Gemma Bird 🧡
@gemmakristina
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Senior Lecturer @LivUniPol & 1/4 of @IR_Aesthetics. Research Fellow @GCR_21. Work on politics of migration (EU)& African political theory. Views my own. She/her
Joined October 2013
Pleased to share our new article in which we critically engage with the role that the “categories of migration” play in determining who does and does not “belong” in Europe and how they are changing. Thank you to the SI editors for including us in this important collection.
#OpenAccess from the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics - Who is Disposable? The Making and Re-Making of the “Bad” Migrant at Europe’s Borders - https://t.co/oNArX3dPlw - @gemmakristina & @davide_schmid
#FirstView #JREP10
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https://t.co/vcNapyaFAg My latest publication alert 🚨 Almost five years after I started working on this piece, it’s finally out
cambridge.org
“It’s like a prison”: EU externalization, racial capitalism, and anti-Black racism in EU–Tunisia cooperation on migration
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Congratulations on your 100th year Cinema For All. Very pleased to be asked to speak at your gala in Sheffield this weekend. https://t.co/wKkUGyTnJv
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If you would like to support the work of Project Armonia and cook some of these brilliant recipes the cook book is available here-
projectarmonia.org
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Loved attending the opening of Lightbulb Moments at the The University of Liverpool yesterday & sharing an object in it. It’s a privilege to work with the amazing Project Armonia and to be able to bring their cook book sharing the power of food to a whole new audience is special.
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They tried students and they tried care workers, but that wasn't enough. Now they're coming for families, kids, the ones fleeing war and torture and starvation. My impassioned thoughts on today's sickening family reunion announcement. https://t.co/gnOy0umFor
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The British media keeps calling the situation in Gaza a hunger crisis, but this underplays the reality. What we are witnessing is a starvation crisis, this is an active choice not to deliver aid, not a passive outcome with an unknown cause!
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Mass starvation is spreading in Gaza. Our colleagues and the people we serve are wasting away. It is time for governments to take decisive action and save lives: https://t.co/iczHvwITiY
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More than 100 organisations are sounding the alarm to allow lifesaving aid into Gaza.
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🎙️ @E_IR X #BISA2025 podcasts 🎙️ With @kieranjomeara and @Faloulah speaking to : @rbleiker @NickCaddick1 @maxwinrayen92 @Ema_Errichiello @DrDavidJWilcox @ChasCarmen @gemmakristina @JasonRalph4 and many more! 🎉 🎧 listen now -
e-ir.info
If you like discussion of heavy questions in a light-hearted atmosphere with the big names from the world of International Relations, join Kieran O’Meara and the E-International Relations podcast...
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A great listen, and a pleasure to be included in this conversation. Thanks for having me!
New episode of the E-IR x BISA – Day 3
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Challenges of Conflict Transformation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, a one-day hybrid conference at the University of Liverpool on Thursday 12th June 2025. Call for Papers and further information, including travel/accommodation bursaries, here:
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🔒#EU-funded Hyperion system controls access to the Samos CCAC using biometric data & ID cards. People must scan their fingerprints and/or biometric ID cards to enter, exit, or move within the facility. 🚨Our tech report w/ @Border_Violence studied how this affects people.
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🚨Out today 🚨 Our report with @borderviolence on the human impact of technology on Samos including Greece’s latest covert operation against asylum seekers: routine unlawful removal of phones by force upon arrival. The authorities deny the practice (1/2) https://t.co/PRIZ2CNviU
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Hot off the heels of being condemned by the European Court of Human Rights for systemic pushbacks, Greece is also violating the rights of asylum seekers in the digital arena. 21 January 2025, Samos,...
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🚨 HRLP reports on the horrific conditions witnessed in the Samos CCAC's 'safe zone', where unaccompanied minors reside. The space, initially designed to accommodate 200 minors, is currently hosting 485 children lacking clothes & shoes, and access to health & education services.
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New co-authored article 🚨from our Senior Lecturer @gemmakristina on Theorising the migration fix for New Political Economy 👇
In our new article “Theorising the migration fix” @davide_schmid & I continue thinking about how to develop the concept of the “migration fix” as a tool for understanding the complex often contradictory relationship between political & economic logics & the the role of borders.
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Turkish pushback survivor wins landmark case against Greece https://t.co/xLTrP8EQ6s | read more ⤵️
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In a groundbreaking ruling, the European Court of Human Rights finds Greece ‘systematically’ practices pushbacks
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IMPACT! We’ve been investigating for yrs how people seeking asylum in the EU are being forced back by Greek forces. Now the European Court of Human Rights has ruled Greece illegally deported an asylum seeker to Turkey – & described a ‘systematic practice’ of pushbacks by Greece
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Important judgement since it recognises pushbacks as a *systematic* practice in #Evros - which civil society organisations, researchers and activists have been saying for years. Congratulations to all involved in the case - and @zubeyirkoculu, the first to break the news here.
Judgment A.R.E. v. Greece - “Pushback” of Turkish national to Türkiye without examining risks she faced on her return https://t.co/VbMiadD5CI
#ECHR #CEDH #ECHRpress
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