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Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social · Aug 20

You can download A Handbook of Integration with Refugees: Global Learnings from Scotland, edited by @esaldegheri.bsky.social, @dx-fisher.bsky.social and @alisonphipps.bsky.social for free here: www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...

A Handbook of Integration with Refugees

This book brings together the voices of academics, practitioners, and people seeking sanctuary to explore the processes of refugee integration. Situated in learnings from Scotland, the book offers the...

www.multilingual-matters.com

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Dan Fisher @dx-fisher.bsky.social · Aug 14

Eeeek! They look wonderful :D

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · Aug 14

My copies arrived plus additional purchases for those folk who supported me in leading underpinning the research with Esa Aldegheri & Dan Fisher @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social @scotnational.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social @uofgvc.bsky.social

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Dan Fisher @dx-fisher.bsky.social · Aug 13

Azadeh Fatehrad and Davide Natalini, Sarah Cox, Bethia Pearson, Sadie Ryan and Marzanna Antoniak, Maggie Grant, Catrin Evans, and Avril Bellinger

Published by @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social with many contributors from @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Dan Fisher @dx-fisher.bsky.social · Aug 13

It includes a foreword from @sabirzazai.bsky.social (@scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social) and contributions from @hyabyohannes.bsky.social @teresap.bsky.social @pinaraksu.bsky.social @scothunter.bsky.social & others not on BlueSky including:

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Dan Fisher @dx-fisher.bsky.social · Aug 13

The Handbook brings together the viewpoints of academics, practitioners, artists and people seeking refuge in Scotland to explore the global learnings that can be gained. It offers hopeful alternatives to current realities of forced migration, and a compelling challenge to dominant narratives.

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Dan Fisher @dx-fisher.bsky.social · Aug 13

👉OUT NOW!👈

"A Handbook of Integration with Refugees: Global Learnings from Scotland"

Edited with @alisonphipps.bsky.social and @esaldegheri.bsky.social

The book is FREE to download from www.multilingual-matters.com

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · Jun 10

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”

They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · Jun 9

To watch the entire West back Israel's non-existent 'right' to board a vessel in international waters and abduct its crew and passengers on the might-is-right principle is to witness the Death of International Law - again! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Israeli forces take control of Gaza aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg

British-flagged yacht operated by pro-Palestinian Freedom Flotilla Coalition was making symbolic attempt to deliver aid

www.theguardian.com

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · Jun 4

IT IS HAPPENING NOW IN THE WEST BANK: Settlers are invading No Other Land director Hamdan Ballal’s village again and building a new outpost inside the village directly in front of his house.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jun 4

I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE.

Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it.

Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

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Dan Fisher @dx-fisher.bsky.social · Apr 4

Any budding actors (in Scotland) on my feed? @uofgunescorila.bsky.social are looking for two volunteers to play Mahmud and Moritz (men in their 20s) in a play written by Tom Block called 'Oud Player on the Tel'.

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Dr Hayley Bennett @haylesben.bsky.social · Mar 11

Flagging to Scottish based social policy researchers, charities, thinktanks, welfare rights, academics, community groups, public services etc.
The Scottish Government is currently consulting on their commitment to 'mitigate the 2 child limit' until 18th April: www.gov.scot/publications...

Universal Credit - mitigation of the two-child limit: consultation

The consultation seeks views on the Scottish Government's proposals to mitigate the two-child limit in Universal Credit in Scotland.

www.gov.scot

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CJ McKinney @cjmckinney.bsky.social · Mar 11

Small boats: "Bruno Retailleau, the French interior minister, said... he was seeking a law change to allow migrants to be tackled out of boats in shallow water". www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

France set to lift ban on police stopping migrant boats at sea

Authorities must intervene in shallow waters, says minister as he seeks to change law prohibiting dinghies being tackled after they launch

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Feb 17

The denial of asylum to 2,000 Afghan veterans shows how embedded anti-asylum attitudes are, otherwise the MoD would have flagged it.
It also shows up how sickening the denial of citizenship for refugees is, when people are forced into using irregular routes. 👇
www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

Denying asylum to Afghan commandos who worked with British forces reveals deeper flaws in UK immigration policy

The denial of the ability to seek asylum for Afghans who served alongside UK forces represents a significant betrayal of those who we once pledged to protect.

www.lbc.co.uk

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Dan Fisher @dx-fisher.bsky.social · Jan 31

"despite migration’s centrality to our politics and our world, nobody really understands it."

Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · Jan 31

We think the world will always be how it is now. But I think we need to imagine a world in which there are too few migrants, and many more nations competing to attract them. This is the first in a series I'll be publishing about global migration. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...

Opinion | Migration Is Remaking Our World, and We Don’t Understand It at All (Gift Article)

Migration is central to our politics and our world, but nobody really understands it.

www.nytimes.com

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · Jan 30

Was just disinvited by @bbc5live.bsky.social to a discussion of Brexit 5 years on- on the entirely reasonable/correct grounds that I know what I am talking about and would give an expert, objective view.

What they actually wanted was a "hard Remainer" (to balance a know-nothing Brexiteer).

FFS.

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · Jan 28

We’ve been on the phone with multiple agencies/orgs. They’ve been completely cut off from federal money. We’re talking housing, homeless services, public safety, etc.

I’m calling a press conference today to explain how this could have drastic local impacts to our constituents.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · Jan 22

*Attention PhD students and Early Career Researchers* - Call for papers! With support from @ukandeu.bsky.social
I will be hosting a workshop event for PhDs and ECRs on April 23rd, just after Easter. A chance to present in a supportive environment & meet new colleagues. Details attached

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · Jan 13

"Use of electronic monitoring has been subject to successful legal challenges (e.g. Court finds that the Home Office’s imposition of a GPS tag was unlawful for over a year ifirst case of its kind and High Court finds use of electronic monitoring to be unlawful)."
Indeed

@freemovement.bsky.social

Home Office evaluation of GPS tagging pilot shows no impact on compliance - Free Movement

The Home Office has published its evaluation of the pilot scheme expanding the use of electronic monitoring of people as a condition of their immigration bail.

freemovement.org.uk

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opendemocracy.net @opendemocracy.net · Jan 13

Turkish pushback survivor wins landmark case against Greece

In a groundbreaking ruling, the European Court of Human Rights finds Greece ‘systematically’ practices pushbacks

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Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social · Jan 9

This word salad doesn't even mention the UK's duty to give refuge to displaced people or to provide humanitarian aid. Literally not once.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Migrant exploitation is a progressive issue. That’s why we will now take the toughest steps ever to stop it | David Lammy

Our new sanctions regime targets those profiting from irregular migration and organised immigration crime. We must be focused and smart, says David Lammy, the UK foreign secretary

www.theguardian.com

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Jen Ang @jena.ng · Jan 8

📣The Legal Education Foundation is recruiting for new trustees!!

✨ Do you have lived and/or learned experience in frontline social justice work, the UK immigration system, strategic comms and influencing and/or progressive grantmaking? ✨

Opportunities to join our board | The Legal Education Foundation

thelegaleducationfoundation.org

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · Jan 7

From yesterday: Home Office wins appeal against interim admission of parents of separated children | Colin Yeo https://freemovement.org.uk/home-office-wins-appeal-against-admitting-parents-of-separated-children/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=home-office-wins-appeal-against-admitting-pa…

Home Office wins appeal against interim admission of parents of separated children - Free Movement

What should happen where young children are carried in a small boat to the United Kingdom and thereby separated from their parents in France? Should the

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Dan Fisher @dx-fisher.bsky.social · Jan 6

UK Gov reluctance to grant indefinite LtR at the outset to people from Ukraine (or to plan for event of protracted war) will have long-term consequences both for those affected and the Home Office.

Even if they are granted an extension, what will be next?

CJ McKinney @cjmckinney.bsky.social · Jan 6

"PoliticsHome understands that charitable organisations have presented the Government with examples of Ukrainians being cheated out of their money by scammers claiming they can fast-track the visa extension scheme" www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Ukrainian Refugees Face Uncertainty With UK Visa Extension Scheme

As the war in Ukraine rages on, thousands of refugees in the UK are stuck in limbo due to uncertainty around the Government’s visa extension scheme...

www.politicshome.com