#Asylum

Happy #4thofJuly!Are you an aspiring immigrant dreaming of stealing an American job, but don’t want to irk our many xenophobes?Haha well then here’s a simplified list of ways you can
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Been thinking about one of the questions @wkamaubell relayed to me during our NYPL event earlier tonight, which was basically: In a time like this, for an artist, should I
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The camp system for refugees and asylum seekers is one of the least humane aspects of the way the world handles refugees. Moria Camp in Greece shows why: isolated on
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I'm looking forward to teaching my graduate seminar in political geography again this spring. Here is a thread of the books we'll be reading on sovereignty, territory, and borders 1/15
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Interesting article on the Swiss embassy abduction case in Sri Lanka by @NZZ (in German). Worth a read altough many questions remain unanswered.https://twitter.com/sagisagt/status/1338950078871048192 The Swiss-Sri Lankan relationship is com
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Thread: 2021 is gearing up to be a difficult year for human rights. It's all a question of seeing how individual comments and policies create a pattern, but that in
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Is it “politics” that divides us? Because I’m not sure this is about tax rates or trade or even judges. There’s something deeper at the root of this and it’s
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The world faces state #terrorism sponsored by the Iranian regime. In addition to the persons who are being tried today, the mullahs’ supreme leader, president, intelligence minister and foreign minister
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A THREAD. One often thinks of the internet as all-seeing & all-knowing, but it really isn’t. After lunch today I went for a long & reflective walk around Earlsfield, where
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taking a lil break from finals (i’m in grad school now remember) to do a thread of my favorite stories from this year. first up, obviously, is my @verge feature
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A short story about free school meals after @MarcusRashford’s win to illustrate just how important it is. When my wife taught in east London a teenage boy joined her class
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Kudos to the Malaysian cabinet for the decision to provide free vaccines for non-citizens under the NIP. Thanks, @Khairykj. Hopefully, this includes the vulnerable non-citizens without documentation- undocumented migrants, refugees,
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I just finished final edits on my book “Crossing” on the migrant/refugee binary (out from @stanfordpress this winter), so for this #WorldRefugeeDay I thought I’d share the recent works
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It’s just a mask. It’s just six feet. It’s just two weeks. It’s just for non essential businesses. It’s just for non essential employees. It’s just a bar. It’s just
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I just had an incredible encounter. Our doorbell rang, so I opened the window to look below to the front stoop. When I saw a man delivering food, I called
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To address the underlying causes for the current level of immigration & asylum requests at our border AND ensure that we have a fair, predictable and lawful system to process
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