Ria Kapoor
@riakapoor.bsky.social
Historian @ QMUL
Refugees, Migration, and Rights
Author of Making Refugees in India
Refugees, Migration, and Rights
Author of Making Refugees in India
It bears constant repetition that expertise is nurtured slowly over a very long time. It doesn’t bounce back like a rubber band with every flex of a spreadsheet. Once it is gone, it can’t be rapidly rebuilt overnight or on demand.
P.S. a lot of Research and innovation happens at unis.
P.S. a lot of Research and innovation happens at unis.
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
It bears constant repetition that expertise is nurtured slowly over a very long time. It doesn’t bounce back like a rubber band with every flex of a spreadsheet. Once it is gone, it can’t be rapidly rebuilt overnight or on demand.
P.S. a lot of Research and innovation happens at unis.
P.S. a lot of Research and innovation happens at unis.
Do come along next Monday!
The @rshc.bsky.social will be hosting @faisaldevji.bsky.social to discuss his new book, The Waning Crescent, on 1 December at 5 p.m. , in conversation with Dr. Christ Moffat at QMUL. Details below:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-...
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Launch of 'Waning Crescent: the rise and fall of global Islam'
Professor Faisal Devji discusses his examination of the rise of Islam as a global historical actor
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November 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Do come along next Monday!
Come along and let me try my ideas out on you?
Don't miss the brilliant @riakapoor.bsky.social's talk at the CSI this Thursday on “Refugee Internationalisms? The Ugandan Asian Case” 12-1pm, Thu 27 Nov, in Birkbeck Central Building room 402 - or email me for Teams link
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Come along and let me try my ideas out on you?
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My friend Henry Dee's new book "Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa, 1896-1951" has just been published by @livunipress.bsky.social . Check it out here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa, 1896-1951
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
My friend Henry Dee's new book "Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa, 1896-1951" has just been published by @livunipress.bsky.social . Check it out here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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The @rshc.bsky.social will be hosting @faisaldevji.bsky.social to discuss his new book, The Waning Crescent, on 1 December at 5 p.m. , in conversation with Dr. Christ Moffat at QMUL. Details below:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-...
Launch of 'Waning Crescent: the rise and fall of global Islam'
Professor Faisal Devji discusses his examination of the rise of Islam as a global historical actor
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The @rshc.bsky.social will be hosting @faisaldevji.bsky.social to discuss his new book, The Waning Crescent, on 1 December at 5 p.m. , in conversation with Dr. Christ Moffat at QMUL. Details below:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-...
The @rshc.bsky.social will be hosting @faisaldevji.bsky.social to discuss his new book, The Waning Crescent, on 1 December at 5 p.m. , in conversation with Dr. Christ Moffat at QMUL. Details below:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-...
Launch of 'Waning Crescent: the rise and fall of global Islam'
Professor Faisal Devji discusses his examination of the rise of Islam as a global historical actor
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The @rshc.bsky.social will be hosting @faisaldevji.bsky.social to discuss his new book, The Waning Crescent, on 1 December at 5 p.m. , in conversation with Dr. Christ Moffat at QMUL. Details below:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-...
