Sébastien Bachelet @sebbachelet.bsky.social Anthropologist & migrant https://sebastienbachelet.com/crimes-of-solidarity
mobi-twin-project @mobi-twin-project.bsky.social MOBI-TWIN focus on analysing the factors that shape human mobility behaviour, taking into account the influence of Twin Transitions on regional attractiveness.
🌐 https://mobi-twin-project.eu
Horizon Europe Project | Grant Agreement no. 10109440
Denise R. @denisework.bsky.social Team member of the UniGR-CBS Coordination Unit @uni.lu | #BorderStudies #UniGR_CBS
Justine Chambers @drjchambers.bsky.social Senior Researcher, anthropologist, at @diisdk exploring revolutionary politics, conflict & climate change in Myanmar. Author of ‘Pursuing Morality’ (2024)
Jessala A. Grijalva @jessalagrijalva.bsky.social Political Scientist | Multiracial Democracy & Political Power | Guinier Project Postdoctoral Fellow, Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School | www.jessalagrijalva.com | jessalagrijalva.substack.com
Doug Kiel @dougkiel.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Oneida Historian | Northwestern University | author of Unsettling Territory: The Resurgence of the Oneida Nation in the Face of Settler Backlash (Yale University Press) 🐢
Eva-Maria Windberger @evadalloway.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Luxembourg | Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
Sam Chambers @spatiosam.bsky.social Border Studies / Biometeorology / Spatiotemporal Analytics / Landscape Ecology / Critical Geography
Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social Economist who studies institutions, political economy, polycentricity, defense & peace economics, and border militarization.
https://gunsguardsandgovernance.substack.com/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1Ue5NBMAAAAJ&hl=en
@yatescait.bsky.social @yatescait.bsky.social Postdoc @Centre for Migration Studies | PhD @UBC | Fellow @StraussCenter | Views my own
Sarah Kyambi @sarahkyambi.bsky.social Director of Migration Policy Scotland @migrationscotland.bsky.social
Founder, Carer, Gardener...Singer?
Nick Buxton @nickbuxton.bsky.social Knowledge Hub at Transnational Institute. Communications Consultant. Expertise #climatesecurity #borderpolitics Posts in personal capacity. He/Him
Jørgen Carling @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
Vivien Sommer @viviensommer.bsky.social DFG Emmy Noether group leader @IRS Erkner, Associated Member @SFB „Re-Figuration of Spaces“
Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social Prof. of Anthropology and African Studies at UofT. Militarization of Borders, Land, Gulf Capital Accumulation, Sudan. Sudan Solidarity Collective. 🌺
Mike Slaven @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 🌵
Kimberley Thomas @kimanh.bsky.social Assoc. Professor and human-environment geographer @Temple University. Political ecology | environmental justice | water | climate change | infrastructure | borders | Asia | kimberley.thomasresearch.org
Michelle García @mg-pistoleraprod.bsky.social I am a journalist and essayist working on a book about borders to be published by @vikingbooks
Banner image:Jovita Idár and newspaper staff. Even after the Texas Rangers torched the newsroom, they kept publishing.
Brian Buchanan @archaeobuchanan.bsky.social Associate professor, Landscape archaeologist, early medieval and Roman landscapes, frontiers and borders, spatial arrangements of the built environment, GIS, remote sensing, human-environment interactions.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Juan Agulló @jagullo.bsky.social 🌎 #Sociologist without #borders. Professor of ILAESP. Executive Board of @CLACSO. Regional Editor at Journal of Borderlands Studies (LATAM) #Geopolitics
Unsweetened Black Tea ☕️ or Mate 🧉
Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social Archaeologist of borders, working on the Anglo-Cymric borderland and its folklore, digital humanist. Trustee, Offa's Dyke Association. All ops very much my own. archaeoborders.wordpress.com
Oxford Global Security Programme @oxfordgsp.bsky.social The Global Security Programme, based at the University of Oxford, researches security dynamics in the context of armed conflict and the global illicit economy, generating insights to inform policy, practice, and public understanding.
University of the Greater Region @unigr.bsky.social We are a network of seven universities located in the cross-border area of the Greater Region: #RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, #ULiège, #UnivLorraine, #Uni_Lu, #UniSaarland, #UniTrier, htw saar
uni-gr.eu #UniGR
Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
Lorenzo Piccoli @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social Part-time Assistant Professor at the Migration Policy Centre and School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute. Migration studies, asylum, citizenship.
Eddie Valentin @evalentin25.bsky.social Public historian, personal research interests: Reconstruction, borderlands history, and the military experiences of Black Americans. Views expressed here are my own.
