Matt Stephens

PhD student at Maynooth University, researching encounters with difference in metropolitan and non-metropolitan Irish contexts.

[Geographical Society of Ireland @geogsocire]

Today is the last day for an early bird #cig2018 rate: https://t.co/arRV4lYBjn

[Terry Reintke @TerryReintke]

This Friday. Stand up. For sexual and reproductive rights. In Poland. Everywhere in Europe. Show them that we won’t shut up! #stoptheban #SolidarityWithPolishWomen

[Matt Stephens @MattAStephens]

@Geog_Giselle @kylie5002 For sure, growing up half-Indian in Britain I heard a lot of false information about India. Things are going well, I'm just having to realign things a bit so my theoretical framework and methodology align!

[Matt Stephens @MattAStephens]

@Geog_Giselle @kylie5002 I find the term "Southern Ireland" to be a mixture of infuriating and perplexing, it's not even an official term like with the Koreas. I find British people's ignorance of Ireland to be frustrating, so I can't imagine what it's like for you!

[Matt Stephens @MattAStephens]

@LeaveEUOfficial Public services would be able to function better if they weren't so horrendously organised. Blaming migrants for the failure of the NHS and social housing provision is not only lazy, it's totally false. There are answers to these challenges which don't involve demonising people.

[Matt Stephens @MattAStephens]

@K_Niemietz It's a sad reflection on the UK that there exists a significant percentage of the population who would prefer to have a lower standard of living via a housing shortage than possibly have migrants for neighbours.

[Matt Stephens @MattAStephens]

@cliodiaspora @The3Million I really find myself lacking words to describe how appalling this is. This is not how one should teach migration, at all. Not only is it wrong, it could be seriously harmful to intra-EU migrant students' mental health. The person who set this should be ashamed of themselves.

[Irish Times Business @IrishTimesBiz]

Brexiteers and Putin have a lot in common, both pine for empire https://t.co/vwYTPdvkcJ

[Matt Stephens @MattAStephens]

@DPJHodges As a Labour member for over seven years, what exists now is not the party I joined. I joined a progressive, social-democratic party, not an insular group chasing a xenophobic, anti-semitic, Marxist dream.

[Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 @notesfrompoland]

Women's protests tomorrow in opposition to proposal to restrict abortion, which will be debated in parliament Monday. Law would ban abortions due to fetal malformation, which are currently over 90% of legal abortions in PL. Ministers & president have indicated support for measure

[Karl Sharro @KarlreMarks]

To pretend that the UK population growth of 0.8% annually is somehow a massive population problem is downright dishonest. A country that can't plan and build for that rate is incompetent not dragged down by immigration.

[Ben Anderson @BenAndersonGeog]

Demo about this tomorrow at science site @durham_uni at 10.30. PLEASE, please come, retweet, sign the petition etc. I just have no words for how disgraceful this situation is

https://t.co/6h9eHudHl3

[In Limbo @InLimboBrexit]

@cliodiaspora is absolutely right to speak of apathy - outright racism can be challenged and reported, but apathy from those around us is draining and isolating. Please watch, share and act. https://t.co/TVKAxFOe4v

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

If ever there was proof it's no use listening to "genuine concerns" and meeting anti-migrant types in the middle, it's seeing the people who appose family reunification for child refugees. If you can't get them to that point, you can't win them over with "firm but fair" controls.

[CMR_Warsaw @CMR_Warsaw]

#Brexit “has made many migrants think more deeply about their own identity”. Some old EU migrants see themselves as A-class immigrants, and new EU migrants as B-class, the unwelcome ones - from prof. Russell King’s @SussexGeog lecture in Warsaw @SWPS

[Matt Stephens @MattAStephens]

@Kate_Botterill @lsebrexitvote Fascinating, I look forward to reading the full paper!

[#OccupyTheOctagon @qmoccupy]

Occupiers are flexing their meme game 💪. This beauty comes from Hannah #OccupyTheOctagon #ucustrikes #USSstrike #solidarity #studentstaffsolidarity

[Ruth Coppinger @RuthCoppingerSP]

Solidarity to the #UCUStrikes in Britain and the North. Precarious work, low pay have become increasingly the norm for working conditions in universities and colleges around the world. UCU members right to reject what was proposed. @ucuatqub @UCU_Ulster #strikeforUSS @sp_ni #dubw

[Matt Stephens @MattAStephens]

@ZoeJardiniere That's very true, but it's not an economic/labour relations argument that's being made here, it's simply a xenophobic dog whistle, and nothing more.

[Matt Stephens @MattAStephens]

@jacquep @The3Million I'm convinced that economic arguments made aren't what people mean, rather the indirect nature of British communication forces racist and/or xenophobic sentiments to be expressed as something more rational-seeming and economic.