University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
Tomás Alonso @alonsotomas.bsky.social Human Rights & Attorney.
PhD | Postdoctoral Research in Law & Technology.
Professor, Researcher & International Evaluator.
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion @institute-si.bsky.social We are the first and the only human rights NGO dedicated to working on #statelessness at the global level.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/ISI_LinkTree
Kit Hung @kithung.bsky.social Filmmaking | Research | Secure Storytelling
Award-winning filmmaker, researcher and educator exploring memory, kinship and visibility. Postdoctoral Fellow @MFI, Goldsmiths, London. Founder of Secure Storyteller Network. He/they. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Lydia Powell @lydiapowell.bsky.social Co-production, migrant rights & community projects for social change
Membership Lead @ Together With Refugees
Advisory Board @ Creating Ground
www.lydiapowell.com
Views my own
Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
Latin American Women's Rights Service (LAWRS) @lawrsuk.bsky.social Specialist 'by and for' BME organisation. Over 40 years upholding Latin American & other migrant women's rights in the UK. Leading the #StepUpMigrantWomen coalition.
Migrant Futures Institute @migrantfutures.bsky.social Reimagining our world through migrant justice. Follow for research insights, events, partnerships, funding calls and opportunities. Based at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social
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
Humans for Rights Network @humansforrights.bsky.social Documenting rights violations as endured by humans subjected to hostile border regimes to ensure justice and accountability through casework and litigation.
Andrew Dunn @drdunnpoverty.bsky.social Academic. Publishing about poverty (new book out later in 2026 called 'Relative Poverty Re-examined'). Former Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Lincoln, #FreeSpeech
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social Critical sociology, criminology and anthropology at the University of Glasgow.
Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social Writer and researcher on platform inequality and the future of work. Lecturer at @umassamherst.bsky.social → tylerhoran.org
Bridget Byrne @bridgetbyrne8.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at @UoM Sociology, director of Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) @ethnicityUK
Juliet @julietollard.bsky.social Practitioner/Researcher - Citizen engagement with parliament
Rory O'Connell @rjjoconnell.bsky.social Professor of Human Rights & Constitutional Law, Posts on human rights, equality & constitutional law. Posting in personal capacity.
Dominik Schmitz @domschmitz.bsky.social Research Associate/PhD Candidate @cillas.bsky.social Center for Interdisciplinary Labour Law Studies, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.
Dr. Stephanie N. Shady @stephanienshady.bsky.social Political Science Lecturer @ WashU. National ID, migration, religion, political psych, Europe/U.S. Third-gen🇪🇬. UNC PhD, TCU alum. She/ella/elle/هي 🏳️🌈 Posts don't represent my employer.
IMISCOE - International Migration Research Network @imiscoe.bsky.social IMISCOE is the largest interdisciplinary scholarly network in the field of migration with 71 member institutes & 1500+ scholars.
It provides a platform for scholars throughout the world to get together in studying different migration topics.
🔗 imiscoe.org
Virginia Passalacqua @virgipassalacqua.bsky.social Researcher @University of Turin
EU law, migration, legal mobilization, law and society, anti-discrimination
ULBRecherche @ulbrecherche.bsky.social L'actualité des chercheuses et chercheurs de l'Université libre de Bruxelles.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Mark Burton @mbwrites.bsky.social Photographer, writer, Director for homeless charity. Spurs Women season ticket holder. Military history. Ally to LGBTQIA+
www.mburtonphoto.com
Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social University of Liverpool. Storytelling and identity; story-critical (and story-abstinent); migration; language, power and social inequalities.
I-CLAIM Project @iclaimeu.bsky.social I-CLAIM is a research project studying the living and working conditions of migrants with insecure legal status across six European countries.
Ryotaro Takahashi @ryotarot.bsky.social Associate Professor at Keio university.
Fiscal sociology, history of public finance in postwar Japan.
