Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social Campaigning collaboratively, locally and nationally, to transform asylum in the UK.
Nathan Phillips @nbphillips1872.bsky.social Head of Campaigns @asylummatters.bsky.social campaigning for the rights of refugees and people seeking asylum 🧡 he/him 🏴 bylines include @bigissue.com @bylinetimes.bsky.social @labourlist.bsky.social @nation.cymru @left-foot-forward.bsky.social ✍️
Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social Green MP for Brighton Pavilion since 2024. Elected to challenge Labour in power at all levels of Govt since 2014. She/her. Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party at PO Box Green Party, London, SE1P 6YL
Voices in Exile @voicesinexile.bsky.social We provide free legal and practical services to refugees, migrants, asylum seekers and those with no recourse to public funds, in Brighton and Hove, and beyond. 🧡 https://www.voicesinexile.org/resource/myth-busting-faqs/
SCMR and JEMS @scmrjems.bsky.social The Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR), a research centre of excellence at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. Home of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS). www.sussex.ac.uk/migration
Cynthia Orchard @cynthiaorchard.bsky.social Human rights are for everyone.
Personal account.
Debora Singer @deborasinger1.bsky.social Human rights activist
Sabir Zazai @sabirzazai.bsky.social CEO @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social
Alison Thewliss @thewliss.bsky.social SNP MSP for Glasgow Central
Promoted by Angus Millar on behalf of Alison Thewliss, both at 68 St Vincent Terrace, Glasgow, G3 8DX
Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social Legal/Political Anthropology, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan, Lacan, Arendt
📙Rethinking Community in Myanmar https://manifold.uhpress.hawaii.edu/projects/rethinking-community-in-myanmar
🖋️: statelessness, expert activism, listening
www.judithbeyer.com
private account
Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social Immigration historian (PhD) and Director for the Americas and Europe at Refugees International. Mom of teens. Raging at the dying of the light. Views my own.
Rob @robshepherd.uk Once noisy politico who found restraint
TV quiz verifier (UK BBC/ITV/C4)
25 years in film and TV
Writer/editor/proofreeder
Marcomms adviser
♥️ Family
Come from the other place
Green and pro-European
Juliette Dupont @juliettedupont.bsky.social Postdoc researcher in political science
Immigration & visa policies ; also EU politics
Based in Brussels at UC Louvain
John Donkersley @mrdonkersley.bsky.social He/him. Solicitor and Senior Immigration Expert at the national office of Citizens Advice - all opinions are my own and not those of CA. Reposts are not endorsements.
@nina-emett.bsky.social @nina-emett.bsky.social
Claudia Bonamini @claudiabonamini.bsky.social Coordinator Belgian federal NPM (OPCAT) at FIRM-IFDH
Previously at @jrseurope.bsky.social & @vluchtelingenwerk.bsky.social #refugees
Background in political science and human rights - Global Campus on Human Rights Alumna.
Views here = personal.
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
Madeleine Sumption @msumption.bsky.social Director of Migration Observatory @ University of Oxford. I research migration policy, mostly in the UK
Prof Alexander Betts @alexanderbetts.bsky.social Professor & Pro-Vice-Chancellor (External Engagement, Sport, & Community) at Oxford University, football coach, runner, & dad of 3.
RETAS Leeds @retasleeds.bsky.social We work to integrate refugees and asylum seekers through education, training and employment; empowering them to build a safe home in West Yorkshire.
John Webster @johnauldwebster.bsky.social Senior Civil Servant and former UK and Scottish diplomat. Still trying to figure it all out #MDANT
Tim Atkins #JoinAUnion @timbassman.bsky.social Political & economic left winger, Pro-PR.
Anti-racist & straight ally. He/him.
https://cheltenham.greenparty.org.uk/
#ADHD
#glawsfamily
#lufc
No DMs please.
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.
Waleed Hassan @whassanuk.bsky.social UK Immigration Solicitor
Kate Smart @katesmart321.bsky.social CEO @settled.bsky.social
Views here my own.
