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Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social · 6d

Archives of Arrival: Place is not a backdrop; it’s part of the record.
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Archives of Arrival: Place is not a backdrop; it’s part of the record.

Place is not a backdrop; it’s part of the record.

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Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social · 26d

Commentary on asylum hotels considering how govt can develop dignified community-based housing that meets multiple social needs. Warehousing people in camps and continuing a failed experiment in privatisation causes nothing but further harm @geogdurham.bsky.social theconversation.com/after-the-ep...

After the Epping Forest case, the government needs to be bold and build asylum housing that works

Asylum housing needs to come back under public control.

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Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social · 21d

The 'spatiotemporal politics of the asylum system linger well after an ‘end’ point of the state decision has been reached...the fragmented governance of the asylum system is made visible in its temporal margins [& in] the extension of this system beyond its legal edges' @sarahhughes90.bsky.social

TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 29d

#OpenAccess in TIBG:

'Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK' by @sarahhughes90.bsky.social

This paper explores the '28-day gap' between the approval of an asylum claim and the ending of government support.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Sarah M. Hughes (2025) entitled 'Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK' with a red banner at the top.

For many asylum seekers in the United Kingdom, being awarded refugee status signals the end of a prolonged period of waiting. At this point, they and their dependants are predominantly given permission to stay in the United Kingdom for five years. However, when a positive decision is granted, a new refugee has limited time before their existing government support (housing, finance) terminates. This transition is termed the ‘move-on period’, and, at the time of research, new refugees had only 28 days to navigate this change. Whilst civil society groups argue that the period following a positive decision poses urgent political questions, the legal gap between these two systems of governance has yet to garner significant academic attention. Scholarship has often been epistemically siloed into research looking at the governance and lived experiences of asylum seekers or the challenges and integration of refugees; the transition, or ‘gap’ between these legal categories has yet to receive sustained analysis. Building upon work on legal edges (Jeffrey 2019) this paper proposes a geographical reading of legal gaps, emerging from and speaking beyond the specifics of new refugees. It explores the construction and governance of the move-on period, together with the role of material technologies in paradoxically mediating and creating this gap. Bringing these two themes together, the paper contributes to debates on the role of materials in the governance of forced migrants and puts forward a relational theorising of legal ‘gaps’.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 26d

So shocked Conor Gearty has died

He was a fearless lawyer, teacher and writer

He was also one of the wittiest, smartest people you’d ever meet. It was an honour to call him a friend

I will miss him, terribly. Thoughts with his family, in London and Longford

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Professor Conor Gearty KC (Hon) - Matrix Chambers

It is with shock and sadness that we mourn the sudden passing of our valued colleague, and a founding member of Matrix, Professor Conor Gearty KC (Hon). Should you wish to leave a message of condolenc...

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · Sep 4

surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity

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Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social · Aug 10

“At its root, it is a story of public penny-pinching and market forces causing a problem that is then made worse by politicians promising a quick fix or finding a convenient scapegoat” @trillingual.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Targeted by the right, Britain’s asylum hotels are places of fear and disorder. Bad political decisions made it so | Daniel Trilling

In the frenzy of racism and culture warring, the issue of why hotels are used gets overlooked, says author Daniel Trilling

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Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social · Aug 5

My article on asylum accommodation and the construction of the home in law & film just published in JPPEL - A cinematic jurisprudence of homemaking in his house (2020) url: www.emerald.com/jppel/articl...

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Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social · Aug 2

Great article by @trillingual.bsky.social that highlights the way in which Starmer perhaps embodies the ambivalence of human rights law:the capacity for radical change on the basis of universal dignity vs a conservative reaffirmation of nation state neoliberalism www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights?

The long read: Many of his supporters hoped the prime minister would restore the UK’s commitment to international law. Yet Labour’s record over the past year has been curiously mixed

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Jul 30

It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives

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Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social · Jul 30

‘centrist parties amplify crisis talk, catering to simplistic and dangerous control fantasies, offering only more borders, as well as “border spectacles” – performative but nonetheless violent & racist acts of exclusion’ @mauricestierl.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An effigy of refugees, burned by a crowd: this is where Europe’s brutal fantasy of border control has led us | Maurice Stierl

The shocking scene in Northern Ireland is the result of a decade spent militarising Europe’s fringes – and dismissing the human cost, says migration and border researcher Maurice Stierl

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Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social · Jul 26

“Rather than stay asleep alone amongst the colonial ruins of utopia, we invite you to dream radically together otherwise” @jochamb.bsky.social www.uu.nl/en/opinion/t...

The Utopia*Art*Politics Collection

The concept of utopia has a dark colonial past that lives on through overgrown dreams that leave little space for other possible futures. The Utopia*Art*Politics Collection explores the alternative po...

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · Jul 22

Criminalise all elements of the genocide machine, sanction Israel, secondary sanctions on its trading partners.

