Critical Border Studies starter pack
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@acbsnetwork.bsky.social
@henkvanhoutum.bsky.social
Border Professor, Head Nijmegen Centre for Border Research @Radboud_Uni. Themes: geopolitics of borders, migration, and football. www.henkvanhoutum.nl. Book: Free the Map. A new cartography of borders and migration: www.nai010.com/en/product/free-the-map/
@silviamaresia.bsky.social
Feminist 🇮🇨 | Postdoc at ERC ReelBorders & Guest Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel| Vice-chair at ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media| Researching #Media, #Migration, #Borders and #Emotions
@politicalgeography.bsky.social
Political Geography advances knowledge in all aspects of the geographical and spatial dimensions of politics and the political. Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Filippo Menga https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/political-geography
@jpluef.bsky.social
Multidisciplinary Border Scholar, University of Easter Finland. Borders/Migration/Security ｜ Section Editor for the Oxford Intersection on BORDERS
@julietjfall.bsky.social
Prof (she/her) political geography, University of Geneva🇨🇭 Borders/territories/infrastructure/visual methods/comics. Books: "Bornées: une histoire illustrée de la frontière", MétisPresses 2024 & "Along the Line: Writing with Comics & Graphic Narrative" 2025
@corey-robinson.bsky.social
Lecturer (Assistant Prof) in International Relations | University of Glasgow Human Smuggling, Borders, Asylum, Externalization, Climate Displacement, Deportation, IOM, Global Migration Governance, Far-right, Conspiracy Theory www.coreyrobinson.ca
@dx-fisher.bsky.social
Political Geographer at the Centre for Public Policy (Glasgow). Researching border governance, asylum determination and refugee integration.
@sarahhughes90.bsky.social
Political Geographer. Resistance, Asylum Politics, Creativity. Loves cats 😺 Edited book 'Critical Geographies of Resistance' available from www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/critical-geographies-of-resistance-9781800882874.html
@lisaherbig.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in European Studies at the University of Amsterdam || Studying border policies within the EU || Research interests: borders, EU, political communication || ☕️👩🏻💻
@elisabethvallet.bsky.social
Border scholar Prof. International studies/ Études internationales @CMR-SJ 🇨🇦 Dir. of #TeamGeopo 💡@ChaireRaoulDandurand @UQAM.ca @BIGlobalization @big-lab.bsky.social Chroni. @LeDevoir.com #borders & #borderwalls In english & en français
@nabilferdaoussi.bsky.social
Doctoral Research Fellow @humauct.bsky.social| University of Cape Town| Anthropology of Bordes and Migration| North and West Africa
@rpaulint.bsky.social
phd sociology at @LSEsociology ; managing editor at @philosopher1923 · abolitionist · he/him/they · Tiohtià:ke (Montreal)/London ✍🏾 carcerality, borders, forced displacement, coloniality share ≠ endorsement 🔗 linktr.ee/rpaulint
@nooramr.bsky.social
anthropologist of sanctuary. writing about migration, EU border violence, political theology, philosophy of religion, and the coloniality of asylum in germany. bay area / berlin / cairo
@badaczkinagranicy.bsky.social
Researchers on the border. We are documenting and researching humanitarian crisis on the PL-BY border. Grupa badawcza, badająca i dokumentująca kryzys na granicy PL-BY.
@nishaat.bsky.social
borders / migration / spatial practice prof @ UCL urban lab www.topologicalatlas.net
@brontealexander.bsky.social
Postdoc researching mobilities and military-humanitarianism www.brontealexander.com
@fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social
Sociology professor at University of California San Diego and (co)author of The Refugee System (2023); Refuge beyond Reach (2019); and Culling the Masses (2014). I research policies and experiences around migration and asylum. https://tinyurl.com/4snsdvzf
@gesanchez.bsky.social
Fronteriza! Migration and Security researcher at @Georgetown University. Critical border studies; high risk migration facilitation and criminalization; smuggling & trafficking. Tacos & Shawarma. Former @mpc-eui.bsky.social and @diis.dk.