JRS Europe @jrseurope.bsky.social The mission of the Jesuit Refugee Service is to accompany, serve and advocate for #refugees worldwide. We're the European regional office based in Brussels, Belgium.
🌐 jrseurope.org
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/
Coalition to Close Campsfield @closecampsfield.bsky.social We are a diverse group of organisations and individuals demanding the closure of Campsfield House detention centre and an end to Immigration Detention.
Sandra Schulz @schusand.bsky.social Journalist, lawyer, hobby swimmer (she/her). Deutschlandfunk anchor (Infos am Morgen). Podcast-Host (DLF Der Tag). No bullshitting. Kritik an Beiträgen/Interviews im DLF bitte an den DLF. Foto: Bernd Arnold
Worker Support Centre @workersupportc.bsky.social We believe everyone should be safe, valued and respected at work. We work towards a Scotland that welcomes every worker. If you're working in seasonal agriculture, or social care on a visa and are having problems we can help.
Zaheer Cheema @zuhcheema.bsky.social Immigration Lawyer
Josie Fathers @josie-f.bsky.social Barrister. Human rights, immigration and public law. Any views expressed are mine.
Hester @hestercareless.bsky.social Project Coordinator for the South West Immigration Alliance, Bristol Law Centre | Refugee & migrant rights | Mental health researcher & activist, with special interest in eating disorders | she/her | Frivolity-seeker
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 |🍉.
Refugee and Migrant Justice @rmjusticeuk.bsky.social Follow us for immigration updates, campaigns and stories!
Find all our other content here: https://linktr.ee/RMJustice
What do we do?
📍 Immigration advice & representation
⚖️ Take government to court
🎤 Centre lived experience in our advocacy
Luqmani Thompson @luqmanithompson.bsky.social Luqmani Thompson is a specialist immigration, human rights and public law firm based in north London. We help businesses & individuals with complex cases.
luqmanithompson.com
Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social Professor of IT Law at UEA Law School. Geek. Privacy, Politics. Wolves. Irish and British. Not always polite.
SCFMR @scfmr.bsky.social The IMISCOE Standing Committee on Forced Migration and Refugees. Sharing news and events from our members. https://www.imiscoe.org/research/standing-committees/forced-migration-and-refugees
Migration Policy Group @migpolgroup.bsky.social Evidence-based change for inclusive societies | Independent Brussels-based think-and-do tank on integration, migration, and anti-discrimination.
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.
Migration Exchange @migration-exchange.bsky.social Cultivating insight, connection and action across the UK refugee and migration sector.
MEX is a programme hosted by Global Dialogue.
Find out more: https://global-dialogue.org/programmes/migration-exchange/
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
Cllr Trevor Muten @trevmu10.bsky.social Cabinet member for Transport, Parking and Public Realm Brighton & Hove City Council
Goldsmid ward councillor
Labour Party
Chartered Environmentalist
Chartered Scientist
Chartered Geologist & Fellow Geological Soc
Chartered Water & Environmental Manager
Jackie Watkins @jackiewatkins1964.bsky.social Charity director passionate about levelling the playing field for education in west Africa
Miremby @travelwithmiremby.bsky.social 🌴 Community-led Tour Operator
🇲🇬 Bespoke experiences | Southern Madagascar
☀️ Benefit Communities | Wildlife | Environment
🌎 WhatsApp +44 7457 402703
Meriel Beattie @merielbeattie.bsky.social British writer and editor, currently living in New York
Franck Düvell @franck-duvell.bsky.social Scientist, PhD, migration researcher, Senior Researcher, IMIS, Osnabruck University, previously Associate Professor, COMPAS, Oxford University, also chair of IMISCOE SCFMR, co-editor of CEEMR, TJDS and ZfM, advisor of Picum and MiReKoç etc
Cecilia Malmström @ceciliamalmstrom.bsky.social Former EU politician, European Parliament, EU minister, EU commissioner for Home Affairs and Trade. Non resident senior fellow at PIIE. Visting professor at Göteborg Business school. Proud Tradeexperettes
Olivia Sundberg Diez @oliviasundberg.bsky.social EU #migration and #asylum advocacy for Amnesty International. Previously at the European Policy Centre and the IRC. Talks too much and too fast. Spanish Swedish, with shifting loyalties, based in BXL.