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My book Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy is out with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social. It has been shaped by the support of a great community of scholars - grateful for generous endorsements from
@rahulraothariel.bsky.social @katesde.bsky.social @kalramnath.bsky.social
Order here - shorturl.at/55NjW
@rahulraothariel.bsky.social @katesde.bsky.social @kalramnath.bsky.social
Order here - shorturl.at/55NjW
November 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
My book Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy is out with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social. It has been shaped by the support of a great community of scholars - grateful for generous endorsements from
@rahulraothariel.bsky.social @katesde.bsky.social @kalramnath.bsky.social
Order here - shorturl.at/55NjW
@rahulraothariel.bsky.social @katesde.bsky.social @kalramnath.bsky.social
Order here - shorturl.at/55NjW
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This term card is on 🔥🔥🔥
📍📍The London History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar📍📍
⌛️Seminars are hybrid and take place in-person in London & Zoom, 5:30-7:00pm (GMT).⌛️
📲To sign up to our mailing list for the seminar, please email [email protected]
📍📍The London History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar📍📍
⌛️Seminars are hybrid and take place in-person in London & Zoom, 5:30-7:00pm (GMT).⌛️
📲To sign up to our mailing list for the seminar, please email [email protected]
November 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This term card is on 🔥🔥🔥
📍📍The London History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar📍📍
⌛️Seminars are hybrid and take place in-person in London & Zoom, 5:30-7:00pm (GMT).⌛️
📲To sign up to our mailing list for the seminar, please email [email protected]
📍📍The London History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar📍📍
⌛️Seminars are hybrid and take place in-person in London & Zoom, 5:30-7:00pm (GMT).⌛️
📲To sign up to our mailing list for the seminar, please email [email protected]
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looks great. congrats ria
I have a new article out.
TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973*
Abstract. In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s South Asians in 1972, some of those made technically stateless arrived in India unsupported
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October 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
looks great. congrats ria
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Lots of great things coming up this autumn in the CSI calendar - next up is @emmakluge.bsky.social's lunchtime seminar 'Oceanic internationalism: anticolonialism and environmentalism in the Pacific' (30 Oct 1-2pm, in person & online, msg for link)
Full programme here csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/autumn-...
Full programme here csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/autumn-...
CSI Autumn 2025 Events — Centre for the Study of Internationalism
Lunchtime seminar by Dr Emma Kluge (Exeter) on “Oceanic Internationalism: Anticolonialism and Environmentalism in the Pacific” What: The Pacific Ocean covers more than 30% of the world’s surface. Howe...
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October 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Lots of great things coming up this autumn in the CSI calendar - next up is @emmakluge.bsky.social's lunchtime seminar 'Oceanic internationalism: anticolonialism and environmentalism in the Pacific' (30 Oct 1-2pm, in person & online, msg for link)
Full programme here csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/autumn-...
Full programme here csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/autumn-...
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Please do take a look, and let me know what you think! A privilege to have the time and space to consider how displaced people exercise agency – and how to find them – in the records we do have.
New on advance access: "Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973"
by @riakapoor.bsky.social (@qmul.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by @riakapoor.bsky.social (@qmul.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
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October 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Please do take a look, and let me know what you think! A privilege to have the time and space to consider how displaced people exercise agency – and how to find them – in the records we do have.
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I have a new article out.
TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973*
Abstract. In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s South Asians in 1972, some of those made technically stateless arrived in India unsupported
academic.oup.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I have a new article out.
TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
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Incredible article on the problems of citizenship in the aftermath of empire and refugees’ use of air travel to carve out a space for themselves between exclusionary and conflicting immigration regimes.
I have a new article out.
TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973*
Abstract. In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s South Asians in 1972, some of those made technically stateless arrived in India unsupported
academic.oup.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Incredible article on the problems of citizenship in the aftermath of empire and refugees’ use of air travel to carve out a space for themselves between exclusionary and conflicting immigration regimes.
Please do take a look, and let me know what you think! A privilege to have the time and space to consider how displaced people exercise agency – and how to find them – in the records we do have.
New on advance access: "Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973"
by @riakapoor.bsky.social (@qmul.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by @riakapoor.bsky.social (@qmul.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Validate User
doi.org
October 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Please do take a look, and let me know what you think! A privilege to have the time and space to consider how displaced people exercise agency – and how to find them – in the records we do have.
I have a new article out.
TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973*
Abstract. In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s South Asians in 1972, some of those made technically stateless arrived in India unsupported
academic.oup.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I have a new article out.
TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
The third workshop in the 'Rethinking Internationalisms' series!
Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...
October 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The third workshop in the 'Rethinking Internationalisms' series!
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Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...
October 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Interested in the transitory nature of academia and how this shapes scholarship on internationalism? Come along to our virtual conference, 'Blind Spots and Buzzwords in Internationalism' on 5th and 6th Nov 👁️. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/blind-spot...
