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Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 5d

I published an adapted reflection I did as a keynote speech at the international franco-british conference 'New perspectives on migration in Latin America'. I used the concept of encruzilhada to muddle binary categories of migration looking at the Darien Gap.

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Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 8d

I wrote something (in Portuguese) about why I don't buy Brazil's govt current slogan against Trump's interventions: that 'Brazil belongs to Brazilians'. More below:

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Por que eu não compro esse discurso do ‘Brasil é dos Brasileiros’

Eu entendo por que essa seja a campanha do atual governo – e de alguns movimentos – frente às tentativas de intervenção estadunidenses no Brasil. Mas o que é Brasil? E o que é o brasileiro?

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Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · 17d

Quer saber mais sobre como os vistos Humanitarios foram historicamente desenvolvidos no Brasil? Dá uma olhada na linha do tempo que fizemos. Abaixo, no @nexojornal.bsky.social

Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli @patnabuco.bsky.social · 18d

Acabamos (@cintranatalia.bsky.social, Svetlana Ruseishvilli e eu) de publicar uma linha do tempo com os marcos dos vistos humanitários no Brasil. Esse é um dos resultados do nosso projeto HUMANVISA financiado pelo ESRC/UKRI

pp.nexojornal.com.br/linha-do-tem...

Marcos dos vistos humanitários no Brasil

O Brasil possui diversas normas e políticas para a recepção e a permanência no país de pessoas em deslocamento forçado. Além dos marcos normativos sobre o direito ao refúgio, tais como a Convenção de ...

pp.nexojornal.com.br

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Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · Sep 11

Problem with my approach with Academia is that the rejections feel way more acutely than whatever wins I have, and for a time they feel meaningless in the face of the losses I have to face. I have had many losses and many wins, and have yet to learn to develop a new approach

Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · Aug 24

Still coming to grips that no amount of AI can help me in a transcription of a 2h interview I just did here in my fieldwork in Tijuana that consisted of me and my interviewees speaking in both Spanish and French, and sometimes in Haitian Creole. Does anyone know of any solution?

Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · Aug 20

Today I visited Centro32, such an amazing organisation providing support for migrants in Tijuana, particularly solo women, single moms, children/teenagers, and LGBT+ people.

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Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · Aug 15

Today I've been to the La Casita de la UT in Tijuana, a shelter for displaced trans women coming through, to and deported to Tijuana - and also a welcoming place offering amazing services (and activism) to the trans and/or sex worker community of the city. Thanks to Susana for the warm welcome

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Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · Aug 14

Anyone doing a database of Brazilians with US visas revoked or should I?

Politico @politico.com · Aug 13

The US revoked the visas of two former senior health officials in Brazil for their involvement in a program that sent Cuban doctors to remote areas in the South American nation.

US imposes visa restrictions on Brazilian officials for working with Cuban medical mission

The restrictions target government officials from Grenada and Brazil, among other countries.

www.politico.com

Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · Aug 13

Perfect! Thank youu

Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · Aug 13

Omg currently writing a paper about this but with a different approach. I'd love to cite you. Is it cheeky to ask whether I could have an early version? 😬😬 Appreciate it regardless if yes or no. And congrats! Looks fab

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Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · Aug 12

I closed 72 tabs today, created a reading list bookmark, and I feel 10kg lighter

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Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · Aug 1

In 2000, Africa had just 15 million phone lines. By 2025, over 615 million Africans will be online—more than Europe’s population. This isn’t public sector planning—it’s the private sector laying cables, launching satellites, and turning Africa into the world’s fastest-growing digital frontier.

The Rise of African Telecom: News Article - Independent Institute

Africa’s a land of great untapped potential. The continent is full of natural resources, big cities, and a large, hardworking population. The "untapped"

www.independent.org

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · Jul 28

If against all odds you made it in a system that discriminates against you, your job is to do your best to change it from the inside to become fairer, not to say I made it, so can you!

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Migration Observatory @migobs.bsky.social · Jul 23

Care work is now closed to overseas recruitment. Will UK employers hire more international students instead?

Little known fact: former international students are actually already a major source of recruitment in UK care, and this can in theory continue until 2028

(link to our analysis in reply)

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · Jul 22

'A 2021 study estimated that UK academics contribute $391 million worth of unpaid labour annually through peer reviewing alone. These non-cash contributions are essential to the functioning of the scholarly publishing system yet are often overlooked in discussions about cost and value.'

