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.
Together With Refugees @refugeestogether.bsky.social Together With Refugees is the largest pro-refugee coalition in British history. We are dedicated to taking action for a fair, compassionate and well-managed plan for refugees. We believe that together we are stronger.
https://linktr.ee/togetherwithrefugee
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.
Justice for Migrant Workers @j4mw.bsky.social We are a grassroots community collective building a movement w/ #migrant #farmworkers since 2001 - contact us with inquiries j4mw.on@gmail.com - #migrantjustice #statusNow
Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social Researching, writing & teaching on immigration, LGBTQI+ rights, social movements, queer culture, art, film /// PhD Anthropology /// Editor Red Pepper magazine /// Book: Asylum for Sale
Migration and Technology Monitor @migrationtechmonitor.com Collective of people-on-the-move interrogating #BorderTech experiments ||🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇵🇸 🇪🇸|| IG: http://migration.tech || press@migrationtechmonitor.com||
Learn more: https://www.migrationtechmonitor.com
Incubated by @refugeelab.ca
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
Nik Tan @ndftan.bsky.social International #refugee law and policy.
Refugees @refugees.skyfleet.blue News curation about the plight of Refugees worldwide
- news - statistics - stories
updates in 🇬🇧🇫🇷
🆘 @skyfleet.blue
Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social Campaigning collaboratively, locally and nationally, to transform asylum in the UK.
Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social Sociologist & Computer Scientist
PI: @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Research Lead @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Research Lead @dairinstitute.bsky.social
🌐 milamiceli.com
Erica Hellerstein @ehellerstein.bsky.social Global human rights journalist | 2026-27 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow @umwallacehouse.bsky.social | Formerly senior immigration reporter @eltimpano.bsky.social + senior reporter @codastory.com |Bay Area-raised and CA forever|
www.ericahellerstein.com
Truth on Borders @truthonborders.bsky.social Educational coalition of climate justice and human rights campaigners exposing the Border & Surveillance industry worldwide.
Climate Justice = Migrant Justice
https://truthonborders.com
Franziska Grillmeier @grillmeier.bsky.social Journalist
Focus: Migration and forced displacement; EU borders & beyond // Climate and Water Crisis in Europe
Based on Lesvos and traveling beyond
contact.grillmeier@gmail.com
John Washington @jwashing.bsky.social Journalist and Translator.
Reporting for @lookoutnews.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
Petra Molnar @petramolnar.com #Bordertech ethnographies | Author of The Walls Have Eyes | @refugeelab.ca + @migrationtechmonitor.com, York | Faculty Associate with Berkman Klein Center, Harvard | She/ هي 🇵🇸🍉| https://petramolnar.com/
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
The Refugee Venture Fund @refugeeventurefund.bsky.social The UK's first VC fund exclusively for refugee-founded companies. By helping to correct an economic exclusion, we’ll be starting to unlock an untapped £5.1 billion for the UK economy.
Talk to us! hello@refugeeventure.fund
Darren Pinder @dmpinder.bsky.social Interested in politics, human rights, justice, and protecting asylum seekers. Agency owner by day 👉 vatu.dev
MiCLU @micluteam.bsky.social The Migrant and Refugee Children's Legal Unit based at Islington Law Centre. Working for the rights of migrant and refugee children and young people. https://miclu.org/
Refugee Law Clinic at the University of London @refugeelawclinic.bsky.social Award-winning Refugee Law Clinic based at the University of London with a focus on fresh claims for asylum in the UK. https://rli.sas.ac.uk/projects/refugee-law-clinic
Maria O’Sullivan @miniratne.bsky.social Law student. Patent pending inventor. Disability Advocate. Cats. Books. Memes. Puzzles. Not in that particular order. Be a decent human please.
Madeleine Sugden @madlinsudn.bsky.social Digital Impact Consultant. Helps charities with digital comms, content strategy and other things that follow. One half of @RadioLento.
