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Pallavi Banerjee

@pallavib.bsky.social
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Professor @UCalgary. Sociologist of migration, gender, and families. Author of #TheOpportunityTrap @NYUpress - link ↓. Views my own; not endorsements.🌈 ✊🏾 www.criticalmigration.org/projects/…

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WomenWarriors @womenwarriors.com · 13/04/2026
A little good news... greekreporter.com/2026/04/13/h... #hungary #budapest #hungaryelection
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Hungary Elections 2026: Opposition Victory Ends Orbán Era - GreekReporter.com
Hungary’s 2026 elections end Viktor Orbán’s long rule as the opposition secures a decisive victory, signaling a major political shift.
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Can Canada ever be far behind? Historically, Canada has always followed the U.S. in instituting racist immigration policies. Here we go AGAIN! And no, it did not take the conservatives to pass the law - it was the (right) centrists - the effing Liberals. ccla.org/press-releas...
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Passing of Bill C-12 is an Attack on Refugee and Migrant Rights in Canada - CCLA
A broad coalition of human rights, civil liberties, refugee and migrant rights, gender justice, and data privacy organizations have denounced the adoption of Bill C-12, which became law yesterday. Thi...
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Liam Swiss @liamswiss.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Was pleased to accept an invitation from the Editors of @contexts.org (@sethabrutyn.bsky.social @aminghaziani.bsky.social) to contribute to a special section on the Canada-USA relationship along with @dbtindall.bsky.social & @pallavib.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Canada and the United States—a Friendship Strained
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Thanks, Editors sethabrutyn.bsky.social & aminghaziani.bsky.social for the invite to contribute. Truly honored.
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Seth Abrutyn (@sethabrutyn.bsky.social)
Sociology, UBC. Theorist of Emotions, Suicide, Institutions, Evolution. Unrepentant DeadHead and Mets Fan. www.sethabrutyn.com Check out our new book on youth suicide: https://global.oup.com/academic...
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Cool new issue of contexts.org is out. Excited to have contributed to the "special section" on Canada-U.S. relationships, along with @liamswiss.bsky.social & others here up north. Important conversations here - check it out. journals-sagepub-com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/doi/epdf/10....
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Contexts
Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge social research accessible to general readers.
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Face of fascism!
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Ariel Ducey @aducey.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
My department, University of Calgary Sociology, is hiring four assistant professors. Part of our Faculty of Arts renewal plan. Please read all details here: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Resisting these is important. We must stay and resist.
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Please do apply.
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...
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Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...
Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...
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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
The most beautiful way to star my Mondays, reading Sulagana Biswas' column "Beat The Monday Blues" in The Telegraph - T2. Here's a poignant homage to the music that sustained my 90s, and at least for me, kept my dreams alive in a world that was mostly full of bad humans.
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Beat the Monday blues with Ab tere bin jee lenge hum by Kumar Sanu
Beat the Monday blues with Ab tere bin jee lenge hum by Kumar Sanu
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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‘Ask the ECI to Answer Opp’s Vote Theft Charge’: An Open Letter to the CJI - The Wire
The ECI should voluntarily submit itself to scrutiny. But if it does not, sir, I request you to summon the powers the Constitution vests in you and order it to do so without delay.
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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Not Monday Blues with Bruce Springsteen's Nightshift
Not Monday Blues with Bruce Springsteen's Nightshift
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
How are the cats taking it?
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Here’s a piece led by Fateme Ejaredar (my doctoral student) and co-authored by me on the impact of Israel’s war on iran on the diaspora. theconversation.com/iranian-cana...
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Iranian Canadians watch the Israel-U.S. war in Iran from afar
Interviews with 30 Iranian Canadians help to untangle the roots of political tensions and evolving solidarities in the Iranian diaspora in Canada.
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water chuffed.org/project/1132...
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South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water
**With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Thank you all for reposting!
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Tagging experts and key figures in the field, I know, in case you can connect Chetna to anyone, she can interview: @jgilligan.org @farhanasultana.com @kelseabest.bsky.social @helenkopnina.bsky.social ‪@earth-andrew.bsky.social‬
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
NEW DOCTORAL RESEARCH ALERT: Please consider participating and spreading the word about this research on climate justice and migration being conducted by my doctoral student, Chetna Khandelwal @chetkay.bsky.social.
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Another great column by Sulgana Biswas - this time about the iconic disco number, I Feel Love. t2online.in/music/wester...
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Overcome Monday blues with Donna Summer's I Feel Love
Overcome Monday blues with Donna Summer's I Feel Love
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
By my bestie, Sulagana Biswas about a timeless protest song. More relevant than ever. www.telegraphindia.com/t2/not-monda...
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Not Monday blues, but...
Back in 1959, folk singer Pete Seeger drew on Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 — one of the wisdom books of the Old Testament, the other two being Proverbs and Job — to write what he felt was a song of protest. In...
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carolmac80💙🌈☮️🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🇺🇦🧿🌊 @carolmac80.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Shameful
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Oh no!!! Such a huge loss.