@ignaciofradejas.bsky.social
Anthropologist (interdisciplinary): (im)mobilities, informality, humanitarianism, migration, transnationalism, networks, sports, humor | Assistant professor at University of Oviedo | first gen, dad, surfer, growing organic vegetables
@kamilafialkowska.bsky.social
Researcher @Centre of Migration Research, PI: https://rocit.pl/, member of Researchers on the Border: https://www.bbng.org. On the road between Lower Silesia-Mazovia-Podlaskie (🇵🇱) & Transcarpathia (🇺🇦), 🧐: borders/migration/gender/inequalities & citizenship
@drvanessalamb.bsky.social
Geographer. Associate Professor @ York University, Toronto prev. Melbourne. Political Ecology. Rivers, Borders, Sand, Dams, Climate, Justice, Southeast Asia. https://www.yorku.ca/professor/vanessa-lamb/
@diti.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow, Human Geographer- School of Humanities Language and Social Science, Griffith University GCSCR I Interested in geography sport gender migration physical cultures
@charishmaratnam.bsky.social
human geographer | senior research fellow at RMIT | researching home, forced migration, digital practices, Sri Lankan diaspora + using cool methods
@bordercrim.bsky.social
Border Criminologies draws together researchers working in #criminology on #bordercontrol. Retweets/links to media or other websites do not imply endorsements. https://linktr.ee/bordercrim
@ainoacabada.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer in International Security at the University of Adelaide. Political theorist researching the UN Charter, R2P, Refugee Migration and Blacklisting. Mostly interested in UN stuff 🇺🇳 Philosophy 🧐 and Metal🤘🏽
@irenegutierrez.bsky.social
Filmmaker & PhD fellow at @ReelBorders @echo_vub @scomvub @VUBrussel and @d_colonial @uc3m @imiscoe | Borders | Migration | Participatory Filmmaking | Media literacy
@mnicolson.bsky.social
Post-Doc Researcher: @ https://bsky.app/profile/euracminorities.bsky.social EURAC Institute for Minority Rights, Bolzano, 🇮🇹. From Shetland! Interests: - Migration politics, narratives, ontological security, borders, minorities, identities, ultracycling
@alexedavis.bsky.social
Politics and IR lecturer/researcher. Political ecology of the Himalaya, cricket and birds of the Maylands peninsula.
@gmerabishv.bsky.social
Political geography postdoc at KU Leuven I study borders/territory, security and conflicts Current research: EU in the Black Sea https://research.kuleuven.be/portal/en/project/3E241158
@dorinadamsa.bsky.social
🍉 Global inequality regimes (incl. citizenship), multispecies justice, politics of climate change adaptation, non/knowledge production. 📍 Senior research fellow at ISF Oslo https://www.samfunnsforskning.no/english/people/res/dorinada/
@tgammeltoft.bsky.social
Professor of Law, Director - Danish National Research Foundation Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law - @MobileUCPH.bsky.social - mobilitylaw.ku.dk migration/refugee/mobilities law, (X)AI & Law, legal theory, IL/IR
@matthiasleese.bsky.social
Assist. Prof. of Technology and Governance @ethzurich.bsky.social ¦ PI @curateproject.bsky.social ¦ Editor-in-chief @jird-jour.bsky.social https://matthiasleese.com
@tizianatorresi.bsky.social
Political philosopher, University of Adelaide Migration, temporary migration, cities and migration, citizenship, populism. Theories of wellbeing, love, Buddhism, and cyberpolitics!
