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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Contract signed! My new edited book, "The Untold Stories of International Student Mobilities", will be published by Bloomsbury in 2026/2027 🥳 You can find a little preview of the amazing authors contributing to it here: www.linkedin.com/posts/jlmitt...

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Contract signed! | Jenna Mittelmeier

Contract signed! My new edited book, "The Untold Stories of International Student Mobilities", will be published by Bloomsbury in 2026/2027 🥳 I'm so excited to work on this book and to share a littl...

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Took a little break from Bluesky recently, but I'm back to share that our new journal has now published its first issue! Journal of Global Higher Education: journal.libraries.wm.edu/global_highe... Open for submissions in September!

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): Inaugural Issue | Journal of Global Higher Education

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Recently got a physical copy of Derrida’s Writing and Difference, but a printing error from the publisher put the children’s book “A Tricky Trespasser: A Kitty Corner Adventure” in the front of the book before Derrida’s writing starts. Feels…apt?

Front cover of Derrida: Writing and Difference

First page of the Derrida book, with the misprint from Poppy Seed Publishers: “A Tricky Trespasser: A Kitty Corner Adventure” by Natalie Knox

Page 13: an illustration of a cat licking his further with large size text “As Lucy approached the forest, the cats were already gathering around the feeding station. Each one was at a safe distance, their eyes and ears alert for both danger and food. Will I see the tricky trespasser?”

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Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Make no mistake: this is not only about Harvard, nor only about the US, or even only about 'Trump'. It is meant to send all universities a reminder that things such as university autonomy and academic freedom are essentially liberal decoration on the precarious balance with the power of the state.

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

This framing is all wrong Our international students are not a “crucial funding source” They are our STUDENTS They are the reason we EXIST We teach STUDENTS

By Michael S. Schmidt and Michael C. Bender
May 22, 2025
Updated 2:17 p.m. ET
The Trump administration on Thursday halted Harvard University's ability to enroll international students, taking aim at a crucial funding source for the nation's oldest and wealthiest college in a major escalation in the administration's efforts to pressure the elite school to fall in line with the president's agenda.

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Dr Kirstie Ken English (they/them) @kenglish.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Excited to announce that in collaboration with @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social & @kathbrowne.bsky.social I am editing a handbook on queering research methods & accepting chapter contributions now. Please share & get in touch if you have any questions. uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Call for contributors: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Queering Research Methods:
Methods and Methodologies Across the
Research Process
Edited by Kirstie Ken English, Harvey Humphrey and Kath Browne

We are looking for contributions for this interdisciplinary handbook on queering
research methods and methodologies. By showcasing groundbreaking work, we seek to
demonstrate to readers how each phase of the research process can be queered. By
their very nature queer approaches are not singularly definable. Therefore, we welcome
a vast range of different interpretations of what it means to queer research. We are
committed to amplifying contributions from individuals whose lived experiences and
perspectives have been marginalized, excluded or erased.

The core aims of this handbook are as follows:
1.Produce a resource for students to explore diverse queer approaches to methods
2.Provide ways for readers navigate the ambiguity of queer research without
subscribing to ill-fitting categories
3.Showcase groundbreaking examples of queer research and approaches as ways to
challenge and counter moral panics and anti-queer backlash
4.To prioritise interdisciplinary and intersectional thinking across this work learning
from scholars across diverse global political contexts and career stages
5.This volume seeks to make space for queer and trans individuals from a variety of
disciplines, countries and backgrounds who undertake queer research not limited to
academics.
6.Provide examples of ways to approach queer research with ethical sensitivity in
ways which do justice to queer communities

We will respond to successful submissions by Autumn 2025, with first drafts expected
in early 2026. Chapters should be less than 5,000 words.
If you are interested, please fill in our submission form where you will be asked some
information about yourself and your work and can provide an abstract (300 word
maximum). The handbook will be broken down into five sections following the
research process. You will be asked which of these five sections you think your
contribution is best suited for between:
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Queering methodologies edited by Sophie Marie Niang & Robel Afeworki Abay
Queering knowledge production edited by Jess Westbrook & Dean Tauches
Queering research tools edited by Lizzie Reed & Bethany Lamont
Queering analysis edited by Peggy Shannon-Baker & Edmund Coleman-Fountain
Queering communication and outputs edited by Sophie Atherton & Valeria
Venditti

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Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

We're currently advertising for a 3+ year post-doc position @education.ox.ac.uk working on the ESRC-funded @studentspolitics.bsky.social project with @rilleraaper.bsky.social, Tom Fryer & me - to start ASAP Deadline: 9 June Please repost- thanks! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I've spent the last few days trying not to scream every time I see a scholar writing a hot take about the immigration white paper only in terms of how it's going to impact university finances.

