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Christina Clark-Kazak

@clarkkazak.bsky.social
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Prof at uOttawa studying forced migration, age discrimination & interdisciplinary methodology

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UnborderED-SSF @unbordered-ssf.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
We are expanding our resources and working to create a comprehensive space for training and mentoring programs for displaced scholars and students in Canada. If you know about relevant programs or initiatives, you can contribute by completing this short survey. forms.office.com/r/wRHz3ch6Pv
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UnborderED-SSF @unbordered-ssf.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Si vous connaissez des programmes ou des initiatives de formation et de mentorat destinés aux personnes chercheuses et étudiantes en situation de déplacement au Canada nous vous invitons à contribuer en remplissant ce court sondage forms.office.com/r/9CLs8Sf7am
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
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UnborderED-SSF @unbordered-ssf.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🎓 We’re hiring!

 Join the UnborderED / Savoirs sans frontières research partnership at the University of Ottawa as our new Operations & Communications Coordinator. Help us lead impactful initiatives in research, outreach, and knowledge mobilization.

 📍 Part-time (20 hrs/week) 
🗓️ 2-year contract 
💼 Bilingual (EN/FR)

🕒 Apply by July 14, 2025!
📌 For full details: https://lnkd.in/erJ556US🎓 Nous recrutons !

 Rejoignez le partenariat de recherche UnborderED / Savoirs sans frontières à l’Université d’Ottawa en tant que Coordonnateur·trice des opérations et des communications. Contribuez à des initiatives percutantes en recherche, mobilisation des connaissances et rayonnement.

 📍 Temps partiel (20 h/semaine)
🗓️ Contrat de 2 ans
💼 Bilingue (FR/AN)

