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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · Aug 8

Contract signed! My new edited book, "The Untold Stories of International Student Mobilities", will be published by Bloomsbury in 2026/2027 🥳

You can find a little preview of the amazing authors contributing to it here:
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Contract signed! | Jenna Mittelmeier

Contract signed! My new edited book, "The Untold Stories of International Student Mobilities", will be published by Bloomsbury in 2026/2027 🥳 I'm so excited to work on this book and to share a littl...

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thank you so very much Jelena! You’re too kind 🙏🙏

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · Jul 30

We are fully open-access, independent and academic-owned. We publish articles about higher education with a global disposition (broadly defined). This includes research articles, critical reflections, and practice pieces. Please consider publishing with us! journal.libraries.wm.edu/global_highe...

About the Journal | Journal of Global Higher Education

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · Jul 30

Took a little break from Bluesky recently, but I'm back to share that our new journal has now published its first issue!

Journal of Global Higher Education: journal.libraries.wm.edu/global_highe...

Open for submissions in September!

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): Inaugural Issue | Journal of Global Higher Education

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · Jun 13

Recently got a physical copy of Derrida’s Writing and Difference, but a printing error from the publisher put the children’s book “A Tricky Trespasser: A Kitty Corner Adventure” in the front of the book before Derrida’s writing starts.

Feels…apt?

Front cover of Derrida: Writing and Difference

First page of the Derrida book, with the misprint from Poppy Seed Publishers: “A Tricky Trespasser: A Kitty Corner Adventure” by Natalie Knox

Page 13: an illustration of a cat licking his further with large size text “As Lucy approached the forest, the cats were already gathering around the feeding station. Each one was at a safe distance, their eyes and ears alert for both danger and food. Will I see the tricky trespasser?”

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Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · May 23

Make no mistake: this is not only about Harvard, nor only about the US, or even only about 'Trump'. It is meant to send all universities a reminder that things such as university autonomy and academic freedom are essentially liberal decoration on the precarious balance with the power of the state.

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · May 23

Nearly 7000 students at Harvard are having their entire lives upturned, and if your first reaction is 'but how will the institution survive' .... you might want to sit with that for a minute

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · May 22

This framing is all wrong

Our international students are not a “crucial funding source”

They are our STUDENTS

They are the reason we EXIST

We teach STUDENTS

By Michael S. Schmidt and Michael C. Bender
May 22, 2025
Updated 2:17 p.m. ET
The Trump administration on Thursday halted Harvard University's ability to enroll international students, taking aim at a crucial funding source for the nation's oldest and wealthiest college in a major escalation in the administration's efforts to pressure the elite school to fall in line with the president's agenda.

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Dr Kirstie Ken English (they/them) @kenglish.bsky.social · May 16

Excited to announce that in collaboration with @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social & @kathbrowne.bsky.social I am editing a handbook on queering research methods & accepting chapter contributions now. Please share & get in touch if you have any questions.

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Call for contributors: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Queering Research Methods:
Methods and Methodologies Across the
Research Process
Edited by Kirstie Ken English, Harvey Humphrey and Kath Browne

We are looking for contributions for this interdisciplinary handbook on queering
research methods and methodologies. By showcasing groundbreaking work, we seek to
demonstrate to readers how each phase of the research process can be queered. By
their very nature queer approaches are not singularly definable. Therefore, we welcome
a vast range of different interpretations of what it means to queer research. We are
committed to amplifying contributions from individuals whose lived experiences and
perspectives have been marginalized, excluded or erased.

