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Monish Bhatia (He/Him🌈)

@monish.bsky.social
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#Migration #Asylum #State #Race #Violence #Surveillance #CriminalLegalSystem Academic. University of York, Sociology. Personal account (and views are mine).

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
NO RELEASE (2025) Bertha DocHouse, London, 18 June, 4:00–6:00pm. Follows two migrant men living under electronic tagging imposed by the UK immigration system @monish.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @bschcnetwork.bsky.social @irrnews.bsky.social Free at dandelion.events/e/noreleaseb...
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No Release
Thu 18th Jun 2026, 4pm – 6pm BST (UTC +01:00)
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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
No Release, 7 May 2.30-4, Loughborough Uni. The story of two migrant men released from prison but face further punishment: continuous GPS surveillance enforced by the UK immigration system @monish.bsky.social @amycortvriend.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/no-release...
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No Release film screening
Please join us for the No Release film screening and Q&A with the director and researcher
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Privacy International @privacyinternational.org · 14/04/2026
We recently supported @Medact and other civil society human rights and health organisations in raising concerns over Palantir's contract with the NHS www.medact.org/2026/resourc...
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Department of Sociology, University of York @uoy-sociology.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Monish Bhatia ( @monish.bsky.social ) has co-edited and published The Palgrave Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance. buff.ly/nPFLMjo
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/02/2026
This is truly some of the meanest shit I’ve ever heard of and I firmly believe the intended this to end with his death The Rohingya have already survived one genocide, one driven by lies spread on Facebook. The horror show is now continuing here.
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Blind Dad of 2 Is Found Dead After Being Released by Border Patrol and Left to Find His Way Home 5 Miles Away
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a refugee from Burma who was visually impaired and spoke limited English, was found dead on Tuesday, Feb. 24 in Buffalo, N.Y. after he was dropped off at a coffee shop by Border ...
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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Book to join us for the Bristol screening of 'No Release' on 18th March with @monish.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/no-release...
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NO RELEASE: Immigration, Location Tracking and Control
The Social Harm, Crime and Violence Research Centre (School for Policy Studies) invites you to the screening of the film No Release.
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Monish Bhatia (He/Him🌈) @monish.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Published today! The Palgrave Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance. Editors: Thalia Anthony, Monish Bhatia, Kathryn Pillay, and Jason Williams. More soon
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Department of Sociology, University of York @uoy-sociology.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
@monish.bsky.social published an article on air-deportations and liberal violence in the UK in Critical Criminology #Deportation #Violence #UK #Criminology
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“… Here I Went Through Deportation – Which was also Torture for Me”: Air-Deportations and Liberal Violence in Great Britain - Critical Criminology
This article contributes to understanding violence in deportation. Drawing on data from eight months of fieldwork conducted between 2015 and 2017 and interviews with asylum seekers and practitioners, ...
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Costs of asylum accomodation are down to firms making vast profits off of providing poor quality for people seeking safety and Home Office cruelty and ineptitude. It is not the fault of those forced into using them by a system which doesn't give them a choice. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Home Office 'squandered billions' on asylum accommodation, MPs say
"Flawed contracts" and "incompetent delivery" left the department unable to cope with demand for asylum accommodation, a report by MPs suggests.
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Monish Bhatia (He/Him🌈) @monish.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I have joined as a series editor for the Palgrave Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Indigeneity and Criminal Justice. More details here: link.springer.com/series/15777 Feel free to get in touch via email to discuss your ideas and/or if you are thinking of putting in a proposal.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 27/09/2025
The issue is not whether 'Britain is far right' but why far-right politics have become so normalised Rather than accepting this is a bottom-up, people-driven push, I argue that we must look at those who have the power to shape the agenda and public discourse www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
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Is Britain far right?
Do most people in Britain really sympathise with far-right views? As Reform UK rises in the polls, we asked the experts.
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Teresa Degenhardt @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
For those in London
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Teresa Degenhardt @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
But... Great to be in great company : @monish.bsky.social whose work I admire so much! and so many promising early career scholars and some more established ones. Yes it was @uniofnottingham.bsky.social 🧑‍🎓🧑‍🎓🧑‍🎓🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🧑‍🎓🧑‍🎓🧑‍🎓
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Teresa Degenhardt @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Thanks to the organizers of the British Society of Criminology Midland group Symposia on politics, harm and justice for inviting me to speak about war and punitive emotions, as keynote speaker. A sad reminder of the centrality of war in criminology in these dark times. But
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Monish Bhatia (He/Him🌈) @monish.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Hey You'll 🙂✊🏾 "No Release" - a film based on my recent BA project on immigration GPS ankle monitors, directed by amazing Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. More details and registration link below. dandelion.events/e/no-release...
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Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The deportation of an Eritrean man under 'one-in, on-out' has been halted by a judge after an NRM decision indicating reasonable suspicion he'd been trafficked. Charity Medical Justice say vast majority detained under scheme are torture and trafficking survivors www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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UK deportation of Eritrean man to France under ‘one-in, one-out’ halted by judge
The 25-year-old claims to be trafficking victim and won high court challenge in what may prove major blow to Labour policy
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Monish Bhatia (He/Him🌈) @monish.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
NO RELEASE - A film based on my recent British Academy project on immigration GPS ankle monitors (aka tagging/electronic monitoring), directed by brilliant Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. Free registration. dandelion.events/e/no-release...
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Monish Bhatia (He/Him🌈) @monish.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Hey You'll 🙂✊🏾 "No Release" - a film based on my recent BA project on immigration GPS ankle monitors, directed by amazing Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. More details and registration link below. dandelion.events/e/no-release...
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Monish Bhatia (He/Him🌈) @monish.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Releasing at the end of 2025 (hopefully). The Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance.
