Migration Starter Pack
A list of folks on BlueSky posting about migration, refugees, and citizenship, including academics, advocacy orgs, journalists, etc.
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@deeesharp.bsky.social
@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
@bgirledukate.bsky.social
Journalist covering the immigration beat at the San Diego-Tijuana border writing Beyond the Border newsletter on Substack. Co-founder of Daylight San Diego. Articles in Capital & Main, Voice of San Diego, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Los Angeles Times...
@sarahelizacollins.bsky.social
Assistant ed and columnist at Prospect Magazine. Writer for The Week, The Guardian
@kamack.bsky.social
Writer and PhD researcher documenting refugee histories of contemporary Scotland. Also radical history walking tours, books, social history, Glasgow kmackinnon.org radicalglasgowtours.com https://redsundayschool.org/ she/her
@drernestocast.bsky.social
Director,@theimmigrationlab.bsky.social; Center for Latin American & Latino Studies; and Full Professor, Sociology, American University, DC. Immigration and the politics of the possible. Author of multiple books & articles.
@ndftan.bsky.social
International refugee law and policy. Senior lecturer, Melbourne Law School. Affiliate Refugee Law Initiative and Kaldor Centre. Visiting professor Copenhagen University.
@taylorbrooks.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Sociology •• Researching: US immigration, media, emotions, voice, racism •• critical discourse analysis •• linguistics •• photography 🏳️🌈
@eleanorbpaynter.net
critical refugee studies, Mediterranean migration, testimony, crisis, transnational Italy | asst prof @ UOregon | poet |🎙host book: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/emergency-in-transit/paper website: https://eleanorbpaynter.net/
@llamasjr.bsky.social
global media professor at @asc.upenn.edu associate directing at @annenbergcargc.bsky.social author of Border Tunnels https://tinyurl.com/tnnls and Y Tu Mamá También https://tinyurl.com/ytmt01 español incluído.
@heather-rolfe.bsky.social
Director of Research at @britishfuture.bsky.social Mostly interested in immigration, employment, migrants’ new lives in UK and public attitudes
@dansaracino.bsky.social
Form. Uni Essex, now @Leuphana University Lüneburg. PhD in Political Science. Expertise: EU, Asylum&Migration, Solidarity, German Politics. Editor of Forced Migration Studies Blog.
@fluchtforschung.bsky.social
Netzwerk Fluchtforschung e.V. German Network for Forced Migration Studies https://fluchtforschung.net/
@andrewpgeddes.bsky.social
Professor of Migration Studies/Director @mpc-eui.bsky.social part of @eui-schuman.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social Florence, Italy 🇮🇹 Coordinating the INNOVATE project https://migrationresearchtopolicy.eu https://www.linkedin.com/company/mr2p-co-lab/
@mcslaven.bsky.social
Author of "Securing Borders, Securing Power" (Columbia UP, 2022) http://tinyurl.com/yeywvdaa Doing migration politics/policy research, currently @colmigproject.bsky.social. Political speechwriter of yore. Obscure academic in provincial England, AZ guy 🌵
@richardnerland.bsky.social
I'm trying to build infrastructure for scaled migration and education.
@jonathanchaloff.bsky.social
International Migration Division OECD but personal account. 99% posts related to visa/permit policy, employment, integration, population, stats, evaluations.
@kesimahendranprof.bsky.social
Migration | Non/Mobility | Citizenship Co-ordinator of #OppAttune https://oppattune.eu/ Professor of Social & Political Psychology #EverydayExtremism Public Dialogue on UK-EU Relations http://publicdialoguepsychologycolab.co.uk
@sarahcrafter.bsky.social
Professor of Cultural- Developmental Psychology at The Open University Interested in children and young people's migration Qualitative, Participatory and arts-based approaches
@anitahowarth27.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at Brunel University London @brunelsmcj. Researcher on journalism and political communication. Writes on social justice issues esp migration, food and hunger. Interests have expanded to include disinfo, altered images and populism
@bernd-parusel.bsky.social
Senior researcher in political science, SIEPS Sweden. Migration & asylum expert 🇪🇺 🇸🇪 🇩🇪.
@colinmbrown.bsky.social
Poli Sci teaching faculty at Northeastern: immigration, representation, parties, Europe (esp. NL), pedagogy & SoTL. Co-editor: Political Science Educator. Intro CP textbook w/Cengage Chaotic Neutral. J! non-champion. Bad jokes. Oregonian, originally.