Europe Street News @europestreet.bsky.social · Jul 22

France, UK and 23 other countries plus the EU issue joint plea for war in Gaza to 'end now'. www.france24.com/en/live-news... @france24.com

France, UK and 23 other countries issue joint plea for war in Gaza to 'end now'

Dozens of western nations, including France, called for an immediate end to the war in Gaza on Monday as Israel launched fresh attacks on the central city of Deir el-Balah. The countries' joint…

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jul 16

The police (wrongly) inform a peaceful protestor that holding a Palestinian flag and signs deploring genocide is an offence under the Terrorism Act. This is the deranged policing environment the government has created.

madoc cairns @madoc.bsky.social · Jul 15

Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.

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Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social · Jul 14

"Feminism must mean more than slogans for empire" @maryamaldossari.bsky.social www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/when...

When Britain's 'feminists' cheer for bombs and sneer at Palestinian suffering

The UK's most prominent 'feminists' ignore women in Gaza under bombs and siege, but speak up to manufacture consent for western wars or attack the anti-war left

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brandonshimoda.bsky.social @brandonshimoda.bsky.social · Jul 10

I wrote about Trµmp's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, the trial of Mitsuye Endo, the example of Japanese American incarceration, pledging allegiance to war, the inherence of fascism, and my grandfather's Alien Enemy Wind-Up Doll™ @thebaffler.com: t.ly/n07l7

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Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · Jul 8

For years, human rights advocates have warned of the criminalisation of migrants & activists at Europe’s borders.
With @balkanizator.bsky.social & @lolahierro.bsky.social we shed light on the opaque role of Frontex and Europol in drawing thousands into this dragnet.
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Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with Europol

Under the banner of fighting migrant smuggling, Frontex has collected, and unlawfully siphoned to Europol, personal data for years—quietly drawing thousands of migrants, as well as EU citizens aiding ...

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · Jul 8

Surreal is the right word.

Two completely indistinguishable positions on small boats from a Tory & a Labour MP on Newsnight yesterday.

Neither one of them capable of making a case that stands up to the slightest logical pushback. Pathetic.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Jul 7

Zoe Gardener calls our Labour and the Conservatives over small boat arrivals @zoejardiniere.bsky.social

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IMIS - Institute for Migration Research & Intercultural Studies @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social · Jul 4

"The #weaponisation and securitisation of #migration has a long history,” says Stierl, “the hybrid warfare narrative [...] is just the latest attempt to justify European deterrence efforts in places like #Libya, where the humanitarian situation is unimaginable for those stuck there.”

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ECRE @theecre.bsky.social · Jul 2

The Mediterranean continues to be a graveyard for people attempting to seek asylum in Europe.

🔊We must never accept such tragedies as normal. Let’s continue to advocate for EU migration and asylum policies that protect and support people in need.

Italy: One dead, several missing as migrant boat sinks near Lampedusa

A migrant boat capsized between Tunisia and Italy, leaving one dead and several missing, amid rising Mediterranean fatalities. Meanwhile, there are growing legal concerns over Italy’s contentious depo...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jun 30

Today, the UK government intends to ban the non-violent protesters Palestine Action as a "terrorist" group, exposing anyone supporting them to terrorism charges. In 2 days, 380,000 people have watched this video on YT alone.
You're going to need a bigger prison.
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Sharing This Video Could Get You 14 Years in Prison

YouTube video by Double Down News

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Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social · Jun 30

It’s publication day of my new book, Legal Geographies of Water
The Spaces, Places and Narratives of Human-Water Relations.

Even better: it’s on sale!

Legal Geographies of Water: The Spaces, Places and Narratives of Human-Water Relations

This book deepens our understanding of humanity’s diverse relationships with water and the law, providing a critical assessment of this relationship, and charting the course towards a more sustainable...

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ECRE @theecre.bsky.social · Jun 30

The German government will stop funding civilian sea rescue operations.

🔔Saving lives is not a favour. It's a moral and legal obligation.

Germany to stop funding migrant rescue ships in Mediterranean | The National

Almost 750 people reported dead or missing after attempting perilous sea crossing so far this year

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Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social · Jun 29

My review of Immigration detention and social harm – The collateral impacts of migrant incarceration edited by @michpeterie.bsky.social for @carceralgeography.bsky.social carceralgeographies.co.uk/book-review-...

Book Review: Immigration detention and social harm – The collateral impacts of migrant incarceration

Michelle Peterie (ed) (2025). Immigration detention and social harm – The collateral impacts of migrant incarceration. Routledge. Reviewed by Emma Patchett, Northumbria Law School, Northumbria Univ…

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Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social · Jun 26

@drdconlon.bsky.social & @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social discuss their new book 'Immigration Detention Inc' @plutopress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0nkE...

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · Mar 14

Read @aviddetention.bsky.social's review of @mfbosworth.bsky.social's Supply Chain Justice: "[I]t is people who are the 'product' — people who arrive or stay in the UK and are subject to detention, people who are sorted, managed, moved, and monetised."
www.aviddetention.org.uk/article/refl...

Reflections on

This is a book review, reflection and summary of Mary Bosworth's (Professor of Criminology at Border Criminologies) recently published book,

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