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Ceri Oeppen

@oeppen.bsky.social
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Geographer. Interests include: Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora; migration, return migration, refugees and asylum; gaming. Views my own.

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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
My initial angry thoughts on the Government's announcement about stopping student visas for those from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Sudan and Myanmar. So much to say here... I've just scratched the surface of what's so wrong with this move: blogs.sussex.ac.uk/sussex-centr...
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Damned if you do, damned if you boat | Sussex Centre for Migration Research Blog
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
A tribute to @rmwilliams.bsky.social from @scmrjems.bsky.social RIP Richard, you will be sorely missed. blogs.sussex.ac.uk/sussex-centr...
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SCMR and Sussex University of Sanctuary tribute to Richard Williams | Sussex Centre for Migration Research Blog
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Just heard the awful news that Richard Williams recently passed away. He was a good friend, colleague, and comrade in the refugee rights movement. Very very sad to lose him. You can donate in his memory here: chuffed.org/project/1638...
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In Memory of Richard Williams
We lost Richard Williams, a dear friend and Hummingbird, over Christmas.
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This is the power of the ‘small boats’ story. Why are the government and press so obsessed with an estimated 1% of immigration arrivals to the UK? Because they can be used to justify a racist fear-mongering narrative against all migrants. (At least, all non-white migrants)
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This is disastrous, socially, economically. Think of the impact on business transactions, education (particularly women’s online studies), remittances… (The Taliban has shut off fibre optic cables www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...)
bbc.co.uk
Afghanistan sees telecom shutdown as Taliban cut off internet
Phone and internet links are down nationwide after the Taliban sever fibre-optic connections.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Good, nuanced analysis of the student mental health crisis at universities and the obligations & limitations of universities in responding to it: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Should student mental health responsibility fall to universities?
The number of students reporting mental health concerns is rising. But to what extent should the onus be on universities?
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I've been following the politics of the UK's Afghan resettlement schemes closely throughout and my mind is still a bit boggled by it all...
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Important news for anyone interested in the politicisation of immigration, and the intersection between war, migration and domestic politics. This involves a reckless endangerment of Afghan lives, a secret resettlement scheme and a super-injunction (only just lifted). www.ft.com/content/f6b4...
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UK set up secret Afghan immigration scheme after data leak and gagged media
‘Super-injunction’ lifted two years after 100,000 people were placed at risk of Taliban reprisals
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Saskia Bonjour @saskiabonjour.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Visa policies harm science. In this panel as in many panels at #IMISCOE2025 and other conferences, there is an empty chair, because a scholar was not authorised to travel. We all loose as colleagues are blocked from sharing their knowledge.
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Research & Open Scholarship- University of Sussex @rosuniofsussex.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
New from OPUS! We’re proud to publish Refugees in a World Without Aid, edited by @oeppen.bsky.social, Ali Ali, @mikecollyer.bsky.social, Priya Deshingkar, Anne-Meike Fechter and Tahir Zaman.
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Refugees in a World Without Aid – Simple Book Publishing
Drawing on research from the international comparative project Protracted Displacement Economies, this book demonstrates the need for a ‘more than economic’ approach to refugee and displacement econom...
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
📖🚨New #OpenAccess book from the #displacementeconomies team! 🚨📖https://openpress.sussex.ac.uk/refugeesinaworldwithoutaid/ The book demonstrates the need for a ‘more than economic’ approach to refugee and displacement economies. Including chapters on the DRC, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Myanmar and Pakistan.
openpress.sussex.ac.uk
Refugees in a World Without Aid – Simple Book Publishing
Drawing on research from the international comparative project Protracted Displacement Economies, this book demonstrates the need for a ‘more than economic’ approach to refugee and displacement econom...
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
#refugeeweek is over for this year, but I just realised I forgot to share our @scmrjems.bsky.social blog about the #oursuperpower theme: blogs.sussex.ac.uk/sussex-centr... Here it is!