@ienesatac.bsky.social
PhD student in Sociology and Social Data Analytics at Penn State | Prev. University of Mannheim & Bogazici University ienesatac.com
@maryjomacdonald.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, PhD from UofT. maryjomacdonald.com
@catbriddick.bsky.social
Andrew W Mellon Associate Professor of International Human Rights and Refugee Law @refugeestudies.bsky.social, University of Oxford. Trustee @4refugeewomen.bsky.social. Feminist.
@nwelfens.bsky.social
Political Sociologist University Duisburg-Essen. Migration, refugee protection, EU external relations, IOs, gender, feminist approaches, practice theory. And cats. She/her.
@martijnvandenbrink.bsky.social
Associate professor EU Law, Leiden university EU lawyer. Writes about EU institutions, EU citizenship, free movement, and anti-discrimination law.
@chstr.bsky.social
Professor for Practical Philosophy; Ethicist; dog-lover; the future is open…
@kirchenasyl.bsky.social
Wir sind der organisatorische Zusammenschluss der #Kirchenasyl-Bewegung in Deutschland. German Ecumenical Committee on Church Asylum/Sanctuary Movement
@zbrunarska.bsky.social
Assist Prof @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social migration decision-making, anti-immigrant attitudes, ethnic relations, Russia
@jsjrgmndz.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Philosophy | Author of The Moral and Political Philosophy of Immigration | Book Review Editor at Radical Philosophy Review | Lifelong Padres Fan | Aficionado of Grunge music
@christinehobden.bsky.social
Political theorist working on citizenship, international justice, and democratic ethics at Wits School of Governance 🇿🇦 www.christinehobden.co.za
@unoflucht.bsky.social
Die UNO-Flüchtlingshilfe ist der deutsche Partner des Flüchtlingshilfswerks der Vereinten Nationen (UNHCR). Leben retten - Rechte schützen!
@heykarl.bsky.social
Interested in borders & how they're (un)made 🖤❤️ Editor at https://movements-journal.org Geographer. He/Him.
@fionahurley.bsky.social
Charity CEO. Refugee and migration law and policy. Aspiring gardener. All views personal. She/Her
@conniethomas.bsky.social
Historian of early US migration politics & American identity Lecturer in US History @UCL.ac.uk Comms @branchuk.bsky.social
@turnstone.bsky.social
Political philosophy/theory; republicanism; migration and citizenship. Dublin.
@en.sea-watch.org
Search. Rescue. #SafePassage. We save lives in the Mediterranean Sea. german account: @sea-watch.org Donate now sea-watch.org/en/donate
@alarmphone.bsky.social
Independent support for people crossing the Mediterranean Sea to the EU | If in distress, call +334 86 51 71 61 | media requests: media@alarmphone.org freedom of movement for all http://www.alarmphone.org
@mlbg.bsky.social
Professor of law (EU, migrations, human rights, rule of law, states of exception) #moebius project | IUF; Institut Convergences Migrations; EU Fundamental Rights Agency; UJML https://sites.google.com/site/marielaurebasiliengainche/home MECFS daily warrior
@jpsteinmann.bsky.social
PostDoc | Sociologist | @KFN | @FGZ | Social inequalities | Migration and integration | Right-wing populism | Deviant behavior | Religion https://www.jan-philip-steinmann.com/
@pzlotnik.bsky.social
Postdoc @Uni Cologne, Visiting Fellow @MPC / EUI. Researching & teaching 🇪🇺 and migration politics. PhD on migration & trade policies @nccr_onthemove.
@evazschirnt.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, Co-Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies, Previously Max Weber Fellow at the EUI, research interests: migration & discrimination
@alinavranceanu.bsky.social
Political scientist @ Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Previously EUI and UPF. Political behaviour | Comparative politics https://me.eui.eu/alina-vranceanu/
@refugeelist.bsky.social
The British and European refugee policy summed up in the name labels of those who didn’t survive - 48,647 deaths and counting.
