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Elina Mosaddegh

@eli-suggestions.bsky.social
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Industrial design on paper, digital rights in practice, now surviving essays one coffee at a time. Passionate about #borders and #migration issues. #SOASLife

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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Beijing’s surveillance is now investing in new generations of AI-enabled cameras and software that can interpret scenes, identify patterns of behaviour and retrieve footage using written prompts, sharply reducing the need for manual police review. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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China overhauls world’s biggest surveillance network with advanced AI
Local police forces are modernising the country’s ageing infrastructure with more powerful tracking systems
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...
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China Exports Surveillance
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
#digital_surveillance louisiana.dk/en/exhibitio...
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Jon Rafman
Jon Rafman's seminal work, Nine Eyes, which first began back in 2008, focuses on both the everyday and the existential aspects of life in the day and age of digital surveillance.
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
One of the reasons that I will probably never get tired of London is accessibility to good documentaries, good theatres and good music! Last night, I watched the amazing documentary about Julian Assange by brilliant E. Jarecki! Do not miss it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=70lv...
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
syrianarchive.org
Fuelling the Conflict
Could a Danish Company be Criminally Liable for Russian Airstrikes in Syria?
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Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Honoured to have Mizue Aizeki, Coline Schupfer and I’s edited collection represented in this profoundly important series 🙏🏽
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Interesting read; academic.oup.com/edited-volum... #borders
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Oxford Intersections: Borders
Abstract. Borders are specific sites but they are not static, being constantly enacted and reproduced. They often have a physical presence but their signif
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Folks writing long posts on LinkedIn about the negative impacts of AI, using ChatGPT.
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
www.techpolicy.press/to-have-demo...
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To Have Democracy, We Must Contest Data | TechPolicy.Press
Emily Tucker makes the case for redlines for data, not AI—real limits on corporate data collection to protect democracy and political self-determination.
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There are plenty of ways to humanely control British borders. So why isn’t Keir Starmer using them? | Enver Solomon
Labour’s incoherent asylum policies are vilifying refugees. A better and more compassionate route is possible, says the Refugee Council’s Enver Solomon
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Ashok Swain, Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, has rightfully stated, “Gaza is not just a humanitarian catastrophe but a collapse of the international system". I share this because it captures how many of us feel these days. We cannot look away.
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Obsessed: refugeworldwide.com ✊✨
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Refuge Worldwide
Refuge Worldwide is a community radio station and fundraising platform based in Berlin.
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Interesting podcast with @christinecheng.bsky.social about #global_conflict, post-war peacebuilding, #identity and transitions to peace in today's world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL5q...
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Why is Global Conflict so Hard to Resolve? The Politics of Peace S6EP1 - Christine Cheng
YouTube video by Inspire Us Podcast
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Interesting data by @migobs.bsky.social about labour markets in the UK and migrants. migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk
Migrants in the UK labour market: an overview - Migration Observatory
This briefing looks at the jobs migrant workers do, their role in the UK labour market and their labour market integration.
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
When speaking to someone with anti-immigrant ideas, start with these three points and back them up with facts. #immigration_issues #Hein_de_Haas
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
New to BlueSky and interested in #citizenship? Here’s a Starter Pack with some folks working in the field of citizenship studies, or on related issues #migcitsky There’s still space to add people to the list! go.bsky.app/5vLDGon
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
For those of you who are used to work/study with music. I highly recommend Endel music platform! 🎶 endel.io/player
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Endel: Sign In or Register
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Is there anyone else in the library who knows exactly which plug works and which does not? Bring it on! #student_life >> courtesy of spending long days at the library
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
When you're about to order from Pret, Nero, or Costa, take a moment to look around. If there's a local or independent coffee shop nearby, go there instead. #Support_local. Didn't mention Starbucks >> general consensus is no one goes there anyway. #boycott_starbucks
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The index of “How to be right” by James O’Brien says it all.
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The beautiful Harsha Walia.
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This should be interesting! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/screening-...
eventbrite.co.uk
Screening + Q&A: War Paint, Women at War
A Margy Kinmonth film
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Three coffees a day is too many, and two is not enough. 😒
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The government decides on your family ties based on a bone X-ray; it is intrusive, absurd and dehumanising. The same government decides what counts as your kinship. This just breaks my heart. #borders #biometrics #immigration
From the book "The biometric border world";
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Brilliant Farnoosh Hashemian (@phoenixnoosh.bsky.social) and Dzikamai Bere talking about the effects of US aid freeze. Catastrophe or opportunity? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
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50. US Aid freeze: Catastrophe or Opportunity?
Podcast Episode · Strength & Solidarity · 26/02/2025 · 36m
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
An interesting read on #aid_dependency amid the recent US aid cut. #Aid_cut
africanistperspective.com
African countries must urgently start the process of ending aid dependency
On why African countries must seize this moment to start the journey towards self-sufficiency
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Spending five hours at ICA watching 'The Memory of Justice' documentary over the weekend made my weekend well-spent. Such an amazing piece of work.
