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Jeff Crisp @jfcrisp.bsky.social · 9h

'Key Isssues in Global Refugee Policy:
Analysis, Commentary and Advocacy, 2015-2025'.
A compilation of e-links to around 80 articles I've published over the past decade, most of them brief and easily readable!
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Key issues in global refugee policy: analysis, commentary and advocacy 2015 - 2025 Jeff Crisp Refugee Studies Centre University of Oxford September 2025 [email protected] @jfcrisp @jfcrisp.b...

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 12h

Convicted felon whose name is in the Epstein files wants to imprison the Mayor of Chicago and the Governor of Illinois.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 12h

W.E.B. Du Bois' review of the 1940 film Pride and Prejudice. credo.library.umass.edu/view/pagetur...

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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 14h

Just incredible stuff. Example: Du Bois' notes on "The Origins and Methods of the German Railway System". Does he finally explain why the Deutsche Bahn is always late? Or perhaps the trains ran on time in 1889? Read 25 pages of handwritten notes to find out! credo.library.umass.edu/view/pagetur...

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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 14h

Terrible typo here: *Du* Bois

Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 14h

I'm sure Du Bois scholars know about this already but was not aware of this online resource of Bu Bois' papers at Umass Amhearst. Absolutely amazing stuff in here. credo.library.umass.edu/view/collect...

W. E. B. Du Bois Papers Overview

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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 15h

Teaching this essay by Frederick Douglass, “Is it Right and Wise to Kill a Kidnapper?”, is going to hit different this semester. www.contextus.org/Frederick_Do...

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Frederick Douglass, Is it Right and Wise to Kill a Kidnapper (Jun 2, 1854) ...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
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Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Refugee Studies Centre @refugeestudies.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Associate Professor Catherine Briddick on her new book, which analyses the treatment of women in migration law. The book identifies patterns of disadvantage, scrutinises justifications for differential treatment, and argues for migration status reform: bit.ly/women-migrat...

New book by Catherine Briddick analyses treatment of women in migration law

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

Man…man.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

“Why Sergio?”: Deportation ends 36-year dream for celebrated Waco chef

Sergio Garcia built a wide following for his regional Mexican cuisine over the decades, becoming a favorite of the White House press corps visiting Waco during the Bush presidency. Then in March, ICE ...

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 1d

A series of one-year postdocs?

Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 2d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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Vanessa Cardenas @vcardenas.bsky.social · 1d

This administration is making it increasingly clear by their actions that the ‘enemy within’ is us – ordinary, hard-working, God-fearing Americans.

New Fact Sheet: The Truth About Mass Deportations – U.S. Citizens Are Being Caught in the Web - America's Voice

Washington, DC — In a new America’s Voice fact sheet, we highlight examples of U.S. citizens being ensnared by this administration’s mass deportation crusade (see below). As Vanessa Cárdenas, Executiv...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 3d

"That somebody might use the app to break the law doesn't mean the app can be banned any more than a newspaper ... because someone might use its reporting in a manner that the administration considers unlawful," FPF's @seth-stern.bsky.social told BBC.

Could US government ban apps which track ICE agents?

The US government and law enforcement agencies have hit out at developers and users of the apps, saying they pose a risk to agents.

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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 1d

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

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Immigrant Defenders Law Center @immdef.bsky.social · 2d

DHS is offering $2.5K to unaccompanied kids to drop legal claims & accept deportation. That’s not help—it’s coercion. It exploits their vulnerability in custody, says legal director Mickey Donovan-Kaloust. 🔗 laist.com/news/dhs-una...

DHS begins targeting unaccompanied children with 'voluntary' deportation offer

Children asked to waive right to see a judge in exchange for $2,500

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 2d

New Yorker cartoons nail it again.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 2d

This is a remarkable document. here is a mayor restricting her constituents’ first amendment rights to (checks notes) protect them from (checks notes) the federal (really?) government.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 2d

New: Broadview, IL Mayor Katrina Thompson issued an executive order today - her first this year - limiting protest outside the Broadview ICE facility to between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

The order cites "recent escalation of violence by ICE" at the facility as reason to restrict protest there.

An executive order restricting protest at the Broadview ICE facility. Full order can be found here:

https://broadview-il.gov/reference/latest-news/village-of-broadview-executive-order-no-2025-01/

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 2d

Editor @brianlyman.bsky.social writes that the detention and departure of two immigrants in the state -- both lacking criminal records -- is a reminder that immigrants aren't the problem. The problem is an immigration system determined to keep most immigrants outside the protections of the law.

Immigrating legally shouldn't be hard. Harassing immigrants shouldn't be easy. | Alabama Reflector

You can't immigrate to the United States "the right way" when the system makes it effectively impossible to come to the country legally.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3d

US immigration enforcement is now the 13th most well-funded military in the world, ahead of Canada and, incredibly, just behind Israel.

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If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the United States were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world. This puts it higher than the national militaries of Poland, Italy, Australia, Canada, Turkey and Spain — and just below Israel.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 2d

Apple and Google blocked downloads of apps that flag sightings of federal immigration agents. The move followed the Trump administration's demand last week for Apple to take down ICEBlock, one such iPhone app, the AP reports.

Apple and Google block apps that crowdsource ICE sightings. Some warn of chilling effects

Apple and Google blocked downloads of phone apps that flag sightings of U.S. immigration agents, just hours after the Trump administration demanded that one particularly popular iPhone app be taken down.

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