Liberty Chee
@libertychee.bsky.social
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow (most recently) || International Relations || Domestic Work || Migration Governance || Feminist Theory || Taxes to the 🇳🇱, Remittances to the 🇵🇭
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Liberty Chee
@libertychee.bsky.social
· Sep 19
link.springer.com/book/10.1007... This book, at its core, examines what migration governance looks like when states step back and let markets lead. Out now open access #migcitsky #polisky #IRsky #gendersky
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What is most disappointing that it is the U.S. to have to set this deadline. Europe should have been planning for this since 2017.
Exclusive: US sets 2027 deadline for Europe-led NATO defense, officials say
The United States wants Europe to take over the majority of NATO's conventional defense capabilities, from intelligence to missiles, by 2027, Pentagon officials told diplomats in Washington this week,...
www.reuters.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
What is most disappointing that it is the U.S. to have to set this deadline. Europe should have been planning for this since 2017.
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The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
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arc-m.uva.nl/content/even... If you are in or near Amsterdam, please join us for the launch of "Merchants of Migrant Domestic Labour: Recruitment Agencies and Neoliberal Migration Governance in Southeast Asia". Please register to attend in person or online #migcitsky #IRsky #polisky #gendersky
December 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM
arc-m.uva.nl/content/even... If you are in or near Amsterdam, please join us for the launch of "Merchants of Migrant Domestic Labour: Recruitment Agencies and Neoliberal Migration Governance in Southeast Asia". Please register to attend in person or online #migcitsky #IRsky #polisky #gendersky
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Are you interested in reading Capital Volume 1 with others? See our call on the website marxism-nl.org/en
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December 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Are you interested in reading Capital Volume 1 with others? See our call on the website marxism-nl.org/en
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/w... A Malaysian NGO worker once described this industry to me as a "cash cow". Officials were stockholders or direct owners of PREAs. This phenomenon is not unique to Malaysia, as this article shows.
Kenyan Workers Get Abused Abroad. The President’s Family and Allies Profit.
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:08 AM
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/w... A Malaysian NGO worker once described this industry to me as a "cash cow". Officials were stockholders or direct owners of PREAs. This phenomenon is not unique to Malaysia, as this article shows.
global-labour-university.org/events/glu-c... Deadline for abstract submission: 30 Jan 2026.
December 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
global-labour-university.org/events/glu-c... Deadline for abstract submission: 30 Jan 2026.
socialnieuws.nl/2025/12/01/a... A pizzeria in De Pijp employed workers who do not have the proper paperwork, including a Nigerian asylum-seeker who worked for 2,50/hr for a 70-hour workweek.
Amsterdams restaurant L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele onder vuur
Het Amsterdamse restaurant L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele ligt onder vuur. Aanleiding is een artikel van Het Parool over de pizzeria.
socialnieuws.nl
December 4, 2025 at 7:57 AM
socialnieuws.nl/2025/12/01/a... A pizzeria in De Pijp employed workers who do not have the proper paperwork, including a Nigerian asylum-seeker who worked for 2,50/hr for a 70-hour workweek.
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Our first monthly pick for December is the #OpenAccess article, "Gender, Financial Deepening and the Production of Embodied Finance: Towards a Critical Feminist Analysis" by Adrienne Roberts (@manchester.ac.uk). Be sure to give it a read!
#Equality #Finance
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Equality #Finance
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Our first monthly pick for December is the #OpenAccess article, "Gender, Financial Deepening and the Production of Embodied Finance: Towards a Critical Feminist Analysis" by Adrienne Roberts (@manchester.ac.uk). Be sure to give it a read!
#Equality #Finance
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Equality #Finance
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Where did the Colombians come from and how were they recruited 🤔
Staffing agencies fined over €800,000 for Grand Prix labour www.dutchnews.nl?p=260690
Staffing agencies fined over €800,000 for Grand Prix labour
www.dutchnews.nl
December 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Where did the Colombians come from and how were they recruited 🤔
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/w... "There is growing concern in Beijing about an increase in European engagement with Taiwan and a determination to nip it in the bud...The message is, ‘Don’t cross our red lines like Japan has, or we will respond.’”
China, Evoking World War II, Urges Europe to Take Its Side Against Japan
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:18 AM
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/w... "There is growing concern in Beijing about an increase in European engagement with Taiwan and a determination to nip it in the bud...The message is, ‘Don’t cross our red lines like Japan has, or we will respond.’”
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„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:43 AM
„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
thewire.in/politics/the... "A loose but highly effective transnational network – which some call a Reactionary International – has spent the better part of a decade stitching together American MAGA money, European ethnonationalist parties, street-fighting militias and Silicon Valley billionaires."
The Global Web: How Epstein, Bannon and Trump’s Donors Built a New Far-Right International
The real legacy of the Epstein emails is not the sordid details most headlines chased, but the casual revelation of how far the work of a far right international had already progressed, and how little...
thewire.in
December 3, 2025 at 5:41 AM
thewire.in/politics/the... "A loose but highly effective transnational network – which some call a Reactionary International – has spent the better part of a decade stitching together American MAGA money, European ethnonationalist parties, street-fighting militias and Silicon Valley billionaires."
arc-m.uva.nl/content/even... If you are in or near Amsterdam, please join us for the launch of "Merchants of Migrant Domestic Labour: Recruitment Agencies and Neoliberal Migration Governance in Southeast Asia". Please register to attend in person or online #migcitsky #IRsky #polisky #gendersky
December 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM
arc-m.uva.nl/content/even... If you are in or near Amsterdam, please join us for the launch of "Merchants of Migrant Domestic Labour: Recruitment Agencies and Neoliberal Migration Governance in Southeast Asia". Please register to attend in person or online #migcitsky #IRsky #polisky #gendersky
www.adviesraadinternationalevraagstukken.nl/site/binarie... Report from the AIV.
