Katy Long

Storytelling: words and sounds. #Immigration and #Refugees. Newsletter at

[Katy Long @mobilitymuse]

Tomorrow: 1st episode of my @BBCRadio4 @bbcworldservice series, 100 Years of Exile. https://t.co/K8QzQVgKvQ - the story of 100 years of refugee crises. Thanks above all to @gilesedwards for turning a century into 90 minutes of radio!

[Dr Jennifer Allsopp @JenniferAllsopp]

It’s HUMAN rights not FAMILY rights. I have to manage digestion of the new UK immigration proposals to one shock per hour - this one is especially absurd & cruel. It’s also very relevant to my current work around the problematic construction of family in social & migration policy

[Gary Younge @garyyounge]

This is what a culture war looks like. Where are those freedom of speech advocates when you need them?

[Katy Long @mobilitymuse]

Hoping the fire extinguisher works

[Molly O'Toole @mollymotoole]

Just crossed Darién Gap w/500 migrants from across world. Saw best & worst of humanity but mostly humanity. 23yo diabetic died—no insulin. Wife,toddler & rest had to bury him in mud & go on. Dehumanizing policies distract from failure to meet challenge of our time: Refugee planet

[Katy Long @mobilitymuse]

Sometimes living in San Francisco I miss the seasons; but I knew this city was home now when I realized I’d learnt to love the fog. https://t.co/4cl8K2Xe4I

[Bay Area People’s Republic 🚩☭ @21stcentury_ML]

BBC reporting on DPRK (North Korea) overlaid on queen funeral procession

[Katy Long @mobilitymuse]

@drlaurajane Also - gola have a wide range of vegan trainers - https://t.co/7TPBq3nYF7; and you can get vegan Stan smiths which are probably most comfortable ones I’ve tried, but yeah, they still use a lot of leather!

[Katy Long @mobilitymuse]

@drlaurajane Have spent far too much time on this question… I really want to get some SAYE trainers when my current ones (veja) die - https://t.co/zZGhmnhOMN

[Katy Long @mobilitymuse]

@JenniferAllsopp I got my phone screen fixed in Kentish Town a few months ago in a great Afghan-run store (though I think the guy was actually born in Pakistan…)

[Katy Long @mobilitymuse]

@clemfletch Yes! Tho California may burn to the ground, which is a different problem…

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Think of how extremist the Republican Parry has to be to defend Trump despite the fact that he literally wanted to lead a violent coup. Just totally new territory in American history since Civil War.

[Callum Cant @CallumCant1]

You can directly ring the airline responsible for the Rwanda deportation flight (Privilege style) and tell them what you think. As of a minute ago they're still picking up the phone.[phone]

[Freedom from Torture🧡 @FreefromTorture]

Hey Iberojet - is it only some refugees that matter?

@iberojetair_es, @privilege757 and @TitanAirways: it’s time to rule out being part of the UK government’s dodgy cash for refugees deal.

#RefugeesWelcome #Rwanda #PrivilegeStyle #TitanAirways #Iberojet

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Syrians. It's 15 Syrians who have been served with a removal notice that they'll be sent away to Rwanda on 14 June.

We cannot stand for this barbarism. Syrians refugees, ALL refugees are welcome here.

[Katy Long @mobilitymuse]

The power of tabloid journalism to drive fear of immigration… this is a great thread about how perception is driven by storytelling, not numbers.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: for this week’s column I dug into the curious case of British attitudes to immigration

Before the EU ref, concern about immigration tracked levels of arrivals. Since then, immigration has kept rising but concerns have evaporated

What’s going on?

https://t.co/dWtOCZ9Dkt