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
Heaven Crawley @heavencrawley.bsky.social Writer and researcher exploring migration, food, and power. Currently tracing the journeys of everyday foods. Reflections from travel and work in progress.
Dr. Zihuan Zhang @zihuanzhang.bsky.social Early career sociologist. Based in Sheffield, UK. Sociology of race and racism; China Studies; De-/Post-coloniality; CRT; Intersectional Feminism. He/Him 🇨🇳🏳️🌈🐝✨
Jamie Johnson @jamcjo.bsky.social Lecturer in International Relations. Researches liberalism's wars, crises, and scandals.
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
Leila Hadj Abdou @leilahadjabdou.bsky.social Migration researcher, Political scientist, Dep. Head Policy Research & Migration Law at IOM, AT; Co-coordinating European Migration Network (EMN) Austria. Ex-EUI/Migration Policy Centre. On this platform in a private capacity. leilahadjabdou.com
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social MP for Islington North
Uttara @uttara.bsky.social Historian.
https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/people/uttara-shahani#:~:text=Uttara%20Shahani%20is%20a%20historian,Empire%2C%20migration%2C%20and%20refugees.
Lena Christoph @lenachristoph.bsky.social PhD @univie.ac.at
global, migration, and refugee history
she/her
Zina Weisner @zinaw.bsky.social Migration researcher @demigkrems & MIGNEX, interested in EU External Migration & Border Governance, Feminist Security Studies and Politics of Development. She/her
Aderenti Escapes 2026 @laboescapes.bsky.social Rete intorno a Escapes - Laboratorio di studi critici sulle migrazioni forzate | prevalentemente su https://mastodon.social/@laboescapes | https://infoescapes.altervista.org
yashamac @yaswmac.bsky.social people need protecting from authoritarian states; journalism, research, translation & public speaking; critical state research, uk based italian
Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi @liliantsourdi.bsky.social Professor & Jean Monnet Chair in European Migration Law & Governance in Maastricht University|PI SoftEn ERC StG|WP lead @ensured.bsky.social|Joint Editor-in-Chief IJRL|Editorial Board MJECL| #asylum #migration #human rights|
Irene Fernández-Molina @irenefmolina.bsky.social Senior lecturer International Relations, University of Exeter | IR Global South, foreign policy, conflicts, international recognition, norms and practices, Maghreb, EU-MENA | Views mine
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/24733-irene-fernandezmolina
Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk An independent charity that seeks to fund blue skies research and scholarship. Follow this channel for details on upcoming grant deadlines, published research, scheme opening dates, grant announcements, events, and more. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/
@nancyhiemstra.bsky.social @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social
Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social ▪︎ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship
▪︎ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z
▪︎ More about my work: immersiveresearch.co.uk
▪︎ DM for speaking/workshop requests
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.
Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social Urban and political geographer, Durham University. Trustee @naccomnetwork.bsky.social. Author of Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum (Pluto Press).
@otto-wolf.bsky.social @otto-wolf.bsky.social
Irit Katz @irit-katz.bsky.social Studying spaces of conflict, displacement, refuge, and environmental changes and the poetics and poetics of inhabitation. Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Christ's College.
Helge Schwiertz @helgeschwiertz.bsky.social Social and political theory, migration, racism, social movements, citizenship, solidarity and radical democracy / #sociology / Acting Professor, University of Hamburg: http://uhh.de/wiso-helge-schwiertz / ESCEuro research project https://europefrombelow.ne
Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) https://academic.oup.com/rsq is an online only, peer-reviewed journal that publishes work in the refugee and forced displacement fields, from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.
@michaelfarrelly.bsky.social @michaelfarrelly.bsky.social
Language & Power Podcast @languagepowerpodcast.org Using critical discourse analysis in recognising the ecological, social, political, and economic conditions in which we live. https://languagepowerpodcast.org
Nigel de Noronha @ndenoronha.bsky.social Researcher on housing, race and migration
Manuela Latchoumaya @m-latchoumaya.bsky.social Incoming Hallsworth Fellow @uomsociology.bsky.social
Indian indenture, "labour" migration, race and diaspora.
