Dr Ala Sirriyeh 🇵🇸🍉
@alasirriyeh.bsky.social
Sociologist at Lancaster University working on child and youth migration, migrant & antiracist activism, & sociology of emotions in migration. BA Mid Career Fellowship 2024-25- Britain's Child Migrants.
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Denmark runs one of Europe’s most restrictive asylum systems, revoking protections at scale and even seizing belongings to cover fees.
Some countries hail it as a model, but it carries serious risks: it undermines human rights and damages integration outcomes.
theconversation.com/think-twice-...
Some countries hail it as a model, but it carries serious risks: it undermines human rights and damages integration outcomes.
theconversation.com/think-twice-...
Think twice before copying Denmark’s asylum policies
A migration researcher based in Denmark explains the downsides of its “zero asylum” policy and returns system.
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Denmark runs one of Europe’s most restrictive asylum systems, revoking protections at scale and even seizing belongings to cover fees.
Some countries hail it as a model, but it carries serious risks: it undermines human rights and damages integration outcomes.
theconversation.com/think-twice-...
Some countries hail it as a model, but it carries serious risks: it undermines human rights and damages integration outcomes.
theconversation.com/think-twice-...
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Yesterday, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced a new set of hostile policy changes that will undermine the security and wellbeing of people seeking safety in the UK.
🔗 We have published a blog explainer about the changes, what this means in practice, their impact, and what we think:
🔗 We have published a blog explainer about the changes, what this means in practice, their impact, and what we think:
Changes to the UK asylum system: What we know so far - GMIAU
The Home Secretary announced changes to the UK asylum system in a paper called "Restoring Order and Control".
gmiau.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Yesterday, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced a new set of hostile policy changes that will undermine the security and wellbeing of people seeking safety in the UK.
🔗 We have published a blog explainer about the changes, what this means in practice, their impact, and what we think:
🔗 We have published a blog explainer about the changes, what this means in practice, their impact, and what we think:
MP Steve Reed on the radio this morning mentioning the deaths of babies crossing in small boats said ‘compassion isn’t all on one side’. So deporting families is compassionate? Again children’s lives and the discourse of compassion being mobilised to make life harder for people seeking asylum.
November 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM
MP Steve Reed on the radio this morning mentioning the deaths of babies crossing in small boats said ‘compassion isn’t all on one side’. So deporting families is compassionate? Again children’s lives and the discourse of compassion being mobilised to make life harder for people seeking asylum.
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
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A powerful analysis @alasirriyeh.bsky.social ‘bringing into conversation theoretical interventions on ‘making’ the migrant – migratisation – and ‘unmaking’ the child – unchilding’ in British immigration politics
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October 11, 2025 at 6:08 AM
A powerful analysis @alasirriyeh.bsky.social ‘bringing into conversation theoretical interventions on ‘making’ the migrant – migratisation – and ‘unmaking’ the child – unchilding’ in British immigration politics
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New data🔈 Latest Government data shows there has been an 25% increase in deportations and incidents of force during removals have more than doubled from last year 🚨
Read the data breakdown over on our Substack: buff.ly/hkxCBTP
Read the data breakdown over on our Substack: buff.ly/hkxCBTP
New Government Data Shows Rise in Harm During Deportations
Incidents of force during removals have more than doubled from last year
migrantsrightsnetwork.substack.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
New data🔈 Latest Government data shows there has been an 25% increase in deportations and incidents of force during removals have more than doubled from last year 🚨
Read the data breakdown over on our Substack: buff.ly/hkxCBTP
Read the data breakdown over on our Substack: buff.ly/hkxCBTP
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'You lose yourself. You lose your sense of identity.' Powerful words from mothers living with #NRPF in this latest Shadows piece for @theconversation.com Rachel Rosen & Eve Dickson show how mothers and their children make lives in the absence of state support.
theconversation.com/homelessness...
theconversation.com/homelessness...
Homelessness, fear of starvation and racism – destitute migrant mothers and their children on the reality of life in the UK
Over six years, researchers have worked closely with 25 single-mother families living in the shadow of this policy - which even affects British citizens.
theconversation.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
'You lose yourself. You lose your sense of identity.' Powerful words from mothers living with #NRPF in this latest Shadows piece for @theconversation.com Rachel Rosen & Eve Dickson show how mothers and their children make lives in the absence of state support.
theconversation.com/homelessness...
theconversation.com/homelessness...
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How are racially minoritised children central to the bordering of Britain?
@alasirriyeh.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social reflects on theories of migratisation, the work of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and the erasure of belonging.
#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/vkEHpXp
@alasirriyeh.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social reflects on theories of migratisation, the work of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and the erasure of belonging.
#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/vkEHpXp
September 15, 2025 at 6:38 AM
How are racially minoritised children central to the bordering of Britain?
@alasirriyeh.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social reflects on theories of migratisation, the work of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and the erasure of belonging.
#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/vkEHpXp
@alasirriyeh.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social reflects on theories of migratisation, the work of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and the erasure of belonging.
#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/vkEHpXp
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I'm very excited to share that the next SSAHE webinar will be a celebration of my new book - Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy - and of Bordering Social Reproduction by Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson. Please register and join us online, 9 October, at 5pm #AcademicSky
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Next webinar: Bordering/Mothering, 9 October
Register on EventBrite to receive a Zoom link. In this event, we will celebrate two new books by SSAHE members: Bordering social reproduction: Migrant mothers and children making lives in the …
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September 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I'm very excited to share that the next SSAHE webinar will be a celebration of my new book - Borders, Citizenship, and Pregnancy - and of Bordering Social Reproduction by Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson. Please register and join us online, 9 October, at 5pm #AcademicSky
ssahe.net/2025/09/03/n...
ssahe.net/2025/09/03/n...