Detention Action @detentionaction.bsky.social Human rights charity on the frontline of immigration detention in the UK, providing direct support and campaigning for change.
detentionaction.org.uk
linkin.bio/detention_action
@rainbowmigration.bsky.social @rainbowmigration.bsky.social We support LGBTQI+ people through the UK asylum and immigration system.
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
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
Ceri Oeppen @oeppen.bsky.social Geographer. Interests include: Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora; migration, return migration, refugees and asylum; gaming. Views my own.
Antonia Benfield @antoniabenfield.bsky.social Barrister. Immigration, human rights and public law @DoughtyStImm.bsky.social. Trustee @wlondonwelcome. Advisor @CounterArts.
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.
Griff Ferris @gferr1s.bsky.social Researching and organising against policing, criminalisation, the hostile environment and tech, data & surveillance // views my own
advocacy & campaigns @jcwi-uk.bsky.social
Join your local antiraids group: https://antiraids.net/local-groups/
he/him
Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social Writer. Global poetics+politics @SOAS|Books: Strangers (2026) Erasing Palestine (2023)The Persian Prison Poem (2021) Writers & Rebels (2016) 🇵🇸academic freedom| Non-aligned leftist rgould.substack.com rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
Oli Hawkins @olihawkins.com Editorial data scientist working on computational investigations for the visual and data journalism team at the Financial Times.
🌐 olihawkins.com
Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social Journalist at @tbij.bsky.social. I cover inequality, precarious work and migration.
You can contact me on emilianomellino@tbij.com
https://linktr.ee/emiliano.mellino
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/profile/emilianomellino
Mariña Fernández Reino @mfreino.bsky.social Sociologist at IEGD-CSIC (Spain) | Affiliated researcher at @COMPAS_oxford @MigObs @UniofOxford | she/her 🍉🕊️
Jim Robottom @jimrobottom.bsky.social Rights, wrongs & Talking Heads songs. Barrister @matrixchambers, phd @KCL_Law Views mine, not a burning building’s.
Darran Marshall @dmarshall.bsky.social BBC News NI
Politics Producer | Senior Journalist.
On Twitter @DarranMarshall
Based in Belfast / Tyrone
Sam Lowe @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social Trade policy. Partner @ Flint Global. Associate fellow @ Chatham House.
I have a Substack: https://mostfavourednation.substack.com
Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social The Centre for European Reform (CER) is an award winning think-tank, devoted to improving the quality of the debate on the EU.
London, Brussels, Berlin
Website: www.cer.eu
Podcast: soundcloud.com/cer_london/ Spotify: https://buff.ly/7aKvyUs
Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social Brighton-dwelling World Trade Editor at the Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/peter-foster
Sometime Brexit nerd & author of 'What Went Wrong with Brexit' https://t.co/VsIipD7JBr
Arabella Lang @arabellalaw.bsky.social Head of Public Law, Law Society of England & Wales
Associate, UCL Constitution Unit
Formerly Head of Research, Public Law Project; and treaties, international law, human rights, immigration, etc, House of Commons
Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social Public policy editor based in the Britain section at The Economist
Barry O'Leary @barryoleary.bsky.social Immigration & Nationality lawyer at Wesley Gryk Solicitors and Director of Micro Rainbow 🌈
Dominic Casciani @bbcdomc.bsky.social BBC News Home and Legal Correspondent. // Stories // Features // Analysis // Documentaries // The Mafia Man in the Lancashire Caravan: http://bbc.in/2UV2ILv
Linktree and contact details: https://linktr.ee/bbcdomc
Carl Baker @carlbaker.bsky.social Head of the Social and General Statistics team at the House of Commons Library in the UK Parliament. Personal account for posts on stats, maps, dataviz, games, travel, and misc.
Cassie Barton @cassierbarton.bsky.social House of Commons Library statistician. Interested in housing stats, demography, and data visualization.
Glottis @glottis.bsky.social
Inga Thiemann @ingathiemann.bsky.social Researches othered/feminised work and critical responses to human trafficking/modern slavery. What doesn’t count as work and why not?
