on "Doing Ethnography in Political Contexts or Doing Politics via Ethnography?" July 2nd! If you want feedback on working papers&projects, and use qualitative methodologies, this workshop is for you. Some bursaries are available. Please share! More info below: 184