December 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM
www.adviesraadinternationalevraagstukken.nl/site/binarie... Report from the AIV.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-didnt-bre... "AI doesn't threaten to dehumanize higher education. It reveals how thoroughly we've already dehumanized it — and offers us one last chance to recover what we've lost."
AI didn't break college — it exposed a broken system, a professor says
Steven Mintz says identical AI essays aren't a scandal but proof universities must reinvent how they teach and measure real learning.
www.businessinsider.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:55 AM
www.businessinsider.com/ai-didnt-bre... "AI doesn't threaten to dehumanize higher education. It reveals how thoroughly we've already dehumanized it — and offers us one last chance to recover what we've lost."
thediplomat.com/2025/11/why-... Details on the militarization of migrant recruitment in BD. Not only are they duped to fight in Russia's war - they shelled out money to pay their recruiter. Paying to possibly die in someone else's war. Not quite necropolitics, but something even more insidious o.O
December 2, 2025 at 8:53 AM
thediplomat.com/2025/11/why-... Details on the militarization of migrant recruitment in BD. Not only are they duped to fight in Russia's war - they shelled out money to pay their recruiter. Paying to possibly die in someone else's war. Not quite necropolitics, but something even more insidious o.O
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We’ve surveyed ‘Non-Western Visions of International Order’ for Annual Review of Political Science vol 29
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Non-Western Visions of International Order
The scholarship on the concept of order has been expanding within international relations. The continuous upheaval of world politics first triggered a broad debate on the resilience of the liberal int...
www.annualreviews.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We’ve surveyed ‘Non-Western Visions of International Order’ for Annual Review of Political Science vol 29
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.philstar.com/headlines/20... Jeez "Germany on Friday, November 28, dismissed Russian allegations that its embassy in Manila hands out Schengen visas to Filipinos recruited to fight in Ukraine's war." 😱
December 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
www.philstar.com/headlines/20... Jeez "Germany on Friday, November 28, dismissed Russian allegations that its embassy in Manila hands out Schengen visas to Filipinos recruited to fight in Ukraine's war." 😱
asianews.network/ukraine-deni... Also:
"The images — showing a poster attached to a streetlight in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, just south of Seoul — were uploaded to the online publishing platform Medium on Nov. 20 by a freelance journalist based in the Philippines." 🤔
"The images — showing a poster attached to a streetlight in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, just south of Seoul — were uploaded to the online publishing platform Medium on Nov. 20 by a freelance journalist based in the Philippines." 🤔
December 1, 2025 at 9:49 AM
asianews.network/ukraine-deni... Also:
"The images — showing a poster attached to a streetlight in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, just south of Seoul — were uploaded to the online publishing platform Medium on Nov. 20 by a freelance journalist based in the Philippines." 🤔
"The images — showing a poster attached to a streetlight in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, just south of Seoul — were uploaded to the online publishing platform Medium on Nov. 20 by a freelance journalist based in the Philippines." 🤔
asianjournal.com/philippines/... "Malacañang has rejected as “fake news” a claim circulated by the Russian Foreign Ministry that the United States is recruiting Filipinos to fight in the war in Ukraine." 👀👀👀👀 #eusky
Palace, DFA and Ukraine Embassy dismiss Russian claim of US recruiting Filipinos for Ukraine war as ‘fake news’ — Metro-Manila
The Department of Foreign Affairs reiterated that no recruitment program for Ukraine exists. (File photo) MANILA – Malacañang has rejected as “fake news” a claim circulated by the Russian Foreign...
asianjournal.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
asianjournal.com/philippines/... "Malacañang has rejected as “fake news” a claim circulated by the Russian Foreign Ministry that the United States is recruiting Filipinos to fight in the war in Ukraine." 👀👀👀👀 #eusky
Lol #yaoi about to go mainstream 🤭 #fujoshi-ing
EVERYONE PLEASE RUN AND WATCH HEATED RIVALRY ON HBO MAX!!!!
This is how you bring smut romance to tv adaption 🙂↕️ #heatedrivalry
This is how you bring smut romance to tv adaption 🙂↕️ #heatedrivalry
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Lol #yaoi about to go mainstream 🤭 #fujoshi-ing
cids.up.edu.ph/wp-content/u... Published by CIDS open access #polisky
November 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
cids.up.edu.ph/wp-content/u... Published by CIDS open access #polisky
mb.com.ph/2025/11/24/e... The EU wants in on the demographic surplus game, posing competition to the usual suspects in North America and East Asia...
mb.com.ph
November 30, 2025 at 9:37 AM
mb.com.ph/2025/11/24/e... The EU wants in on the demographic surplus game, posing competition to the usual suspects in North America and East Asia...
link.springer.com/article/10.1... New piece: "Domestic Work, Fictive Kinship Relationships and Labour Law in Zimbabwe"
Domestic Work, Fictive Kinship Relationships and Labour Law in Zimbabwe - Development
Development - This article critically examines the concept of kinship relationships through the perspectives of labour law and feminist theory, highlighting the difficulties faced by legislators...
link.springer.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
link.springer.com/article/10.1... New piece: "Domestic Work, Fictive Kinship Relationships and Labour Law in Zimbabwe"