Reader at Loughborough Law School.
Jules Birk @bizirker.bsky.social Immigrant rights | woso | elder-millennial mom of littles | lawyer | follower of Christ
overly enthusiastic by the most generous of standards
She/her
Minor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social Lost in Space
Roman (geographyquiz.app) @geographyquiz.app My name is Roman. Interests: Traveling, History, Economy, Languages (🇩🇪🇬🇧🇺🇲🇳🇱🇵🇱🇨🇳) and I make free map based geography learning games.
📍Frankfurt, Dortmund, Enschede, Cheltenham, Katowice, Jingdezhen
🗺️😎: https://geographyquiz.app/
Gareth Cooper @strangecolours.bsky.social Earth, Technoethics, Mental Health, Urban Communities • 🇪🇺🇺🇦 • GCU (eccentric)
Dr. Natalie Welfens @nwelfens.bsky.social Political Sociologist University Duisburg-Essen. Migration, refugee protection, EU external relations, IOs, gender, feminist approaches, practice theory. And cats. She/her.
Beste İşleyen @besteisleyen.bsky.social Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Amsterdam
President (2023-2025) of the European International Studies Association (EISA)
Editor at International Political Sociology
Kiteboarder 🤙🏽
Sophie Pornschlegel @sophiepornschlegel.bsky.social Political scientist & researcher
Senior Adviser EPC
Doctoral candidate Uni Maastricht
My book: https://www.droemer-knaur.de/buch/sophie-pornschlegel-am-ende-der-gewohnten-ordnung-9783426279090
WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social Transformations of Democracy unit at WZB Berlin - Director Daniel Ziblatt https://wzb.eu/en/research/dynamics-of-political-systems/transformations-of-democracy
Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social Analysis, insight and informed opinion on politics and public policy. https://politicalquarterly.org.uk
David Hartwell @davidhartwell.bsky.social Ex MoD/Jane’s now OSINT. Cornish and European. Music is life; Lifetime member of Jilted Generation; Spurs for life; views own; RT not endorsement.
The Society of Mediators @societyofmediators.bsky.social A Registered Charity - #Mediation, Peacemaking, Mindfulness, Listening; Education and Training; The Festival of Listening 2026. A Force for Good with over 500 members. www.societyofmediators.com
Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social Ungrateful Migrant | Geographer | UoGlasgow Migration, Africa, camp/carceral geographies, fugitivity, coloniality, humanitarianism, abolition. Views=own
Author: 📖 Occupied Refuge (Duke 2026)
Website: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/hannobrankamp/
Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Barrister. Speaking only for myself.
Schona Jolly KC @womaninhavana.bsky.social All sorts of reluctance. From there to here. Barrister. Writer. Flâneuse.
Law. Human rights. International affairs. Opinions mine.
Rickard Olseke @migration.se Independent Expert on European migration and asylum policy – based in Stockholm 🇸🇪
More at https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickardolseke
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
Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social Law prof in UK, and Australia (Exeter and Monash). Blogs on lawyers https://lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/ and PO Scandal https://richardmoorhead.substack.com/
Horizon Compensation Advisory Board. Plastic Geordie.
OBE
Alexander Horne @legalmusings.bsky.social Barrister. Commentator. Visiting Prof @ Durham University. Former parliamentary lawyer & special adviser UK Parliament (JCHR, EU, Women & Equalities; International Agreements). Musings on law, politics & restaurants . Personal views.
🇬🇧🇧🇪🇮🇱
📍LDN/BX
Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social PhD candidate at Queen's University Belfast. Looking at legislative drafting. Research Officer at the Northern Ireland Assembly. Looking at the Windsor Framework. Interested in devolution, public law, politics and climate change. He/him
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."
Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social Professor, CUHK Law | Visiting Professor, University of Leeds School of Law | Co-Editor-in-Chief, German Law Journal | Academic Associate, 23ES Chambers | Scot in Hong Kong, occasionally Yorkshire.