HP: https://researchmap.jp/RyotaroTakahashi?lang=en
Politics, Groups and Identities @pgi-wpsa.bsky.social Politics, Groups, and Identities is an official journal of the Western Political Science Association. Visit our homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpgi20
Catherine Ruth Craven @catherineruth.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield
Forthcoming book: Diaspora Governance in Practice (Bristol).
Emilien Fargues @emilienfargues.bsky.social Research Fellow @ulbruxelles.bsky.social | Associated Researcher @uvsq.bsky.social & @cevipof.bsky.social | Citizenship & Migration
OCE Lab @ocelab.bsky.social Our research seeks to uncover how people interact within civil society organizations and how those interactions can strengthen organizations, promote civic engagement, and improve the quality of life in communities.
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 🧉
The Foucault Forum @uocsocialsciences.bsky.social Critical voices on power, resistance & change.
Run by Social & Political Sciences, University of Chester.
Dr Paul French @drpaultjfrench.bsky.social Criminologist.
PhD: Moral Panic, Extremism & Conspiracy Theory.
Saying things that are mildly interesting
https://linktr.ee/PauliticalCorrectness
Nancy Evans @nancycevans.bsky.social Sociologist. Senior lecturer & course leader at Uni of Chester. Part of @socjustice-uoc.bsky.social. Qualitative & participatory research. Poverty, social (in)security, stigma, & social harm. Navigating academia & life with ADHD.
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Living Refugee Archive @livingrefarchives.bsky.social The Living Refugee Archive (www.livingrefugeearchive.org/) provides access to archival collections focusing on the lived experiences of migration. Linked to the University of East London Archives.
The Channel Monitoring Project @channelmonitoring.bsky.social Championing the rights of people crossing the Channel
Border Criminologies @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
Malkintrash @malkintrash.eurosky.social Eclectic personal brand, a poor fit for your TL guaranteed. He/him. Autonomist.
Reads Français / 中文 but posts on main in English
Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social Ex-historian of social and political thought (Cambridge, Birkbeck). Ex-Amazon (Alexa and AGI). Chief scientist at Mind Mage. LRB reader. 2025 side-mission: fighting global bias on Wikidata & Wikipedia.
"Only that which has no history can be defined"
Nick Fitzhenry @nickfitzhenry.bsky.social Postdoc at CAMPOP & King's College, Cambridge
PhD in Economic History, LSE.
nicholasfitzhenry.co.uk
Research: death, disease & doctors during Apartheid
Methods: Applied econometrics & historical demography.
Teaching: Industrial Rev., History of Middle East
Billy Goodwin @billygoodwin1.bsky.social PhD: Sociology, mass media, social theory, culture, online news, platform capitalism- N Nina Carlsson @ninaca.bsky.social Postdoc in Political Science, working on language requirements, citizenship, national minorities, migration, far right. Uppsala University & Migration Institute of Finland
Louise Edwards @ledw.bsky.social Academic, Asia-China-Australia
Giulia Gentile @gentilegiulia.bsky.social All things #EU + #AI + #FRs / Lecturer @EssexLawSchool / Prev.
@LSELaw, @KCL_Law & @lawinmaastricht / RT≠endorsement / lots of typos
Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social Public Historian/Prof; Voting rights, suffrage, & citizenship; 🗃️
On The Great Courses & Audible
Views=my own. On #TikTok
http://buymeacoffee.com/PhDRachel
Alex Hope @dralexanderhope.bsky.social Lecturer at UAM, Madrid. Linguist (metaphor, CLIL, conversation analysis, CDA), critical theorist (Malabou, Derrida, Deleuze, posthumanism, technicity) mountain biker, cat feeder
Arj Singh @arjsingh.bsky.social Deputy Political Editor, The i Paper
LUFC. arj.singh@inews.co.uk. Got a story, tip or just fancy a chat? DMs open.
Josef Mühlbauer @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social Sociologist/sociologue/soziologe of education (elites, geographies, social mobility, dreaming/fighting for another education).