We must break the link between publisher revenue and article volume

Volume-driven publishing pushes up costs and threatens research integrity. We need new agreements with healthier incentives, says Anna Vernon

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · Jul 22

Overheard a conversation today in England and a woman said: 'i will never take the kids to the middle of the jungle in bloody south america'. So here are examples of me in the middle of the jungle in 3 diff countries in bloody south America:

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · Jul 20

Forgotten Indigenous child slaves of "New France" in Canada have been revealed in new studies.
Current estimates are that there were up to 10,000 enslaved people in the New France colony.
archaeologymag.com/2025/07/forg...

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Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social · Jul 19

Me, my writing projects, my hobbies, my work commitments, & my poor time management skills.

Late medieval/early modern depiction of a man being pulled apart by horses.

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Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · Jul 19

My conspiracy theory is that pigeons have worked for humans for centuries and developed close proximity with us and our way of life but have been abandoned by us with the development of military and communications technology - and are now reduced as dirty disease carrier urban birds

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · Jul 19

more elegant in illustration

The Pigeon Spy and His Work in War How a German apothe-
his son invented a camera where-
cary filled Prescriptions by
by pigeons could make photo-
carrier Pigeons and how
graphs for the German army
OF bt the
strangest phenomena
of the war has been the revival during its course of methods and implements used in the warfares of medieval times and even of antiquity. hear of slings and catapults
for
We firing
explosive bombs a short distance, of arrows shot from aeroplanes, of helmets, breastplates, and shields for the protection of the soldiers.
Now, last of all,
comes word that pigeons, the carriers of intelligence in times of stress in remote times, are used as photographers of the positions of the enemy.
It is a strange
the air-ship, the last and most caring invention of man's brain, rising in the early dawn to search out and photograph the foe's movements, and the graceful pigeon, so frequently mentioned in the stories of early days, soaring, perhaps at the same moment, to act as an aerial scout.
But modern ingenuity has added some. thing to the older roles of the carrier pigeon-and has turned him into a pho-tographer.
The only authenticated re-
ports of this use have been found in
accounts of a German invention, some of the pigeons having been brought down behind the allied lines.
Whether the
Allies have tried the same means of getting photographs of German entrenchments and troops is a matter of con-jecture.
The story of this development of the pigeon's work goes back to 1840, and the enterprise of a German apothecary of Cronberg named Neubronner.
He gave the doctors of the surrounding country pigeons by which they could send him prescriptions needed in haste.
In this way the medicine was ready by the time the messenger with the other copy of the prescription arrived.
In
urgent cases the apothecary,
himself,
sent a messenger with the preparation.
This ingenious sales' service was carried on for a long while.
The apothecary's son, Dr. Jules Neu-bronner, like his f

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Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · Jul 19

Excited for this - will deffo get it once out. What a lovely cover too

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Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · Jul 19

I am sorry to say, but pinpointing the displacement situation of Venezuelans to Maduro only is very simplistic - in fact, this type of narrative was what far right govts in the region have been using to politicise their displacement.

Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · Jul 19

Venezuelans are returned from El Salvador and suddenly I see a thousand experts in their situation making the most varied statements. Coincidentally, none of these novel experts are Latin Americans nor do they cite, reference, quote, Latin Americans who have studied and published on the situation.

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Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · Jul 19

The issue with non refoulement and Venezuela is causing confusion online because 1) people don't understand nor have an interest in how asylum works in Latin America (spoiler alert: it's not the same as US/EU!); 2) Venezuelans are refugees and might have not suffered persecution

Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · Jul 19

Two things both true:

The loved ones of Venezuelans are celebrating that they are no longer in CECOT; some are celebrating their return home.

And.

It is a violation of international law to cause someone to be returned where they’ll be persecuted. Most of them never got a chance to make that case.

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Natalia Cintra @cintranatalia.bsky.social · Jul 18

Super excited to read it

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Centre for Political Ethnography @polethnography.bsky.social · Jul 18

🎉 What an incredible year for CPE!
We hosted some of the best scholars in political ethnography, launched new series, and ended with our first-ever CPE workshop. Here’s a look back at 2024—and what’s coming next! 🧵

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