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Sociology professor & University Research Chair at the University of Waterloo, Canada — critical migration & border studies | political sociology |citizenship & social justice Website: https://uwaterloo.ca/sociology-and-legal-studies/profiles/suzan-ilcan .. more

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 3d

3 MAGA extremists have re-intro'd a bill that allows South Carolina to execute women who receive an abortion. If you haven't heard about S 323, it's because corporate media has completely ignored it.

Here's the overview, the sponsors, & how to fight back:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...

S. Carolina RE-Intros Bill To Kill Women For Getting An Abortion

Here's what's in the bill, why it is so dangerous, and the meaningful steps you can take to fight back, support women's health, and help block this bill from becoming law

www.qasimrashid.com

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Hend Aly @hendaly.bsky.social · 3d

Our episode of Between Borders came out last week 🎉. I enjoyed the conversation with @rachelbenchekroun.bsky.social , Amandas Ong, Sabina Barone and @froeschert.bsky.social on conducting ethical research on migration in the context of social injustice. Please listen and share your thoughts.

Episode Three: Ethical Methods

Podcast Episode · Between Borders · 22/09/2025 · 43m

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Hend Aly @hendaly.bsky.social · 3d

We have recently released issue 8 of Migration and Society. The issue engages with solidarity, hope and writing on migration in dark times.

The issue is open access. berghahnbooks.bsky.social

We will have an online launch of the issue on 21 Oct. Let me know if you need the registration details

www.berghahnjournals.com

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suzan ilcan @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social · 3d

Italy’s Border Immigration Paradox

Italy's Borders Immigration Paradox: Rising Numbers, Falling

blogs.law.ox.ac.uk

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 3d

In India and the US, protection for asylum seekers seems to rest on political discretion, not legal obligation. Read the new blog post on translating Indian journeys to the US ⤵️

blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7d

“They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down. We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

The worst of what we feared when Trump’s spending bill gave ICE a blank check is happening.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 21d

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 28d

A bunch of folks have asked about my "Long Arc of Fascism" course - this is my opening lecture at our public teach-in last Spring.

Centre for Climate Justice @ccj-ubc.bsky.social · 29d

Watch @naomiaklein.bsky.social open the Long Arc of Fascism teach-in by challenging the conventional, narrow understanding of fascism, particularly the idea that it is a uniquely European phenomenon that began in the 1920s or ’30s and was defeated in 1945.
@ccms-sfu.bsky.social

Introduction Sketching Fascism’s Long Arc with Naomi Klein

YouTube video by Centre for Climate Justice

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 29d

It took less than 72 hrs for as many as a dozen workers detained during a massive immigration raid in Central New York to go from a factory floor in Cato to a landing strip in Central America.
Workers were herded through as many as three different Border Patrol stations & detention centers in 2 days

Speed, confusion, no courts: ICE ships Upstate NY factory workers to Central America in 72 hours

More than 40 workers detained in a massive Central NY immigration raid have been quickly shuttled to the Texas-Mexico border

www.syracuse.com

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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 29d

The latest Open Access volume of Migration and Society has been published!: bit.ly/4mbOY7L

Featuring research by: @malayfiroz.bsky.social @jenri.bsky.social @ernabodstrom.bsky.social @jesperbjarnesen.bsky.social @djamilak.bsky.social @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social and more!

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suzan ilcan @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social · Sep 9

“How international aid cuts are eroding refugee protections in the Global South” has been published today on The Conversation.

Here's the link:

theconversation.com/how-internat...

How international aid cuts are eroding refugee protections in the Global South

In light of the U.S. retreat from humanitarian leadership, countries like Canada must assume a more prominent role in sustaining global protection systems.

theconversation.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · Sep 8

857 people arrested in a single day in London for holding signs opposing Israel’s genocide in Palestine

These include Holocaust survivors, vicars, retired nurses and teachers. So many of them are elderly.

Labour is dead

www.instagram.com/p/DOTb3nIjYIS/

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · Sep 6

Heads up, folks.

ICE Is Said to Have Begun Operation in the Boston Area

www.nytimes.com

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suzan ilcan @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social · Sep 6

Our new article just published in Migration and Society, “Transversal Community-Building: Fostering Women's Collaboration and Solidarity Across Differences in Cyprus”

Open access:
doi.org/10.3167/arms...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 5

Immigration officers forced their way into a confectionery plant near Syracuse on Thursday and detained more than 70 workers, witnesses said, in what appeared to be one of the biggest workplace raids in New York since President Trump’s deportation crackdown began.