Union rep UCU: organising in various capacities. Working/living in Durham/Newcastle mostly. https://linksta.cc/@Sol%20Gamsu
Matti Välimäki @mtaval.bsky.social Postdoc Researcher, Åbo Akademi University & University of Helsinki
#GATEproject: #Deportation in Finland/Nordic countries, ~1950-2025: https://shorturl.at/flvJL
Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matti-Vaelimaeki/research
Yi-Chen Huang @yi-chenhuang.bsky.social PhD, Edinburgh Law School
Fabian Gülzau @fguelzau.eurosky.social Researcher @svrmigration.bsky.social | research: migration, citizenship, borders, social inequality | 🔗 fguelzau.github.io
Lisa Marie Borrelli @louiserouge.bsky.social
Melissa Stewart @melissastewart.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law ~ University of Connecticut School of Law & Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute
Public International Law | Human Rights | Statelessness | Int’l Environmental Law
Simone Battiston @sbattiston.bsky.social Researching different aspects of Italian emigration, with a particular attention to the Australian context. Snr lecturer, history and politics @ Swinburne. He/him
Lucie Bargel @luciebargel.bsky.social
Dr. Lucy Mayblin @mayblin.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Sociology & Co-Director Migration Research Group, University of Sheffield, UK.
www.lucymayblin.com
www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-research-group
www.Channelcrossings.org
Thomas Verellen @tverellen.bsky.social EU Trade & Migration | Utrecht & ULB | Advocaat | www.thomasverellen.com
Alaitz Ayarza @alaitzayarza.bsky.social Applied Labor Economist
AP at UPV/EHU (Bilbao,Spain)
PhD from EUI
Davide Gritti @davgritti.bsky.social PostDoc Trento (IT) | PhD in Sociology | Family, wealth, health, life course | @csisunitn.bsky.social | https://sites.google.com/view/davidegritti/
@ecpr-migration.bsky.social @ecpr-migration.bsky.social Bluesky account of the ECPR Standing Group Migration and Ethnicity
Convenors: @danielavintila.bsky.social, Verena Wisthaler, Roberta Perna, @sumpierrez.bsky.social, Nawal Shaharyar.
https://ecpr.eu/Group/migration-ethnicity
Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli @patnabuco.bsky.social Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sheffield. Co-Director of the Migration Research Group
Sheffield Migration Research Group @sheffieldmrg.bsky.social Research on global migration and mobility from the Faculty of Social Sciences Migration Research Group at the University of Sheffield.
Website: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-research-group
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.
Scottish Detainee Visitors @sdvisitors.bsky.social Supporting people detained by the Immigration Service in Dungavel IRC and influencing policy on detention.
Thom Davies @thomdavies.bsky.social Associate Professor @UoNGeography | Geographer researching #ToxicGeographies and #Refugees | he/him | 📚 TOXIC TRUTHS book (2020) Editor at Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
Nicholas Allott @nicholasallott.bsky.social Linguist, Oslo Uni. Migrant. Cat bed. Pragmatics, related philosophy, politics and cat photos, not necessarily in that order. Neotenous, crepuscular and thigmotactic.
