Fiona B. Adamson

Professor of International Relations @SOAS. Migration, Diaspora, Peace and Security, Global Governance, Turkey, Academia, IR. I tweet in a personal capacity.

[Fiona B. Adamson @FionaAdamson]

->Just published: The Geopolitics of Externalization: Diplomacy, Deal-Making and Transactional Forced #Migration (with Kelly M. Greenhill) in #ExternalizingAsylum. Thanks to @UlrikeKrause and @PolitKonflikt for putting together this important collection.
https://t.co/Vs2mZqrxdd

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

I want to wrap your head around that number. $38.3 BILLION to warehouse humans. While millions are losing healthcare. While billionaires party. This isn’t “fiscal conservative” it’s a mass terror operation.

[Dr. Leonard Bright @DrLeonardBright]

My graduate-level ethics course at the Bush School of Government and Public Service was canceled because I would not agree to voluntarily censor discussion of how race, gender, and sexuality affect how public servants wield tremendous power over life-and-death decisions—and everything in between.

To send future public servants into the world without grappling with those realities in an ethics course is truly frightening.

[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

In response to the unfolding terror in Minnesota I wanted to create a space to come together. I’m hosting a book club on Hannah Arendt’s essay Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship next Tuesday to raise money for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. https://t.co/7MQ4ErizpY

[Cambridge University Press - Politics @CUP_PoliSci]

Diasporic State-Building by Oula Kadhum
What role did the Iraqi diaspora play in Iraq's state-building process post-2003, and what has been the legacy of their involvement?
📚 https://t.co/1eVwEi4P3M

[SOAS Politics @SOASpolitics]

Join us tomorrow for a talk on #RadicalEmpathy with @TerriGivens as she discusses her new book: Reckoning: Creating Positive Change Through Radical Empathy with Dr. Mirangela Buggs and @ECUClaireH, Head of DEI and Staff Wellbeing @SOAS. Register here: https://t.co/aBZodhubOk

[Jeff Crisp @JFCrisp]

'Key Isssues in Global Refugee Policy:
Analysis, Commentary and Advocacy, 2015-2025'.
A compilation of e-links to around 80 articles I've published over the past decade, most of them brief and easily readable!
https://t.co/kyGQ6PQ4WE

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The truth: we need migration.

The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it.

Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality.

Reject it. Draw the line.

[BJPIR @BritJPIR]

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now!

'International refugee norm sabotage: An analysis of anti-migration groups in the UK' by Mabel Newton.

🔗: https://t.co/DJBdi1ulI8

@PolStudiesAssoc

[Jiaqi M. Liu 刘佳琪 @JiaqiLiu_soc]

@JournalCMS May be of interest to scholars on diasporas, refugees, Chinese politics, discourse analysis, and Cold War geopolitics.

[Jiaqi M. Liu 刘佳琪 @JiaqiLiu_soc]

New paper out @JournalCMS!
China is often seen as a source—not a host—of refugees. But during the Cold War, it took in nearly 500k from SE Asia.
Why? We analyze 382 People’s Daily articles to show how China redefined “refugee” for shifting political goals.
https://t.co/o28GEvvUB5

[Bram Frouws @BramFrouws]

Aid cuts are driving migrants to Europe, warns UN refugee chief https://t.co/0IESrkFptE via @ft Sad to see this “we need more aid otherwise migrants will come” threat narrative still being used. Here’s what we wrote about this last year: https://t.co/35grWLDGMy

[Fiona B. Adamson @FionaAdamson]

@FelineFreier @MigracionesUP Wonderful news! Congratulations!!

[Border Studies @borderstudiess]

#Newbooks #BorderBooks

📗From #Frontiers to #Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality

🖋️ Kerry Goettlich

🗓️ August 2025

🏢 Cambridge University Press

🔎 https://t.co/ohUp1QgNaf

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

@DefendourJuries We have entered the era of the "might makes right, with no exceptions". Dark times await us all, unless we, the global society, wake up and protect our rights. No one is free unless everyone is free.

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Still in a state of shock how little attention this story has received.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced sanctions against the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Francesca Albanese.

This is a shameless and transparent attack on the fundamental principles of international justice. Special Rapporteurs are not appointed to please governments or to be popular but to deliver their mandate.

Read more 👇 https://t.co/AmSw6VkmJd

[IMISCOE @IMISCOE]

📣Apply for the Postdoctoral position in international migration studies (REGENDERING Project) at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
📌Start date: 1 January 2026
⏳Application deadline: 7 Sept 2025
🔗All the details: https://t.co/llm63ZP0io

[Prof Ben Saul - UN SR Human Rights & Counterterror @profbensaul]

I condemn US reprisals against my fellow UN Special Rapporteur @FranceskAlbs for her legitimate advocacy to hold Israel & others accountable for violations of international law in Palestine. I urge all UN member States to denounce this attack on the United Nations & human rights

[pactproject @pact_project]

📅 Save the Date!

Our exhibition, 'After the Assembly: Constituting India' opens 17 July at SOAS Gallery, London!

We bring together art, archives, films, and a new digital platform exploring the making of the Indian Constitution. Do join us!

More info: https://t.co/H4GafD1zNd

[Joshua Landis @joshua_landis]

Washington has paid 70% of Israel’s military costs since Oct 7, 2023.

At same time Washington is cutting Pell Grants awarded to 7.4 million poor students during the 2025-26 school year, at a cost of $38.1 billion by 23% to just $5,710 a year.

How much is going to Israel?

$17.9 B in direct aid
$4.86 B in Pentagon regional ops
$20.3 B in deferred arms deals
billions more in shipping losses, stockpile transfers, and corporate handouts

Why not pay for education? American politicians have wrong priorities.