@tynedaile.bsky.social
ARC DECRA Fellow: literary studies | digital humanities | surveillance | President, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities: https://aa-dh.org/ | current project: surveilit.com | everything else: tynedaile.com
@alibhagat.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at SFU, School of Public Policy Migration and Refugee Policy Race, Sexuality, Political Economy 🏳️🌈
@maryetezak.bsky.social
Late Ottoman History / labor, popular economies, borders, and the occasional map projection / PhD candidate @Georgetown / (she/هي) 🌖
@vapaaliikkuvuus.bsky.social
Free Movement is a network and an association organizing for universal freedom of movement. We do advocacy, counselling and financial assistance.
@petramolnar.com
#Bordertech ethnographies | Author of The Walls Have Eyes | @refugeelab.ca + @migrationtechmonitor.com, York | Faculty Associate with Berkman Klein Center, Harvard | She/ هي 🇵🇸🍉| https://petramolnar.com/
@philorchard.bsky.social
Professor of International Relations, Discipline Leader, Politics & Intl Studies @UOW; Co-Director @FutureofRights. International relations, forced and climate displacement & the R2P. Twitter: @p_orchard.
@ainebennett.bsky.social
PhD researcher at Royal Holloway working on sexualities and asylum in the UK and France (she/her) ainebennett.uk
@ryanswan.bsky.social
PhD student @StAndrewsIR and صايع سابق. Geopolitics (WANA); migration; postcolonialism and decoloniality; translation Eng-Ar; Scottish news in Arabic: https://scotlandinarabic.home.blog/
@zalifung.bsky.social
Postdoc in political ecology @ University of Lausanne • Speculative infrastructure, authoritarianism & (slow) resistance in Southeast Asia, feminist geographer
@hebagowayed.bsky.social
Sociology Prof at CUNY (Hunter & Grad Center) sharing her own thoughts. Maker of resistance humus. Author of REFUGE. Now writing on the violence & COST OF BORDERS. she/هي https://linktr.ee/hebagowayed لسه عايزين عيش حريه و عداله اجتماعية
@lauraskh.bsky.social
Australian Senior Lecturer (=AssocProf), language, law & society. #LLIRN. External CESSMIR UGent. @languageonthemove.bsky.social member. Asylum, migration, disability, human rights, legal ed & prac, access to justice ENG, FR, ES, IT, اردو, پښتو
@roellinghoff.bsky.social
Assistant professor of Japanese Studies at HKU. I write about settler colonialism, empire, Indigenous sovereignty in Hokkaido and the transpacific. PhD from UToronto. Postdoc at UTokyo. Views mine, like/repost ≠ endorsement.
@joshprada.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism at Centre for Language and Cognition @rug.nl - Heritage language education, translanguaging, critical approaches
@gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social
Lecturer in refugee politics, coloniality, hospitality and some political embroidery at Aberystwyth. 📖Refugees in Britain (EUP 2020). Dysgu Cymraeg.
@kamrank.bsky.social
Director of MOSAIC research at the University of Birmingham | Borders, CVE, surveillance and multilingualism | Security, Citizenship Testing, Race and Language
@sebbachelet.bsky.social
Anthropologist & migrant https://sebastienbachelet.com/crimes-of-solidarity
@jtheilen.bsky.social
they/them — post-doc, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg — international law, human rights, citizenship and migration law — feminist, queer and decolonial perspectives — opinions my own, obviously
@aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
Political sociologist @sussex.ac.uk, writing on #racialisation, political economy of race-making, east-west inequalities in Europe, #migration, political resistance: Reader in #Sociology & Director @sei-sussex.bsky.social
@rosamundevb.bsky.social
assistant prof criminology VUB teaching legal, ethical & social issues AI, research: digital & more-than-human criminology, critical surveillance & AI, youth justice, human rights https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
@lukasschmid.bsky.social
Political theory postdoc at Normative Orders, Goethe University Frankfurt. Writing a book on the (il-)legitimate authority of state migration control. 🇵🇸
@deryaozkul.bsky.social
Sociology, University of Warwick | previously @refugeestudies, University of Oxford | researching migration and digital technologies | working on Algorithmic Fairness for Asylum Seekers and Refugees | Digitising Identity projects
@politicsandspace.bsky.social
Critical, heterodox, interdisciplinary, international. A journal of research on the relations between the political and the spatial.
