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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · Sep 19

link.springer.com/book/10.1007... This book, at its core, examines what migration governance looks like when states step back and let markets lead. Out now open access #migcitsky #polisky #IRsky #gendersky

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 1h

ceemr.uw.edu.pl/articles/tha... New piece from Olga Wanicka #migcitsky

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 1h

Its forecast to be a Category 5. These used to be so rare. Now they come every few years #fungwong

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 2h

rodecijfers.substack.com/p/hoe-de-uit... On Dutch neoliberal migration governance #migcitsky

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 17h

At Noord Station.

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 23h

New piece on 'migrant labour regimes' celsi.sk/media/discus...

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 1d

This whole section. Wooooow. Oooookkkkk 😱

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 1d

Skimming the Mamdani archive. From 'Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity'.

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 2d

The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.

Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 2d

The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024

UK ‘sliding into avoidable crisis’, major review into workplace sickness warns

The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024

www.independent.co.uk

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 2d

If we were to trace Zohran's intellectual heritage, I would credit his father's impressive body of work. Starting with this.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 2d

@aoc.bsky.social says of Mamdani victory: "A lot of people...are willing to talk about party unity when it serves them, but not party unity when it serves everybody."

"We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind."

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 2d

Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.

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Philosopher Jersey Flight @jerseyflight.bsky.social · 2d

What we will remember most from these years is not the corrupt and evil actors, but all the heart-breakingly beautiful resisters and fighters for democracy. There is still much work to do, but heroes are emerging everywhere, just ordinary people who care about each other and freedom.

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 3d

Happy with my results. Voted for the GL-PvDA candidate living closest to me with a track record and ongoing agenda tackling GBV.

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 3d

This is so good. No canned answers, no prepared speeches. Clear, funny, brilliant. Mamdani should be an ad for training in the spicier side of the humanities 🙂

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

Locked in with @arimelber.bsky.social.

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 3d

www.scmp.com/week-asia/ec... The PH is militarily weak, certainly in comparison to neighbours of similar size. Paradoxically, this probably makes it possible to build security relationships that may be viewed as relatively non-threatening...

South China Sea: what does Europe see in the Philippines?

Sweden is eyeing a permanent defence attaché in the Philippines to secure trade lanes against a ‘changed China’ in the Indo-Pacific.

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Kate McNamara @katemcnamara.bsky.social · 3d

Trying to make sense of Trump’s foreign policy? Check out @abenewman.bsky.social & Stacie Goddard’s “Neo-royalism” for how Trump & elites are using the powers of the Presidency to extract money & status for themselves, with zero interest in national security or prosperity. 👇🧵

Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 3d

1/UAE Chip deal offers textbook case in neo-royalism. Elite ties rather than national security drive dealmaking. The winner is not national security but Trump inner circile.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Microsoft to invest over $15 billion in UAE, secures US export licenses for Nvidia chips

Microsoft will invest over $15 billion in the United Arab Emirates in the seven years to the end of 2029 and has the Trump administration's approval to export Nvidia chips for its data centres there, a senior executive told Reuters on Monday.

www.reuters.com

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International Studies Association @isanet.bsky.social · 3d

Happening today! Learn more & register: buff.ly/fuzqCbN

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 4d

It's big money...and a big lobby.

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 4d

www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.alja... CAD's pivot to Asia...bold moves jeez. Diving right in 😳

Canada, Philippines sign defence pact to deter Beijing in South China Sea

China has frequently accused the Philippines of acting as a 'troublemaker' and 'saboteur of regional stability'.

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 4d

Dutch elections in a nutshell #pokisky #eusky #IRsky

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 4d

www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre... Antonio Acosta: "Our partnership is long-term and strategic. Together, we are building a future of peace, prosperity, and stability. You can count on the European Union as a reliable, predictable and trustworthy partner."

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 4d

fulcrum.sg/restoring-mu... "With the US backing out of multilateral trade deals, there is a possibility that the EU could link up with two expansive networks – the CPTPP and RCEP – to form a mega trading bloc."

Restoring Multilateralism: Can Regional Cooperation Arrangements Fill the Void? | FULCRUM

With the US backing out of multilateral trade deals, there is a possibility that the EU could link up with two expansive networks – the CPTPP and RCEP – to form a mega trading bloc.

fulcrum.sg

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 5d

"What is the message migrant workers in the NL should take from the decision of the OM? That they can be exploited with impunity?"

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 9d

us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Migrante Netherlands is organizing a webinar this Saturday on the decision of the Public Prosecutor's Office that there was no labour exploitation of Filipino and Indonesian cleaners in the case brought against Saints & Stars Gym in Amsterdam.

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Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 5d

Revisiting Ruben Timmermans' dissertation pure.eur.nl/en/publicati...

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 5d

"The Dutch government is afraid to set a legal precedent that would disrupt the labour system on which its economy depends."

Liberty Chee @libertychee.bsky.social · 5d

This is a built-in structure of the Dutch labour market.