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            @CettaMainwaring
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              Scholar, Activist, Swimmer, Mother. #migration #borders #Mediterranean
              
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              Joined July 2018
            
            
           Drawing on research from our @UKRI_News FLF project, @AndoneaDickson, Thom Tyerman and I wrote in @ConversationEDU about expanding detention and deportation regimes and their relationship to authoritarianism. Check it out:  https://t.co/oN4I8fXkrq 
          
          
            
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              The US, UK and Australia are all expanding efforts to deport non-citizens, reframing the act of seeking asylum from a human right to a criminal act.
            
                
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             Last week, we launched the Malta Migration Archive, where we document & condemn border violence at sea & on land. Check out @MigrationMalta here:  https://t.co/v8Qp5AnCfK  With thanks to our collaborators: @seawatch_intl @alarm_phone @Sparkfifteen @aditusNGO @MovGraffitti
          
          
                
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             Islands of Solidarity? New article with @MauriceStierl in #Geopolitics! We explore how actors in #Malta navigate the politically contentious issue of migration & how solidarity is conditioned by island geographies, maritime imaginaries & more!  https://t.co/puib6ScxIl 
          
          
            
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              How does geography shape possibilities for migration-related activism and advocacy? In this article, we investigate this question through a case study of the Maltese Islands. Though located on the ...
            
                
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             Principal of University of Edinburgh, Sir Peter Mathieson flummoxed when asked his pay. A 7.5% pay rise. Earning more than the Scottish First Minister and UK PM combined but still "not quite sure" Meanwhile staff face £140m cuts @ucuedinburgh @UCUScotland
            #ucu #StopTheCuts
          
          
                
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             For the last year, @AndoneaDickson, @thom_tyerman and I have investigated immigration detention in the UK, US & Australia. Here, in @AJEnglish, we reflect on how the extreme policies we see Trump adopting are not unique to him nor to the US.  https://t.co/rEnkYZvbUP 
          
          
            
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              Successive government in the US, the UK and Australia have embraced and exchanged brutal migration policies for years.
            
                
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             This is probably my favourite paper I’ve read this year. You should all stop what you’re doing and read it right now. 
          
              #OpenAccess from @RISjnl - ‘Here there be monsters’: Confronting the (post)coloniality of Britain’s borders -  https://t.co/jFtlH0ZLpa  - @thom_tyerman & Travis van Isacker #FirstView
            
            
                
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             The small child in the blue press vest reports from the stomachs Of children We want chicken We want chocolate and we want anything we want meat and potatoes I want life to be beautiful And clean  https://t.co/0V3X2yAOzZ 
          
           A child in Gaza wearing a journalist's vest: “Our dreams are not impossible... chocolate, potatoes, and simple food.” 
            
                
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             In a new article as part of the SI “World Ordering from the Margins” I had the opportunity to reflect on my methodological choices as a migration researcher, what it means to combine activism & research & what this can tell us about world ordering. 
          
            
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              Abstract. The way we do research can and does affect how we think about, engage with, and explore approaches to worldmaking and marginality. Approaches to
            
                
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             Overwhelming evidence that overwhelming evidence of atrocities is being denied by supine leaders who will indeed stand trial one way or another 
           The evidence that Israel is committing atrocities in #Gaza is overwhelming, but our leaders refuse to take action. The UK government has taken direct action when pushed by MPs facing constituency pressure. Email your MP now 👇  https://t.co/Z3BDHQN2OB 
            
            
                
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             An experienced surgeon is on the verge of tears describing the catastrophe that the genocidal forces of Israel have imposed on Palestinians… 
           "I did amputations on people who just had to take paracetamol after the operation as pain relief.. one of my colleagues took maggots out of a childs throat in intensive care" Yesterday Professor Mamode explained to MPs how Israel blocks medical aid from entering Gaza 
            
                
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            @CMRN_Edinburgh @EdinburghUni @teresapiacenti1 We have limited funding so unfortunately can't support travel/accommodation expenses. Read our full call here:
          
          
            
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             We're hosting a @CMRN_Edinburgh PhD workshop on “Situating (im)mobilities, (un)fixing borders” in February @EdinburghUni 🔥 The amazing @teresapiacenti1 will deliver our keynote on her new book!💫 Submit your abstract by this Friday!   https://t.co/lvYw6KYWTC 
          
          
                
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             We so rarely know the story of the people killed at our border. He was trying to reunify with his sons in the UK, and he couldn’t do so regularly so he had to use smugglers. If we had any functional family reunion mechanisms he wouldn’t have died. 
           20-year-old Osama attempted to cross the Channel with his father last month. The small boat the two Syrians were in capsized on October 23, while they were still just two kilometers off the coast of Calais. Osama survived, but his father disappeared.  https://t.co/HHjQ8tV4AP 
            
          
                
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             Let no one say they didn’t know. This is evidence given in Parliament. What will it take? 
           In our first evidence session of the new Parliament, Professor Nizam Mamode speaks about the devastation he saw when he first arrived in Gaza to carry out medical support. Watch the full session here:  https://t.co/zMaGW005Cm 
            
            
                
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             💫 Today, we celebrate the #ElHiblu3 as Human Rights Defenders with this short video from the award ceremony in April. 💫 We continue to call on Malta to #DropTheCharges & #Freethe3! Full video and more info on the new @FreeTheEH3 website:  https://t.co/FYlXqNXbLT  🔥 
          
                
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             Catharsis born of courage, tenacity, clarity and a ferocious intellect. This - in exceptional times - is the jolting tone, confidence, reprimand require Thank you @FranceskAlbs
          
          
                
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             Scenes of horror on the French beach this morning. People including children in water up to their necks, suffering from hypothermia on the beach. A father died. We have to change. What we are doing, militarising the border, leaving people with no safe routes, it HAS to change. 
          
          
                
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             🧵People seeking asylum have been let down by dropping plans to offer them free bus travel. Banned from working and living on as little as £1.36 a day, access to public transport would mean no longer having to choose between buying food or travelling to the doctor’s. (1/3) 
           🟢Yes: 68 🔴No: 27 The Scottish Parliament, including the SNP, has just voted for our motion that bus travel should be free for people seeking asylum in Scotland! After opposing the policy in August, the Scottish Government must now confirm how they will progress the scheme. 
            
                
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