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@fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social
@marcusengler.bsky.social
@shubhakprasad.bsky.social
Asst Prof of IR, Hertie School | Max-Weber Postdoc EUI | PhD Government, Georgetown | Insurgencies & Integration | South Asia | Diasporas and Foreign Policy
@rgalemba.bsky.social
Professor at Josef Korbel School. Co-Director DU Center for Immigration Policy & Research. Author: Contraband Corridor (Stanford Press 2017) and Laboring for Justice (Stanford Press 2023). Migration, borders, wage theft, Latin America
@felixbender.bsky.social
Political Philosopher at Northumbria University. https://felixbender.com/
@michaelacbenson.bsky.social
Professor in #PublicSociology at Lancaster University & Chief Executive of @sociologicalreview.bsky.social Research: migration and citizenship in EU, Panama 🇵🇦and UK Brexitbritsabroad.org migzen.net #Podcast producer and host https://whodowethinkweare
@mtaval.bsky.social
Postdoc Researcher, Eurostorie, Centre for European Studies, Uni of Helsinki #GATEproject: #Deportation in Finland/Nordic countries, ~1950-2025: https://shorturl.at/flvJL Publications: https://t.co/4aI
@jaspertjaden.bsky.social
Professor of Social Research and Public Policy at Uni Potsdam, migration, integration, elections, social media, causal inference, Computational Social Science.
@lenkadrazanova.bsky.social
Research Fellow at @EUI | Political Scientist | public opinion, attitudes, political socialization, migration, quantitative methods | Author ‘Education and Tolerance’ www.lenkadrazanova.com
@jslocum.bsky.social
Executive Director, Refugee Council USA. Nonresident Senior Fellow, Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs. For now, also on X as @JohnSlocum2. Posts are my own.
@refugeestudies.bsky.social
The Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, is a global leader in multidisciplinary research on forced migration. www.rsc.ox.ac.uk Connect with us: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/forms/general/connect
@migobs.bsky.social
The Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford provides independent, authoritative, evidence-based analysis on UK migration.
@abbyfwilliamson.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Political Science & Public Policy @TrinityCollege. Immigration, health equity, urban politics, civic engagement. Twin mom. She/her.
@profcolinclark.bsky.social
associate dean (r&i)+ prof of sociology & social policy @ UWS. interested in mobility, borders, identity, roma rights. fond of vinyl, cassettes, coffee, cats, swimming, autumn. glasgow.📍
@sarahbruhn.bsky.social
Studying immigration, families & education. Postdoc @ Penn. Writing two books. Raising three kiddos. sarahbruhn.com
@fmreview.bsky.social
We are Forced Migration Review, a world-renowned publication based at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. www.fmreview.org
@drsarahliu.bsky.social
political scientist researching/teaching on #gender #politics #migration #protest #Asia #academia http://drsarahliu.com/
@davidjbier.bsky.social
Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
@alisonphipps.bsky.social
UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages & Arts at University of Glasgow
@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/
@hidehirota.bsky.social
Historian of US immigration. Teaches at UC Berkeley. Vice President of @iehs.bsky.social. Author of Expelling the Poor (Oxford). Writing books on foreign contract labor law and on transpacific Japanese migration.
@nazita.bsky.social
Political scientist. Scholar of race, religion, and American politics.
@davebrady72.bsky.social
Public policy professor, Price School USC @priceschool.usc.edu, father, poverty/social policy/racial inequality/immigration/policymakers, posts do not speak for employer, https://bradydave.wordpress.com
@dhopkins1776.bsky.social
Political scientist at the University of Pennsylvania. Prof: http://goo.gl/qAOlH9 538: http://goo.gl/1iwZJs
@hekwon.bsky.social
Sociologist and ethnographer on migration, belonging, cosmopolitanism, Gulf | postdoc at UTokyo via UCSD, NYUAD | https://www.hekwon.com/
@vanctran.bsky.social
@ersjournal.com
The leading journal for the analysis of race, #racism, ethnicity and #migration worldwide. https://www.tandfonline.com/ERS
@oeppen.bsky.social
Geographer. Interests include: Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora; migration, return migration, refugees and asylum; gaming. Views my own.
@paolalanger.bsky.social
Postdoc Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley. Race, migration, health, politics
@jorgencarling.bsky.social
Research Professor and Co-Director of PRIO Migration Centre. Working on global migration, transnationalism, and immobility. Research communication, visualisation, and writing. | jorgencarling.org | prio.org/fumi
@philtriadafilos.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto Scarborough & Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Studying international migration & membership politics, & school choice. Interested in the Montreal Canadiens, guitar, & fishing.
@hirofujibayashi.bsky.social
Postdoc at EUI. PhD in IR/PS from Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID). Research on comparative politics of immigration and refugee reception
@profdonareveco.bsky.social
Chilean sociologist studying international migrations in the Americas. Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology; Director, Office of Latino/Latin American Studies (OLLAS), Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha.