🕒 Postulez avant le 14 juillet 2025 !
📌 Plus de détails: https://lnkd.in/erJ556US
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
***Graduate students studying migration and/or ethnic history*** Apply to the Pozzetta Dissertation Award! IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations. More information is available here: iehs.org/awards/georg...
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George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award
Visit the post for more.
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UnborderED-SSF @unbordered-ssf.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
UnborderED Knowledge is on social media!
We expand access to education & opportunities for those with lived experience of forced migration. Savoirs Sans Frontières est sur les réseaux!
Nous élargissons l’accès à l’éducation pour les personnes ayant vécu la migration forcée. unborderedknowledge.com
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
NEW: Pope Leo’s newly appointed Bishop, Michael Pham, outside the court in San Diego: “We need to speak up for the voiceless in our society - and we will.” The video then shows masked ICE agents leaving without snatching anyone today. More of this resistance nationwide! 👏 (🎥 PSL San Diego)
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 18/06/2025
World Refugee Day: Prolonged refugee separation is harming families — and Canada’s economy
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World Refugee Day: Prolonged refugee separation is harming families — and Canada’s economy
On World Refugee Day, we call on the Canadian government to end the bureaucratic limbo causing family separation
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CIPS / CÉPI @cepi-cips.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
📢New blog by Rahul Balasundaram, @clarkkazak.bsky.social, and Aditya Rao - Protecting the Right to Asylum in a Closing World Providing refugees protection from persecution is not just a legal responsibility. It is a moral imperative... 🔗 bit.ly/43OX3cM
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CIPS / CÉPI @cepi-cips.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
📢Nouveau blog de Rahul Balasundaram, @clarkkazak.bsky.social, et Aditya Rao - Protéger le droit d'asile dans un monde qui se referme Offrir aux réfugiés une protection contre les persécutions n'est pas seulement une responsabilité juridique. C'est un impératif moral... 🔗 bit.ly/43OX3cM
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🇨🇦 CPSA ACSP 🇨🇦 @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🏆RI-IR Félicitations - Congrats Winner-gagnante 👋🏽👋🏽 Lou Pingeot International Affairs-University of Ottawa Jury Bashovski @dgrondin.bsky.social @clarkkazak.bsky.social
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CIPS / CÉPI @cepi-cips.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Join us next Tuesday for a conversation on the topic of “The New Global Responsibility of Universities: Scholars at Risk and International Cooperation”. With Nadia Abu-Zahra, @bshiferaw.bsky.social, @clarkkazak.bsky.social, @pmfrowd.bsky.social & Florian Kohstall >>> bit.ly/43K3xs2
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CIPS / CÉPI @cepi-cips.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Rejoignez-nous mardi prochain : « La nouvelle responsabilité globale des universités: Universitaires en danger et coopération internationale ». Avec Nadia Abu-Zahra, @bshiferaw.bsky.social, @clarkkazak.bsky.social, @pmfrowd.bsky.social et Florian Kohstall. >>> bit.ly/3SyhOmA
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🇨🇦 CPSA ACSP 🇨🇦 @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
🏆RI-IR Félicitations👋🏽👋🏽 @rita-abrahamsen.bsky.social Drolet Williams Vucetic @srdj.bsky.social Narita Gheciu | Pingeot | Zeitz CITATIONS conta.cc/4iyPATt Winner👉🏽 June 4 TMU cpsaconference.ca/sessions_det... Jury @clarkkazak.bsky.social Bashovski @dgrondin.bsky.social
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Social Indicators Research @socialindicators.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
We are seeing multiple instances of reviewers doing manuscript reviews via use of AI/LLM. If you don't want to do a review the old-fashioned way, better to decline the request. Giving someone else's manuscript to AI is a violation of intellectual property rights/laws; the manuscript isn't yours...
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Refugee Studies Centre @refugeestudies.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
📢Calling potential authors! @fmreview.bsky.social have just opened up their latest call for article proposals on '#ClimateChange: choices for displaced people’ Proposals due 8 May Articles due 10 July Publication in October 2025 See: www.fmreview.org/climate-change-cfa/
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FMR 76 'Climate change: choices for displaced people' - Forced Migration Review
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CIPS / CÉPI @cepi-cips.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Join us tomorrow at 2pm as we commemorate Refugee Rights Day in Canada! Featuring Diana Gallego, Laïla Demirdache, Thomas Ndayiragije & Aditya Rao. Moderated by @clarkkazak.bsky.social In person or via Zoom >>> bit.ly/4bMrX8a
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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/...
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‘Woke ideology’: Quebec professors denounce Poilievre’s pledge to end certain university research funding
Campaign promise is an “intrusion on university autonomy and academic freedom.”
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Faculty of Arts at Saint Mary's University @smuarts.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Join us for the #Halifax launch of "Forced Migration in/to Canada: From Colonization to Refugee Resettlement," by Dr. @clarkkazak.bsky.social of @uottawa.bsky.social. April 8, 4-6 pm in SH 324 and online: loom.ly/tbCgWNw. Hosted by #SMUSociology #SMUPoliticalScience and #SMUGlobalDevelopmentStudies.
An event poster featuring an image of the red book cover for "Forced Migration in/to Canada: From Colonization to Refugee Resettlement," by Dr. Christina Clark-Kazak. 

