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Gillian McFadyen

@gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social
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Lecturer in refugee politics, coloniality, hospitality and some political embroidery at Aberystwyth. 📖Refugees in Britain (EUP 2020). Dysgu Cymraeg.

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Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University @interpolaber.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Over the summer, academics take the opportunity to make progress on their research, sometimes in the company of their pets. @gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social reports that her cat Michael has been doing sterling work supporting her research into coloniality and the refugee regime. 😹 #CatsOfBluesky
Adorable photo of a black and white (tuxedo) cat lying stretched out, facing the camera with a quizzical expression
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Relevant for everyone, forever
Science can tell you how to clone a Tyrannosaurus Rex

Humanities can tell you why this might be a bad idea
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Aberystwyth University @aberuni.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Writing in The Conversation, Dr Gillian McFadyen explains that campaigners, academics and groups that support asylum seekers have long called for the UK to introduce “safe and legal routes”. More: tinyurl.com/5anb8hpb
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Channel crossings: what is a safe and legal route?
Campaigners, academics and groups that support asylum seekers have long called for the UK to introduce “safe and legal routes”.
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Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University @interpolaber.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Our @gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social had a new article in @uk.theconversation.com discussing Starmer's new 'one in one out policy' with France and what this means for safe and legal routes for refugees to the UK. #refugees #asylum #saferoutes
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Gillian McFadyen @gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
My new piece on safe and legal routes and the channel crossing #refugees #asylum #saferoutes #forcedmigration #smallboats
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Gillian McFadyen @gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
New piece in @theconversation.com discussing what Starmer's new pilot 'one in one out' means regarding the channel crossing and safe routes for #refugees #saferoutes #asylum theconversation.com/channel-cros...
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Channel crossings: what is a safe and legal route?
Campaigners, academics and groups that support asylum seekers have long called for the UK to introduce “safe and legal routes”.
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Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University @interpolaber.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Want to learn more about our department? Then come visit us on 5th July for our Open Day and learn more about our range of degrees, teaching style, modules, and what we can be offering you! For more details and registration, see here: www.aber.ac.uk/en/study-wit... #LoveAber #CaruAber
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
There’s a growing problem you’re not supposed to question: masked agents detaining migrants. Not in war zones...here...on U.S. soil. When power hides its face...it stops being accountable. When you can’t ID authority...you can’t challenge it. 1/5 🧵
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Welsh Refugee Council @welshrefcouncil.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"Stories don’t just inform people; they humanise them. And in a world where division can feel louder than unity, storytelling is one of the most powerful tools we have.” 🧡 Check out this beautiful storytelling project this #WorldRefugeeDay
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Aberystwyth University @aberuni.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The Welsh Pathway to Peace project, which uses digital storytelling to explore and share the lived experiences of forced migrants in Wales, has launched the first of its digital stories to mark #WorldRefugeeDay More: tinyl.co/3Q0t @welshrefcouncil.bsky.social @acehubwales.bsky.social
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Gillian McFadyen @gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
On World Refugee Day our project, Pathways to Peace asks, what does peace in Wales mean to you, and explores how we can be be building positive peace within our communities. #RefugeeWeek #CommunityAsASuperPower #NationofSanctuary #Cymru #Wales #Peace #PositivePeace
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Gillian McFadyen @gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Great to share the first digital story of the @lswalescddcymru.bsky.social funded project A Welsh Pathway to Peace: Digital Storytelling & Forced Migration, exploring What does Peace in Wales look like? @welshrefcouncil.bsky.social @acehubwales.bsky.social #refugeeweek www.aber.ac.uk/en/news/arch...
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June  : News , Aberystwyth University
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Gillian McFadyen @gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Why, now more than ever, we need to be engaging with our communities in Wales, having deep and meaningful conversations about key issues such as migration, representation and ultimately understanding what peace means for them.