Masha Cerovic @mcerovic.bsky.social Associate Professor, History, CERCEC - EHESS (Paris) / Russian empire, Soviet Union, war history, borderlands, military occupations, partisan warfare, Soviet-Nazi war
Migration Scholar Collaborative @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
UBC Centre for Migration Studies @migration.ubc.ca Interdisciplinary and collaborative research, learning, and public engagement on migration, mobility, and displacement.
📍xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) unceded ancestral lands
Learn more at www.migration.ubc.ca
Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social Interdisciplinary #geography #research lab led by @tuulitoivonen.bsky.social, University of #Helsinki. Spatial big data analytics on a human scale for fair and sustainable societies.
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/digital-geography-lab
Ayşegül Kayaoğlu @aysegulkayaoglu.bsky.social Researcher on migration, political economy, labour economics, conflict and development economics @University of Bremen/ #FirstGen / RT≠endorsement
Christopher Blair @chriswblair.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Princeton Politics | Ph.D. at UPenn | Alum at UVA | Borders, Militancy, Forced Displacement, Climate Change, Foreign Policy
http://www.chriswblair.com
Grant W. Turner @grantwturner.bsky.social Aspiring interdisciplinary international affairs scholar-practitioner
R. Assoc. @stimsoncenter.bksy.social
Analyst Jamestown Foundation
Bylines include RUSI, The Diplomat, Eurasia Daily Monitor
Shares, articles etc ≠ endorsement/reflect employer
Josef Mühlbauer @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him.
Author of Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918 (Bloomsbury 2026)
Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social Political theorist, political geographer, now mainly write on the history of ideas. Professor at University of Warwick, work on territory, Foucault, Lefebvre and new project on Indo-European thought in C20th France. https://progressivegeographies.com
Francesca Chiu @francescachiu.bsky.social Researcher & lecturer at CityU Hong Kong. PhD from Copenhagen & UEA. I study urban planning, property, citizenship, migration and social mobility in Southeast Asia.
Lupita Chavez @lupitachavez.bsky.social UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Global Policy & Strategy and the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies @UCSD | PhD from University of Oxford | Migration governance, qualitative methods, & social movements
Website: https://www.drguadalupechavez.com/
Annika PH @annikapha.bsky.social Post doc in Anthropology at SDU. Into borders, fences, environmental humanities and security. Also interested in all things extraterrestrial 🌑.
Marcus Power @marcusjpower.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography @ Durham University. The geopolitics-development nexus | China-Africa relations | South-South flows | energy & infrastructural geographies
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/marcus-power/
Luc Leboeuf @lucleboeuf.bsky.social Researcher on migration and EU law. Currently FRS-FNRS researcher @universitedeliege.bsky.social and Visiting Professor @UCLouvain. Previously head of research group @mpisocialanthro.bsky.social. Latest book: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69808-8
David Khoudour @davidkhoudour.bsky.social Senior Development Economist & Human Mobility Expert – Migration & Forced Displacement
Morse College Fellow @Yale.edu | PhD Economics @sciencespo.bsky.social | Fulbright Program alumnus @UCBerkeleyofficial.bsky.social
Ex @UNDP.org @OECD-OCDE.bsky.social
Anna-Lisa Müller @annalytika.bsky.social geographer & sociologist interested in migration and urban developments | academic | views are my own | www.annalisamueller.de
Sarah Frenking @sarahfren.bsky.social historian interested in borders, police, gender, sexuality, crime, and 'deviant mobilities' | TT assistant professor of modern European history @University of Geneva
https://www.unige.ch/lettres/istge/enseignants-chercheurs/frenking-sarah
Geopolitics Journal @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social An international and interdisciplinary journal on geopolitics
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fgeo20
Norma Schemschat @drnorma.bsky.social Researcher curious about all things urban and migration | Research Lead for >FuturMig< (Futures of Migration) @ IMIS (Uni Osnabrück) | Interested in future-making in peripheralized places, autonomy-building, and place-making
Eleanor Paynter @eleanorbpaynter.net critical refugee studies, Mediterranean migration, testimony, crisis, new project on protection | asst prof @ UOregon
book: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/emergency-in-transit/paper
website: https://eleanorbpaynter.net/
Cushla Donaldson @cushla-donaldson.bsky.social PhD socio-legal studies @Leiden Law School NL. Border justice. Artist protecting her practice from obvious perils of privatisation.
