MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social Historically inaccurate
He/him
https://www.mooseallain.co.uk
Samira Shackle @samirashackle.bsky.social Freelance journalist (mostly for the Guardian Long Read) and author of Karachi Vice. I am also on Substack @samirashackle.
Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social Author of ‘Borderlines’ (Hodder, 2024) and previously Reggie Maudling, John Major. Psephologist, cat ‘owner’, flâneur. Against cruelty, which used to be a consensus position. https://www.hodder.co.uk/titles/lewis-baston/borderlines/9781399723763/
Cllr Martin Abrams @martinabrams.bsky.social Dad, Husband, Trade Unionist, Councillor.
Promoted by Kevin Brown on behalf of Martin Abrams (Green Party), at PO Box 78066, London
Shaina Sangha @shaina-sangha.bsky.social Researcher in public services team and formerly public finances @instituteforgovernment.org.uk.
Interested in immigration and asylum policy, and policymaking for groups historically underserved by the state.
Former parliamentary staffer.
Lara 'Challah Black Girl' M @blewishand.bsky.social Black, Jewish, British, mother, friend & everything else beautiful in between. Living with an open heart.
Blewish cockney version of Hillel.
Occasional rants.
Charlotte Pickles @charliepickles.bsky.social Director @re-state.bsky.social; all things State and public services.
Debbie Weekes-Bernard @debbieweekesb.bsky.social Deputy Mayor of London for Communities & Social Justice, Chair of Praxis, formerly at JRF and Runnymede Trust - racial justice, anti-poverty, gender, equity. She/her. Views my own
Tony Vaughan KC MP @tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social Proud to be the Labour MP for Folkestone, Hythe and Romney Marsh.
Follow me on Instagram @tonyvaughanmp
Immigration Bot @immigrationbot.bsky.social Automated updates about UK immigration and asylum stuff from select sources, curated by @colinyeo.bsky.social. Includes AI generated summaries for some sources.
London Centric @londoncentric.media A modern news outlet for London, covering the city in the old-fashioned way. Edited by @jim.londoncentric.media. Subscribe now for a 25% discount: www.londoncentric.media
Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
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
John Bull @garius.bsky.social He/Him. Writer. Historian. Host of "The Untitled History Podcast." Strategy streamer. Tech Strategist. Founding Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Business/Writing: business@longformist.co.uk. Agent: @pastpreservers.bsky.social
Kate Smart @katesmart321.bsky.social CEO @settled.bsky.social
Views here my own.
Dr Laura @laurasocres.bsky.social Lecturer: Researcher
Sociology (education, community sports) & Social Policy.
Collaborative & Creative Research Methods.
Spurs Fan. Mum of 3. ND.
Anti-Racist & Intersectional Feminist
Views my own. like/share ≠ endorse. #CeaseFire
Lucy Nabijou @lucynabijou.bsky.social Migrant rights, music, cats, free Palestine. She/her.
Co-founder @HaringeyWelcome
#NoSmallVictories podcast: http://spoti.fi/3XlNsog
Living with MS
Em Hilton ✡️💇🏼♀️🔥 @emhilton.bsky.social Organiser and Campaigner | Co-Founder @naamoduk | words in @vogue @972Mag and elsewhere | LDN | She/Her
Nick Beales @nickbeales.bsky.social Head of Campaigning at Refugee and Migrant Justice
Views own (or nabbed from others)
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/- J James Bowes @jamesbowes01.bsky.social
@amreenqureshi.bsky.social @amreenqureshi.bsky.social Research Fellow - Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) | Working on Migration and Race.
@marleymorris.bsky.social @marleymorris.bsky.social 
Scott Compton @scottcompton.bsky.social Senior policy advisor at Action for Children
Albert Arcarons Feixas @aarcarons.bsky.social Sociologist | Senior researcher at the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS) | Interested in poverty, inequality and migration 🍉
“Is this how hope is lost, […] by becoming indifferent to the truth?” L.Y.
