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Kseniya Oksamytna @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Our article, "Colonial and Anti-Colonial Discourses of Peace in Ukraine", co-authored with two fantastic colleagues, @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social and @yuliaioffe.bsky.social, is forthcoming in @iajournal.bsky.social! While we wait for the proofs, here's the pre-print: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Colonial and Anti-Colonial Discourses of Peace in Ukraine

This article analyses competing discourses of peace in the Russo-Ukrainian war by asking how they reproduce, enable, or resist relations of colonial domination.

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Dr Bohdana Kurylo @bohdanakurylo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not every call for #peace challenges the politics of violence; some reinforce it. Our new article starts here: ‘Colonial and Anti-Colonial Discourses of Peace in the Russo-Ukrainian War’, by me, @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social & @yuliaioffe.bsky.social in International Affairs (@iajournal.bsky.social)

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

How old is a refugee? States treat that as a precise, answerable question. Entire asylum claims hinge on whether someone is under or over 18. In our new article in HRQ, we argue that age assessment methods (from bone scans to psychosocial interviews) cannot reliably determine chronological age. 1/

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

My new chapter “Urgent Interim Reparations in Ukraine: Addressing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence” is now open access: doi-org.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/10.4324/9781... A 🧵 on my arguments: 1/

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Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi @liliantsourdi.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

We also warmly thank the previous E-i-C, @profjmcadam.bsky.social, @profgsgilbert.bsky.social & Guy S. Goodwin-Gill for marvellously steering the journal & all EB members, past & current for rich contributions! @myrmek.bsky.social @catbriddick.bsky.social @ndftan.bsky.social @yuliaioffe.bsky.social

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Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi @liliantsourdi.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

In our free inaugural editorial as E-i-C w/Sarah Singer @rli-sas.bsky.social we trace 40 years of scholarship @ the #International_Journal_of_Refugee_Law (OUP) & reflect on new directions: academic.oup.com/ijrl/article... @profjacob.bsky.social @stevepeers.bsky.social @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

🎙️ I joined Dr. Kateryna Rashevska and Dr. Paul R. Williams on the latest Lawyering Peace episode to talk about the forced deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. We talked about the legal classification, the challenges of bringing children home—and what must happen next.

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The Return of Deported Ukrainian Children with Dr. Yulia Ioffe & Dr. Kateryna Rashevska

YouTube video by PILPG

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

🧵1/ Excited to share my latest article published in Immigration, Asylum & Nationality Law: "Family Reunification Claims of Refugee Children in the UK."

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

📢 Call for Participants! @refugeestudies.bsky.social & International Journal of Refugee Law invite prospective authors to apply for the 2025 RSC/IJRL Author Workshop — an opportunity to develop your work for publication with expert feedback. 🌟 Especially valuable for early-career scholars!

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Felix Peerboom @felixpeerboom.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

👀 The newest issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law is out ✍️ As the newest member of the IJRL's Case Law Editorial Team, I'll contribute with summaries covering Europe and the UK 🤝 Whenever a decision comes out in your country that you believe should be included, then please reach out

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Case Law Summaries

Prepared by Aidan Hammerschmid (Coordinating Editor), Brian Barbour, Regina Jefferies, and Tamara Wood, from the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee La

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Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

In ‘Family Reunification Claims of Refugee Children in the UK: Exploring the Potential of Article 8 ECHR Interpreted in Line with the Best Interests of the Child’, @yuliaioffe.bsky.social argues that Art 8 ECHR requires the articulation of a distinctive child-centred approach to family reunification

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Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The new Special Issue of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum & Nationality Law which I co-edited with Violeta Moreno-Lax and @nikkibusu.bsky.social is out! The aim of this SI is to begin to investigate how we can translate legal academic work on immigration and asylum into practical legal arguments

Cover of Issue 39(1) of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum & Nationality Law with an overview of the issue's contents

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

🚨NEW: This is horrific. Musk & DOGE closed the specialist unit at Yale tracking down Ukrainian children kidnapped & stolen by Russia. HOWEVER, it now emerges the entire database may have been DELETED, destroying years of research needed to find missing children. If so, there should be arrests.

