Ashvina

social scientist | migration specialist | PhD @SMU | an academic, working an academic-adjacent life | views are my own

[Ashvina @Ashvina_Patel]

@ksvarnon Wilddddd throwback. My Indian immigrant mother called them tokyo, emphasis on the kiyo part [toe-kiyo]. I have no idea why or if other Indian folk also called then that.

[Ashvina @Ashvina_Patel]

100s waiting in line @DENAirport for HOURS to get bags. Lots of camera crews. Maybe @dominos @PapaJohns @pizzahut wants to do everyone a solid and bring us a slice?

[Ashvina @Ashvina_Patel]

@JM_Sievert @UnaMcIlvenna There are plenty of offices that allow flexible start. I work academic adjacent and can start anywhere in between 7-10 am. Just know what you need, so you can ask for it.

[Matthew Smith @matthewfsmith]

Big news: #Bangladesh police say ⁦⁦@ARSA_Official⁩ ordered the assassination of #Rohingya human rights leader Mohib Ullah. This comes just days before ⁦@RapporteurUn⁩ will brief the UN Human Rights Council on findings from Bangladesh camps. https://t.co/o7yanv7avG

[Ashvina @Ashvina_Patel]

@SAPIENS_org Dr. Caroline Brettell @SMUDCII for a capacious mind that weaves in and out of history, literature, politics and a dozen other areas while holding tight to the thread and relevance of anthropology yesterday, today, and tomorrow. She breathes life into her work and mentees.

[Ashvina @Ashvina_Patel]

@PublicTransCunt @JuliaKoblitz @AcademicChatter I was awaiting this comment. Thank you. The constant striving for perfectionism and defining in such narrow-pedantic terms is why academics are said to be out of touch with reality. Listen to the idea, not the font.

[Ashvina @Ashvina_Patel]

@DustinGrowick That was fun! … for me. Not the people who got a pew pew at 7am. 🤷🏽‍♀️

[Ashvina @Ashvina_Patel]

@TeamCavuto @jaredpolis Make proof of vaccination to enter indoor dining, bars, entertainment required if you care about your Coloradans, Governor.

[Ashvina @Ashvina_Patel]

@jcookanthro I might have someone, will dm you?

[Ashvina @Ashvina_Patel]

While India’s Covid crisis unravels its refugees are being neglected. They’re forced to provide residency docs for vaccination that they do not have. Please commit 40K doses of vaccines directly to UNHCR for refugee administration. @SamanthaJPower #publichealth @FilippoGrandi

[Ashvina @Ashvina_Patel]

“The principle of non-refoulement ... is thus independent of political and legislative changes.” Again Rohingya are being deported from India w/o a peep from the international community. Yet when democracy, thus capitalism is threatened, they pay attn.

https://t.co/I0PvtorYm7

[Nick Beake @Beaking_News]

Extraordinary claim from the junta.

I wonder if the generals will be able to put forward the presumably crucial and overwhelming evidence to substantiate this explosive accusation against #AungSanSuuKyi, which frankly, few inside or outside Myanmar will believe to be true.

[Mratt Kyaw Thu @mrattkthu]

At least 10 people were killed today by security forces in Myanmar. Myaing (Magway)-6, Yangon-1, Mandalay-1-, Taungu-1, Bago-1. Death toll might be increased at the end of the day. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

[Samantha Power @SamanthaJPower]

Whoa. It is impossible to overstate the risks that #Myanmar UN ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun just took in the @UN General Assembly when (voice cracking) he just now called on world to oppose the military coup. See photo below of him giving the three-fingered salute of the protestors.

[Ashvina @Ashvina_Patel]

@DustinGrowick Ooh you should make one with categories like “son sends flowers on Mother’s Day” and ask her to grade it. THEN put the adulting-report card on your refrigerator. A’s in life would be awesome.

[Ashvina @Ashvina_Patel]

@JFCrisp Sorry for your loss, Jeff.

[Ashvina @Ashvina_Patel]

"We're also going to impose strong export controls," he added. "We're freezing US assets that benefit the Burmese government while maintaining our support for health care, civil society groups and other areas that benefit the people of Burma directly," https://t.co/vlyoQX8yB5

[LJ Randolph Jr @ProfeRandolph]

I'm currently serving on one of those DEI task forces. I notice 1) we don't want to embrace radical solutions, and 2) we don't want to admit that most faculty enact racist ideologies. We want to believe everyone is just one book circle or one workshop away from being antiracist.

[Jeff Crisp @JFCrisp]

A long list of new and open access material on refugees produced by scholars in the Global South:
https://t.co/9SCwXlJUZw

[Babusi Nyoni @babusinyoni]

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