Natasha Sofia

PhD Candidate in Political Science @YorkUniversity. Research Associate @CERLACYorkU. Researching Migrant TikTok, Borders, Immigration, and Latin America.

[Natasha Sofia @natysofia_]

Decided to start a Twitter bc that’s what academics do, right? #AcademicChatter #phdchat

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@Melvilleja @raulpacheco Esto es exactamente lo que le estaba diciendo a mi supervisora! Su digital footprint impactó a bastantes personas en diferentes formas. Que descansa en paz.

[Natasha Sofia @natysofia_]

@FlacsoMx I had the privilege of meeting Dr. Pacheco-Vega in Toronto at the annual CPSA conference several years ago. Such sad news. May he rest in peace.

[CARFMS/ACERMF @_carfms]

🏆The 2026 CARFMS Student Essay Contest is open!

💻Submit your essay on refugees and forced migration under one of the categories:
➡️Undergraduate students
➡️Graduate and/or law students
➡️Early-career researchers

Submissions due May 31, 2026
🔗https://t.co/SB5kLJu1xx

[MSF Sea @MSF_Sea]

This footage is devastating!
Some of the 32 survivors while clinging to a capsized boat before being rescued last Saturday. They had witnessed 71 people vanish at sea and were feared dead.

It is a tragedy that should shame Europe.

[Natasha Sofia @natysofia_]

When one door closes, another door opens.

[Natasha Sofia @natysofia_]

Hearing what is happening right now in #Ecuador with the #ParoNacionalEC. Hard to find mainstream outlets covering latest events. Saw what happened in 2019 and 2022, and now in 2025 seeing something similar.

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

Canada is trying to deport the Lindo family—including Tamarri, a potential Olympian who has won gold for Canada—to their death

His father experienced three assassination attempts

Sign the petition below

https://t.co/fzl651kAIH

[Natasha Sofia @natysofia_]

Watching the game and as someone not from the #USA, was shocked but not surprised to see a CBP One Ad on #Univision about self-deporting and reinforcing the false claim that migration is associated with criminality …. #MariachiVsKpop

[Natasha Sofia @natysofia_]

@raulpacheco Choose your supervisor early on, prioritize reading and writing once a week (even if ideas change), attend dissertation defences that are public, and attend conferences, if you can.

[Natasha Sofia @natysofia_]

Just saw a photo that said, “We are the last generation whose parents were born [back home]”. This hit differently. Realizing that no one else will have stories from back home. But this was the point though? #Immigrants

[Natasha Sofia @natysofia_]

Xenophobia is alive in well in this country and I. am. so. tired.

[Natasha Sofia @natysofia_]

@cmdiazr Congratulations!!!! 🥳

[CoNaMi @CoNaMi12378]

Decades of neglect in migrant farmworker housing needs national regulatory standards. #raisethebar

Read our latest piece from @ConversationCA https://t.co/C3IzcS3lZX by @susana_caxaj @anelysemw & @mcgillu @stFX colleagues with @ProfJMcLaughlin @Steph_Mayell @WesternU @uvic

[CoNaMi @CoNaMi12378]

Shared our call for national housing standards with @mattall3n on @cbcradio. "we are seeing outbreaks of measles, we are seeing record-high heatwaves, things that are disproportionately going to affect people who we have crammed like sardines #raisethebar
https://t.co/gTSx61TMUU

[CERLAC @CERLACYorkU]

Saturday, May 17 at 10:00 am | Accolade West | York University.
For the CALACS conference at York University, Andre unveils two murals: a solo piece honoring Earth and ancestry, and a collective creation with students and faculty—an act of intergenerational storytelling.

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

Rats in the kitchen. Mould. Flooding. Canada's migrant worker conditions are 'inhumane' — and a new report says enough is enough https://t.co/BCCFTHyR9J

[Natasha Sofia @natysofia_]

Happening today at 10 AM

[CoNaMi @CoNaMi12378]

Join us tomorrow to #raisethebar for national housing standards for migrant agricultural workers.
Press conference starts at 10 am EST. Register here:
https://t.co/LRoKfczbVv
@TorontoStar @globeandmail @CBCNews
@IMRConline @nkeung @SaraMojtehedz @CTVNews

[Natasha Sofia @natysofia_]

Finalized my syllabus for my course Digitizing Migration: From Netflix to TikTok but looking to add 1-2 more pieces that speak to #digitalmigration, #MigrantTikTok or #Migrant related Films. Please feel free to send recs this way! 💬

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Fieldwork Reflections #3: You can be one of them but not really one of them because they are not children of immigrants.