Dr Sadia Habib @sadiahabib.bsky.social Senior Lecturer - University of Manchester. Also based at Manchester Museum & Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity. Co-founder of The Riz Test.
#education #museums #cats
Own views
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social Professor in SPS, Glasgow University. PI Nuffield; PI @GLIMER_Research. co-Editor @IDjnl. FBA FRSE FAcSS. Writing in personal capacity.
Amit Singh @amit-singh.bsky.social Sociologist at @ucl.ac.uk
Cancelled Futures (PUP): https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691276700/cancelled-futures
Pubs for the People (MUP): https://www.waterstones.com/book/pubs-for-the-people/sivamohan-valluvan/amit-singh/9781526194541
Bridget Byrne @bridgetbyrne8.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at @UoM Sociology, director of Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) @ethnicityUK
Meghan Tinsley @meghanetinsley.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester | author: http://bit.ly/3HKURWE | memory, nationalism, post/decoloniality | she/her
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
Laura Fenton @soc-researcher.bsky.social Sociologist and researcher based at the University of Sheffield
Leonie Felicitas @leoniefelicitas.bsky.social Still finding my way into bsky | Currently PhDing @UvA_AISSR | West Africa/Senegal - EU, b/orders, colonial continuities | She/her | Somewhere between Brx, Brln, Dkr - mostly in a library |🍉.
Prof Michaela Benson @michaelacbenson.bsky.social Professor in #PublicSociology at Lancaster University & Chief Executive of @thesociologicalreview.org
Research: migration and citizenship in EU, Panama 🇵🇦and UK
Brexitbritsabroad.org
migzen.net
#Podcast producer and host https://whodowethinkweare.org
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.
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.
@finnianclarke.bsky.social @finnianclarke.bsky.social Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers.
Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social CEO @praxisprojects.bsky.social. Chair @refugeestogether.bsky.social. Brummie. All views own (subject to personal growth and development).
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.
Thangam Debbonaire @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social CEO UK Opera Association.
Cellist. Various boards.
Labour Member, House of Lords.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thangamdebbonaire
Jean-Pierre Murray @jpdmurray.bsky.social Assistant Professor @Claremont McKenna College| International Relations| Migration and Security| Global Governance| International Organizations| Latin America & the Caribbean| https://www.jeanpierremurray.com/
Omar Hammoud-Gallego @omarhgallego.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Public Policy at Durham University. Formerly a Fellow at the LSE.
I conduct research and share posts on migration and asylum policy, and on democratic engagement and representation.
For more check my website: omarhgallego.com
TheImmigrationLab @theimmigrationlab.bsky.social Social science research collaborative on all things immigration. Directed by @drernestocast.bsky.social and based at American University, Washington, DC
www.immigrationlab.org
Prof Alexander Betts @alexanderbetts.bsky.social Professor & Pro-Vice-Chancellor (External Engagement, Sport, & Community) at Oxford University, football coach, runner, & dad of 3.
Nik Ostrand @nikostrand.bsky.social Postdoc @demigkrems.bsky.social, research fellow @arena_uio and @scmrjems, assoc editor JEMS. Researching externalisation in migration governance, non/knowledge production, deportation, state violence, frontex. Lover of cats, coffee and bikes
Susan Banki @susanbanki.bsky.social U Sydney A/Prof, Dir. Master of Social Justice. Kids books author and total ultimate frisbee tragic/zealot. Tweet on Myanmar, Bhutan, diasporas, ocean swimming, teaching, and all funny/shocking things that come my way. https://linktr.ee/susan.banki
David FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social Sociology professor at University of California San Diego and (co)author of The Refugee System (2023); Refuge beyond Reach (2019); and Culling the Masses (2014). I research policies and experiences around migration and asylum.
https://tinyurl.com/4snsdvzf
Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social The IRR's online news service on anti-racism & social justice issues in UK & Europe.
Our journal is Race & Class ▶ https://bit.ly/raceandclass
Donate to the IRR ▶ http://irr.org.uk/donate
For more info ▶ https://linktr.ee/instituteracerelations
Dr Ella Cockbain @drellac.bsky.social Professor at UCL. Lead of Research Group on Human Trafficking,Smuggling & Exploitation. Researching precarious work & labour exploitation. New (free) book on anti-trafficking evaluation https://uclpress.co.uk/book/evaluating-anti-trafficking-interventions/
Migrants Organise @migrantsorganise.bsky.social Migrants Organise is a grassroots platform where migrants and refugees organise for justice.