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The Memory of Justice (HBO Documentary Films)
YouTube video by HBODocs
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
My March reading list: (correction: one of the reading lists) www.academia.edu/12192676/For... 📚
academia.edu
For Slow Scholarship: A Feminist Politics of Resistance through Collective Action in the Neoliberal University
The neoliberal university requires high productivity in compressed time frames. Though the neoliberal transformation of the university is well documented, the isolating effects and embodied work condi...
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Social Skills Training by Solmaz Sharif.
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Podcast to listen to: www.bmj.com/podcasts/dec...
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Decolonising health and medicine
In this new podcast and article series in The BMJ on decolonising health and medicine. Experts from around the world explore the importance of recognising how colonial histories live on in the ways we...
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This is this documentary's first cinematic release in the UK. Don't miss it.
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Screening: The Memory of Justice
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see a masterpiece of documentary cinema, introduced by distinguished international lawyer Professor Philippe Sands Hon FBA.
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Audre Lorde was born on this day in 1934, in Harlem, New York. In her own words, she was a "Black, Feminist, Lesbian, mother, warrior, woman, lover, poet doing my work".
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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
An important read and good update to @pklinkne.bsky.social and Rogers Smith's 2000 book, The Unsteady March (which I cite a lot!) theconversation.com/60-years-of-...
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60 years of progress in expanding rights is being rolled back by Trump − a pattern that’s all too familiar in US history
Donald Trump’s measures ending government diversity efforts are part of a much broader effort to reverse civil rights gains for all Americans. It’s not the first time such a backlash has happened.
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Another fruitful listen with Noaman Ali and Safa S. #decolonisation #decolonising_development
rethinkingdevelopmentpodcast.com
Episode 1: Decolonization is not a Metaphor — Rethinking Development
As Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang teach us, decolonization is not a metaphor. It is a political project. Tune in to hear how the overuse and misuse of the term “decolonization” in the development secto...
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Another day started in the library. Experiencing 57% anxiety, thanks to deadlines on my calendar. Solidarity to you all.
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Reading the comments on this post on BBC is just so heartbreaking 💔
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This should be interesting! @npr.org 📻 #birthright #citizenship #WongKimArk
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Birthright Citizenship : Throughline
Wong Kim Ark was born in the U.S. and lived his whole life here. But when he returned from a trip to China in August of 1895, officials wouldn't let him leave his ship. Citing the Chinese Exclusion Ac...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
"Borders are where the known meets the unknown, and in that meeting, we define who we are." – Gloria Anzaldúa (Borderlands/La Frontera)
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
These mornings.
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
With the U.S. aid freeze and 'stop work' orders in effect, it's the perfect time to revisit Dr. Olivia Rutazibwa’s insights. www.youtube.com/live/M4POAUt...
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OU Global Development- Abolition and International Aid and Development:  Retreat, Repair & Dignity
YouTube video by The Open University
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The Centre for Investigative Journalism @tcij.org · 13/01/2025
Dark Green: Climate Finance Investigations - a new #free online training programme for European journalists. 8x2hrs sessions over 4 weeks 15 journalists to be selected 5 x €1,000 grants for the best stories Apply now: tcij.org/initiative/d... Deadline: 2 Feb Funded by @journalismfund.bsky.social
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
1,015 unmarked migrant graves. 65 cemeteries. 8 countries. No official records. A team of investigative journalists uncovered Europe's systemic neglect of missing migrants—where even in death, they remain invisible. #Migration #Borders
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Documenting the Unidentified Graves of Migrants in Europe’s Borderlands
This investigation sought to answer key questions that no government could answer: What happens when someone goes missing at Europe’s borders? And how many burial sites are there across Europe?
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
#EastWestStreet was by far one of the best books I've ever read. Highly recommended. 📚
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
If you are interested in human movement, identity, and mobility, this is an amazing dataset on movies about #migration gathered by @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social. datawrapper.dwcdn.net/aiSfx/47/
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The Migration Film Database
A list of documentaries, movies, and series about human movement, identity, mobility, and refuge. The list is curated by Lorenzo Piccoli (lorenzo dot piccoli at eui dot eu) at the Migration Policy Cen...
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Recent publication from EUAA on #Iran . euaa.europa.eu/sites/defaul...
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
An amazing exhibition by Four Corners gallery. www.fourcornersfilm.co.uk/whats-on/now...
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
If you are interested in the modern history of Iranian Kurdistan, from the 1979 Revolution to the rise of civil society and the women's movement. www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-...
lse.ac.uk
Iranian Kurdistan Under the Islamic Republic: Change, Revolution, and Resistance
5.30pm Mon 3 Feb | Marouf Cabi, Kamran Matin, Robert Lowe | Free event at LSE
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Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
My heart goes to civilians in #Congo - almost 3 million people displaced without having access to basic needs. www.rescue.org/uk/press-rel...
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IRC warns conflict in DRC has forced almost 3 million people to become displaced
The province of North Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is currently at the centre of a worrying humanitarian tragedy. Since the end of 2024, an upsurge in violence has pushed the total numbe...
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