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Community as a Superpower – Research in action. | Sussex Centre for Migration Research Blog
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Really important 🧵. It seems like the people behind this graph (which I’ve seen shared widely on social media) need to (re)take Demography 101. @amrcampop.bsky.social perhaps an interesting example for your students to analyse!
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
My @scmrjems.bsky.social co-director Tahir Zaman and I will be talking about our #displacementeconomies work here, as part of an event with Sussex colleagues from across social and health sciences. 18th June. Open to all, but please register here: www.sussex.ac.uk/research/abo...
sussex.ac.uk
The Value of Life Laid Bare during and after Conflict
A panel discussion focusing on consequences of conflict and displacement on education, neglected diseases, neighbourliness, solidarity and mutual aid
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
If you care about the rights of people with disabilities in the UK, please consider signing this about the #PIP reform proposals: www.change.org/p/stop-the-n...
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STOP the new 4 point PIP rule
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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Sergi Pardos-Prado @sergipardos.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
📢 Fully funded PhD opportunity at the University of Glasgow! Interested in the following questions? ❓How do national identities shape attitudes toward migration? 🌍 How does this relationship change over time and across countries? Apply before 21 April. Details here: tinyurl.com/3cxay963
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University of Glasgow - Colleges - College of Social Sciences - Student funding opportunities - Postgraduate Research - Latest PhD opportunitiesSearch iconClose menu iconMenu icon bar 1Menu icon bar 2...
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Carlos Vargas-Silva @cvar-sil.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Lectureship in Migration and Development available at Oxford. Apply by 22 Abril. Details: www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/depa...
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Departmental Lecturer in Migration and Development (Maternity Cover) | Oxford Department of International Development
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
1/2 To “remove improper ideology”. Does anyone still baulk at naming this fascism? This is why it’s so important to resist History Reclaimed’s propaganda in The Telegraph, Mail, GB TV etc here too. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Understandable… the people who personally affected by this are also the people least likely to have the spare energy to protest and mobilise…
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Thanks @podmalm.bsky.social - hope you’re doing ok.
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I’d like to take part in a public consultation on this but the DWP have chosen to not include a fair question about the #PIP 4 point rule in their consultation 🤷‍♀️ see www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/dwp-lau...
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
As an unpaid carer (aka someone who loves someone else, who happens to have a disability) I’m subsidising the public purse by 💰 (alongside working full-time and paying taxes, btw). The meanness of the proposed reforms to #PIP and UCHealth, make me both furious and exhausted.
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
If you’re wondering why people are so upset about the proposed reforms to PIP, this excellent 🧵explains much of it.
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
It's completely disingenuous to bring PIP up in apposition to employment statistics. PIP is not a means-tested or employment-related benefit. It's not enough to live on. Nobody is claiming PIP instead of working. They might be enabled to work part time on PIP though!
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I.e. not being able to attend family events because families are split by the fence. Also practical effects for those with farmland/property split by the fence. Hopefully he’ll publish on these things soon!
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I’ll have to introduce you. A small number of people (with the right paperwork to move back and forth) have benefitted economically from the fence but for most increased prices, govt presence/securitisation have been a real problem. His most prevalent finding is the social effects.
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
One of my PhD supervises (Hafeez Ullah) is researching the after effects of the Afghanistan/Pakistan fence on communities who live on the border. Lots of parallels. Thanks for sharing!
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Proud of my Sussex Global Studies colleagues for developing this exciting new degree. Know someone who wants to learn more about climate justice? Send them Sussex’s way! www.theguardian.com/education/20...
theguardian.com
Sussex to launch UK’s first climate justice undergraduate degree
University announces new BA, after survey found most 14- to 18-year-olds want more rigorous climate change education
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Great 2.5 year post-doc opportunity at the University of Brighton, on a project co-led by my @scmrjems.bsky.social colleague Prof. Linda Morrice, called "The role of digital technology in social networks and wellbeing of unaccompanied young refugees" jobs.brighton.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
jobs.brighton.ac.uk
Job Vacancy at the University of Brighton: Research Fellow
This is an exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to develop their academic career by joining an international and interdisciplinary research team to work on the ESRC-funded project “...