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
Together with Migrant Children @twmcuk.bsky.social We’re a UK based charity that provides support to children, young people and families subject to immigration control.
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
France-UK Border Research @frukborder.bsky.social Library of research and primary sources regarding the situation for displaced people at the France-UK border.
🐘: @FrUKBorder@masto.ai
(Banner: Emma Brown)
Sarah Kyambi @sarahkyambi.bsky.social Director of Migration Policy Scotland @migrationscotland.bsky.social
Founder, Carer, Gardener...Singer?
Graeme McGregor @graememcgregor.bsky.social Human rights campaigner on issues including migration, mental health and homelessness. Views may be parroted from someone more intelligent.
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented... but then you read." James Baldwin
Migration Policy Centre @mpc-eui.bsky.social Advanced #research and #training on the transnational governance of international #migration, #asylum and #mobility. We're part of the @eui-schuman.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social.
Michael Coon @mikecoonomics.bsky.social Migration Economist. Associate Professor at UTampa. Editorial Board member at Eastern Economic Journal. Contributor to econeveryday.com. www.michael-coon.com. Usual disclaimers apply.
One Life To Live @nicoladavid.bsky.social Founder of One Life To Live - collaboratively compaigning against large asylum-seeker containment sites in ex-RAF bases, former prisons & barges. Linton-on-Ouse, Bibby Stockholm. Ripon CoS 💪🏼 🇵🇸
@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.
Vicky Taylor @vickytaylor.bsky.social writing about the UK's criminalisation of asylum seeking · border criminologies · otherwise found in cold water somewhere
Migrationwork @migrationwork.bsky.social We are a not-for-profit consultancy helping communities, practitioners & policy-makers respond to migration in ways that move towards integration.
Www.migrationwork.org
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
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
Vapaa Liikkuvuus @vapaaliikkuvuus.bsky.social NOT IN USE. FOLLOW US HERE: https://instagram.com/vapaaliikkuvuus/
https://vapaaliikkuvuus.net/
Fabiana Pineda Sosa @fabianapineda.bsky.social
Julia Purcell @spokewoman.bsky.social Former Senior Programme Director, Wilton Park
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social Professor of Law, Director - Danish National Research Foundation Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law - @MobileUCPH.bsky.social - mobilitylaw.ku.dk
migration/refugee/mobilities law, (X)AI & Law, legal theory, IL/IR
Julia P @jools456.bsky.social
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
Steffen Lüdke @stluedke.bsky.social Reporter @spiegelmagazin.bsky.social: Mostly: Migration, EU borders, Spain. 📩🖋️
Reece Jones @reecejones.bsky.social Professor of political geography at the University of Hawai'i; editor-in-chief of Geopolitics; author of Smuggler (preorder now), Violent Borders, White Borders, Border Walls, and Nobody is Protected; Personal account www.reecejonesauthor.com
Alexandra Pereira @parachute80.bsky.social Migration Researcher. Postdoc UCP/Porticus. PhD Sociology. MA Psychology (céd. 16483). IMISCOE/Migration Research Hub.
https://linktr.ee/alexandrapereira1980
Noelle Quenivet @noellequenivet.bsky.social Professor in International Law. Interested in International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law, use of force and Human Rights Law. Loves cooking.
Steven Denney @stevendenney86.bsky.social 🎓 Assistant Professor, Leiden University. 👨🔧Techno-optimist.
