Sophie Barnes @sophiebarnes.bsky.social Senior Journalist at Channel 4 Dispatches. Formerly in the Telegraph's investigations team
Paula Barker MP @paulabarkermp.bsky.social Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree. Co-Chair of Ending Homelessness All Party Parliamentary Group
Noah Keate @noahkeate.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. Sunday Crunch Author for @politico.eu. Loves cats, Edinburgh, 'The Archers', trains and Earl Grey Tea. Email: nkeate@politico.co.uk
Caroline Slocock @carolineslocock.bsky.social Director of think tank Civil Exchange, expert on government and civil society, political commentator, ex senior civil servant and Private Secretary to two PMs, author of People Like Us and Bad Government, published 30 June. Also on X.
Ben Gartside @bengartside.bsky.social Investigative Reporter for The House magazine and others. Politics, Policy, Business, News. Email: Bengartsidewriter@gmail.com
Thom Brooks @thombrooks.bsky.social Professor of Law, Ethics & Government and Principal of Collingwood College, Durham University. Citizenship & immigration policy — evidence cited across the 2026 Lords report on settlement, citizenship & integration. Commentator: BBC • Sky • CNN.
Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social Barrister, blogger and author of Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System. Fully updated paperback out now.
Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
European Commission @ec.europa.eu News and information from the European Commission. Social media and data protection policy: http://europa.eu/!MnfFmT
Michael Clemens @mclem.org Economist and professor at School of Government & Policy, Johns Hopkins University. Fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics, IZA, CReAM, CGD. Assoc. Editor JEP. Personal views only.
Web: http://mclem.org
ORCID: 0000-0003-1354-0965
Chris Bertram @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.
UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social UK in a Changing Europe is an academic think tank providing impartial, research-based analysis of the critical issues facing the UK.
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/
Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk “Well-known tweeting Barrister” Bar Council “Popular anonymous Barrister” Daily Mail “Possibly cabin crew” my neighbour
Adam Wagner KC @adamwagner1.bsky.social Barrister specialising in human rights, public law and public inquiries. Views my own https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers/adam-wagner
Thangam Debbonaire @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social CEO UK Opera Association.
Cellist. Various boards.
Labour Member, House of Lords.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thangamdebbonaire
Stephanie DeGooyer @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social prof at UNC
⚽️getting REALLY into professional women's soccer ⚽️
Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social Immigration and asylum law. All views my own but reposts not endorsement. Refugees welcome🧡. Green Party member💚. Trans 🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights. He/him.
"Lawyers have hitherto only interpreted the law. The point however is to change it."
Daniel Trilling @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
Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social Borders | ontosec | migration | citizenship
Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social Associate Professor of Public Law and Legal Theory @lawatleeds.bsky.social, author of 'The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law' (Hart 2022), Open Access at
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4562656#
Joelle Grogan @joellegrogan.bsky.social Presenter #TheLawShow @ BBC Radio 4 | Co-Academic Director #RuleofLaw Clinic @ CEU Democracy Institute | Visiting Senior Research Fellow @UCD Sutherland School of Law
Maria Sobolewska @profsob.bsky.social Professor of Political Science at Manchester University. British politics, race and ethnicity, representation.
Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social Human Rights Lawyer
CJ McKinney @cjmckinney.bsky.social Parliamentary adviser on immigration and asylum. Child of the Common Travel Area. Views, if any, are my own. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/authors/cj-mckinney/
Free Movement @freemovement.bsky.social Updates, commentary and analysis on UK immigration and asylum law. Sign up to our weekly email newsletter here: http://bit.ly/2yNDl3r.
Alison Harvey @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. Views my own. Unafraid.
Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social I do refugee and asylum policy at the Refugee Council, so most likely a lot of the posts will be about that.
Nando Sigona @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
Sonia L @sonial77.bsky.social Immigration lawyer about town. Migrant. Queer. She/her. Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/thoughtsonimmigration
Catherine Briddick @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.
Jonathan Kingham @jonkingh.bsky.social Immigration stuff mainly. Failed drummer. Apparently I can "f*** right off". Qué arte tienes.
Jonathan Potts @uccellolirico.bsky.social I post mainly about politics, especially immigration and asylum, and the arts, especially music and sometimes poetry. Ex-civil service and volsec. HO Asylum Director 1996-2000, plus ça change.
Gabriel Tan @finishedloading.bsky.social Public lawyer @admincourtblog.bsky.social
Asylos @asylos.bsky.social Research for asylum ⁞ we investigate human rights abuses to help asylum lawyers and NGOs defend refugees #proofnotprejudice
Help us defend asylum - https://asylos.org/
Reunite Families UK @rfuk.bsky.social Fighting the UK’s harsh family immigration rules: the Government can't dictate who we can love in the UK
Join us to say:
Families Belong Together!
www.reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk
hello@reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk
DSC Immigration Team @doughtystimm.bsky.social Immigration team at Doughty Street Chambers. Human Rights specialists with a reputation for excellence in asylum and immigration matters.