@rlc-hannover.bsky.social
Kostenlose Rechtsberatung für Geflüchtete Menschen im Raum Hannover | for more: https://rlc-hannover.de
@marcusengler.bsky.social
@rsaegean.bsky.social
Refugee Support Aegean (RSA) is a non-profit organisation. RSA is implementing partner of the PRO ASYL litigation project RSPA-Refugee Support Program Aegean https://www.rsaegean.org
@migcontrol.bsky.social
Collective continuation of the tazgezwitscher research project on EU #migrationcontrol in Africa | coordination: @ffm-online | website: https://migration-control.info
@deportationwatch.bsky.social
Wir recherchieren, dokumentieren und veröffentlichen Abschiebungen aus Österreich. We research and publish deportations from Austria https://deportationwatch.noblogs.org/ Kontakt: rafor(at)systemausfall.org
@abschiebungnrw.bsky.social
Wir dokumentieren die Abschiebungspraxis in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Projekt von @grundrechtekomitee.bsky.social | Köln, NRW Bei instagram: abschiebungsreporting_nrw www.abschiebungsreporting.de
@keinknast.bsky.social
Wir sind das Bündnis „Abschiebegefängnis verhindern – in Düsseldorf und überall” Website: https://abschiebegefaengnis-verhindern.de/
@seebrueckehh.bsky.social
Die Lokalgruppe Hamburg der Bewegung für sichere Fluchtwege und die Entkriminalisierung von Flucht und Seenotrettung.
@seebrueckeintl.bsky.social
We are an international movement. We want safe passages and an end of the criminalisation of civil sea rescue. German: @seebruecke.bsky.social
@matthiaslehnert.bsky.social
Rechtsanwalt | Migrationsrecht | Migrationspolitik | #TeamMigrationsrecht | #RAV https://www.aufenthaltsrecht.net/ueber-uns/matthias-lehnert/
@keremschamberger.bsky.social
Mensch & Kommunist & Öffentlichkeitsarbeit zu Flucht & Migration bei medico international
@nicolapalmer.bsky.social
Legal academic at the University of Cape Town & King's College London - an ethnographer at heart, writing on international criminal law, borders, refugees & migration in central Africa.
@fmccallumguiney.bsky.social
Professor in International Relations, University of St Andrews. Researches on religion, migration, diaspora and minorities
@clarabuenger.bsky.social
MdB Die LINKE | Flucht- und Rechtspolitische Sprecherin | Volljuristin | Equal Rights Beyond Borders e.V. | https://clarabuenger.de/impressum-und-datenschutz
@seebruecke-frankfurt.de
sometimes SEARCH AND RESCUE SOLIDARITY AND RESISTANCE allways 🔗 https://www.seebruecke-frankfurt.de/
@mclem.org
Professor of economics at George Mason University, fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics, IZA, CReAM/UCL, CGD. Associate Editor JEP. USAID 2021–2024. Personal views exclusively. Web: http://mclem.org ORCID: 0000-0003-1354-0965
@danielsohege.bsky.social
Director of human rights consultancy Stand For All. Specialist in refugee and migrants' law, rights policy, comms and advocacy. NOT A LAWYER. Also talking about being autistic and LGBTQIA+ rights. (They/them). Purely my views, no-one else would want them.
@seebruecke.bsky.social
Die SEEBRÜCKE ist eine internationale Bewegung aus der Zivilbevölkerung. Wir fordern sichere Fluchtwege und eine Entkriminalisierung von Seenotrettung und Flucht. 🔗 seebruecke.org
@jdportes.bsky.social
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. Books: Immigration (Sage), Capitalism (Quercus)
@aliromah.bsky.social
Barrister One Pump Court Chambers. Frome. London. Trustee of Kalayaan. Tweeting personal views on rule of law, nationality, immigration, asylum, Court of Protection, passion & whimsy. Unafraid.
@bruzzone.bsky.social
Immigration policy person, especially unaccompanied kids, child labor, LGBTQ+ migration, and family separation; also the least useful kind of doctor
@audieklotz.bsky.social
Expertise on International Relations especially norms and migration I mute excessive self-promoters (including humble braggers) and mansplainers I block fundraising (or weirder) and haters
@claireadida.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science at UC San Diego. Would rather be spending time outdoors with my family and friends.
@thorbenknobloch.bsky.social
@samdschmid.bsky.social
Political Scientist, Grants Office Team Member, Study Program Manager, University of Lucerne, Switzerland :: PhD from EUI, Florence :: #migration #citizenship #democracy :: #academicmentalhealth #neurodiversity :: he/him/his :: www.samdschmid.com
@dweltman.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Ashoka University | https://www.danielweltman.com | I work on social and political philosophy, ethics, and gender.