U.S. Agents Raid Upstate N.Y. Plant and Detain More Than 70 Migrants

Local law enforcement officers helped federal agents carry out an immigration raid near Syracuse. Witnesses said the agents used police dogs in the raid and wielded crowbars to gain entry.

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Tony R. Walker @tonyrwalker1.bsky.social · Aug 25

Solidarity and support, Thank you !

More than two dozen academic and public sector unions from across the entire country have donated to our cause, thank you!

Solidarity is how we will all win fair contracts!

Keep Dal Strong
Dalhousie Faculty Association
#keepdalstrong

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · Aug 22

Absolutely incredible video of a woman standing up to ICE. This is resistance

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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · Aug 19

“In Gaza, to be an academic today is to refuse to be reduced to a statistic.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focused as an academic in Gaza

It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter

www.theguardian.com

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Vanessa Lamb @drvanessalamb.bsky.social · Aug 18

Please join us! I am co-convening 3 Royal Geographical Society panels on Feminist and Gendered Geographies of Resistance with @zalifung.bsky.social and Rebecca Elmhirst at the University of Birmingham next week. A great lineup of presentations. bit.ly/4lgkPnk @rgsibg.bsky.social

Panel description feminist and gendered geographies of resistance

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · Aug 12

Wildfires are burning in parts of Europe as millions of people across the continent struggled to adapt to the new reality: record summer heat.

Parts of Europe burn as millions are facing record heat

Wildfires are burning in parts of Europe as millions of people across the continent struggled to adapt to the new reality: record summer heat.

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suzan ilcan @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social · Aug 11

New 2025 Special Issue:
“The Spatial Dimensions of Refugee and Migrant Activism: Borders, Liminality, and Porosity.” Editors, Susan Banki & Suraina Pasha. See articles in the Journal of Refugee Studies.

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AAUP @aaup.org · Aug 11

Researchers in Florida (and nationwide) face significant disruption and uncertainty due to millions stripped from universities by the Trump administration.

“When you try to control what experts in scientific fields are researching, then you undermine the entire scientific enterprise.”

Florida’s universities face research overhaul courtesy of Trump and DeSantis

Led by the governor, Florida's government accountability DOGE team is auditing university research projects and even recommending grants for termination.

www.politico.com

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Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University @interpolaber.bsky.social · Aug 11

🖋 PUBLICATION!

🌟 'Translating sanctuary: Politics of solidarity in a bilingual and plurinational context'

👏 Congratulations to Dr Catrin Edwards and Dr Rhys Dafydd Jones on their new article in The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library

The paper examines the significance of translating sanctuary in an officially bilingual (and multilingual in practice) national polity. By examining the different meanings of the translation of 'sanc....

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Aug 11

Antony Loewenstein: Israel has killed more journalists in the last 22 months than were killed in the US civil war, WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

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suzan ilcan @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social · Aug 9

Studies in Social Justice - New Issue Published (Volume 19, Issue 2)

Volume 19, Issue 1 of Studies in Social Justice is published, and can be accessed at: journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SS...
Visit the website to read the full announcement.

Vol. 19 No. 2 (2025) | Studies in Social Justice

journals.library.brocku.ca

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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · Aug 9

@drdconlon.bsky.social, author of Immigration Detention Inc. speaks with the Make Me Smart Podcast by @marketplace.org about how immigration detention became dominated by private companies in the United States.

Listen here: www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...

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NPR @npr.org · Aug 6

The Trump administration cancelled about $500 million for research into mRNA vaccines. The move slows progress in using the technology to prevent a future pandemic or treat disease, experts say.

Public health experts dismayed by RFK Jr.'s defunding of mRNA vaccine research

The Trump administration cancelled about $500 million for research into mRNA vaccines. The move slows progress in using the technology to prevent a future pandemic or treat disease, experts say.

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · Aug 6

Westlake Home Depot raided again, reigniting fears of more sweeps despite judge's order to stop

Border Patrol agents reportedly arrested 16 people at a Home Depot in Westlake on Wednesday. They utilized Penske trucks to carry out the arrests

www.latimes.com

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