Hannah Lewis
@hannahjlewis.bsky.social
Freedom and unfreedom in work, leisure and citizenship. People who move & resistance to precarity. Policy & practice responses to 'modern slavery', refugee settlement and migrant youth inclusion. Sociology Senior Lecturer, Uni of Sheffield. 🇪🇭 Sahara Libre
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So many of the problems with the UK asylum system - culture of disbelief, poor or nonexistent advice, endless delays, cruel accommodation policies - rolled into one awful case.
@diane-writer10.bsky.social always gets the human stories others miss or don’t care about
@diane-writer10.bsky.social always gets the human stories others miss or don’t care about
The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain
Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decision
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
So many of the problems with the UK asylum system - culture of disbelief, poor or nonexistent advice, endless delays, cruel accommodation policies - rolled into one awful case.
@diane-writer10.bsky.social always gets the human stories others miss or don’t care about
@diane-writer10.bsky.social always gets the human stories others miss or don’t care about
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There are a lot of misconceptions about peoples' desire to work and to contribute.
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
There are a lot of misconceptions about peoples' desire to work and to contribute.
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Must-read @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the link between Mahmood's "story" and policies. I would only add that the tensions grow in contrast to the policies that allowed for her family's integration: pre-1973, *immediate* settlement for most Commonwealth immigrants www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Must-read @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the link between Mahmood's "story" and policies. I would only add that the tensions grow in contrast to the policies that allowed for her family's integration: pre-1973, *immediate* settlement for most Commonwealth immigrants www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Shabana Mahmood's proposal to stop being told to "go back home" is to send people "home". Her proposal to stop black and brown people from feeling like they don't belong, is to bake in to the immigration system that they will never belong.
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Shabana Mahmood's proposal to stop being told to "go back home" is to send people "home". Her proposal to stop black and brown people from feeling like they don't belong, is to bake in to the immigration system that they will never belong.
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Home Office: How dare people say we are acting like the far-right?
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Home Office: How dare people say we are acting like the far-right?
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.
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In 2023 @tom-clark.bsky.social got me to write a chapter for his book on UK poverty about how immigration limbo, which Labour wants more of, makes people destitute. It was the most distressing piece I've ever worked on. We sent a copy to every MP. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/6081...
Destitute by design: trapped in the immigration system
Migration policy is not only failing people forced to arrive in Britain by
boats. In an extract from a new edited volume, Daniel Trilling reports on t...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 8:36 AM
In 2023 @tom-clark.bsky.social got me to write a chapter for his book on UK poverty about how immigration limbo, which Labour wants more of, makes people destitute. It was the most distressing piece I've ever worked on. We sent a copy to every MP. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/6081...
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Welcome to the Green Party, former Labour and Co-operative MP for Brighton Kemptown, @russell-moyle.co.uk 💚
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Welcome to the Green Party, former Labour and Co-operative MP for Brighton Kemptown, @russell-moyle.co.uk 💚
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Former Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle is defecting to the Green Party
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Exclusive: Ex Labour MP to defect to the Green Party
Lloyd Russell-Moyle will announce his defection tomorrow
www.newstatesman.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Former Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle is defecting to the Green Party
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Colder today, but the sun is out! @sheffielducu.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Colder today, but the sun is out! @sheffielducu.bsky.social
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#PalestineSolidarity roving picket visiting the excellent picket at Firth Court. #UCUstrike @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucuhallam.bsky.social #sheffield
November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
#PalestineSolidarity roving picket visiting the excellent picket at Firth Court. #UCUstrike @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucuhallam.bsky.social #sheffield
Day 3 Sheffield Uni UCU strike against threat of extensive redundancies. 400 academic staff gone. Nearly 100 more now confirmed. They want another £10m staff saving this year, despite being in a strong position financially. #SheffieldUCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
November 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Day 3 Sheffield Uni UCU strike against threat of extensive redundancies. 400 academic staff gone. Nearly 100 more now confirmed. They want another £10m staff saving this year, despite being in a strong position financially. #SheffieldUCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
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JOINT RALLY ANNOUNCEMENT:
Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.
Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.
November 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
JOINT RALLY ANNOUNCEMENT:
Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.
Join us on Monday 17th November, 12:30PM @ Bakers Pool, Sheffield. For a joint rally with Uni of Sheffield. There will be speakers from both branches and we will hear from Dave Pike, TUC Regional Secretary, NE Yorkshire and Humber.
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Heading to picket line for day 1 of @sheffielducu.bsky.social strike against compulsory job losses ✊✊🏼✊🏾 www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
Mass strikes to hit University of Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam in November and December over job cuts
A combined 28 days of strike action will hit the city of Sheffield over the next two months in rows over job cuts at Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam universities, UCU announced today.
www.ucu.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Heading to picket line for day 1 of @sheffielducu.bsky.social strike against compulsory job losses ✊✊🏼✊🏾 www.ucu.org.uk/article/1423...