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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
#OnThisDay 1943: David Low, in the Evening Standard, with one of the few cartoons directly addressing the Holocaust to appear in Britain during the Second World War
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
This #RefugeeWeek, #OurSuperpower is being a 10-million-strong global movement fighting to end human rights abuses, including those against refugees. We’re proud that this week, Amnesty UK activists have organised dozens of events around the country to support and stand in solidarity with refugees.
A photo of a person with a speech bubble saying "This #RefugeeWeek, #OurSuperpower..." And writing that says refugee week 2024. Community as a superpower.
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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 16/06/2025
Refugee Week Ambassador Awssan says refugees should be integrated into the UK with dignity, equity and mutual respect to build communities.
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Integration is not a buzzword. For refugees in the UK, it's a lifeline
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worldkidlit.bsky.social @worldkidlit.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The Moomins are the mascot of World Refugee Week! And we’re celebrating their 80th anniversary today on our website, discussing the cultural phenomenon #Moomins #refugee #kidlit worldkidlit.org/2025/06/16/w...
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Welcoming refugees with respect and kindness: 80 years of the Moomins
by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp This year is the 80th anniversary of The Moomins and the Great Flood, originally published in Swedish in 1945 by Finnish artist, illustrator, and writer Tove Jansson. And this…
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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The Hostile Environment has so many sinister outcomes and does not consider the impact on wider society. Government policies like this make everyone less safe. The only people who benefit are those who are willing take advantage of vulnerable, isolated people. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Work ban forcing 10% of UK female asylum seekers into sex work
Research also finds many trapped in abusive relationships and unable to afford sanitary products and other basics
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Gillian McFadyen @gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Great article and I appreciate that the author here is calling use of AI in academia cheating... for that is exactly what it is, and it's staggering how the students in this piece just aren't fazed. nymag.com/intelligence...
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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
In 5 years there are going to be a rash of pieces about the weird superpower of young people who one way or another avoided AI slop during their school years and their unfair advantage over their peers.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered land and seascapes #WomensArt
Pictorial textile artwork featuring a seascape with gentle waves and rippled water under a golden setting sun with a dark rocky cliff to the right in silhouette
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Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University @interpolaber.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Starting to think about what comes next after your degree? Then please join us on Wednesday 7th, 11-12:30 for the InterPol Aber Alumni Career Talks. Discuss employability and career trajectories after InterPol with guest Alumni Speakers, Harry Taylor and Lara Wade. Lunch provided.
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Gillian McFadyen @gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Morning spot for some admin and #AcWri ☕️🥐
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Refugees @refugees.skyfleet.blue · 21/04/2025
Two years of conflict in Sudan, marked by continued attacks on civilians and aid workers #Refugees
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Two years of conflict in Sudan, marked by continued attacks on civilians and aid workers
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Gillian McFadyen @gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Devastating that this is viewed as a potential solution.
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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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‘They were chanting as they killed people in their homes’: survivors describe attack on Sudan’s Zamzam camp
On 11 April Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries attacked the country’s largest displacement camp. The extent of the brutality remains unclear, but some accounts are now emerging
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
'Bluebells', machine embroidered artwork by Alison Holt, UK textile artist #womensart
Pictorial textile artwork featuring a woodland in the dappled sunshine with woodland floor covered in purple flowers and green foliage
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Gillian McFadyen @gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Exceptional reporting by Today in Focus podcast @theguardian.com on the creation and dismantling of IDF narratives around massacre of humanitarians on 23rd March in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/audio/...
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How phone footage exposed a massacre of Gaza paramedics – podcast
Israeli forces killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and civil defence workers in southern Gaza on 23 March. Bethan McKernan reports on the emerging evidence of what happened
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
You know why European countries are so quiet about the El Salvador situation? Because they started the normalisation of extraterritorial detention of migrants and asylum seekers, often without any due process. The UK’s Rwanda plan. Italy’s attempted plan with Albania. And some still want to do it.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
DOJ insists it can’t be expected to comply with Fed Dist Judge Paula Xinis’s order that it tell her, as directed by S.Ct.’s 9-0 ruling last night (4/10), how it plans to “facilitate” kidnapped Maryland resident Garcia’s return from El Salvador to the U.S.! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Gillian McFadyen @gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Morming spot for writing ☕️ 🥐 #acrwri #academia #SUAW #research
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Gillian McFadyen @gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Excellent episode on Trump's disappearances, undermining of refugee law and lack of Democratic accountability. www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...