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Starmer echoing Powell on 'strangers', the references to Birmingham, to lack of 'integration' and speaking English. It's such a despicable mix of all the worst parts of racism over the last half century. Even the way they upload his script, a desperate media spectacle www.gov.uk/government/s...

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PM remarks at Immigration White Paper press conference: 12 May 2025

Prime Minister Keir Starmer's remarks at a press conference on the Immigration White Paper.

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Runnymede Trust @runnymedetrust.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Labour’s ‘new’ migration plans are a continuation of a long history of racist, xenophobic immigration policies. This government says it's committed to race equality, but these plans are a form of modern day racism 🧵

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

And I'll keep shouting about this: The moment the UK left the EU, the continued designation of 'EU migrants' and 'non-EU migrants' became nothing more than a racialised hierarchisation of who is deemed 'good migrants' and 'bad migrants'

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

This immigration white paper is so full of flaws in logic. You cannot say A) There were more migrants in period X, and B) The economy was worse in the same period, therefore C) Migrants made the economy worse

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Lovely to hear from the Prime Minister that the historical policies which allowed my Mum to remain in the UK after studying here, thus enabling my existence, was a “squalid experiment in open borders”.

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

If the UK has 'open borders' and 'uncontrolled immigration', then why did I spend £15,000 over ten years and five visa applications to be here?

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Toughening migration rules doesn’t challenge Reform. It validates them.

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I have a lot of thoughts about Starmer's immigration speech, but the prevailing one right now is: How embarrassing for the government to speak about human beings in this way

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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/05/2025

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background.

Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress.

Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Finished a string of meetings this week to quadruple the the organizing team for @risnetwork.bsky.social, now a team of 14! Feeling both EXCITED because they are all amazing people with wonderful ideas for growing the network, and NERVOUS because our baby is now a teenager and I have to let it go.

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Every few months there’s a new article put out that recycles the same tired story about how economically valuable international students are, and it gets shared around in praise by a bunch of scholars who can’t see how dehumanizing that narrative is

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Sitting outside after work on a warm sunny day, thinking about how I miss the sounds of cicadas in the summer. Mobility means always missing something (even when ‘home’ is complicated right now)

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Tanya Gold | Editor & Translator 💕📚 (they/iel) @tanyagold.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Penguin Random House is looking for new queer voices and is currently taking unagented submissions for fiction and nonfiction by LGBTQ+ writers. www.instagram.com/p/DI9PlxCRp38/ #BookSky #QueerBookSky #LGBTQBooks #WritingCommunity 🌈📚

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Happy to share a recording of my keynote speech at BALEAP last week, focusing on 'seeking kindness in our work with international students' www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPwK...

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Jenna Mittelmeier: Seeking kindness in our work with international students (BALEAP 2025 keynote)

YouTube video by Research with International Students

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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Delighted to be giving the Gender & History lecture at Uni of Bristol on 15th May (and on Zoom). Join us for a discussion of trans history, colonial history, & non-human animal history. There will, of course, be merfolk. Link here: ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

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Vijay Ramjattan @vijayramjattan.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Language policing: don't say "Palestine," "genocide," etc. Tone policing: don't express outrage about a genocide Policing: don't protest a genocide or face arrest

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Research with International Students (RIS) @risnetwork.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Did you miss our recent co-hosted panel about queer international students? You can catch up with the recording now at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD9Y...

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Panel: Queer international students in the Global North

YouTube video by Research with International Students

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Oxford academics drinking from the skull of an enslaved Caribbean woman as recently as 2015 and they still have it if you’re wondering how decolonisation is going

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Watching the situation with international students in the United States from afar, I found myself writing this piece: 'Where is the field's voice against the erosion of international students' civil liberties?' researchintlstudents.com/2025/04/22/w...

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Where is the field’s voice against the erosion of international students’ civil liberties?

Written by Jenna Mittelmeier (University of Manchester) The current situation (in brief) While the oppressive treatment of international students in various visa regimes is certainly not new, we ar…

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

"ICE took our students, we want them back," @aaup professors from NYU/Columbia among other universities chant, marching to Foley Square.