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
REGROUP @regroup-horizon.bsky.social Rebuilding governance and resilience out of the pandemic
Horizon Europe project 2022-25 | PI @pierotortola.bsky.social | Project closed in August 2025
www.regroup-horizon.eu/
Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social Researching everyday lives using creative qualitative methods. Based at @UoMSociology.bluesky.social
Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social Professor of Sociology & Faculty Affiliate, Committee on International Relations & Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, University of Chicago https://voices.uchicago.edu/juliango/
Loh Soon How @lohsoonhow.bsky.social PhD-ing at National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore • culture, citizenship, education, multiculturalism, nationalism, racialisation • lohsoonhow.com
Yajna Govind @yajnagovind.bsky.social Junior Prof Chair in Economics (Aix-Marseille School of Economics AMSE)
Working on migrants' integration (citizenship) & racial inequality
French, Mauritian
Fellow WIL & ICM
Research: Inequality & Migration |
PhD: PSE & INED
Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social they/them — international law, human rights, citizenship and migration law — feminist, queer and decolonial perspectives — personal account, opinions my own
Livia Elisa Ortensi @leortensi.bsky.social Demographer @ University of Bologna
Head of the Stat Unit @ ISMU Foundation - Milan
PI CERV-2022-DAPHNE DORA
Migration and Refugees Studies, Gender-based Violence, Traditional Harmful Practices, FGM/C, Fertility
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
Waltham Forest Migrant Action @wfmigrantaction.bsky.social Supporting migrants and refugees in Waltham Forest │ info@wfma.org.uk or campaigns@wfma.org.uk │ http://linktr.ee/wfma
Olivia Clark @ocrls.bsky.social Executive Director at Refugee Legal Support https://refugeelegalsupport.org/
Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture.
Sign up to the MUP newsletter & receive 30% off all orders.
https://linktr.ee/ManchesterUniversityPress
Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social Dog lover, writer, human rights supporter, yoga fan, political sociology, Ed in Chief Social Movement Studies, co-founder Interface, Democracy Reloaded (Oxford University Press), Prof. Global Studies, Aarhus U, PhD@UCBerkeley Book cover O. Calvo (crop)
Tom Pollard @pollardtom.bsky.social Head of Policy, Campaigns & Public Affairs at Mind | NHS Mental Health Social Worker | Previously at NEF & DWP | Views expressed here my own
EMRE KIZILKAYA @emrekizilkaya.bsky.social Ph.D. in Media & Communication | '24-'25 Carr-Ryan Center Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School | Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow '19 | IVLP Alumnus | IBM Certified AI Developer https://www.linkedin.com/in/emre-kizilkaya #Media #Humanities #AI #Data #Ethics
Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social Lecturer in Psychology at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. Does social psychology & qualitative methods, interested in identity in diaspora. Lives in Cork. Spends more time on the N20 than is good for me.
Laura Devine Immigration @lauradevinelaw.bsky.social Immigration lawyers based in London and New York providing strategic advice on all aspects of UK and US immigration.
Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero @sumpierrez.bsky.social Researcher @ipp-csic.bsky.social. Postdoctoral Fellow @TallinnUni. Co-Convenor at ECPR SG Migration & Ethnicity as well as @migcitpol.bsky.social. Interested in Migration, Citizenship & Elections.
Ellie Knott @ellieknott.bsky.social • Political scientist & Assoc Prof at Methodology, LSE
• identity & citizenship
• Moldova & Crimea 🇲🇩🇺🇦
• methodology & research ethics
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
APSA Preprints @apsa-preprints.bsky.social APSA Preprints is an open research platform that provides a home for early research outputs in political science and related fields. Free to submit, access, and download at preprints.apsanet.org.
Nils Fabian Müller @nilsfabianmueller.bsky.social PhD Candidate @LUISS, Political Science @FU_Berlin | Interested in International Political Sociology, (In-)Security, Migration, Euro-Mediterranean Relations & Football #SVW
Journal of Comparative Family Studies @journalcfs.bsky.social JCFS is an independent Journal celebrating 56 years of publication. We welcome manuscripts on traditional research, methods, theory, reviews & comparative and/or treatments of the cultural aspects of families & close relationships. 🇨🇦
CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social Researching racism, anti-racism and ethnic, racial and religious inequalities.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/codemcr
Website: http://www.ethnicity.ac.uk
University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social Researching and teaching sociology at The University of Manchester since 1964.
Links: https://linktr.ee/UoMSociology
Web: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/sociology
MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social Research center hosted by the University of Copenhagen's Law Faculty and funded by the Danish National Research Foundation https://mobilitylaw.ku.dk/
Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com The leading peer-reviewed journal for the analysis of race, #racism, ethnicity and #migration worldwide.
https://www.tandfonline.com/ERS
Renee Reichl Luthra @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