Join us for this event with Edgar Taylor on the Ugandan Archives:
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Archival Ambivalence: Labour and Status in Ugandan Archives
A study of labour and status in the history of the Uganda National Archives
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October 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Join us for this event with Edgar Taylor on the Ugandan Archives:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-a...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-a...
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Fab to see another article available as part of our SI with @hisjournalha.bsky.social! Check out: Dina Freeman, ‘The Counter-Hegemonic Internationalism of Josué de Castro: A Radical Brazilian in the Mid-Twentieth Century World Government Movement’, doi.org/10.1111/1468...
September 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Fab to see another article available as part of our SI with @hisjournalha.bsky.social! Check out: Dina Freeman, ‘The Counter-Hegemonic Internationalism of Josué de Castro: A Radical Brazilian in the Mid-Twentieth Century World Government Movement’, doi.org/10.1111/1468...
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Check out the September issue of Diplomatic History! Featuring Elisabeth Leake's (@emleake.bsky.social) Bernath Lecture "The Decolonization Paradigm: Rethinking the US and the World" in which she argues for a "new paradigm for understanding modern international history"
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September 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Check out the September issue of Diplomatic History! Featuring Elisabeth Leake's (@emleake.bsky.social) Bernath Lecture "The Decolonization Paradigm: Rethinking the US and the World" in which she argues for a "new paradigm for understanding modern international history"
doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...
doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...
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Join the Migration Museum team for a walking tour exploring the incredible stories of the generations of migrants who’ve lived, worked, and shaped the City of London.
🗓️ Sat 13 Sept 2025
🕜 1.30–3pm
📍 Starts behind the Royal Exchange, London EC3V 3LL
🔗 Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/migration-...
🗓️ Sat 13 Sept 2025
🕜 1.30–3pm
📍 Starts behind the Royal Exchange, London EC3V 3LL
🔗 Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/migration-...
Migration Museum Walking Tour
Discover 2000 years of migration history, following the stories of generations of migrants that have shaped the City of London.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
August 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Join the Migration Museum team for a walking tour exploring the incredible stories of the generations of migrants who’ve lived, worked, and shaped the City of London.
🗓️ Sat 13 Sept 2025
🕜 1.30–3pm
📍 Starts behind the Royal Exchange, London EC3V 3LL
🔗 Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/migration-...
🗓️ Sat 13 Sept 2025
🕜 1.30–3pm
📍 Starts behind the Royal Exchange, London EC3V 3LL
🔗 Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/migration-...
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Are you an early-career historian interested in radical, public and digital history?
We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop.
Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details!
www.historyworkshop....
We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop.
Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details!
www.historyworkshop....
Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
August 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Are you an early-career historian interested in radical, public and digital history?
We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop.
Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details!
www.historyworkshop....
We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop.
Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details!
www.historyworkshop....
Friends, did anyone send me a very delightful mug? I picked it up from our post room today, it is brilliant. But it did not come with a note.
July 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Friends, did anyone send me a very delightful mug? I picked it up from our post room today, it is brilliant. But it did not come with a note.
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Exciting news! The first publication for our 'Counter-Hegemonic Internationalisms' SI with @hisjournalha.bsky.social is available to read! Pls check out Aileen Lichtenstein's great article on 'Lucy Parsons's Propaganda Tour of Britain, November–December 1888' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
‘More enthusiasm and hearty concord it was never my pleasure to witness’: Lucy Parsons's Propaganda Tour of Britain, November–December 1888
Lucy Parsons was one of the most famous radical orators of the United States, but little has been written about her visit to Britain. This article investigates Parsons's lecture tour of Britain in th...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Exciting news! The first publication for our 'Counter-Hegemonic Internationalisms' SI with @hisjournalha.bsky.social is available to read! Pls check out Aileen Lichtenstein's great article on 'Lucy Parsons's Propaganda Tour of Britain, November–December 1888' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Brilliant opportunity, do consider applying!
Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....
Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
July 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Brilliant opportunity, do consider applying!