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Heartbroken to be on strike (again) - never an easy decision 👍 We cannot accept a university in which staff jobs, student education, and research progress are under threat by major (and financially unnecessary) change management processes. @sheffielducu.bsky.social #Sheffield #DigitalPicket
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Heartbroken to be on strike (again) - never an easy decision 👍 We cannot accept a university in which staff jobs, student education, and research progress are under threat by major (and financially unnecessary) change management processes. @sheffielducu.bsky.social #Sheffield #DigitalPicket
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On strike again to fight back against the relentless pursuit of damaging cuts and restructures by the appalling management at @sheffielduni.bsky.social We won't stand idly by while they continue to drive this institution into the ground! @sheffielducu.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
On strike again to fight back against the relentless pursuit of damaging cuts and restructures by the appalling management at @sheffielduni.bsky.social We won't stand idly by while they continue to drive this institution into the ground! @sheffielducu.bsky.social
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Day 2! People out in force on the picket lines 🙌 Nice to see a relatively active #DigitalPicket too @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Staff at University of Sheffield begin strike action
Staff at the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University are taking part in strikes.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Day 2! People out in force on the picket lines 🙌 Nice to see a relatively active #DigitalPicket too @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Exactly this. The expansion of immigration policies creating permanent temporariness is known the world over to create fresh opportunities for unscrupulous employers to exploit and abuse workers ➡️
Keeping people temporary makes it harder to find work and more difficult to challenge exploitation if in work. Further limiting support for asylum seekers will increase destitution & remove options creating huge risks of exploitation. This policy making is cruel and will do much harm
The proposed changes to refugee protection in the UK are performatively cruel, and will drive labour exploitation.
Read FLEX's statement on the Home Secretary's asylum reform: labourexploitation.org/news/flex-st...
Read FLEX's statement on the Home Secretary's asylum reform: labourexploitation.org/news/flex-st...
November 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Exactly this. The expansion of immigration policies creating permanent temporariness is known the world over to create fresh opportunities for unscrupulous employers to exploit and abuse workers ➡️
Great to see some of the giants of the UK solidarity movement's long fight for freedom of Western Sahara at the Houses of Parliament reception to mark the 50th anniversary of the conflict. Thanks to Ben Lake MP (PC, Preseli) for hosting, and to EU Polisario Rep Omar Mansour for a powerful speech 🧵
November 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Great to see some of the giants of the UK solidarity movement's long fight for freedom of Western Sahara at the Houses of Parliament reception to mark the 50th anniversary of the conflict. Thanks to Ben Lake MP (PC, Preseli) for hosting, and to EU Polisario Rep Omar Mansour for a powerful speech 🧵
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Only the people of Western Sahara should decide their future. It is their inalienable right to self-determination that is inscribed in the UN Charter and international law. This sets an extremely dangerous precedent.
November 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Only the people of Western Sahara should decide their future. It is their inalienable right to self-determination that is inscribed in the UN Charter and international law. This sets an extremely dangerous precedent.
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'The Saharawi struggle is not unique. It is the struggle of all colonized people'
After a 50 year stalemate, the UN Security Council has backed Moroccan autonomy over Western Sahara. Najla Mohamed-Lamin reflects on the need for global unity and resistance.
newint.org/refugees/202...
After a 50 year stalemate, the UN Security Council has backed Moroccan autonomy over Western Sahara. Najla Mohamed-Lamin reflects on the need for global unity and resistance.
newint.org/refugees/202...
Today it is the Saharawis, tomorrow it could be you
After a 50 year stalemate, the UN Security Council has backed Moroccan autonomy over Western Sahara. Najla Mohamed-Lamin reflects on the need for global unity and resistance.
newint.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
'The Saharawi struggle is not unique. It is the struggle of all colonized people'
After a 50 year stalemate, the UN Security Council has backed Moroccan autonomy over Western Sahara. Najla Mohamed-Lamin reflects on the need for global unity and resistance.
newint.org/refugees/202...
After a 50 year stalemate, the UN Security Council has backed Moroccan autonomy over Western Sahara. Najla Mohamed-Lamin reflects on the need for global unity and resistance.
newint.org/refugees/202...
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"Libertad para el Sahara Occidental" ✊🏼
November 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"Libertad para el Sahara Occidental" ✊🏼
TODAY! Sheffield, come on down for a whole day of solidarity teach in/teach out drop-ins. @assistsheffield.bsky.social @symaag.bsky.social @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social
Join us for a full day of mobilisation at the University of Sheffield on 11/11/2025 from 11am to 4pm (no need to register)
Programme and more information here: sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
Programme and more information here: sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
November 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
TODAY! Sheffield, come on down for a whole day of solidarity teach in/teach out drop-ins. @assistsheffield.bsky.social @symaag.bsky.social @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social
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Fifty years of plunder: How Morocco and its allies profit from Western Sahara - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/western-sahara-fifty-years-plunder-profit-morocco-allies
Fifty years of plunder: How Morocco and its allies profit from Western Sahara
The natural resources of Africa’s last colony are exploited by foreign companies, with renewables greenwashing Morocco's grip
www.middleeasteye.net
November 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Fifty years of plunder: How Morocco and its allies profit from Western Sahara - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/western-sahara-fifty-years-plunder-profit-morocco-allies
Every time I see another escalation of mortal threat in the name of preserving 'liberal democracies', all I can think is that we need to get busy building the community organising we'll need to dismantle killing people for moving to seek a livelihood before climate change displacement hits hard.
It seems that shootings at sea are just par for the course in Starmer’s longstanding strategy to outsource borders. Read the story ⤵️
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
Even shots on Britons won’t stop UK’s border expansion
It seems that shootings at sea are just par for the course in Starmer’s longstanding strategy to outsource borders
www.opendemocracy.net
November 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Every time I see another escalation of mortal threat in the name of preserving 'liberal democracies', all I can think is that we need to get busy building the community organising we'll need to dismantle killing people for moving to seek a livelihood before climate change displacement hits hard.
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Almost immediately he's with those with “palms calloused from delivery-bike handlebars”.
This is the way.
Labour botched it. I hope the Greens are taking notes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
This is the way.
Labour botched it. I hope the Greens are taking notes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
In a Speech Full of Hope, Mamdani Celebrates a New Political Order
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Almost immediately he's with those with “palms calloused from delivery-bike handlebars”.
This is the way.
Labour botched it. I hope the Greens are taking notes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
This is the way.
Labour botched it. I hope the Greens are taking notes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...