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Ah I see we are exploiting the hostile environment for capitalist profit now 👍👍👍👍

Social media advertisement for Marshmallow insurance company with a truck in front of UK parliament with big hot pink sign reading “immigrants wanted. Our car insurance is made for UK newcomers.” Text in post reads “immigrants wanted. Yes, we said it. Because you keep the UK moving. So at Marshmallow, we keep going moving, with car insurance made for newcomers”.

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

On my way back home from Plymouth after an invitation from BALEAP to give a keynote at their biennial conference (thank you 🙏) “Seeking kindness in our work with international students” - recorded and hope to share soon!

Screenshot of a slideshow: Photo of university building and text “seeking kindness in our work with international students. Dr Jenna Mittelmeier, BALEAP 2025”

Coastal pier with blue skies and green hills in the background, sailboats and calm blue water in the foreground

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

In 2019 a BYU Japanese PhD student helped organized a fishing outing. The group caught more fish than they were allowed, but prosecutors decided not to charge him. Now, his visa is being revoked. Kudos to Rubio for keeping America safe. www.deseret.com/utah/2025/04...

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BYU grad student from Japan has visa revoked

Attorney for computer science Ph.D. candidate believes a fishing license incident from years ago may have triggered visa revocation.

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I had the pleasure of seeing Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o speak last year and his talk focused on “normalized abnormalities” and I can’t stop thinking of that phrase every time I look at the news these days. Normalized abnormalities. All of it.

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Sara Custer @saracuster.insidehighered.com · 09/04/2025

We're tracking the number of international students whose visas have been revoked by the State Department. We've confirmed over 300 so far and there are likely many more. Get in touch if you've got information you'd like to share with us www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

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Research with International Students (RIS) @risnetwork.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

✍️ New blog post: "Notes from the periphery: On gaps between theories and realities in higher education" by An Pham Read at: researchintlstudents.com/2025/04/07/n... In this post, An speaks about knowledge production and how international students' knowledges are often ignored.

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Notes from the periphery: On gaps between theories and realities in higher education

Written by An Pham An international classroom is often framed as a space that celebrates diversity, yet, its lived realities may not reflect a place of inclusion, but a site where inclusion is unev…

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The pattern of ICE apparently hustling its detainees over a state border to frustrate habeas petitions in the jurisdiction where they were detained continues. Remember that ICE didn’t disclose Öztürk’s location, publicly or to her counsel, until she reached Louisiana.

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Arrived in Chennai! A groggy jetlagged mind, but the sun is here to greet me 🌞

Sunny day with blue skies and palm trees

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

We're paying attention to what, four prominent cases? But the State Department says there are another 296. www.axios.com/2025/03/27/t...

More than 300 foreign students have had their student visas revoked in the three weeks "Catch and Revoke" has been in operation, the official said. There are 1.5 million student visa-holders nationwide.

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

My new approach to a manageable workload will be questioning whether any idea I have makes enough of a contribution to society that writing it is worth lining the pockets of exploitative publishers and AI tech bros.

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

So excited to get my £22 royalty check for our Research with International Students book. We paid £10,000 to the publisher to make it open access and it has had thousands of downloads, but at least I can buy a sandwich at the airport tomorrow because academic publishing isn’t broken at all 👍👍👍👍

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

We’re seeing a sharp increase in the weaponization of international students’ precarious visas statuses to silence their political dissent, and it isn’t limited to the United States.

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Everyone in our field should be absolutely screaming about this

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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I know a Palestinian higher education student from Gaza who needs advice from someone specializing in English Language Teaching. If you can help, please DM me. Thank you.

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Maybe I’m getting old but I feel like the last few times I’ve been to an art museum there are just a lot of people taking photos of them pretending to look at art without ever actually looking at it, and it seems really dystopian

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Australian Society of Authors @asauthors.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

❗️Authors and illustrators: have your books been used to train AI? Today the Atlantic published a search tool allowing authors to search for their books in the LibGen dataset, which has been used to train Meta's AI system. Search here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The media can (and should) reject the Right's deceptive frame. This is not about "references to diversity, equity, and inclusion." It is a neosegregationist attempt to erase everyone but white males from the nation's history.

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Some stray (unedited) thoughts after the @risnetwork.bsky.social conference (from a tired brain at the airport!) ⬇️

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