Immigration / Asylum
Historians, theorists, lawyers, journalists writing about immigration and asylum
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@stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social
@bernd-parusel.bsky.social
Senior researcher in political science, SIEPS Sweden. Migration & asylum expert 🇪🇺 🇸🇪 🇩🇪.
@jeffgammage.bsky.social
I cover immigration at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Pulitzer Prize winner. Author, "China Ghosts." All things Beatles.
@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.
@jonathanblitzer.bsky.social
Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/625425/everyone-who-is-gone-is-here-by-jonathan-blitzer/
@jcarstensen.bsky.social
Journalist and author of "A Greek Tragedy: One Day, A Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis," coming March 25, 2025 from Simon & Schuster / One Signal. https://beacons.ai/jeannecarstensen
@jesusrrojo.bsky.social
Profesor e investigador. Camarada y compañero. Últimos libros: 'Usar a Lenin' y 'Cuestión de clase' https://www.youtube.com/c/JesusRRojo
@jesusrodriguez.work
Journalist @washingtonpost.com, writing political features. Immigrant, nosy, big-nosed.
@cardwellpj.bsky.social
Professor of Law and Vice Dean (Education), King’s College London. Editor of JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. EU Law, Politics and Governance; Migration; Sanctions; Brexit; Erasmus+. UK/French citizen.
@sophieloywilson.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Australian History @University of Sydney Chinese Australians | immigration & economic history Also: Opening Australia's Multilingual Archive https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1031461X.2024.2390216
@jonasbornemann.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of European Law at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen @groningeneulaw.bsky.social | re:constitution fellow 2024/2025 European Constitutional and Migration Law
@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/
@peternrees.bsky.social
SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow interested in migration, citizenship and rights. Currently researching maritime migration at the Global Studies Institute, University of Geneva.
@mwf.bsky.social
Research Fellow @SVR - Expert Council on Integration and Migration in Berlin. Formerly @dgapev, @FU_Berlin and @DelorsBerlin. Working on integration, asylum & migration policies. Current focus: naturalization of refugees. Views my own.
@charlottesussman.bsky.social
Chair, Duke English. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Migration Studies, Blue Humanities. Author of PEOPLING THE WORLD: REPRESENTING HUMAN MOBILITY FROM MILTON TO MALTHUS. Remembering the Middle Passage Project. Knitting, running, hopeful cook.
@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
@migrationcollab.bsky.social
MiSC is a community of scholars fighting to decriminalize migration and open wider pathways to legal immigration in the United States. Op Eds + Public History https://sites.google.com/lclark.edu/misc
@jwashing.bsky.social
Journalist and Translator. Reporting for Arizona Luminaria, @azluminaria.bsky.social Newsletter, short essays on books and politics: https://johnwashington.substack.com/ Latest book, The Case for Open Borders: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2199-the
@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
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
@kcsun1015.bsky.social
Scholar of migration, families, and inequalities. Author of Time and Migration (Cornell, 2021) and Co-author of Transnational Social Protection (Oxford, 2023).
@taylorbrooks.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Sociology •• Researching: US immigration, media, emotions, voice, racism •• critical discourse analysis •• linguistics •• photography 🏳️🌈
@minnierahman.bsky.social
CEO @praxisprojects.bsky.social. Brummie. All views own (subject to personal growth and development).
@ndftan.bsky.social
International refugee law and policy. Senior lecturer, Melbourne Law School. Affiliate Refugee Law Initiative and Kaldor Centre. Visiting professor Copenhagen University.
@uttara.bsky.social
Historian of borders and refugees in Modern South Asia and the British Empire. Sindhis.
@natcad.bsky.social
Border human rights lawyer. “Back on [my] bullshit.” Studying migrant disappearance. Making records for now and later. Impatient. Punching up. Rio Grande Valley - Tucson - San Diego.
@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.
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social
UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBTI+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. She/Her. I do policy, research & campaigns.
@lukasschmid.bsky.social
Political theory postdoc at Normative Orders, Goethe University Frankfurt. Writing a book on the (il-)legitimate authority of state migration control. 🇵🇸
@ienesatac.bsky.social
PhD student in Sociology and Social Data Analytics at Penn State | Prev. University of Mannheim & Bogazici University ienesatac.com
@migration.se
Independent Expert on European migration and asylum policy – based in Stockholm 🇸🇪
@labdelaaty.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of PoliSci • IR, Refugees, Human rights • labdelaa.expressions.syr.edu • she/her • Views own, etc.