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This necro-State needs to be held accountable for uncountable war crimes. But attacking and abducting peaceful volunteers for bringing aid to people that are being starved to death…how? www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Israeli commados taking Gaza-bound aid ship, Madleen, to Israel
The Madleen crew are now being detained by Israeli forces after their ship was stopped close to 100 miles from Gaza.
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Dead McCoy 💀🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
students and AI can both write shitty papers, but only students can write great papers. That's like the only lesson that they need to know when they decide to use it
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Thank you Aoife. Honoured.
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Jean Beaman @jean23bean.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Sharing on behalf of my @cunygcsociology.bsky.social friend/colleague Ruth Milkman who isn't on social media. Here's her statement re a problematic censoring of an obituary for Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes #soctwitter #socsky #sociology docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Statement re Michael Burawoy obit
Statement from Ruth Milkman re commissioned obituary of Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes: Dear All, As many of you know, I published a tribute to Michael Burawoy in Jacobin shortly after ...
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Unconscionable! I just requested ASA to allow international scholars to present online, given the risks of traveling to the U.S., and got a stern, corporatish no! What are these organizations we are part of?
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Thanks for posting. I know these students very well and they have taken on a herculean task of supporting this newcomer young man who became unhoused and has no social support in Calgary.
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The level of anxiety and sadness I am feeling about the escalation of India's war with Pakistan is unsettling. What is this madness? No one wins in a war!
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Some grad students I work with have been trying to house a young newcomer from Cameroon who got kicked out of his home. He has no support in Calgary and has faced extreme anti-black racism in the Calgary shelter systems. PLEASE consider donating. gofund.me/4721bd16
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Donate to Help Francis - a 22 year old Cameroonian newcomer in Calgary, organized by Megha Sanyal
We are a group of PhD students at UCalgary who are trying to … Megha Sanyal needs your support for Help Francis - a 22 year old Cameroonian newcomer in Calgary
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...
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Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Universities
The opaque process, part of a strategy by conservatives to realign the liberal tilt of elite universities, has upended higher education.
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The third year release anniversary of #theopportunitytrap! I had painstakingly made all references to Trump in the past tense in my final edits. These pages feel sureal. But here we are! Humbling realities.
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This was a perfect interview by Muhammad Shehada. If you want a quick update on what’s been happening in Gaza, this is it.
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
If you do not act to protest Columbia admin collaborating with ICE & Trump to illegally detain Mahmoud Khalil, you are consenting to your campus being next. You are giving a green light to your admin to hand over your students and colleagues. Enough is enough. ACT NOW.
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RDB @reshmi777.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
A federal judge in New York has blocked any efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to deport Mahmoud Khalil.
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Mahmoud Khalil, who helped lead Columbia student protests demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, arrested by ICE, attorney says | CNN
A federal judge in New York has blocked any efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia university graduate and Palestinian activist who was arrested Saturd...
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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...
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How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious (Gift Article)
President Trump, in an early February call, challenged the border treaty between the two countries and told Justin Trudeau he didn’t like their shared water agreements.
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Dystopia alert: Seems like we are living in what looks like the Man in the High Castle world! Did not think I would witness this in my lifetime. The post-World War II progressive blip will be over so soon is incredulous but that is where we are. We humans and our humanity truly sucks.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
She will never give us Greenland.
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RDB @reshmi777.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The “Golden Age” can begin with this.
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The man is pissed and I have not seen pissed in the last 7 years. Good for him. www.youtube.com/live/eT_ePmJ...
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LIVE: Trudeau holds press conference as Canada hits back at Trump's tariffs
YouTube video by Associated Press
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NPR @npr.org · 03/03/2025
The Oscar-winning documentary, made by a team of Palestinian-Israeli filmmakers, follows the displacement of rural Palestinian communities in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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At Oscars, 'No Other Land' co-directors call for national rights for Palestinians
The Oscar-winning documentary, made by a team of Palestinian-Israeli filmmakers, follows the displacement of rural Palestinian communities in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
For once Oscars did the right thing!!! No Other Land!! #FreePalestine!!
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
We can’t let this happen. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...
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Migrants Deported to Panama by Trump Administration Taken to Jungle Camp
The group of unauthorized migrants, which includes children, were bused to the camp late Tuesday night. “It looks like a zoo, there are fenced cages,” said one of the detainees.
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This is unthinkable!! Racial facism on gross display! www.nytimes.com/article/trum...
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Can Trump Legally Transfer Migrants to Guantánamo Bay? Here’s What to Know
Lawsuits are challenging President Trump’s abrupt decision to send men awaiting deportation to the American military base in Cuba.
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Michael Buroway passing adds to the tragedy of these times so viscerally. Rest in Power, Michael! The world in general and the world of sociology is less because you are no longer in it!
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This loss adds to the tragedy of these times so viscerally. Rest in Power, Michael Buroway! The world in general and the world of sociology is less because you are no longer in it!
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
We can do better.
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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This is unconscionable. We must resist this. And now! Otherwise we are equally complicity in xenophobia and exploitation. If we do not stand up for them then we are engaging in a practice, where we are happy to use them for revenue and benefit from their talents but only as indentured labor.
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