👨🏻💻 https://me.eui.eu/albert-arcarons
Janey Starling @janeystarling.bsky.social Co-director of Level Up. Abolitionist, feminist, trade unionist and writer on a mission to end imprisonment of pregnant women and mothers.
welevelup.org
Peray Ahmet @perayahmet.bsky.social Leader of Haringey Council. Councillor for Noel Park. Trade unionist. Casework enquiries to: peray.ahmet@haringey.gov.uk
Melissa Weihmayer @mweihmayer.bsky.social Researcher at Oxford's Centre for Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), studying and supporting a welcoming UK.
Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity and Resistance Network @migrationscholars.bsky.social We are a network of scholars, teachers, students and activists standing in active solidarity with migrants and refugees everywhere.
Ricky @paddington82.bsky.social 🇵🇪🇺🇸📍Londres
Alex Clegg @alexclegg.bsky.social Senior Economist at the Resolution Foundation, focusing on social security, poverty and living standards
Heloise Dunlop @hcdunlop.bsky.social Researcher on the civil service team at the Institute for Government, formerly worked in public sector digital delivery and strategy. Views my own.
Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social Researching immigration control in 17C England, and what it tells us about citizenship now and then. Co-convenor @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar
kabcommons [at] gmail [dot] com
Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social Founder & Principal, Crosscurrent Capital. Queasy metropolitan liberal. “Economist” -
@t0nyyates. Starting something new. tomas.hirst[at]crosscurrentcapitallimited.com
https://crosscurrentcapitallimited.com/
Amber Dellar @amberdellar.bsky.social Researcher, public services @instituteforgovernment.org.uk. Focusing on schools and local government, particularly children's social care and homelessness. She/her
Stuart Hoddinott @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social Associate Director in the public services team
@InstituteforGov. Interested in the NHS, adult social care, and local government. All views my own. He/him
PSA Local Politics & Governance Specialist Group @psalocalpol.bsky.social We are the Local Politics & Governance Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association (@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social)
Web: www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/local-politics-and-governance
Enver Solomon @enversol.bsky.social CEO Refugee Council. Proud Mancunian. Proud internationalist.
@bethgardiner-smith.bsky.social @bethgardiner-smith.bsky.social 
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Dr Franca Roeschert @froeschert.bsky.social Research Fellow @c4research | Communities, Migration, Sanctuary, Participation, Citizenship | Ex. @theyoungfdn & @youthendowmentfund
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co researcher, writer, projects georg. currently: editor, indevelopmentmag.com; writer, laurenpolicy.com.
Becka Kay McCusker @beckakaymcc.bsky.social Associate Director of Migration Policy Scotland @migrationscotland.bsky.social
Researcher, mum, clarinet-playing multilingual cat-lover.
Esa Aldegheri @esaldegheri.bsky.social 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿 - of migration, journey and integration
Leverhulme EC Fellow, University of Glasgow
𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿 - of travel books and poetry
Free To Go (John Murray 2022), There She Goes (Saraband 2025)
𝗪𝗮𝘆𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗿 - migration is life
Maudie Johnson-Hunter @maudiejh.bsky.social Economist at Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Views are my own. She/Her
@qar-netcare.bsky.social @qar-netcare.bsky.social 
Dr Millie Light @milliemaglet.bsky.social Academic researcher on Changing Realities, University of Glasgow and Centre for Arts and Health, Falmouth University. Interested in precarity, critical wellbeing and intersections of social and ecological (in)justice
Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social Public policy professor at the Hobby School. Enthusiastic about food, dogs, travel, and research. I write books about many failures of local democracy. Bad opinions my own.
GRABS - Growing Up Across Borders @ercgrabs.bsky.social GRABS is a five year ERC funded project exploring the lived experiences of young people in situations of forced migration. Visit our website to know more about the project and the team.
https://erc-grabs.univ-paris8.fr
Dr Izzy Morrell @izzymorrell.bsky.social Researching borders, migration, asylum, belonging, resistance in UK, Greece & France @ercgrabs.bsky.social | Postdoc @univ-paris8.fr | Politics PhD @manchester.ac.uk (not that kind of doctor)
Abby Jitendra @abbyabhaya.bsky.social Policy Director at ThinkLabour thinking about how progressives can win. Prev JRF, Citizens Advice, Trussell Trust. Views always my own.