@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
@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.
@juliarosekraut.bsky.social
JD/PhD | THREAT OF DISSENT: A HISTORY OF IDEOLOGICAL EXCLUSION AND DEPORTATION IN THE UNITED STATES | https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674292352 | Posts are mine, not the views of my employer. ❤️ & Reposts are not endorsements.
@irpinaingiro.bsky.social
Historian. Author of Unwanted (@UNC_Press). Current President of @IEHS.
@claudiacalhoon.bsky.social
Immigration/health advocate, health policy professor, CUNY York College, NYC/NC.
@adamjst.bsky.social
I work with data. I post about migration, education, and sports. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Americas, Earth Arsenal + Nuggets + Avs + Rockies https://adamjsawyer.com/about he/him
@bruzzone.bsky.social
Immigration policy person, especially unaccompanied kids, child labor, LGBTQ+ migration, and family separation; also the least useful kind of doctor
@historyrobin.bsky.social
Lawyer, PhD candidate in legal history at Boston College. History of separation of religion and state in America. Law, religion, and science.
@daralind.bsky.social
Former journalist, currently employed at @immcouncil.org (all posts here VERY MUCH my own), forever immigration explainer. Committed to the bit. Signal: daralind.18
@seokweonjeon.bsky.social
US Religious Historian with a focus on MBC (migration, borders, citizenship), Asian America, US Imperialism | PhD Candidate @Harvard Religion & Fellow @Weatherhead | Every Thu.@BOS.Symphony | Reading Now:📚 How Our Days Became Numbered 🔗 seokweonjeon.com
@laurenmarkham.bsky.social
Writer - A MAP OF FUTURE RUINS (2024) - THE FAR AWAY BROTHERS (2017) - IMMEMORIAL (forthcoming February 2025) Other work in NY Times Magazine, Harper’s, The Guardian, Mother Jones, VQR & elsewhere
@theintercept.com
Fearless, adversarial journalism. Join our newsletter to get our best investigative reporting delivered to you: https://theintercept.com/newsletter/
@amandafrost.bsky.social
Professor of immigration & citizenship at UVA Law. Author of YOU ARE NOT AMERICAN: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers (Beacon Press, 2021). Forthcoming book on the history of birthright citizenship in the USA. Civil rights lawyer.
@carlygoodman.bsky.social
Author, editor, professor of history, Philadelphian. Nobody should be deported. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469673042/dreamland/
@hyoyoonkang.bsky.social
I write and teach critical intellectual property, theories, law & humanities & history of science in the UK university titanic. Mostly unserious here. Private account. hyoyoonkang.com
@ithacamcg.bsky.social
Historian of (im)migration at Cornell San Antonio Spurs fan 🏀
@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/
@deeesharp.bsky.social
Read my work here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VYT_0LjgcGgXDKEx4JSxTaRXxEU0rJP1?usp=drive_link
@trillingual.bsky.social
Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc
@kevinkenny.bsky.social
Historian of US immigration | 19th-century | race | labor | slavery | global migration | diaspora
@robertltsai.bsky.social
Author of DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE (2024) http://amzn.to/45LFzNg & other books | Prof & Harry Elwood Warren Scholar, Boston U. | Rockefeller Fellow, Princeton | constitutional law & politics, legal history, democracy | https://linktr.ee/roberttsai
@crookedfootball.bsky.social
Political philosophy and theory, migration, refugees, Rousseau, photography, French literature, Crooked Timber, books, Bristol ... Wrote "Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants" (Wiley/Polity, 2018). Pensioner.
@unlawfulentries.bsky.social
Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist specializing in US constitutional law and development, US migration(s) and citizenship law and policy history. Often mistaken for a historian. Home cook, wine drinker, foodie.
@colinyeo.bsky.social
Barrister, blogger and author of Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System. Fully updated paperback out now.
@alixabeth.bsky.social
Maxwell Professor of United States Citizenship at Boston University and Political Theory Editor at American Journal of Political Science. I write about immigration, citizenship, and the politics of time. https://www.bu.edu/polisci/profile/elizabeth-cohen/
@hystericalblkns.bsky.social
Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2026). Black. Still. Life. (2027) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
@stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social
prof at UNC ⚽️getting REALLY into professional women's soccer ⚽️