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Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

‘Government sources said rules that mean most asylum seekers are not allowed to have jobs will not change.’ It’s absurd that the govt chooses to continue with a rule that puts asylum seekers in a situation of dependency, then attacks then for needing ‘handouts’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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UK government set to make support for asylum seekers ‘discretionary’

Home secretary expected to change system to deny help to those who can work or who have assets

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I'm reading through the white paper or whatever it is. RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Asylum and returns policy statement

This policy statement sets out significant reforms to the UK’s asylum and returns policy.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"

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Sarah M. Hughes @sarahhughes90.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I'm so grateful to @spaceandpolity.bsky.social for coordinating a book review forum on Critical Geographies of Resistance. Thank you so much to Malene Jacobsen, Nicole Printy Currie and Bridget Shaffrey @bshaffrey.bsky.social for your thoughtful pieces. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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What does academic writing about resistance do, now?

Published in Space and Polity (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Commentary on asylum hotels considering how govt can develop dignified community-based housing that meets multiple social needs. Warehousing people in camps and continuing a failed experiment in privatisation causes nothing but further harm @geogdurham.bsky.social theconversation.com/after-the-ep...

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After the Epping Forest case, the government needs to be bold and build asylum housing that works

Asylum housing needs to come back under public control.

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Sarah M. Hughes @sarahhughes90.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Looking for Paul Rimmer's report into the Afghan Relocation Route... should have been released to the public yesterday? Can anyone find it?

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Geopolitics Journal @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Now out and #openaccess in issue 30(1): "A Cultural Geopolitics of Hosting: Domesticity, Violence and Hospitality in the Home" by Olivia Mason and Sarah M. Hughes @oliviamason.bsky.social @sarahhughes90.bsky.social Download and read for free:

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Jason Luger @jluger.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Advertising a fully-funded PHD at Northumbria University looking at how Urban Social Infrastructures (USIs) can be better-provided in UK cities to improve (holistic) Gen-Z Mens' Health and Wellbeing. Get in touch if interested, deadline January. Details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Critically Understanding the Urban Social Infrastructures (USI) Needed for Young Mens’ Health and Wellbeing in UK Cities (IDRT25/EE/UF/LUGER) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Critically Understanding the Urban Social Infrastructures (USI) Needed for Young Mens’ Health and Wellbeing in UK Cities (IDRT25/EE/UF/LUGER) at Northumbria University, listed on F...

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Sarah M. Hughes @sarahhughes90.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This looks like a fab new paper on #archives, #climate action and participatory research methods @area @rgsibg.bsky.social

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