Keelin McCarthy @keelinmccarthy.bsky.social Barrister One Pump Court Chambers
Laura Taylor @laura-taylor.bsky.social Director of The RAMP Project. Interested in a better public debate on immigration and asylum.
Jasmine Quiller-Doust @jasminedoust.bsky.social Editor of Free Movement
Ian Robinson @ianrobbo.bsky.social I will mostly post about economic and business migration and Liverpool FC
Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social Campaigning collaboratively, locally and nationally, to transform asylum in the UK.
Brian @briandikoff.bsky.social Chair of trustees at HMSC and trustee at LAG. Views my own.
Forced Migration Review @fmreview.bsky.social We are Forced Migration Review, a world-renowned publication based at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.
www.fmreview.org
Siân Pearce @sianp.bsky.social Public law solicitor, horror researcher.
"Gary Sherman's Nemesis" (Abertoir, 2023)
https://linktr.ee/SianP
Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social migration & equality, law & politics | lawyer | cis | he/him | @DoughtyStImm.bosky.social | ex-Open Society Foundations | my views obvs, not doughty st | large photo Paul Trevor, 1978, Brick Lane
Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social We support women seeking safety in the UK to rebuild their lives on their own terms.
www.refugeewomen.co.uk
#WelcomeEveryWoman #SetHerFree #SistersNotStrangers
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social Asylum Rights Campaigning. Migrant & Human Rights advocacy. She/Her 🏳🌈 🧡
AVIDdetention @aviddetention.bsky.social Membership network for volunteer visitors to immigration detention. Helping those detained in removal centres, STHF & prisons across UK.
Nicola Palmer @nicolapalmer.bsky.social Legal academic at the University of Cape Town - an ethnographer at heart, writing on international criminal law, borders, refugees & migration in central Africa.
Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social We're one of the largest providers of free immigration advice in London. We give advice, provide support, and campaign so that migrants & refugees in the UK can live with safety, dignity & respect.
https://linktr.ee/praxis_uk
@rainbowmigration.bsky.social @rainbowmigration.bsky.social We support LGBTQI+ people through the UK asylum and immigration system.
Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social Fighting for human rights across UK & the world 🌍 follow for activism & news. Amnesty UK (Charitable Trust & Section).
http://amnesty.org.uk/
Antonia Benfield @antoniabenfield.bsky.social Barrister. Immigration, human rights and public law @DoughtyStImm.bsky.social. Trustee @wlondonwelcome. Advisor @CounterArts.
Graham Denholm @gdenholmlaw.bsky.social Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers. All views my own. https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers/graham-denholm
Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social Professor of migration law, based in Leicester. For social equality, multiculturalism and anti-colonialism. Now more than ever.
https://le.ac.uk/people/bernard-ryan
Kate Roberts @k8roberts.bsky.social Migration, migrant rights, labour rights, labour exploitation, anti-trafficking
Luke Piper @lukepiper.bsky.social Solicitor. Head of Immigration at the Work Rights Centre. All things U.K. immigration law / policy mainly. Yorkshireman in Bristol. Views my own.- J John Vassiliou @johnvassiliou.bsky.social
Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social Legal academic at Durham University, researching labour law and human rights with a focus on domestic workers, other marginalised workers and issues of gender and migration. Trustee for migrant domestic worker NGO Kalayaan. She / her
Katharina Natter @knatter.bsky.social assistant professor @LeidenUniv | comparative politics & migration policies | North Africa, Latin America & Europe | board member @Asylos | always dancing
Zofia Duszynska @duszdemon.bsky.social Asylum, human rights and civil liberties lawyer #Legal500 UK
Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social Brighton- based consultant specialising in refugees and migration in UK and EU, evaluations etc.
Alex Piletska @alexinlaw.bsky.social Senior associate at Vanessa Ganguin Immigration Law. Contributing author to Free Movement and LexisNexis. Ranked in the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners. All views are my own.
Zrinka Bralo @zrinka.bsky.social Organiser for Solidarity, Dignity and Justice.
Bluesky words are my own, and always will be!
www.migrantsorganise.org
Refugees at Home @refugeesathome.bsky.social We connect people with a spare room in their home to refugees and people seeking asylum who are in need of somewhere to stay.
www.refugeesathome.org
@finnianclarke.bsky.social @finnianclarke.bsky.social Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers.
Inger den Haan @ingerdhimmigration.bsky.social Immigration adviser at Freedom from Torture, but all views and posts my own.
Single mum and carer of teen wheelie.
Believer, gardener, walker and archaeologist.
Barry O'Leary @barryoleary.bsky.social Immigration & Nationality lawyer at Wesley Gryk Solicitors and Director of Micro Rainbow 🌈
Milla Walker @millawalker.bsky.social Immigration, HR and public law solicitor. Legal Aid long-hauler.