In 1993 we came to life in living rooms across West London, where migrant leaders would provide support to their communities.
www.migrantsorganise.org
Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social Reader in Politics & IR at the University of Liverpool. Activist scholar working on the politics of migration and solidarity in the EU & African political theory. Views my own. She/her
Gwyneth Lonergan @drglonergan.bsky.social She/Her Assistant Prof in Sociology at Northumbria Uni. Researching migration, reproductive justice, citizenship. My views, not my employers'.
Aneta Piekut @anetapiekut.bsky.social Sociologist, migration research, attitudes & prejudice, mixed methods | Sheffield Methods Institute | University of Sheffield
Dr Anna Gawlewicz @annagawlewicz.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at @uofgussp.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk. Working on #migration #diversity #Brexit #Covid19 #city, rural areas, Central East Europe & Poland. Own views.
Weronika Kloc-Nowak, PhD @wkloc-nowak.bsky.social sociologist working on migration, intergenerational relations, care and doing family
Centre of Migration Research (CMR) University of Warsaw, EUI alumna
Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna @radziwinowiczowna.bsky.social I research migrations & deportations, work at University of Warsaw. I have two kids and a 🐕
Kamila Fiałkowska @kamilafialkowska.bsky.social Researcher @Centre of Migration Research, PI: https://rocit.pl/, member of Researchers on the Border: https://www.bbng.org. On the road between Lower Silesia-Mazovia-Podlaskie (🇵🇱) & Transcarpathia (🇺🇦), 🧐: borders/migration/gender/inequalities & citizenship
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
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
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
Methods in Migration Research (Meth@Mig - IMISCOE) @methatmig.bsky.social Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research - IMISCOE Standing Committee, discussing methods in the migration research community and beyond.
Website: https://tinyurl.com/y9v8n92e
Daniela Vintila @danielavintila.bsky.social Associate Coordinator & Senior Network Officer of IMISCOE (International Migration Research Network) at CEDEM @universitedeliege.bsky.social.
Chair Standing Group Migration & Ethnicity of @ecpr.bsky.social. Migration, citizenship, comparative politics, EU
Pawel Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmarczyk.bsky.social Economist at the Centre of Migration Research and Faculty of Economics, University of Warsaw / research on migration, labour market and related issues
Aleksandra Kazlowska @akazlowska.bsky.social Professor at University of Warsaw, Faculty of Sociology & Centre of Migration Research
Researching migration, adaptation, diversity and inclusion
Editor-in-Chief of Central and Eastern European Migration Review
https://copocsproject.eu/
https://i-claim.eu
Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social FAcSS FRSE Coaching/mentoring/away day and workshop facilitation. Research interests include Islamophobia, intersectionality, migration, youth, gender, race. Leverhulme Major Research Fellow. Editor - The Geographical Journal. Views are my own.
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social Social sciences journal publishing new research on #identities, #race, #ethnicity & #culture since 1994. Published by Taylor & Francis. https://linktr.ee/identitiesjournal
Lucy Hunt @lucyhunt.bsky.social Postdoc Researcher @uni.lu | Affiliated Research Fellow @UniofNottingham.bsky.social | DPhil @OxfordDeptofEd.bsky.social | Migration, education, youth, inclusion
Helen Schwenken @hschwenken.bsky.social Migration researcher | political sociologist | gender studies | Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS)/Osnabrück Univ. (Director) | SFB 1604 Production of Migration | IRTG 2951 Cross-Border Labour Markets |
Pip McKnight @pipmck.bsky.social Forced migration, SGBV, maternal health inequalities & Cultural Safety.
Research and Impact Fellow @irisbirmingham.bsky.social
Hands in clay or soil. She/her
When You Know- Childbirth in the UK Asylum System:
https://vimeo.com/1028359945/b9ee3abb4c
Prof Cathryn Costello @profccostello.bsky.social Full Prof of Global Refugee and Migration Law, Sutherland School of Law, UCD; ex-Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford; ex-Centre for Fundamental Rights, Hertie School, Berlin. Recent return migrant after two decades.