@peterhopkins.bsky.social
FAcSS FRSE Coaching/mentoring/away day and workshop facilitation. Research interests include Islamophobia, intersectionality, migration, youth, gender, race. Leverhulme Major Research Fellow. Editor - The Geographical Journal. Views are my own.
@historysunny.bsky.social
Historian & Lecturer at KCL. Formerly co-lead on Runnymede Trust's http://ourmigrationstory.org.uk & researcher on AHRC Beyond Banglatown http://beyondbanglatown.org.uk. PhD on British citizenship and immigration policy
@rhacker.bsky.social
Refugee lawyer in London | LSE LLM in public international law | Interested in refugee rights, statelessness, transitional justice, access to justice
@iliadou.bsky.social
Researching migration, borders, refugee camps, immigration detention, violence, trauma, death / Ethnography / Zemiology 📓 Author: Border Harms and Everyday Violence. A Prison Island in Europe (2023, Bristol University Press). 📍 UK & Greece
@svaroschi.bsky.social
Working on migration, tech, surveillance, welfare. Collaborating with public interest newsrooms and human rights orgs. Bridging and connecting. Previously at Privacy International, Open Migration, TechPresident.
@biometricstate.bsky.social
Professor of Migration & Border Studies #BorderTech https://biometricstate.com/ JUST PUBLISHED! https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786612236/Architectures-of-Security-Design-Control-Mobility
@lunavives.bsky.social
Political geographer & Associate Prof at Université de Montréal #Migration #Borders #SAR #MaritimeRescue #EU #Spain #Canada #Geography #Justice // She/her.
@helgeschwiertz.bsky.social
Social and political theory, migration, racism, social movements, citizenship, solidarity and radical democracy / #sociology / Acting Professor, University of Hamburg: http://uhh.de/wiso-helge-schwiertz / ESCEuro research project https://europefrombelow.ne
@lyzh0109.bsky.social
Political geography | borders | Himalaya | PhD candidate at UWA
@drrioscontreras.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology @ChapmanU: Border PAR, Migration, Race/Ethnicity, Criminology, Disasters, Visual Soc, Aussie Pup, She/Ella
@austinkocher.com
I study immigration enforcement. Assistant Professor at Syracuse University and Research Fellow at the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University. https://linktr.ee/austinkocher
@colmigproject.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary project funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social investigating how colonialism has shaped migration governance around the world. Team includes @mcslaven.bsky.social, @evansmithhist.bsky.social, and others who aren't here yet
@nandosigona.bsky.social
Professor @unibirmingham.bsky.social UK, FAcSS Director @irisbirmingham.bsky.social Research: #migration, #asylum, #citizenship, #diversity https://www.nandosigona.info https://www.i-claim.eu podcast https://whodowethinkweare.org/ #runner
@peternrees.bsky.social
SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow interested in migration, citizenship and rights. Currently researching maritime migration at the Global Studies Institute, University of Geneva.
@mfbosworth.bsky.social
Professor of Criminology, @oxfordcrim.bsky.social, co-Director @bordercrim.bsky.social, writes about immigration detention and deportation.