The core aims of this handbook are as follows:
1.Produce a resource for students to explore diverse queer approaches to methods
2.Provide ways for readers navigate the ambiguity of queer research without
subscribing to ill-fitting categories
3.Showcase groundbreaking examples of queer research and approaches as ways to
challenge and counter moral panics and anti-queer backlash
4.To prioritise interdisciplinary and intersectional thinking across this work learning
from scholars across diverse global political contexts and career stages
5.This volume seeks to make space for queer and trans individuals from a variety of
disciplines, countries and backgrounds who undertake queer research not limited to
academics.
6.Provide examples of ways to approach queer research with ethical sensitivity in
ways which do justice to queer communities

We will respond to successful submissions by Autumn 2025, with first drafts expected
in early 2026. Chapters should be less than 5,000 words.
If you are interested, please fill in our submission form where you will be asked some
information about yourself and your work and can provide an abstract (300 word
maximum). The handbook will be broken down into five sections following the
research process. You will be asked which of these five sections you think your
contribution is best suited for between:
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Queering methodologies edited by Sophie Marie Niang & Robel Afeworki Abay
Queering knowledge production edited by Jess Westbrook & Dean Tauches
Queering research tools edited by Lizzie Reed & Bethany Lamont
Queering analysis edited by Peggy Shannon-Baker & Edmund Coleman-Fountain
Queering communication and outputs edited by Sophie Atherton & Valeria
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Rachel Brooks @rachelbrooks.bsky.social · May 16

We're currently advertising for a 3+ year post-doc position @education.ox.ac.uk working on the ESRC-funded @studentspolitics.bsky.social project with @rilleraaper.bsky.social, Tom Fryer & me - to start ASAP

Deadline: 9 June

Please repost- thanks!

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · May 15

Of course, the levy is a terrible idea and needs to be challenged. But please save a breath to also challenge its sheer disrespect in the way it speaks about migrants, not perpetuate dehumanization by further reducing us to economic objects.

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · May 15

I've spent the last few days trying not to scream every time I see a scholar writing a hot take about the immigration white paper only in terms of how it's going to impact university finances.

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Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social · May 12

Starmer echoing Powell on 'strangers', the references to Birmingham, to lack of 'integration' and speaking English. It's such a despicable mix of all the worst parts of racism over the last half century. Even the way they upload his script, a desperate media spectacle www.gov.uk/government/s...

PM remarks at Immigration White Paper press conference: 12 May 2025

Prime Minister Keir Starmer's remarks at a press conference on the Immigration White Paper.

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Runnymede Trust @runnymedetrust.bsky.social · May 12

Labour’s ‘new’ migration plans are a continuation of a long history of racist, xenophobic immigration policies.

This government says it's committed to race equality, but these plans are a form of modern day racism 🧵

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · May 12

Solidarity - our bank accounts definitely don't say those borders are open, do they? 😔

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · May 12

And I'll keep shouting about this:
The moment the UK left the EU, the continued designation of 'EU migrants' and 'non-EU migrants' became nothing more than a racialised hierarchisation of who is deemed 'good migrants' and 'bad migrants'

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · May 12

Should the government invest in upskilling its existing population? Of course! But the presence of migrants was never stopping them from doing so.

The logic was never A) We have a lot of migrants, and B) our population is underskilled, therefore C) Migrants caused our population to be underskilled

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · May 12

This immigration white paper is so full of flaws in logic. You cannot say A) There were more migrants in period X, and B) The economy was worse in the same period, therefore C) Migrants made the economy worse

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · May 12

Lovely to hear from the Prime Minister that the historical policies which allowed my Mum to remain in the UK after studying here, thus enabling my existence, was a “squalid experiment in open borders”.

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · May 12

If the UK has 'open borders' and 'uncontrolled immigration', then why did I spend £15,000 over ten years and five visa applications to be here?

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · May 12

Toughening migration rules doesn’t challenge Reform. It validates them.

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · May 12

I have a lot of thoughts about Starmer's immigration speech, but the prevailing one right now is: How embarrassing for the government to speak about human beings in this way

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ACLU @aclu.org · May 9

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.

📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background.

Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress.

Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · May 9

Mostly excited! But there's something kind of terrifying about letting go of something you've spent so much time on so that other people can take it forward.

Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · May 9

Finished a string of meetings this week to quadruple the the organizing team for @risnetwork.bsky.social, now a team of 14! Feeling both EXCITED because they are all amazing people with wonderful ideas for growing the network, and NERVOUS because our baby is now a teenager and I have to let it go.

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