Prof Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson @profayebkarlsson.bsky.social Professor of Intersectional Justice @ucl.ac.uk
#violence #entrapment #immobility #humanrights #law #migration #climatechange #trafficking #children #women
UCL profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/87069-sonja-ayebkarlsson
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
Asylum Welcome @asylumwelcome.bsky.social Supporting asylum seekers, refugees, and vulnerable migrants in Oxfordshire.
🤝 We provide information, advice, practical support, and solidarity.
❤️ Powered by your compassion: https://www.asylum-welcome.org/donate
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).
Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com "Leftwing professor" - in other words, researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics
Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social
Publications etc 👇🏻
https://aurelmondon.com/
@tamsin-k.bsky.social @tamsin-k.bsky.social 
United Impact @unitedimpactuk.bsky.social A community group of people with lived experience of No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF), coming together to raise awareness and create positive change.
Nicola Hill @nichill.bsky.social Co-Director, Trauma Foundation South West. For freelance work : www.nicolahill.com
Manoj Dias-Abey @mdiasabey.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Bristol School of Law | Socio-legal scholar interested in labour law, migration & political economy. Views my own.
Lewisham Refugee and Migrant Network (LRMN) @lrmn.bsky.social Empowering refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants through advocacy, campaigning, wellbeing and emergency support 🧡
🔗 linktr.ee/lrmn
Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social Political journalist & broadcaster |
Westminster Editor at the Lead UK |
Presenter on Fubar Radio |
Chatting on Oh God What Now |
Find my work and commission me here: https://www.zoegrunewald.com/
Better Health & Care Hub @betterhchub-kcl.bsky.social A world-leading initiative led by King's College London that is transforming the future of health and care.
Now posting here: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kings-better-hc-hub/
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/better-health-care-futures
CIRCLE @circleshef.bsky.social Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities, based at @SheffSocScience
Anti-Trafficking Review @atrjournal.bsky.social #OpenAccess, peer reviewed journal on #HumanTrafficking, #migration, #GBV, and precarious #labour. Published by @gaatw-is.bsky.social
https://antitraffickingreview.org
Rita Chadha @ritachadha.bsky.social Charities, Politics and Comedy - not always in that order 
@letiziapalumbo.bsky.social @letiziapalumbo.bsky.social 
Ilona Pinter @ilonapin.bsky.social Visiting Fellow #ChildPovMig @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social #FamilyFinances @uofgussp.bsky.social PhD @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social #childrights #asylum #immigration #NRPF #poverty #inequality Love strangers & islands https://linktr.ee/ypseekingsafety
Beth Watts-Cobbe @bethwcobbe.bsky.social Professor and Deputy Director @i-sphere.bsky.social Research homelessness, destitution, and social responses to them.
No Recourse North East Partnership @nrnepartnership.bsky.social Partnership group working on developing good policy and practice in relation to NRPF issues in the North East of Scotland
🔗 nrnepartnership.org
Molly Fee @molly-fee.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology
Former PPRF in Sociology, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Studying forced migration and refugee resettlement
https://www.mollyfee.com
ILPA @ilpaimmigration.bsky.social We are the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association. A charity and membership org seeking to empower members to provide the best possible advice and support for migrants, and collaboratively working to improve law, policy and practice. Hosts of the #SLF
CeLSIUS @celsiusnews.bsky.social Supporting research and researchers using the ONS Longitudinal Study - the largest longitudinal data resource for England and Wales.