Megan Denise Smith @megandenisesmith.bsky.social Humanitarian practitioner & independent consultant based in BCN (She/Her) | Posting on borders, migration, gender, violence, and sometimes music 🤘 | Personal account - views not those of any employer or client | RTs≠endorsements | megandenisesmith.com
Dr. Matt Herbert @drherbert.bsky.social Global Thematic Lead on Human Smuggling and Head of Research for North Africa and the Sahel at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
Jason Dittmer @realjdittmer.bsky.social Professor of Political Geography at UCL. Posting about geopolitics, popular culture, and cat memes
Simon Turner @simonturneranthro.bsky.social Professor of Social Anthropology, Lund University. Political anthropology, crisis, migration, anticipation, humanitarianism. Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya. Embarking on a project on preppers in Sweden.
Max Gallien @maxgallien.bsky.social Political Economy, Development, Informality, Tax, North Africa. Author, "Smugglers and States" (Columbia 2024). Research Fellow
IDS and ICTD. 💚🐧
Centre for Cross Border Cooperation @crossborder.bsky.social Armagh, Northern Ireland. Promoting research, information and support across borders on the island of Ireland, Europe, & beyond. Our Border People FLOW project is supported by PEACEPLUS, a programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body. crossborder.ie
Berfin Nur Osso @bossoloji.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at REBOUND project @helsinki.fi | migrant workers in green transition
LLD @helsinki.fi; MSocSc, Tampere; LLB, Koç | migration, borders, human rights, justice, socio-legal, visuality, #Cartoonist | portfoliosso.com
Dagmar Soennecken @dsoennec.bsky.social pub pol & law, refugee and migration prof, YorkU, Toronto, German, Canadian, editor-in-chief, Refuge: Canada‘s Journal on Refugees
Marcus Nicolson @mnicolson.bsky.social Post-Doc Researcher: Bolzano, 🇮🇹. From Shetland!
Interests:
- Migration politics, narratives, ontological security, borders, minorities, identities, ultracycling
Stephanie Leutert @sleutert.bsky.social Director of the Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative
@StraussCenter @UTAustin
Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien (ZOiS) @zois.bsky.social Independent, int., publicly funded research institute focusing on Eastern Europe & sharing the results with policymakers, media & public.
Site details: http://bit.ly/41AvEZC | Privacy policy: https://bit.ly/3FoYKnC
(Mural by Sasha Korban in Kyiv © IMAGO)
Paul Allison @paulallison.bsky.social Working with National Writing Project teachers and students to create Writing Partners writingpartners.net a social annotation platform that supports AI-guided writing, reading, and discussion. I'll be posting here about what we are learning together.
Julie Renaud @julieerenaud.bsky.social Research Fellow - Geopolitics @ChaireRaoulDandurand & @OPSArctique | @sciencePo_UQAM | Arctic, IR, Defense & Borders.
Haris Tsavdaroglou @tsavdaroglou.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Amsterdam |
critical geography, autonomy of migration, mobile commons, right to the city
Lisbeth Matzer @lisbethmatzer.bsky.social Historian - histories of: europe(s)+europ.integration / Facism+NS / youth / education / borderlands / consumption / wine / inequalities + Cultural Studies
Jacob Chamberlain @jacobchamberlain.bsky.social Author of "Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal," out now, UGA Press, March 2025.
Social justice, migration, theory, geography. Publications at link below.
https://linktr.ee/jacobchamberlain?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Kudakwashe Vanyoro @kudavan.bsky.social Lecturer, Anthropology, Wits University | Fellow, Cambridge University | Writing 📕 Can Migration Studies be Decolonized?
Elina Mosaddegh @eli-suggestions.bsky.social Industrial design on paper, digital rights in practice, now surviving essays one coffee at a time. Passionate about #borders and #migration issues. #SOASLife
Renato Galhardi @renatogalhardi.bsky.social Avid sci-fi enthusiast. A humanist and migration scholar. interested in transdisciplinary research. PhD in Social and Political Sciences. 😘
Theresa O'Keefe 🍉 @treesaw.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology. I write on feminism and conflict, state violence, gender and social movements, and academic precarity. She/her. 🍉
Veronica Øverlid @veronicaoverlid.bsky.social Researcher
@vidhogskole.bsky.social
migration | Central/North America | migrant caravans | human rights | refugee law
www.veronicaoverlid.com
Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw @cmr-warsaw.bsky.social One of the best #migrationresearch centres in Europe. We celebrated our 30th birthday in 2023
Patrick C. Lalonde, Ph.D. @proflalonde.bsky.social Faculty and BA Applied Criminology Program Coordinator at Douglas College. New Westminster Police Board provincial member. BC Association of Police Boards director. PhD from UWaterloo. Talk to me about borders. Human and K9 dad. Posts are my views only 🇨🇦
Fatmanur @fatmanurd.bsky.social PhD Candidate @BalsillieSIA & @Laurier | Global Governance | Border Studies, Migration, Gender, Solidarity
Francesco Marone @fmarone.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science UniVdA, Aosta, Italy.