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Gerasimos Tsourapas @tsourapas.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
🚨 Fully funded PhDs at the University of Glasgow! 🚨 We are offering 5 PhD studentships, incl. 3 for low/middle-income country applicants @uofgsps.bsky.social. 📍 Apply by 31 March 2025 👉 shorturl.at/tutIq 🔎 Anyone interested in a migration/refugee politics or MENA-related project, get in touch!
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Thanks to everyone who came to this - we really appreciate your input and thought-provoking questions.
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Come join us this Friday to discuss the concept displacement, hosted by @scmrjems.bsky.social. In person at Sussex and online - sign up at tinyurl.com/jemsforums.
Conceptualising displacement beyond being displaced.  SCMR and JEMS forum.  31st January 13:00-15:00, with Ceri Oeppen, Marta Bivand Erdal, Ingrid Boas and Ali Ali. Hybrid event.  In person in Arts C 333, University of Sussex. Sign-up to join online at tinyurl.com/jemsforums.
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
You were there more recently than me. DeAfghanan is great, and I loved the fresh naan from Maiwand Market, just up the road.
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Btw, some fantastic Afghan restaurants in the Bay Area!
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Depends where you need to go, but when I lived in CA I got all round the Bay Area on BART and bus.
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
That’s cool - my concern was it would do what radio 4 does when they have a drama set in Afghanistan (a mish-mash of goats bleating, sitar and the call to prayer)!
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I’m intrigued… did you select the music genre, or did AI select it based on the paper? It sounds very ‘chemistry’! I fear if I put it to task on one of my papers it would choose something inappropriate! 😂
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Same story repeated over and over in British history... 'practice' on the insurgents, the colonised, the migrants; roll out to the police, the DWP, and other domestic institutions.
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Mosaik Education @mosaikeducation.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Meet Walid Arriving in Lebanon from Syria in 2013, he missed a year of school, but secured a scholarship in Canada through Mosaik’s programmes We’re raising £20k to reach more people like Walid. ALL DONATIONS ARE MATCHED 10 Dec buff.ly/4eM3gbG ⏳ One gift, double impact ✌️ youtu.be/det-aAnTtUY
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Overcoming Education Obstacles - Mosaik's Guidance Programme
YouTube video by Mosaik Education
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Sorry, that should be 'Sky Follower Bridge' (it's a Chrome extension)
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Gradually 'migrating' fully to BlueSky (I used SkyBridge Follower) to find people I followed on twitter/X on here - it seemed reasonably straightforward (recommended!). Happy to find some of my #Afghanistan twitter people on here too!
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Trying out this 'starter pack' idea :) This is extremely incomplete, but feel free to send me suggestions for others to add! go.bsky.app/8tGNGbx
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I'm also Co-Director of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen.... I'm looking forward to many interesting interactions on here, much like (I used to have) on the 'other place'!
sussex.ac.uk
Sussex Centre for Migration Research : University of Sussex
The Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR) brings together an interdisciplinary community of migration faculty and postgraduate students. We conduct high quality theoretically-driven empirical re...
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I've suddenly gained new followers (thanks I think to @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social's scholars of migration and refugee history starter pack!) I should introduce myself with more than just a post about my dog... I'm Dr Ceri Oeppen, Reader in Migration Geography at @sussexfss.bsky.social
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Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social · 10/02/2024
I’m sure most of my posts on here will be work-related. But I’ll start with something cute…! Here’s Oko, my new puppy, in the very-not-blue-sky Sussex rain!
A small black puppy looking towards the camera. The background and the dog’s fur shows it has been raining a lot.
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