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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 21d

The latest issue of @jich.bsky.social (53/5) has now been published!

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The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

Volume 53, Issue 5 of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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Colonialism & Migration in Global Perspective @colmigproject.bsky.social · 28d

We are finishing three great days of project meetings at the invariably beautiful campuses of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago de Chile. Great views and great opportunities to link together our project fieldwork on 6 continents! Stay tuned

Four people sitting around a table in a wood-panelled room watching a remote presentation on a TV

Three people in the distance walking on a path through a green and forested hillside, toward white buildings and mountains in the far distance

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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · Sep 1

My article "The Windrush Scandal and the individualization of postcolonial immigration control in Britain" has passed 25,000 views, enough to put it on the @ersjournal.com most-viewed list. Thanks for (still) reading. If you use it to teach, I'd love to know! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Windrush Scandal and the individualization of postcolonial immigration control in Britain

This article argues a previously little-discussed policy shift, the individualization of UK immigration control, is key to understanding the Windrush Scandal and the wider governance of racialized ...

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Colonialism & Migration in Global Perspective @colmigproject.bsky.social · Jul 3

Thanks to everyone who stopped by (digitally) to our project panel at #IMISCOE2025, and to our discussant Prof Ipek Demir for her excellent questions/comments! Featuring team members @evansmithhist.bsky.social, @mcslaven.bsky.social, Carla Sepulveda and Hamoon Khelghat-Doost.

Screenshot of an online conference featuring several people watching and a powerpoint presentation about "Immigration politics: typology and 'convergence'"

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Colonialism & Migration in Global Perspective @colmigproject.bsky.social · Jun 30

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Colonialism & Migration in Global Perspective @colmigproject.bsky.social · Jun 30

Find our project at IMISCOE this week, in the online programme -- Thursday 10:50-12:20 (Paris time). Four papers from project partners who are beaming in from all over the world! Hope to see you there.

Colonialism and Migration in Global Perspective
Thu July 3, 10:50–12:20, Session #203 panel | migpog
Room: Online room 2

While colonialism is a global phenomenon, discussions of how it has influenced contemporary migration governance are usually confined to a handful of cases in Europe. This panel presents four papers emerging from a British Academy-funded interdisciplinary research project, which, taking colonialism’s global scope as a starting point, aims to decentre this analysis – broadening geographically and deepening temporally our understanding of how colonialism has shaped migration policies worldwide. Such a perspective questions the presumption that “settler societies” and ex-metropoles developed different, rather than similar, migration politics from their involvement in colonial empires; the frequent exclusion of Southern “settler” countries from analysis; the tendency to overlook empires based outside of Europe; a relative lack of detailed historical engagement in many social-scientific accounts of colonial influence; and a frequent lack of comparison in these examinations. Drawing insights from a range of social science and humanities fields, this project aims to help forge a global understanding of how the many identities shaped by colonization and empire shape the governance of international mobility in today’s world.

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Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social · Jun 12

Why the Social Sciences Are Important: research showcase @ University Lincoln. Social & Political Sciences colleague @mcslaven.bsky.social talking about his important @britishacademy.bsky.social funded interdisciplinary project on the relationship between colonialism & migration governance

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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · May 13

Does calling anti-immigrant policies racist work at opposing them? Much analysis (validly) says no, but I have a new 📖 article 📖 on why this was essential to changing immigration politics in Arizona 🌵. Sometimes the effective arguments aren't already popular! 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Saying racism: calling anti-immigration policies racist as effective pro-immigrant politics in Arizona

Identifying anti-immigration policies as racist commonly features in political discourse in many majority-white countries. Both behavioralist studies of voter attitudes and studies of party positio...

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Apr 30

Found today that Hathi Trust has the South African House of Assembly parliamentary debates from the 1920s and 1950s online and searchable. Game changer for my part of the @colmigproject.bsky.social project!

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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · Apr 30

Just finished a great month of fieldwork in Arizona for @colmigproject.bsky.social — 21 interviews which have given me lots to think about. While at the state capitol I also saw this painting (second image: Megargee, “The Spirit of Arizona,” 1913) which is the most colonial I’ve ever seen in AZ

An image of a left sculpture of the Arizona flag made out of legos

A 1913 oil painting by Lon Magargee called “The Spirit of Arizona” which depicts an idealized vision of white settlers cultivating a lush oasis in the Arizona desert, while a prospector and Native American ride off in the far left of the canvas

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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · Apr 25

Had a great time talking at ASU about @colmigproject.bsky.social research, and surprising people with a selfie. Thanks to the School of Politics and Global Studies and their Identity Lab and Security Lab for the excellent venue.

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Colonialism & Migration in Global Perspective @colmigproject.bsky.social · Apr 2

new project fieldwork now underway in Arizona!

Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · Apr 1

A wonderful spring day in Arizona to be back at ASU to do work on @colmigproject.bsky.social

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Yianni Cartledge @yiannicart.bsky.social · Mar 26

Our new edited book 'Forced Migration' is out in ebook form, with hardcopies coming very soon! Many thanks to my tireless co-editors @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social & @evansmithhist.bsky.social - check it out here: brill.com/display/titl...

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Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949

"Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949" published on 24 Mar 2025 by Brill.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Feb 14

Today’s reading for @colmigproject.bsky.social project

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Colonialism & Migration in Global Perspective @colmigproject.bsky.social · Mar 20

Congrats to our team member @evansmithhist.bsky.social who's on the editorial team of this important journal

Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Mar 20

The first issue of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (@jich.bsky.social) under the new editorial team is out now, with books reviews edited by me.

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/c...

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

Volume 53, Issue 1 of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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Colonialism & Migration in Global Perspective @colmigproject.bsky.social · Jan 6

Great new volume co-edited by our team member @evansmithhist.bsky.social

Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Jan 6

The new edited volume “Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949”, co-edited by @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social, @yiannicart.bsky.social and myself, is out in April and now has a website/cover. Pre-order available soon!

brill.com/display/titl...

Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949

"Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949" published on 24 Apr 2025 by Brill.

brill.com

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Petra Molnar @petramolnar.com · Nov 11

As our community here slowly grows, here is a starting list of people working on critical border studies, #migration journalists, #refugee storytellers, and border abolitionists like @hebagowayed.bsky.social @vwlegal.bsky.social @vanessid.bsky.social @nsharma101.bsky.social @nandosigona.bsky.social

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Colonialism & Migration in Global Perspective @colmigproject.bsky.social · Nov 13

Some of the work we are doing.

Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Sep 15

This is something that our project, led by @mcslaven.bsky.social, is interested in, looking at how border control systems developed concurrently across the world in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Places like Ottoman Empire and South America were developing similar controls to W Europe, Nth America & Oz

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Colonialism & Migration in Global Perspective @colmigproject.bsky.social · Nov 13

This is our team!

Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · May 20

Had a great first day of workshops in Lincoln with all of the partners on our @britishacademy.bsky.social funded project "Colonialism and Migration in Global Perspective," including the always godlike @evansmithhist.bsky.social smiling benevolently over us

A photo of all of the team members, with Evan's face very large on a screen.

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