Cinema-phile and amateurish horticulturist.
Mark Henderson @markhenderson.bsky.social Media and human rights barrister at Doughty Street Chambers.
Chair of The Bar Council Disability Panel.
Board, Spinal Injuries.
Ambassador, ParaPride.
Views my own (he/him)
https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers/mark-henderson
Mike P @mmiikkeepp.bsky.social Immigration & public law solicitor
Dr Jo Wilding @jowilding.bsky.social Legal aid geek, researcher and associate professor at Sussex University, author of 'The Legal Aid Market' (Policy Press), lawyer, mum, athletics obsessive, ex clown.
Djordje Sredanovic @djsredanovic.bsky.social Sociologist - citizenship/Brexit/migration/media/raceðnicity/work
Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Chester/collaborateur scientifique at GERME laboratory, Université libre de Bruxelles
Heather Rolfe @heather-rolfe.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @britishfuture.bsky.social
Mostly interested in immigration, employment, migrants’ new lives in UK and public attitudes
Mariña Fernández Reino @mfreino.bsky.social Sociologist at IEGD-CSIC (Spain) | Affiliated researcher at @COMPAS_oxford @MigObs @UniofOxford | she/her 🍉🕊️
Ben Brindle @benbrindle.bsky.social Senior Researcher at the Migration Observatory, University of Oxford. #itfc fan, for my sins.
For media enquiries, please contact Rob McNeil.
Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social International #refugee law and policy.
Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social Professor of Criminology, @oxfordcrim.bsky.social, co-Director @bordercrim.bsky.social, writes about immigration detention and deportation.
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 🌵
Migrants' Rights Network @migrantsrights.bsky.social Migrants’ Rights Network is a UK campaigning charity that stands in solidarity with all migrants in their fight for rights and justice.
https://linktr.ee/migrantsrightsnetwork
Migrant Voice @migrantvoice.bsky.social We are a migrant-led national organisation empowering migrants to speak out, challenge perceptions and change public debate, in the media and to policymakers. Offices in London, Glasgow and Birmingham.
IRIS @irisbirmingham.bsky.social The Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham, UK. Director: Prof @nandosigona.bsky.social
web: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/iris
blog: https://superdiversity.net
Daniel Rourke @danlrourke.bsky.social Legal aid lawyer, runner and access to justice fan.
Adrian Berry KC @berryadrianc.bsky.social Barrister, British nationality law, statelessness, free movement, EU mobility, asylum, immigration, social welfare, education, public law Nationality blog: https://tinyurl.com/mwyx28es Migration blog: https://tinyurl.com/4p3hjchy
Bronwen Manby @bronwenmanby.bsky.social Nationality, statelessness, identification, human rights; Africa & international. Affiliations: @globalcit.bsky.social @icws-sas.bsky.social @lseid.bsky.social
https://citizenshiprightsafrica.org/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bronwen-Manby/research
Migration Observatory @migobs.bsky.social The Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford provides independent, authoritative, evidence-based analysis on UK migration.
Aleks Lewicki @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
Jed Pennington @jedcpennington.bsky.social Partner, joint head of public law & human rights, Wilson Solicitors London
https://www.wilsonllp.co.uk/our-people/jed-pennington
Sara Nathan @scnathan.bsky.social One-time broadcast journalist. Now three jobs; four charities. OBE for fairness. Mostly posting on asylum-seekers/refugees with some food, family & west London matters.
Jake Puddle @jakepuddle.bsky.social Director of Research at British Future
Interested in migration, cohesion and countering the far-right
Aspen Institute Fellow
Charlotte O'Brien @cobrien.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of York (she/her). Social security; EU law; discrimination; migration; social justice.
Refugee Studies Centre @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
Vicky Taylor @vickytaylor.bsky.social writing about the UK's criminalisation of asylum seeking · border criminologies · otherwise found in cold water somewhere
Captain Support UK @captainsupportuk.bsky.social Resisting and documenting the criminalisation of movement
https://linktr.ee/captainsupportuk
Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social Director of Stand For All, freelance policy and comms specialist, posting predominately about immigration/asylum and trans/non-binary policy and rights, along with general rantings. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
Wilson Solicitors LLP @wilsonsolicitors.bsky.social We are an award winning law firm that believes in justice for all. Immigration, family, human rights, public law, and civil liberties is what we do.
We are ranked in the Legal 500 and Chambers and have a consistent 4.9 star rating on Google.
Migration Mobilities Bristol @mmbuob.bsky.social Faculty Research Centre @universityofbristol 📚 New thinking on people, movement and social justice 🚀 Blogs, podcasts, conversations. Visit us at https://migration.bristol.ac.uk/
Madeleine Sumption @msumption.bsky.social Director of Migration Observatory @ University of Oxford. I research migration policy, mostly in the UK