@profmpastor.bsky.social
Distinguished Professor of Sociology at USC & Director of the USC Equity Research Institute. @eri-usc.bsky.social Most important: Proud pop. Bio: https://dornsife.usc.edu/eri/manuel-pastor Books: ChargingForwardBook.com & SolidarityEconomics.org
@enmisa.bsky.social
Official account of the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Studies section of the International Studies Association
@leilahadjabdou.bsky.social
Migration researcher, Political scientist, Dep. Head Policy Research & Migration Law at IOM, AT; Co-coordinating European Migration Network (EMN) Austria. Ex-EUI/Migration Policy Centre. On this platform in a private capacity. Reposting is not endorsement.
@jakefwatson.bsky.social
Neurophysiologist @ ISTAustria Synapses, microcircuits, hippocampus. Google Scholar: https://bit.ly/jakefwatson Research summary: www.synapticarrangements.org
@flaczko.bsky.social
Former UN Migration Director. Series Editor, Routledge, Global Migration Issues, books. Budapest, Hungary. Geneva, Adviser Multi-Cultural Insights. Son of a refugee.
@srother.bsky.social
Guest researcher at University of Hamburg. Migration, Development, Global Governance, Human Rights…
@rrluthra.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology, University of Essex | Deputy Director @misoc-essex.bsky.social | migration & ethnic inequalities in education, work, health and access to justice
@migrationpolicy.bsky.social
Nonpartisan think tank generating evidence-based research, smart policy, essential data on global migration
@larociorosales.bsky.social
sociologist, ethnographer @UCI Sociology studying immigration, informal economies, race/ethnicity. UC Press author of Fruteros http://tinyurl.com/rum7zdp
@sarahwillen.bsky.social
Time to figure this place out I guess. Professor of Anthropology | https://tinyurl.com/SSW-UConn Pandemic Journaling Project | https://tinyurl.com/PandemicJournaling ARCHES | https://arches.chip.uconn.edu Also: https://tinyurl.com/FightingforDignity
@luicypedroza.bsky.social
Prof. at El Colegio de México/ ILAS-GIGA Associate Fellow/ MIGCITPOL co-coordinator. Research on comparative migration policies. Find more about me here: Luicypedroza.com
@michpeterie.bsky.social
Sociologist and ARC DECRA Senior Fellow at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney | Researching socio-emotional health and wellbeing | Views my own
@evaostergaard.bsky.social
Prof. of Political Science, UAB; ICREA Acadèmia, Transnational relations Democratization and Migration @transdem.bsky.social MIGRADEMO @migrademo.bsky.social
@pallavib.bsky.social
Associate Professor @UCalgary. Sociologist of migration, gender, and families. Author of #TheOpportunityTrap @NYUpress - link ↓. Views my own; not endorsements.🌈 ✊🏾 https://www.criticalmigration.org/projects/opportunity-trap/more-on-the-book
@chrismommers.bsky.social
Advisor to Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights; mainly asylum/migration, also other human rights issues in UK, Netherlands and Slovakia. Academic interest in 'voluntary' return: https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3264310 (open access). Views my own.
@nickmicinski.bsky.social
@profmchin.bsky.social
Mastondon id @MargaretChin@edumasto.org|Prof|Sociology|Hunter|GC||1st Gen Col|Affirm Act Ben|CDH Bd|Tenement Mus Bd|Author of Sewing Women, STUCK, & ThePeerEffect
@tsoehl.bsky.social
Sociology, Canada Research Chair International Migration McGill University
@virginieguiraudon.bsky.social
CNRS Research professor Sciences Po Paris - Comparative Politics - EU scholar - mostly focuses on immigration, borders, ethnoracial discrimination, domestic work/home care.
@hpostel.bsky.social
Migration policy past & present. Assistant Professor of Public Policy @ Duke Sanford. Previously: Stanford, Princeton, CGD & Middlebury. Spice fanatic & cat mom. She/her. www.hannahpostel.com
@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.
@egozdziak.bsky.social
Migration scholar, anthropologist, Kdrama addict, novel reader, mom to one human and two canines bloging at https://www.elzbietagozdziak.com/ https://www.goodbeginnings.blog/
@jasondeleon.bsky.social
Anthropologist, Nikon F2 owner, rockero, bass player in The War Pigs, author of Soldiers and Kings and Land of Open Graves, catch me in the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
@cecimenjivar.bsky.social
Sociologist at UCLA. I study immigration, gender-based violence, bureaucracies, gender, state power.
@daliaabdelhady.bsky.social
Sociologist of Middle East diasporas, bureaucratic violence, children of immigrants, gender and cultural analysis. Joint Editor-in-Chief of the Nordic Journal of Migration Research.