@reecejones.bsky.social
Professor of political geography at the University of Hawai'i; editor-in-chief of Geopolitics; author of Violent Borders, White Borders, Border Walls, and Nobody is Protected
@vickisquire.bsky.social
Prof of International Politics, borders and migration, humanitarian data, sanctuary and solidarity activism - and other stuff too, she/her, Uni of Warwick but views my own
@bagelwoman.bsky.social
Political Geography Prof @NCL_Geography. Passionate about: surf, feminism, anti-colonial environmental migrant justice. Deputy Director @NCLsocsciences
@suzan-ilcan.bsky.social
Sociology professor & University Research Chair at University of Waterloo, Canada critical migration & border studies | citizenship & social justice | political sociology Website: https://uwaterloo.ca/sociology-and-legal-studies/profiles/suzan-ilcan
@lucreziac.bsky.social
Interested in borders, migration, data & archives | Leverhulme ECF at King's College London
@emmakrussell.bsky.social
abolition :: carceral studies :: policing :: prisons :: queer researcher + ARC DECRA fellow @ La Trobe Uni and reviews editor @ Crime Media Culture
@pmfrowd.bsky.social
Researching security politics | Borders, migration, data, intl. interventions, Sahel & West Africa | prof @ University of Ottawa
@binadcosta.bsky.social
Professor, International Relations, ANU & Chair, UN Working Group of Experts on people of African descent Living & working on unceded Ngunnawal & Ngambri lands. Current research 👇🏾 https://bellschool.anu.edu.au/ir/displacement-violence
@amoorelouise.bsky.social
Professor of Political Geography Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics Author Politics of Possibility https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-politics-of-possibility & Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics
@cearadau.bsky.social
everything 'politics out of security', professor of international politics, Algorithmic reason: The new government of self and other (2022)
@lukeglanville.bsky.social
Prof of IR at ANU | International ethics & history of international thought | refugees, borders, colonialism, slavery, atrocities, war | https://researchprofiles.anu.edu.au/en/persons/luke-glanville
@chrisagius13.bsky.social
I research security, war preparedness, and other things related to violence. Publications here: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=llO7DNgAAAAJ&hl=en
@chenchenzh.bsky.social
migrant & researcher interested in politics and other things. currently: digital narratives, postcolonial nationalism, the global right, China stuff. she/her. 不必等待炬火. co-host @shichapodcast.bsky.social https://chenchenzhang.net/
@besteisleyen.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Amsterdam President (2023-2025) of the European International Studies Association (EISA) Editor at International Political Sociology Kiteboarder 🤙🏽
@mitropoulos.bsky.social
Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia (2012) Pandemonium: Proliferating Borders of Capital and the Pandemic Swerve (2020) More (open access) writings at https://s0metim3s.com/mitropoulos/
@brucealexb.bsky.social
Scholar. Historian of ideas. Mostly Enlightenment & race, quite a bit on empire & colonisation, plus some corruption and a little piracy for good measure.
@nsharma101.bsky.social
There (really) is no place like home. Home Rule (2020, Duke U. Press) Home Economics (2006, U of Toronto Press) Professor, Sociology, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa #NoBorders nanditasharma.net
@hannobrankamp.bsky.social
Migrant | Geographer | University of Glasgow Migration, Africa, camp/carceral geographies, race, coloniality, humanitarianism, abolition. Views=own Author: 📖 Occupied Refuge (Duke, Feb 2026) Website: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/hannobrankamp/
@jaredmargulies.bsky.social
Geographer, political ecologist, enthusiastic dilettante, plant pal. ccgc.ua.edu. Author of The Cactus Hunters ('23, Minnesota). All the links: https://linktr.ee/jdmargulies
@jordanas.bsky.social
jewishness, diasporism, history, memory, solidarity, justice. she/her. Author of 'Cruel Care' (2023) and 'Anxious Histories' (2015).
@pollypw.bsky.social
Associate Professor. Author of the award winning “fabulous and delightfully rad” ‘Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives’ by Verso Books. She/Her.
@matthewblongo.bsky.social
Asst Prof of Political Science @PolSciLeiden. Author: THE PICNIC (2024) https://bit.ly/42unDVV) & THE POLITICS OF BORDERS (2018). Native New Yorker.
@kayatbarry.bsky.social
Interested in mobilities – geography – art – migration – tourism – air travel – birds – weather // DECRA Research Fellow, Griffith Uni, AU. she/her