Elzbieta M. Gozdziak @egozdziak.bsky.social Migration scholar, anthropologist, Kdrama addict, novel reader, mom to one human and two canines
bloging at
https://www.elzbietagozdziak.com/
https://www.goodbeginnings.blog/
Migrademo Project @migrademo.bsky.social MIGRADEMO is an ERC, H2020 funded project which examines the impact of migration on democratic diffusion | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Helena Wray @helenaw.bsky.social Immigration law academic at University of Exeter. Also, books, music, films, life.
Monish Bhatia (He/Him🌈) @monish.bsky.social #Migration #Asylum #State #Race #Violence #Surveillance #CriminalLegalSystem
Academic. University of York, Sociology. Personal account (and views are mine).
Dr Jessica Hagen-Zanker @j-hagen-zanker.bsky.social Head Migration and Displacement Hub @odi.global. Migration and social protection. Baking when not working.
Laura Hammond @laurahammond.bsky.social SOAS DVC Research & Knowledge Exchange. Migration, refugees, diaspora, food security, conflict, Ethiopia Somalia, whippets
Andrew Geddes @andrewpgeddes.bsky.social Professor of Migration Studies/Director @mpc-eui.bsky.social part of @eui-schuman.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social Florence, Italy 🇮🇹
Coordinating the INNOVATE project https://migrationresearchtopolicy.eu
https://www.linkedin.com/company/mr2p-co-lab/
Pierre Monforte @pierremonforte.bsky.social Political sociologist. Social movements, activism, volunteering, migration, citizenship.
Christina Clark-Kazak @clarkkazak.bsky.social Prof at uOttawa studying forced migration, age discrimination & interdisciplinary methodology
Gabriella Sanchez @gesanchez.bsky.social Fronteriza! Migration and Security researcher at @Georgetown University. Critical border studies; high risk migration facilitation and criminalization; smuggling & trafficking. Tacos & Shawarma. Former @mpc-eui.bsky.social and @diis.dk.
Vicki Squire @vickisquire.bsky.social Prof of International Politics, borders and migration, humanitarian data, sanctuary and solidarity activism - and other stuff too, she/her, Uni of Warwick but views my own
Sigrid Weber @swebera.bsky.social Assistant Professor at IE University | Previously at Immigration Policy Lab Stanford and UCL | Research on migration, displacement, conflict dynamics
sigridweber.com
Simon Rushton @simonrushton.bsky.social Professor of International Politics at University of Sheffield, UK. He/Him.
Living in Sheffield by Livia Barreira @livinginsheffield.bsky.social 🌎Celebrating/promoting our global communities
📲livinginsheffieldcontact@gmail.com
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
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
Dr Sabine Little @sabinelittle.bsky.social #multilingualism, #identity, heritage languages, #children, #school, multilingual #libraries, #books, #reading, #makerspaces, #co-production and participatory research, at University of Sheffield, UK. Occasional multilingual storyteller
Dr. Caterina Mazzilli @this-is-cate.bsky.social Researcher at @odi.global | Migration expert
See my ODI profile: https://odi.org/en/profile/caterina-mazzilli/
See my publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=shUc3u4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Jessica Schultz @jesslschultz.bsky.social Legal researcher focused on migration, human rights, and humanitarian accountability at @cmi_no.
https://www.cmi.no/staff/jessica-schultz
Fiona B. Adamson @fionaadamson.bsky.social Professor of International Relations @SOAS.
Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social A Latin American woman lost in the UK.
British Academy Research Fellow @ University of Southampton. #Racial Politics of #ForcedDisplacement in #LatinAmerica
David B MacDonald @dbmacdonald.bsky.social Professor of Political Science University of Guelph. Interests: International Relations, Indigenous Politics Canada & Aotearoa NZ, IR, Race, Genocide, girmitiya descendent 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇹🇹
Elena @elenabloor.bsky.social Care4Calais volunteer passionate about refugee advocacy and justice