Brent J. Arnold @cyberlawyeryyz.bsky.social (He/Him) Trial & appellate lawyer / data breach coach/counsel, Toronto. Litigating commercial/tech/cyber/privacy/AI/Web3 disputes. Chair, Canadian Internet Society. Director, The Advocates' Society. I keep a file on you. https://www.capstanlegal.ca/
Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social Feminist lawyer, Classicist, barrister at No5 Chambers. She/her or They/them pronouns
Chai Patel @chaipatel.net Migration, human rights, public law. He/him.
Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social Deputy director, Centre for European Reform, London @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social . Supporter of democracy, the rule of law, the EU & Ukraine. Opponent of authoritarianism, corruption & Putin's Russia.
Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBTI+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. She/Her. I do policy, research & campaigns.
zoegardner.net
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
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.
Camino Mortera @caminomortera.bsky.social Associate fellow, CER. Scientific Council RI Elcano. Before, EU affairs for Spain's Prime Minister. Unsuccesfully trying to head EU things, now from Rwanda.
Rob Aitken @robaitken.bsky.social Anthropologist at York Politics. Processes of identity change esp before, during and after conflict. Left politics, climate change, renewable energy, live in self-build Passivhaus Plus.
Lorand Bartels @lorandbartels.bsky.social Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge
Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social Human Rights Lawyer
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Emma Norris @emmanorris.bsky.social Deputy CEO @ippr.org. Chair of Young Women’s Trust. Former deputy and now senior fellow @instituteforgovernment.org.uk. Think tanker. Westminster watcher. Progressive. Walthamstow resident. 🏳️🌈
Martin David Kelly @martindavidkelly.bsky.social I teach public law at the University of Glasgow and my research focuses on law and its relationship to language. I love dogs! 🐶♥️ Usual caveats.
Connie Lahiff @connielahiff.bsky.social PhD researcher. Immigration/ asylum, bureaucracies, opaque institutions
Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com UK news editor, Financial Times. I write some of the headlines. I also wrote a book, How to Love Animals. https://www.ft.com/henry-mance
Siân Pearce @sianp.bsky.social Public law solicitor, horror researcher.
"Gary Sherman's Nemesis" (Abertoir, 2023)
https://linktr.ee/SianP
Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Law at Northumbria Law School • Refugee law/irregularised migration • Co-founder of the Human Trafficking Research Network
Prof. Chris Ashford @lawandsexuality.bsky.social Professor of Law + Society Northumbria University. Deputy Faculty Pro Vice Chancellor R&KE. Queer theorist. Research: sex, sexuality and law. Also interested in HE policy & strategy. 🏠/🏢 Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. 🏳️🌈He/Him.
Therese Herrmann @theresehmann.bsky.social Advocacy Manager Germany at International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) | Safe and Legal Pathways for Refugees | views my own
Taku Tamaki, PhD 🎌🇬🇧🌏🚄😷 @takutamaki.bsky.social Political Scientist at Loughborough University, specializing in International Relations of East Asia & Japan's foreign relations. Also exploring applying the ideas of Watsuji Tetsuro to IR theorizing. And a soft spot for railways.
Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social Foreign correspondent, columnist, campaigner, co-founder Africa Express, citizen of the world and a bit more besides…
Daniel Morales @lawprofmorales.bsky.social Professor @UHLaw, Immigration Theorist, Boricua, Dad. Op-eds @nytimes & @wapo (he/him/él)
Mark Vaughan @markcvaughan.bsky.social Campaigning for migrant rights, environment & biodiversity, PR. Write and edit a bit for @centralbylines.co.uk
Yulia Ioffe @yuliaioffe.bsky.social Associate Professor in Law @UCL
Public international law, children’s rights, forced migration, treaties, Ukraine
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/84647-yulia-ioffe
adriana romer @adrianaromer.bsky.social Lawyer @ Swiss Refugee Council (Schweizerische Flüchtlingshilfe SFH)
Board member of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE)
Migration, Dublin Regulation, Europe.