The Halifax launch for the book is on Tuesday, April 8, 4-6 pm in Sobey Hub room 324 at Saint Mary's University and also online. For the Zoom link, visit the SMU Events Calendar: https://loom.ly/tbCgWNw.
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CIPS / CÉPI @cepi-cips.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Next Thursday, we're hosting a panel discussion to commemorate Refugee Rights Day in Canada! Featuring Diana Gallego, Laïla Demirdache, Thomas Ndayiragije & Aditya Rao. Moderated by @clarkkazak.bsky.social Register here >>> bit.ly/4bMrX8a
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Loleen Berdahl 🇨🇦 @loleenberdahl.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Come work with us in beautiful Canada! We are seeking a social science research leader with expertise in public policy. Please share with your networks! #academicsky #academia #PoliSciSky #polisky usask.csod.com/ux/ats/caree....
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Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Public Policy in a Polarized Era, JSGS
The Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (JSGS) at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) is recruiting for a Tie...
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
How a president hoping to fund his government with tariffs and possibly annex Canada instead wrecked the economy and set continentalism back for almost a century. Excellent thread.
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Jane McAdam @profjmcadam.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
We’re looking for outstanding PhD candidates to study with us at the Evacuations Research Hub @kaldorcentre.bsky.social! You must have a demonstrated interest in disaster law, human rights law, international humanitarian law, or diplomatic and consular law. www.unsw.edu.au/law-justice/...
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ARC Laureate Fellowship: PhD Scholarships on Evacuations | UNSW Sydney
UNSW Law & Justice offers two PhD scholarships for researchers who are part of the Evacuations Research Hub . Join our community of scholars today.
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Jane McAdam @profjmcadam.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Don't forget to register for our speed briefing on a new legal toolkit to protect people displaced in the context of climate change. The Australian one is tomorrow - Fri 14 Feb 12.30-1pm. Full details here www.unsw.edu.au/news/2025/02...
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New global toolkit to guide refugee claims involving climate change and disasters
Climate impacts are arising in protection claims worldwide. A ground-breaking new global toolkit shows how decision-makers across the globe are grappling with such claims, offering practical legal gui...
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Christina Clark-Kazak @clarkkazak.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Many thanks to @shaunalabman.bsky.social (Global College, @uwinnipeg.bsky.social) and @mcnallyrobinson.com for hosting this timely conversation
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Jane McAdam @profjmcadam.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Climate impacts are forcing people from their homes. When, how and why do they have valid refugee claims? My latest article explains ... theconversation.com/climate-impa...
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Climate impacts are forcing people from their homes. When, how and why do they have valid refugee claims?
We don’t need to reinvent the wheel and can dispense with unhelpful terms like ‘climate refugee’. Existing laws, applied correctly, can protect people.
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Shauna Labman @shaunalabman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Winnipeg come join me Friday night for this fantastic talk with @clarkkazak.bsky.social!
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
There hasn't actually been a serious border security problem between Canada and the US. Wanna know a good way to create one? Create incentives in the tens of billions of dollars for successful smuggling operations.
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Masaya LlavanerasBlanco @masayalb.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Students of my course Engaging Global Displacements will host a Poster Exhibit and Panel Discussion about their work with "Forced Migration in/out of Canada" edited by @clarkkazak.bsky.social What an excellent volume linking Canada's colonial history with its migration policy.
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Shauna Labman @shaunalabman.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Winnipeg launch of Forced Migration in/to Canada with @clarkkazak.bsky.social Feb 7th! A critical migration primer from Indigenous displacement & settler colonialism, through Black enslavement, to statelessness, trafficking, resettlement and climate migration. www.mcnallyrobinson.com/event-18715/...
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Christina Clark-Kazak @clarkkazak.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
On human rights day, Norah Vollmer and I call on the Canadian government to take three important steps to better protect researchers displaced by violence and persecution: ottawacitizen.com/opinion/huma...
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Vollmer and Clark-Kazak: On Human Rights Day, let's help global scholars who are under threat
'Scholars at Risk' is a network of universities — in Ottawa and eslewhere — that helps protect academic freedom. It needs federal support.
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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The Irish Centre for Human Rights is hiring! We are currently advertising a permanent lecturer post with an emphasis on human rights and climate/environment (climate justice, conflict and peacebuilding, minority rights, indigenous peoples). More info at: www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/jobs/
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Lois Klassen @loiszing.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Save-the-Date: Jan 7, 2025 7pm(PST) Vancouver launch, Forced Migration In/To Canada: From Colonization to Refugee Resettlement, McGill-Queen’s U Press, 2024. Editor, Christina Clark-Kazak Contributors, Erin Goheen Glanville, Francisco-Fernando Granados, Lois Klassen And, special guests!
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Mireille Paquet @mireillepaquet.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
📣Job alert (postdoc): Immigration, Information, and Technologies @irms-concordia.bsky.social Open to all #migration researchers, particularly those working with text-as-data, NLP or computational social sciences approaches. www.concordia.ca/artsci/resea... #Polisky #Migcitsky #poliscisky
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Postdoctoral Researcher – Immigration, Information, and Technologies - Concordia University
he postdoctoral researcher will work under the direction of Mireille Paquet (Department of Political Science and Institute for Research on Migration and Society) and her team, contributing to various ...
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Petra Molnar @petramolnar.com · 05/12/2024
🚨Are you a person on the move interested in #BorderTech? Apply for our THIRD annual fellowship application with @migrationtechmonitor.com and @refugeelawlab.bsky.social! Application materials (in whatever language!) are due December 31st 2024 www.migrationtechmonitor.com/aboutmtmfell... A little🧵
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Emily Andrew @eandreweditor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Celebrating the launch of @clarkkazak.bsky.social's brilliant new volume, "Forced Migration in/to Canada" with one of the over 60 attendees (also a contributing author), hosted by York University's Centre for Refugee Studies. Affordably priced in PB and in O/A from @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social.
Professor Christina Clark-Kazak poses on the left, with Dr. Yuriko Cowper-Smith on the right (holding her baby), at the launch of the edited volume, "Forced Migration in/to Canada". The newly published book is on the counter in the foreground.
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Masaya LlavanerasBlanco @masayalb.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Greg Beckett (UWO) and I are putting together a panel titled "Transnational Haiti" for the upcoming #CALACS Conference in Toronto (May, 2025). We have room for more proposals if there is interest. Reach out if that's you and share with anyone potentially interested! See the panel description below.
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Dr. Natasha Henry-Dixon @nhenrydixon.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Looking forward to discussing my chapter, “Sold as a Slave for Life: Black Enslavement in Colonial Canada,” tomorrow at our this book launch taking place at 11:30am(hybrid event). Registration link below.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/12/2024
‘Harm to children was part of the point’: a harrowing film on US family separations
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‘Harm to children was part of the point’: a harrowing film on US family separations
Errol Morris’s bleak documentary Separated has gained in relevance since it premiered with more ‘state-created orphans’ to come under a second Trump administration He thought he was working in the past tense, making a film about what one…
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Forced Migration Review @fmreview.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
FMR 74 now online in English on our new website! Due to technical issues, the other language editions will be published tomorrow. See: www.fmreview.org/financing-displacement-response/ #Refugees #Displacement #Funding
Cover of FMR issue 74.  