🏠 https://scdenney.net/
Roberto G. Gonzales @rggonzales1.bsky.social Sociologist at Penn| Founding Director Penn Migration Initiative| Previously at Harvard| Author Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America| Writing book on DACA| Fan of the Yankees, Broncos, Springsteen, & my son’s baseball teams
Chris Waiting @cwaiting.bsky.social Chief Executive, The Conversation UK
Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social Borders | ontosec | migration | citizenship
Rob Sharp @robsharp.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex (UK) (migration, asylum, media, voice, recognition, citizenship) https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p349998-rob-sharp
Lucy Leon @lucyleon.bsky.social Researcher, Global Exchange on Migration at @compasoxford.bsky.social
Previously at @CCoMstudy and @childsocpol
https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/people/lucy-leon
Zrinka Bralo @zrinka.bsky.social Organiser for Solidarity, Dignity and Justice.
Bluesky words are my own, and always will be!
www.migrantsorganise.org
Jonas Bornemann @jonasbornemann.bsky.social Assistant Professor of European Law at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
@groningeneulaw.bsky.social | re:constitution fellow 2024/2025
European Constitutional and Migration Law
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.
Ellen Halliday @ellenhalliday.bsky.social Deputy editor at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social Philosopher at the University of Vienna. Working on migration, citizenship, democracy & equality.
https://scholars.forum/danielsharp
Paul Treanor @antireactionary.bsky.social BlueSky (US-owned) censors anti-Israel posts. A less worse Twitter is not a real alternative, we need European social media.
Definition of nationalism: https://www.academia.edu/45663252/A_definition_of_nationalism
Jean-François Dubost @jfdubost.eurosky.social Citizen, lawyer, advocacy & campaigning, litigation and any other HR issues. Committeed for dignity.
Only own views
Aleksandra Ancite-Jepifánova @alexandraancite.bsky.social Senior Fellow @CEU Democracy Institute and Research Affiliate @Refugee Law Initiative, University of London. Migration, asylum and human rights
📓Author of The Concept of Marriages of Convenience in EU Free Movement Law: EU and UK Perspectives (Brill,2024)
Phil Cole @phillcole40.bsky.social Immigration, asylum, refugees, displacement:
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-global-displacement-in-the-twenty-first-century.html
Matthieu Tardis @matthieutardis.bsky.social Researcher on Migration and Refugee Policies. Co-Director of Synergies Migrations (https://synergies-migrations.org), an independent research action institute for and with stakeholders, migrants and refugees. Views are my own.
Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social Prof of Politics with a focus on migration, cities & social justice.
Guilherme Chihaya @kchihaya.bsky.social Sociologist at Nord University, Norway. He/him. Research interests: Residential segregation, neighbourhood inequality, sociological theory, analytical sociology. Left of the left.
George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social KC (E&W) BL (Irl): public/constitutional law, competition, subsidies, tax, trade. Chair of the Society of Labour Lawyers. Views mine and not those of Monckton Chambers.
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
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.
Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social 🌎 Former MP for Brighton Pavilion, former Leader @greenparty.org.uk Professor of Practice, University of Sussex. Author of 'Another England: How to Reclaim our National Story'. Writing & campaigning on climate & nature 🌎 linktr.ee/carolinelucasbrighton
Dan Berlin @dberlin-pgh.bsky.social Human rights lawyer, cyclist, father, yinzer in Frankfurt. Post mine only. He / him
Lauren Starkey @laurenhstarkey.bsky.social Social Worker | Anti-Trafficking campaigner | Socialist
Anne Balke Staver @anneavelo.bsky.social Senior Researcher at NIBR/Oslo Metropolitan University.
Political scientist working on migration&integration policies, but chiefly interested in bikes, books, bees, bistronomy & trains.
Somewhere between Oslo and Lyon.
Colonialism & Migration in Global Perspective @colmigproject.bsky.social Interdisciplinary project funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social investigating how colonialism has shaped migration governance around the world. Team includes @mcslaven.bsky.social, @evansmithhist.bsky.social, and others who aren't here yet