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Well, Yvette, maybe refugees are applying for family reunification as soon as they can because 1) they've spent ages waiting for status and miss their kids; 2) it takes ages for reunification applications to be approved; and 3) their kids are ineligible once they turn 18 www.gov.uk/government/s...
Strengthening border security and reforms to the asylum system
Home Secretary statement on actions the government is taking with France to strengthen border security and reforms to the asylum system.
www.gov.uk
September 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Well, Yvette, maybe refugees are applying for family reunification as soon as they can because 1) they've spent ages waiting for status and miss their kids; 2) it takes ages for reunification applications to be approved; and 3) their kids are ineligible once they turn 18 www.gov.uk/government/s...
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Why bother with a discussion of what family reunion actually is & an analysis of the impact of changes with, say, @ramfel.bsky.social who recently published an excellent report excoriating the system’s EXISTING failures that keep families apart?
Nah. It’s #r4today🤷♀️ www.ramfel.org.uk/family-reuni...
Nah. It’s #r4today🤷♀️ www.ramfel.org.uk/family-reuni...
Safe Routes to Nowehere
Our report, Safe Routes to Nowhere: The UK’s Broken Promises on Family Reunion, is the result of nearly 2.5 years of work, drawing on RAMFEL’s casework experience and government data on family reunion...
www.ramfel.org.uk
September 1, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Why bother with a discussion of what family reunion actually is & an analysis of the impact of changes with, say, @ramfel.bsky.social who recently published an excellent report excoriating the system’s EXISTING failures that keep families apart?
Nah. It’s #r4today🤷♀️ www.ramfel.org.uk/family-reuni...
Nah. It’s #r4today🤷♀️ www.ramfel.org.uk/family-reuni...
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Advance article (open access): Student antiracist activism and institutionalised equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in UK universities by Hannah Jones and Ala Sirriyeh - @uncomfiest @alasirriyeh.bsky.social -
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July 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Advance article (open access): Student antiracist activism and institutionalised equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in UK universities by Hannah Jones and Ala Sirriyeh - @uncomfiest @alasirriyeh.bsky.social -
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Wait ages for an article then 2 come along at once: w @alasirriyeh.bsky.social in @csp-journal.bsky.social
"Student antiracist activism & institutionalised equality, diversity & inclusion in UK #universities"
on #EDI #DEI in #HE as gateway to actual #antiracism
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
"Student antiracist activism & institutionalised equality, diversity & inclusion in UK #universities"
on #EDI #DEI in #HE as gateway to actual #antiracism
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
July 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Wait ages for an article then 2 come along at once: w @alasirriyeh.bsky.social in @csp-journal.bsky.social
"Student antiracist activism & institutionalised equality, diversity & inclusion in UK #universities"
on #EDI #DEI in #HE as gateway to actual #antiracism
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
"Student antiracist activism & institutionalised equality, diversity & inclusion in UK #universities"
on #EDI #DEI in #HE as gateway to actual #antiracism
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Yet another child death linked to NRPF. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024... #NRPF
Girl, two, who drowned in bin in London was failed by council, coroner finds
Social workers declined to provide short-term foster care for Mazeedat Adeoye whose mother had overstayed visa
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2024 at 11:28 AM
Yet another child death linked to NRPF. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024... #NRPF
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On Intl Solidarity Day with the Palestinian people, we reaffirm our position on migrant justice: all people should be free to move + no people should ever be forced to move.
We can't have migrant justice without an end to settler colonialism, genocide + displacement.
We can't have migrant justice without an end to settler colonialism, genocide + displacement.
November 29, 2024 at 10:00 AM
On Intl Solidarity Day with the Palestinian people, we reaffirm our position on migrant justice: all people should be free to move + no people should ever be forced to move.
We can't have migrant justice without an end to settler colonialism, genocide + displacement.
We can't have migrant justice without an end to settler colonialism, genocide + displacement.
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Today is a general strike in Italy - organised by the main unions against, amongst other issues, budget cuts in the education system & the militarisation of universities, & in solidarity with Palestinians. Today is also The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
In Florence
In Florence
November 29, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Today is a general strike in Italy - organised by the main unions against, amongst other issues, budget cuts in the education system & the militarisation of universities, & in solidarity with Palestinians. Today is also The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
In Florence
In Florence
Great to see this out in the world! Our new publication led by Prof Milfrid Tonheim on relational and cultural continuity for migrant children in foster care. Learned a lot from our conversations.
Delighted to have this article published: it is based on an international policy analysis of relational & cultural continuity in foster care, focused on children from migrant background. Lead author is Milfrid Tonheim, co-authors Ketil Eide and Ala Sirriyeh:
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Relational and cultural continuity for children in foster care; A critical exploration of national policies in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, England, Ireland and Scotland
Based on an analysis of 14 national child welfare policies, the paper explores how relational and cultural continuity are framed in national foster ca…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 29, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Great to see this out in the world! Our new publication led by Prof Milfrid Tonheim on relational and cultural continuity for migrant children in foster care. Learned a lot from our conversations.