Washington Post headline: Trump terminates program tracking mass abductions of Ukrainian children
Observers fear the move has compromised evidence of war crimes by Russian officials and will hinder efforts to rescue thousands of missing Ukrainian children.

The story is accompanied by a picture of an empty playground.

At that time, the researchers lost access to a trove of information, including satellite imagery and biometric data tracking the identities and locations of as many as 35,000 children from Ukraine.
Most alarming to U.S. lawmakers briefed on the matter is the suspected deletion of the research lab's database amid the scramble to comply with the administration's termination notice -
an action likely to set back efforts to find the missing children and hold to account those responsible for their abduction.
"We have reason to believe that the data from the repository has been permanently deleted," a group of lawmakers led by Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio) warned in a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. "If true, this would have devastating consequences."

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This is Winston Churchill visiting Washington DC to request assistance in the war against Germany. Notice he is wearing a "zip suit" and not a traditional suit. This was to honor the British troops--the same reason Zelensky dresses the way he does.

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Kseniya Oksamytna @kseniyaoksamytna.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

📣 My university is hiring for two lines: in International Politics and International Political Economy. Spread the word! Happy to answer questions about the Department.

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Lecturer in International Politics at City St George’s, University of London

Discover Lecturer in International Politics jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

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Ingunn Lunde @ingunnlu.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Honoured to have been part of this panel on Russia’s forcible deportation and indoctrination of Ukrainian children, organised by Liliia Oprysk at the UiB Law faculty, with @yuliaioffe.bsky.social, Gaiane Nuridzanian and Svitlana Arabadzhy. Recording available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBNf...

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Russia’s forcible deportation and indoctrination of Ukrainian children

YouTube video by Bergen Global CMI/UiB

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

📢 Join us tomorrow for the INoGS webinar "Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Three Years On." I'll be speaking, alongside Kateryna Busol & Jessie Barton Hronesova, on the forcible transfers of Ukrainian children to Russia, building on the special issue on Ukraine in the Journal of Genocide Research 👇

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Looking forward to this event in Bergen. There’s an online option as well — please join us 👇

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The book isn't going to promote itself, so I will. Here is a New Books Network podcast episode on Intent to Destroy, if you don't have anything better to listen to. Thanks to John Vsetecka for the conversation.

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Eugene Finkel, "Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine" (Basic Books, 2024) - New Books Network

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Just started reading the book — really looking forward to this event with @efinkel.bsky.social

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Lauri Mälksoo @laurimalksoo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

On 9 December 2024, I will speak at the University of Vienna Faculty of Law on imperial patterns in the history of international law in Russia and the Soviet Union. Please come if interested and in Vienna on that day!

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

📢 Join us for an important discussion on Russia's forcible deportation and indoctrination of Ukrainian children 🕊️🇺🇦 📅 Date: 21 February 2025, at 10:00 📍 Hosted by the University of Bergen (UiB) — in person & online Learn more & register here: www.uib.no/en/jur/17487...

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Russia's forcible deportation and indoctrination of Ukrainian children

Continuation of Russian colonial policies in Ukraine

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

1/ 🚨 New Research Alert 🚨 Grateful to the German Yearbook of International Law for publishing my article: "Forcible Transfers of Ukrainian Children: Indoctrination as a Tool of Russia’s Imperialism" 🌍 🧵 A thread on the key findings below: elibrary.duncker-humblot.com/article/7488...

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Duncker & Humblot - Berlin: Forcible Transfers of Ukrainian Children: Indoctrination as a Tool of Russia’s Imperialism

Ein Forum für die Wissenschaft seit 1798.

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Andrea Maria Pelliconi @ampelliconi.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

This paper is the outcome of a Symposium on Imperialism held by the University of Kiel in 2023. There's another 7 fantastic articles in the Special Issue, including by excellent colleagues and good friends like @yuliaioffe.bsky.social, Eric Loefflad, André-Philippe Ouellet & more. Do check them out!

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Andrea Maria Pelliconi @ampelliconi.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

📣 Publication day: a piece I worked on for a very long time - and that I wrote quite some time ago - has been published in the German Yearbook of International Law: "Russia’s Use of Demographic Engineering to Affirm Sovereignty Over Adjacent Territories" elibrary.duncker-humblot.com/article/7487...