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Monish Bhatia (He/Him🌈) @monish.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
30 chapters. 30+ amazing contributors. 300,000 powerful words. 24+months in the making. AND we finally pressed that 'send' button and off it goes to the publisher. What a pleasure it was to work with Thalia, Kathryn and Jason.
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Ed Wright @edwardjwright1.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
BSC regional group symposium 18th Sept 2025 at Uni of Nottingham. registration now open! Free for all to attend. Great speakers lined up, on theme of politics, harm and justice. Register here forms.office.com/e/qH3qgUNwQj. @stephenfarrall.bsky.social @warrcrim.bsky.social @monish.bsky.social
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Dr. Lucy Mayblin @mayblin.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
New work from the www.channelcrossings.org team! We have been gathering a dataset of contracts that the government has with private companies related to Channel crossings. We are calling this the ‘border economy’. We have identified over £3billion worth of contracts...
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Hannah Lewis @hannahjlewis.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It's criminal justice/crimmigration day in my 2nd year UG understanding 'race' & migration module. Thinking back to a year ago when lucky students had @monish.bsky.social deliver the lecture in person 🙌. Many were deeply affected & chose this topic for their final reflexive learning assessment.
Photo of journal header Bhatia, M. 2020 Crimmigration, imprisonment & racist violence: Narratives of people seeking asylum in Great Britain. Journal of Sociology 56(1)
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Hannah Lewis @hannahjlewis.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
🔥Another vital contribution from @monish.bsky.social shining a light on the violence of 'everyday' detention practices and deportability on women. Not sure I'm exactly 'looking forward' to reading, more approaching with trepidation, but appreciation for this important work. #TheseWallsMustFall
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
'Reproductive injustice in Britain: punishing illegalized migrant #women from the Global South and separating families' by @monish.bsky.social From #Identities' International Women's Day Special Collection: doi.org/10.10... #IWD2025 @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Monish Bhatia (He/Him🌈) @monish.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Elon Musk, Nazi salutes and the reactionary redefinition of fascism. What a stunning (and enraging) piece by @aaronwinter.bsky.social Here's the link: www.identitiesjournal.com/blog-collect...
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Elon Musk, Nazi salutes and the reactionary redefinition of fascism
Bluesky:  @identitiesjournal.bsky.social
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
'Reproductive injustice in Britain: punishing illegalized migrant #women from the Global South and separating families' by @monish.bsky.social From #Identities' International Women's Day Special Collection: doi.org/10.10... #IWD2025 @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Monish Bhatia (He/Him🌈) @monish.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
🔥🔥🔥Happening Tomorrow🔥🔥🔥 Online and free to attend. Few tickets remaining. Registration compulsory. Follow the link below 👇
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Vicky Taylor @vickytaylor.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We argue that the proposed new offences will imprison more people trying to seek safety and a better life in the UK This is already happening - over 550 people have been imprisoned 2022-24 for crossing the Channel. @captainsupportuk.bsky.social works in solidarity with them.
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ISA RC31 Sociology of Migration @isa-rc31.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Member's new book! Bhatia, M., Poynting, S. and Tufail, W. (eds) (2023) Racism, Violence and Harm: Ideology, media and resistance, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. link.springer.com/book/10.1007... This book examines connections between racism, violence, and social harms... #migration #sociology
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Racism, Violence and Harm
​This edited book examines connections between racism, violence, and social harms.
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Aaron Winter @aaronwinter.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Great new article by @monish.bsky.social in Critical Criminology: “… Here I Went Through Deportation – Which was also Torture for Me”: Air-Deportations and Liberal Violence in Great Britain. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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“… Here I Went Through Deportation – Which was also Torture for Me”: Air-Deportations and Liberal Violence in Great Britain - Critical Criminology
This article contributes to understanding violence in deportation. Drawing on data from eight months of fieldwork conducted between 2015 and 2017 and interviews with asylum seekers and practitioners, ...
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Monish Bhatia (He/Him🌈) @monish.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
🔥 Race and Justice Seminar 2025🔥 🚨The Fabrication of Homeland Security: Tracing policing entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel. Speaker: Rhys Machold. ⏲️Thursday 27th Feb 12:00-13:30 🖱️Registration Link: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-fabric...
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Bharat Malkani @bmalkani.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I'm looking forward to speaking about my book, Racial Justice and the Limits of Law: Thursday 23rd January, 12.00-13.30 Online, register at www.eventbrite.com/e/racial-jus...
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Racial Justice And the Limits of Law
Understanding the paradoxical relationship between law and the struggle for racial justice.
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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
India's pioneering female anthropologist who challenged Nazi race theories: Irawati Karve led a life that stood apart from those around her. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Irawati Karve: India's trailblazing female anthropologist who challenged Nazi race theories
Irawati Karve, India's first female anthropologist, led a fascinating life that challenged patriarchal norms.
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Monish Bhatia (He/Him🌈) @monish.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
🔥 Race and Justice Seminar 2025🔥 RACIAL JUSTICE AND THE LIMITS OF LAW 📡Dr Bharat Malkani 🚨Thursday 23rd January 12:00-13:30 🖱️Registration link: www.eventbrite.com/e/racial-jus...
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Monish Bhatia (He/Him🌈) @monish.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
**New Article [Open Access]** “… Here I Went Through Deportation – Which was also Torture for Me”: Air-Deportations and Liberal Violence in Great Britain. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Monish Bhatia (He/Him🌈) @monish.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Are immigration raids racist kidnapping? Brilliant podcast by Migrant Rights Network's Julia Tinsley-Kent and Lauren Fernandes. Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/3eQtHb… Report: migrantsrights.org.uk/projects/hosti  Jon Burnett & my academic article on raids: jstor.org/stable/48675912
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