ESRC-funded project entitled 'Seeing Illegal Immigrants: State Monitoring and Political Rationality' based @EdinburghUni. PI: @boswellpol, Co-I: @emile_chabal
Today is #WindrushDay
22nd June marks the anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush in 1948.
Here is a link to an article by @mcslaven about how the individualisation of UK #Immigration control is key to understanding the Windrush Scandal...
https://t.co/FSf2PUfGY4
We had a great time discussing our new book "States of Ignorance" yesterday evening. Thanks to everyone who attended, to @skape_ed and @CSMCH_Edin for hosting, and to our excellent discussants @CettaMainwaring, Enda Delaney, and Abdellali Hajjat.
Book: https://t.co/huRitjChSF
Super-excited about our @seeingimmigrant book launch for 'States of Ignorance' with @CettaMainwaring, Enda Delaney & Abdellali Hajjat. 29 Jan, 17:00-19:00 in Meadows Lecture Theatre, U of Edinburgh. Come if you can! Details: https://t.co/vxeokLtG1H
In this case, it gives me no joy to emphasise topicality, but our book has loads of insights into the long histories that led to today's Supreme Court ruling on #Rwanda, especially in the chapters by @mcslaven.
There are few joys quite so pure as the one felt when taking delivery of a new book, especially one filled with brilliant insights from the @seeingimmigrant team. I hope some of you (especially historians!) will read it, if you can.
For more details: https://t.co/in4AFfRSS5
Finally, I get to post the compulsory ‘our new book just arrived’ tweet…. Genuinely over the moon about this, the product of multi-year collaboration with @emile_chabal, @mcslaven, Sara Casella, Elisabeth Badenhoop @seeingimmigrant@ESRC ❤️🙏
All chapters of the "Research Handbook on Irregular #Migration" are now available as PDFs on this website, including the chapter I co-authored with Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani:
https://t.co/681RL3jonK
Asylum applications run like a parlour game. This kind of policy can only come from people privileged enough to see everything as a game and ignorant enough to have never read a single study about the intricacies of providing evidence in an asylum case.
So pleased to have this land on my doormat this morning - from Wuppertal via Glasgow. Congrats to our @seeingimmigrant member Elisabeth Badenhoop on this fantastic achievement.
I'm inordinately proud of this book, which took a lot of hard work. It's properly interdisciplinary, properly empirical, properly theoretical, and properly historical. Great chapters from the project team and so many insights throughout. (Plus the endorsements are so lovely!)