Fellow / Associate ISPI, ICCT-The Hague, GWU–PoE.
Research and analysis on International Politics, Security, Violent Extremism.
Borders in Globalization Lab @big-lab.bsky.social Global research lab advancing border studies and policy, publishing open-access content, and training young scholars. @uvic.bsky.social #BIG_Review
Ngozi L. Uzomah, PhD @ngoziuzomah.bsky.social Migration, Borders, Refugees and Geography
Aino Korvensyrjä @ainokorvensyrja.bsky.social Antiracism, borders, deportation, policing, punishment, abolition, Germany, West Africa | University of Bristol, University of Helsinki |@migcontrol.bsky.social
Marine Duc @marineduc.bsky.social Assist. Prof. of geography. Université Reims Champagne Ardenne
Student Migration | Coloniality | Race | 🇬🇱🇩🇰
She/her
K Taplin @ktaplin.bsky.social PhD student (UOttawa)• STS • IR
🇿🇦 🇨🇦
Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/god-guns-and-sedition-far-right-terrorism-in-america/20097522?ean=9780231211222&next=t
Maxime Kaci @maximekaci.bsky.social Histoires d ici et d ailleurs, de frontières et de révolutions
Transnational Screens Journal @tscreensjournal.bsky.social International peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis, Transnational Screens welcomes submissions on any aspect of transnational film, television, streaming culture, and screen media practices.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rtrc21/
UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social The Department of Geography at the University of Florida works on geospatial AI, medical geography, earth systems, conservation and conflict https://geog.ufl.edu/
Sahel Research Group @ufsahelresearch.bsky.social The Sahel Research Group at the University of Florida is no longer active on Bluesky. Please follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook, or visit our website https://sahelresearch.africa.ufl.edu/
Camille Lefebvre @camillelefebvre.bsky.social Historienne
Directrice de recherche/Research professor CNRS-EHESS
Spécialiste du Sahara et du Sahel
19e-20e s.
PI ERC Langarchiv
https://langarchiv.hypotheses.org/
Kristof Titeca @kristoftiteca.bsky.social Professor @iobua.bsky.social, @uantwerpen.be
Senior Associate Fellow @egmontinstitute.bsky.social
Researching conflict, governance and geopolitics in Central & Eastern Africa
DRC / Uganda
www.kristoftiteca.com
Aharon deGrassi @adegrassi.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Geography, political economy of food, ag, rural development, Angola, DRC, California.
Political Geography @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
drdconlon @drdconlon.bsky.social researcher—immigration detention and destitution economies, borders—educator—urban and global studies—wannabe runner—m-dash lover.
Gillian Mathys @gillianmathys.bsky.social Historian of African Great Lakes | Associate Professor history @ugent | associate editor @CJAS_RCEA | Academic mom. I got very lucky.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/fractured-pasts-in-lake-kivus-borderlands/28EE1FFBB2BDDA8814964DD39656B959
Isabella @isabsoi.bsky.social Associate Professor in African Studies
Paul Nugent @nugybaby.bsky.social Professor of Comparative African History, prone to obsession with borderlands and wine. Proudly internationalist: from Cape Town, living in Edinburgh, worked a lot in West Africa (especially Ghana/Togo) and now creeping towards the Mediterranean.
Edoardo Baldaro @edoardobaldaro.bsky.social Associate professor at UNIPA (Italy), Sahel/West Africa, Peace & Conflict, Political Violence and International Interventions. I believe in beauty, Roberto Baggio, and the fact that Elon will not reach us here
Leonardo A Villalon @leonardovillalon.bsky.social Professor of African politics at the University of Florida
AfricapolisSWAC @africapolisswac.bsky.social www.africapolis.org
Africapolis is a research and data visualisation tool used to map, analyse and understand urbanisation in Africa. By @SWAC_OECD and Institut e-Geopolis.
Steven Radil @stevenradil.bsky.social
Carl Müller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social Human, Learner, Voyager, Citizen. Polisci research on the state, development, and conflict. Assistant Professor @ LSE Department of Government. Previously Oxford and ETH Zurich. http://carl.muller-crepon.com/