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The News Agents - USA - Podcast Episode | Global Player
Joe Rogan slams Trump's “horrific” deportation mistakes
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
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Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University @interpolaber.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Yesterday, Joseph Thurgate with questioning from Prof Rachel Rosen of UCL and our own @catrineds.bsky.social successfully defending his thesis: ‘An investigation into the politics and problems of disputing and attributing ages to young people seeking asylum in the UK’. Congratulations Dr Thurgate!
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Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University @interpolaber.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
And here is Dr Thurgate with his two proud as punch supervisors, Dr Lucy Taylor and Dr @gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social 🥂🍾
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Gillian McFadyen @gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It's Shut Up and Write Time again with @hannahhughes.bsky.social! ☕️👩🏻‍💻📚🖊 #acrwri #academia #SUAW #pomodoros #writing
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Someone explain to me why it's illegal to give an old lady a bottle of water as she's waiting on line for hours in the sun to vote, but it's totally cool for an ultra-billionaire to bribe voters with million dollar checks in Wisconsin.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Tea and books 2' by Leah Gardner, contemporary Chicago-based oil painter #WomensArt
Painting featuring a glass teapot filled with brown liquid on a white surface next to piles of books in rows
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Benjamin Thomas White @btwhite.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Properly-paid three-year postdoc at University College Dublin: Vietnamese boatpeople in the South China Sea in the 1970s and 1980s €45–58k/year, full time, working on Irial Glynn's ERC project on the global history of boat refugees Deadline soon – Tue, 1 April www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMG724/p...
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow Level 1 or 2 - Temporary up to 36 months at University College Dublin
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow Level 1 or 2 - Temporary up to 36 months at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Dr Sophia Komninou @sophiakomninou.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Non academic output to share but equally exciting! The Q(g)uilt is featured at the Quilter, the magazine of the UK Quilters' Guild. All made possible after an #AHRC funded engagement activity at @emfcamp.bsky.social last summer! @tripsandflips.bsky.social @gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social #academicsky
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Gillian McFadyen @gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Great to have our Mum Quilt Project featured in the Quilter spring edition 🙌🏼🧵🪡
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Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University @interpolaber.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Spring on campus 🌞🏵️💛#LoveAber
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Truer words were never spoken.
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Other work by the Ladybird artists. ‘March’ (Shell Guide, 1957) Artist: SR Badmin
View as if through an open window looking out over a village pond surrounded by trees. In the full ground, on the window ledge we see a jug with examples of early spring tree blossom.
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Gillian McFadyen @gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"Nothing prepared me for the reality of mothering without the extended family to help take care of you, and the nonchalance with which the western world treats mothers." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Being a mother in the west would be a dream, I was told. But compared to Uganda, it was a nightmare | Patience Akumu
Nothing prepared me for the reality of mothering without my extended family to help. How have western women managed like this for so long?
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Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
You might remember the Daily Mail sting where recordings were made of immigration solicitors allegedly encouraging false asylum claims. One of the solicitors was Rashid Khan of Rashid& Rashid sols whose pracising certificate was suspended. He has been cleared by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.
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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
there were an average of 10,495 decisions a month between October and December last year. Up from 3,060 in June. There were a record number of asylum applications in 2024 - more than 108,000 people.
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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
According to the Times, the Gov will amend the Border Security bill to introduce a 24 week limit on the processing of asylum appeals. Given the backlog has grown 500% in the last two years, the shortage of legal reps and many other things, that seems challenging. www.thetimes.com/article/4d49...
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