‘Forced Migration Review’ in the top left, ‘Issue 74’ in the top right, in white font. 

There is a photo of a man’s hands counting cash.  

Then the title of the issue ‘Financing displacement response’ at the bottom in white font. 

The background is dark blue.
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Derya Ozkul @deryaozkul.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy to see our work w Natalie Welfens published in the Journal of Refugee Studies “UNHCR–state relations: transfer of authority over refugee status determination”👇 academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-...
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
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Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship
We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 09/11/2024
For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free Another world is possible if we fight for it www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
Ten book covers: How We Get Free, Hope in the Dark, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Palestine in a World on Fire, Let This Radicalize you, Socialism... Seriously, The Black Antifascist Tradition, Elite Capture, Class Struggle Unionism, and Unbuild Walls. More details at the included link.
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Evgenia Iliadou @iliadou.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
{3/3} I’d like to introduce my book, Border Harms and Everyday Violence: A Prison Island in Europe. #BorderViolence #HumanRights #NoBorder #BorderHarms #EverydayViolence bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/border-harms...
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Border Harms and Everyday Violence
Border Harms and Everyday Violence - A Prison Island in Europe; The Greek island of Lesvos is frequently the subject of news reports on the refugee ‘crisis’. Drawing on her experiences as an activist ...
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Chloé Viel @cviel.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Je vous propose un petit starter pack "Asylum/Forced migration". Les profils parfaits pour discuter des politiques d'asile, de la pratique en France et ailleurs, et évidemment, du dévoiement de la Convention de Genève. N'hésitez pas à m'en indiquer d'autres pour l'étoffer. go.bsky.app/GtC6Ag
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Jamila • جميلة Hammami 🧿 @jamilahammami.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
These migration starter packs are a mix of EU and US. Hope it helps! - Human Rights (ish) Academics (ish): go.bsky.app/QifxUJc - Migration & Borders Volume I: go.bsky.app/TREFo1s - Migration & Borders Volume II: go.bsky.app/SNcmsLQ - Immigration Research: go.bsky.app/Pj3Lv7f
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Petra Molnar @petramolnar.com · 17/11/2024
Free copies available of the incredible anthology “Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire” made available by @haymarketbooks.bsky.social! This books travels with me and has a permanent place on my bookshelf
Photo of the anthology Light in Gaza on bookshelf
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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 11/06/2024
Immigration & Asylum Policy After Brexit Edited by James Hampshire with Lucy Mayblin, Thom Davies, Arshad Isakjee, Joe Turner, Tesfalem Yemane, Randall Hansen, Mike Sklaven, Michaela Benson, Nando Sigona and Elena Zambelli. More to come politicalquarterly.org.uk/collections/... #immigrationpolicy
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Immigration and Asylum Policy After Brexit
The EU referendum was won on the promise of ‘taking back control’, yet, since Brexit, immigration has increased to record levels and the nationalities of people coming to the UK have become more diver...
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