✉️ email - celsius@ucl.ac.uk
🌐 website - https://buff.ly/4hFx9MC
🎙️ podcast - https://buff.ly/4125uQv 
Joseph Harrison @jharrison37.bsky.social Sociological Demographer
Research Fellow in the @MigrantLife.bsky.social & @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social
Immigrants / Assimilation / Mortality / Health / Longitudinal Methods
Matthew Wallace @mjwdemography.bsky.social Associate Professor / Reader in Social Inequality at Centre for Research on Inclusive Society @ University of Salford. PI of £1.3m UKRI project PARA-MOR. #Migration #Health #Inequality
Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London. www.thegentleauthorstours.com
@kristineharris.bsky.social @kristineharris.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.
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/
Dr Lauren Wroe ~ she/her @lauriewroe.bsky.social Associate Prof Durham Sociology
Co-founder and trustee at Social Workers Without Borders
“Lefty No Borders weirdo with a bullring through her nose”
Dan Fisher @dx-fisher.bsky.social Political Geographer at the Centre for Public Policy (Glasgow). Researching border governance, asylum determination and refugee integration.
Lauren Fox @laurenrfox.bsky.social DPhil student at Oxford University researching UK Immigration Tribunals
Interested in border criminology, feminist theory, and immigration law
Dr Caitríona Ní Laoire @cnilaoire.bsky.social 
Rachel Humphris @rachelhumphris.bsky.social Professor of Political Anthropology & Director Centre for Study of Migration @QMUL. PI ERC Starting Grant Digital Welfare Borders (DigiWeB)
Johanna L. Waters @johannawaters.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography & Co-Director of MRU @ UCL | Editor of 'Global Networks' | Migration, transnational families, education & (international) students | Likes orienteering, running & vegan food | Views mine, not my employer's
Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social Vice Dean and Professor at the IE School of Economics, Politics and Global Affairs at IE University, Madrid (she/her)
www.catherinedevries.eu
Respect the Marble Substack: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
Alexandria Innes @andri-i.bsky.social Researcher in international politics, critical security and migration @ City St George's, University of London: migrant advocacy, migrant rights, open borders
Victoria Sakti @victoriasakti.bsky.social Anthropologist working on ageing, care, displacement, mobilities, social repair | Max-Planck-Institute-MMG | Southeast Asia | Mamademia
Dr Arwen Joyce @arwenjoyce.bsky.social Lecturer in Law, University of Leicester. Travel writer and practicing lawyer in a past life. Interested in labour migration, labour law, legal education. She/her. Dual citizen 🇺🇸🇱🇺 living in 🇬🇧.
Maayan Niezna @niezna.bsky.social Lecturer in Law at the Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice. Labour exploitation, migration, trafficking, and all things coercion/consent.
Dr Jessica Hagen-Zanker @j-hagen-zanker.bsky.social Head Migration and Displacement Hub @odi.global. Migration and social protection. Baking when not working.
Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social Migration Studies is a leading journal of the determinants, processes, and outcomes of human migration. Impact Factor: 2.7 (2024). https://academic.oup.com/migration
Dominika Pszczółkowska @dominikapsz.bsky.social PhD, political scientist, #migrationresearch @CMR_Warsaw, previously reporter and Brussels correspondent @Gazeta_Wyborcza
Caroline Robinson @carolinerobinson.bsky.social Executive Director Worker Support Centre (WSC) | Co-founder/Former Director Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX) | Editorial Board Anti-Trafficking Review Journal.
Hannah Lewis @hannahjlewis.bsky.social Freedom and unfreedom in work, leisure and citizenship. People who move & resistance to precarity. Policy & practice responses to 'modern slavery', refugee settlement and migrant youth inclusion. Sociology Senior Lecturer, Uni of Sheffield. 🇪🇭 Sahara Libre
Dr Zana Vathi @zanavathi.bsky.social Adjunct Professor UCC| #migration | #diversity| #inclusion| IEB member
Ethnic and Racial Studies| Associate Editor
Comparative Migration Studies| Northern mind, Southern soul| Own views https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=8sGDVRAAAAAJ&hl=en
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