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Duncker & Humblot - Berlin: Russia’s Use of Demographic Engineering to Affirm Sovereignty Over Adjacent Territories

Ein Forum für die Wissenschaft seit 1798.

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Looking for academic readings on family separations (including in the context of the ‘enemies of the people’) in the USSR—historical, sociological, or cultural perspectives. Recommendations in any language (not just English) are greatly appreciated! 📚

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Andrea Maria Pelliconi @ampelliconi.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

Nottingham's Human Rights Law Centre & NTU's Climate Justice Hub are excited to share the Call for Abstracts for our upcoming workshop on Climate Change and Migration, sponsored by SLSA, which will take place on June 19! 🗓️Deadline for submissions: 12 April 2024 📌Full details: bit.ly/3VnXJlC

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Climate Change and Migration: New Challenges, Legal Responses, and Policy Solutions - The University of Nottingham

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Andreas Umland @umland.eurosky.social · 14/11/2023

13 Nov 2023 Video of European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights workshop on forcible transfers of Ukrainian children by Russia multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream... With Yulia Ioffe, Mykola Kuleba, Anna Wright, Udo Bullmann & me @amplifyukraine.eu @hrw.org @amnestyuk.bsky.social

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Andreas Umland @umland.eurosky.social · 13/11/2023

13 November 2023: Video of the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights workshop on the forcible transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children by Russia with Yulia Ioffe, Mykola Kuleba, Anna Wright, Udo Bullmann and myself multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...

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Subcommittee on Human Rights | European Parliament Multimedia Centre

European Parliament Multimedia Centre

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Tune in today for the workshop ‘Forcible transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children’ organized by the European Parliament DROI at 15:00 (CET): www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en...

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Forcible transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children | Upcoming events | Events | Think Tank | Eu...

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

My new piece in the Refugee Law Initiative blog. I argue that the UK Home Office’s policy to accommodate unaccompanied asylum seeking children in hotels compromises the universality of protection mandate for all children without parental care, …: rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2023/11/09/u...

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Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children: Hotel Accommodation, Removal from Child Welfare system and Ri...

Blog post by Dr Yulia Ioffe, Lecturer in Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, UCL* Starting from July 2021, the UK Home Office has housed unaccompanied asylum seeking children arriving in the UK via sma...

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Grateful for an opportunity to share my research on accountability mechanisms for forcible transfers & deportations of Ukrainian children to Russia at the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights workshop 👇

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Andreas Umland @umland.eurosky.social · 09/11/2023

“Forcible transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children: responses and accountability measures” European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights, 13 November 2023, 15.00 – 17.00. Brussels. Room: SPINELLI 3G-2 @humanrightshouse.bsky.social @aseees.bsky.social @boelleu.bsky.social @csds.bsky.social

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DRAFT AGENDA - Monday, 13 November 2023 | DROI_OJ(2023)11-13_1 | European Parliament

DRAFT AGENDA - Monday, 13 November 2023

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Sarah Zarmsky @szarmsky.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

My piece for the pop culture symposium with @franka.bsky.social discusses some benefits and challenges posed by the portrayal of OSINT in true crime documentaries and the rise of citizen sleuths - check it out!

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Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Many thanks to Maja for a thought-provoking lecture on trafficking & smuggling for our students at UCL. An exceptional example of research-led teaching. Please check out Maja’s excellent research: pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/m...

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Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

This is sold out due to new Eventbrite limits on registrations. If you want to attend online, message me for the Zoom link!

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

🇵🇱🗳️⚖️Now that the dust is settling after the Polish elections and conversations about restoring the rule of law are no longer purely hypothetical, you can read the entire Democracy Reporting International x @verfassungsblog.de (powered by Stiftung Mercator) symposium on the topic:

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Restoring Poland’s Media Freedom

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

I reviewed Paul Dowswell's book Aliens: The Chequered History of Britain's Wartime Refugees on my We Wanted Workers substack. I found it an easy read and the parallels to the present day are inescapable. We'll pop it on Free Movement too at some point.

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Aliens: The Chequered History of Britain's Wartime Refugees by Paul Dowswell

An interesting read with inescapable parallels to the present day

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