@demigkrems.bsky.social
at University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria (www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/mig) We want to contribute to a better understanding of migration and integration with our research and teaching activities.
@olivieroangeli.bsky.social
Political Scientist at the TU Dresden and coordinator at MIDEM. Working mainly on migration-related issues. Views my own.
@eilidhbeaton4.bsky.social
Political Philosopher at the University of Aberdeen. Works on global justice, especially migration & asylum. https://eilidhbeaton.com
@phillcole40.bsky.social
Immigration, asylum, refugees, displacement: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-global-displacement-in-the-twenty-first-century.html
@ulrikebialas.bsky.social
Sociologist & Postdoc @mpimmg.bsky.social | Ethnography | Research on Migration and State Categories | Book “Forever 17” on Age & Asylum https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo208300969.html
@rhamlin.bsky.social
Professor of Legal Studies and Political Science @ UMass Amherst. migration/refugees/displacement/colonial legacies/law/courts/administration. Author of Let Me Be a Refugee (OUP 2014) and Crossing: How We Label and React to People on the Move (SUP 2021).
@negsaunders.bsky.social
Lecturer in IR and Political Theory at University of St Andrews. Interested in: Migration | Rights | Borders | Digital Tech | Activism When not working, I’m travelling, eating nice food, and being a mum to Chocolate Labrador Bonnie.
@eszterkollar79.bsky.social
Philosophy professor at KU Leuven I Director Justice and Migration RG I writing about fair labour migration, refugee and migrant rights, inclusion, colonial legacies; self-determination, equal opportunity, global economic justice I feminist, hiker, dancer
@theresehmann.bsky.social
Ex-Advocacy at Kabul Luftbrücke | PhDing on a critique of 'protection elsewhere' approaches in Refugee Ethics | Editor Fluchtforschungsblog
@asylumadvocacy.bsky.social
ASAP sees a future where the U.S. welcomes individuals fleeing violence. We work alongside more than 550,000 asylum seekers to make this vision a reality.
@lukasschmid.bsky.social
Political theory postdoc at Normative Orders, Goethe University Frankfurt. Writing a book on the (il-)legitimate authority of state migration control. 🇵🇸
@tmenge.bsky.social
Philosophy & political theory @NUQatar | Working on theories of power, genealogy, political community, global capitalism | https://philpeople.org/profiles/torsten-menge
@knatter.bsky.social
assistant professor @LeidenUniv | comparative politics & migration policies | North Africa, Latin America & Europe | board member @Asylos | always dancing
@felixbender.bsky.social
Political Philosopher at Northumbria University. https://felixbender.com/
@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
@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/
@ulrikekrause.bsky.social
Prof at @ifpolms.bsky.social, @uni-muenster.de Thinking about gender, forced migration, conflict, humanitarian politics, postcolonial legacies, non/knowledge Recent book: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108909013
@iehs.bsky.social
Founded in 1965, the IEHS promotes the study of immigration history through the Journal of American Ethnic History and professional/educational outreach. https://iehs.org/
@akoustov.bsky.social
Author of "In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular" (http://tinyurl.com/4rwpr6dc). Professor at UNC Charlotte. https://alexanderkustov.org/
@tizianatorresi.bsky.social
Political philosopher, University of Adelaide Migration, temporary migration, cities and migration, citizenship, populism. Theories of wellbeing, love, Buddhism, and cyberpolitics!
@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
@tsourapas.bsky.social
migration, diplomacy, and overanalyzing everything ∙ 🇬🇷 professor @uofglasgow.bsky.social ∙ editor-in-chief @migrationjrnl.bsky.social ∙ 🏃🏻♂️🌍
@mgerver.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in International Ethics at King’s College London, focusing on immigration, consent, and experimental philosophy. www.mgerver.com
@janinedahinden.bsky.social
Professor of transnational studies, nccr on the move, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland (De-)migranticization, reflexivity, gender, racialisation, ethnicity, social class, boundary work, border studies, migration, knowledge production, nation-state
@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
@yaelschacher.bsky.social
Immigration historian and Director for Americas and Europe at Refugees International. Views my own.