@bagelwoman.bsky.social
Political Geography Prof @NCL_Geography. Passionate about: surf, feminism, anti-colonial environmental migrant justice. Deputy Director @NCLsocsciences
@sofaptekar.bsky.social
CUNY prof, proud member of PSC-CUNY, author of Green Card Soldier, Lend & Rule, and The Road to Citizenship, sociologist, urban kayaker
@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
@juliagelatt.bsky.social
Associate Director, US Immigration Policy, Migration Policy Institute. Former Urban Institute. PhD Sociology/Social Policy. Avid data user.
@filippodionigi.bsky.social
Senior lecturer of international relations at Bristol University. IR theory and Middle East politics: f.dionigi@bristol.ac.uk. https://t.co/CGcAdQY3Dz
@cvar-sil.bsky.social
Professor at the University of Oxford. Doing research on migration.
@sharonquinsaat.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College | Author of "Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create A Filipino Diaspora (The University of Chicago Press, Spring 2024) | sharonquinsaat.com
@kevinshih.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Economics, UC Riverside & IZA Labor Economist, Economics of Immigration and Education, Trade Adjacent. BJJ Purple Belt www.kevinyshih.weebly.com
@profjennyp.bsky.social
Professor of Migration and Superdiversity at University of Birmingham. Forced migration, SGBV, gender, asylum policy, civil society, emotions.
@elenahabersky.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @UofGlasgow. Looking at migrants contesting borders and RLOs in Egypt. Critical Border/Migration Studies. I ❤️ Cairo’s Street 🐈 🐈⬛. Always missing NEPA Summer Bazaars. 🍉🇸🇩
@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
@globalcit.bsky.social
The Global Citizenship Observatory globalcit.eu is based at eui.eu as part of the Global Governance Programme. We provide independent research and data on citizenship. RTs ≠ endorsements
@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
@abregoleisy.bsky.social
@clarkkazak.bsky.social
Prof at uOttawa studying forced migration, age discrimination & interdisciplinary methodology
@dleblang.bsky.social
Husband. Father. Professor. @UVA studying #migration and #displacement with #bigdata. Unrepentant #Mets #Springsteen fan.
@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
@juliedowling.bsky.social
Latina Sociologist and Census nerd 🇲🇽 Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American & Latino Studies at University of Illinois Chicago
@caitlinpatler.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy. Research on #immigration #immigrationpolicy #daca #immigrationdetention #health
@patmcgovern.bsky.social
Incurable sociologist @lsesociology.bsky.social - Work, migration, social inequality and a bit of conflict. Co-founder MSc International Migration and Public Policy @LSE. ⚽️
@migrationjrnl.bsky.social
Migration Studies is a leading journal of the determinants, processes, and outcomes of human migration. Impact Factor: 2.2 (2023). https://academic.oup.com/migration
@laurahammond.bsky.social
SOAS DVC Research & Knowledge Exchange. Migration, refugees, diaspora, food security, conflict, Ethiopia Somalia, whippets
@drlizaaranda.bsky.social
Sociologist who studies im/migrant lives, specifically im/migrant well-being among undocumented youth and Puerto Rican climate migrants. Views are my own and do not reflect the institution for which I work.
@stephrschwartz.bsky.social
Political Science | Forced Migration | Assistant Professor @LSEIRDept | Views my own
@edegraauw.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science, Public Policy, and International Migration Studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Love dachshunds & the outdoors.
@lillyfrost.bsky.social
Assistant professor of political science at Virginia Tech, focused on citizenship, migration, law, gender, and Middle East politics, mainly in Jordan
@mpimmg.bsky.social
The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity is one of the foremost centers for the multi-disciplinary study of diversity, in its multiple forms, in today’s globalizing world. https://www.mmg.mpg.de/home
@tlyons.bsky.social
Professor Carter School of Peace and Conflict Resolution. Student of civil wars and contentious politics, particularly in the Horn of Africa
@dbartram.bsky.social
Sociologist. Interests: inequalities, happiness, migration, & causal inference. Editor-in-chief of @socialindicators.bsky.social. PhD UW-Madison. AI-free teaching & research since 1998. Posts are personal. https://davidvbartram.wordpress.com
@drrioscontreras.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology @ChapmanU: Border PAR, Migration, Race/Ethnicity, Criminology, Disasters, Visual Soc, Aussie Pup, She/Ella
@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.
@mfbosworth.bsky.social
Professor of Criminology, @oxfordcrim.bsky.social, co-Director @bordercrim.bsky.social, writes about immigration detention and deportation.
@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
@maggietheprof.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science, UCLA; Author, “Trading Barriers;” writing a new book on emigration and autocrats; www.maggiepeters.com
@lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social
Part-time Assistant Professor at @mpc-eui.bsky.social and @eui-stg.bsky.social European University Institute. I study the right of people to migrate, seek asylum and be treated justly and with dignity.