Aleks Lewicki
@aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
Political sociologist @sussex.ac.uk, writing on #racialisation, political economy of race-making, east-west inequalities in Europe, #migration, political resistance: Reader in #Sociology & Director @sei-sussex.bsky.social
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OUT NOW: 'Vigilant Whiteness: Racism, Transphobia and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Politics in Britain' - by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & Maddy Clark @identitiesjournal.bsky.social - a brief summary🧵(2-11) below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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🎥 WATCH: Immigration, Policy and Protest
What shapes the UK's conversation on migration? @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social take a closer look in our latest Conversations event.
VIDEO: buff.ly/MWOKjcO
What shapes the UK's conversation on migration? @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social take a closer look in our latest Conversations event.
VIDEO: buff.ly/MWOKjcO
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🎥 WATCH: Immigration, Policy and Protest
What shapes the UK's conversation on migration? @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social take a closer look in our latest Conversations event.
VIDEO: buff.ly/MWOKjcO
What shapes the UK's conversation on migration? @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social take a closer look in our latest Conversations event.
VIDEO: buff.ly/MWOKjcO
See, all that stuff about the underdeveloped „wild east“ with its animals roaming free is just not true. We even put nappies on our sheep when we take them on the high speed train
Passengers on a high-speed train between Poland's two largest cities were taken by surprise when a sheep wearing a nappy began wandering through the carriages.
Sheep in nappy spotted on Polish high-speed train
notesfrompoland.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
See, all that stuff about the underdeveloped „wild east“ with its animals roaming free is just not true. We even put nappies on our sheep when we take them on the high speed train
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NEW ISSUE: The Sociological Review journal 73.6 features 18 new papers and review articles, including 15 #openaccess.
Our contributors turn a sociological eye on au pairing, Uber drivers and bonded labourers, kin-making and houseplants, and much more.
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Our contributors turn a sociological eye on au pairing, Uber drivers and bonded labourers, kin-making and houseplants, and much more.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
NEW ISSUE: The Sociological Review journal 73.6 features 18 new papers and review articles, including 15 #openaccess.
Our contributors turn a sociological eye on au pairing, Uber drivers and bonded labourers, kin-making and houseplants, and much more.
➡️ buff.ly/Xsw48ZN @journals.sagepub.com
Our contributors turn a sociological eye on au pairing, Uber drivers and bonded labourers, kin-making and houseplants, and much more.
➡️ buff.ly/Xsw48ZN @journals.sagepub.com
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German Court: Systemic flaws in Poland’s asylum system, especially for people entering via Belarus, mean Germany can’t send them back under the Dublin rules.
Oha: Wer über Belarus und Polen nach Deutschland reist, kann hier einen Asylantrag stellen, so das VG Hannover. "Systemische Mängel" in Polen verhinderten eine Rücküberstellung nach den Dublin-Regeln. Details von @mkolter.bsky.social.
Systemische Mängel: Keine Dublin-Überstellung nach Polen
Wer über Belarus und Polen nach Deutschland reist, kann dort zulässigerweise Asyl beantragen, so das VG Hannover. Polen verweigere ein ordentliches Verfahren.
www.lto.de
November 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
German Court: Systemic flaws in Poland’s asylum system, especially for people entering via Belarus, mean Germany can’t send them back under the Dublin rules.
Join us tonight for the online lecture series: „Border Regimes on the Move" - I will share a panel with Hans Kundnani (Eurowhiteness) & discuss how thinking racialisation from its ambiguities helps us to dismantle key myths about race. Details and registration here: uni-goettingen.de/en/694576.html
November 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Join us tonight for the online lecture series: „Border Regimes on the Move" - I will share a panel with Hans Kundnani (Eurowhiteness) & discuss how thinking racialisation from its ambiguities helps us to dismantle key myths about race. Details and registration here: uni-goettingen.de/en/694576.html
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It's been a busy October filled with some great events, including @thesociologicalreview.org Conversation on Immigration, Policy and Protest with @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social, Fizza Qureshi, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social and me.
Here's the recording:
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Here's the recording:
youtu.be/FCiI5uH_vVM?...
Immigration, Policy and Protest: Michaela Benson, Aleksandra Lewicki, Fizza Qureshi, Aaron Winter
YouTube video by The Sociological Review Foundation
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November 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It's been a busy October filled with some great events, including @thesociologicalreview.org Conversation on Immigration, Policy and Protest with @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social, Fizza Qureshi, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social and me.
Here's the recording:
youtu.be/FCiI5uH_vVM?...
Here's the recording:
youtu.be/FCiI5uH_vVM?...
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🎥 VIDEO: Immigration, Policy and Protest
Watch our most recent Conversations event as panellists @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social look at the factors shaping a national conversation.
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Watch our most recent Conversations event as panellists @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social look at the factors shaping a national conversation.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🎥 VIDEO: Immigration, Policy and Protest
Watch our most recent Conversations event as panellists @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social look at the factors shaping a national conversation.
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Watch our most recent Conversations event as panellists @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social look at the factors shaping a national conversation.
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If you’re around Cambridge this Friday, join @manuelaboatca.bsky.social and I on our panel on „Rethinking Europe”: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48642/
October 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
If you’re around Cambridge this Friday, join @manuelaboatca.bsky.social and I on our panel on „Rethinking Europe”: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48642/
The Green leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social told POLITICO that “really grim” plans by the Tories and Reform to leave the European Convention on Human Rights show “the slow march towards fascism that this country is on.”
The end of free movement of people with the European Union has been a “disaster” for the UK that should be urgently reversed, new Green Party leader Zack Polanski told POLITICO — in his first major intervention on EU policy.
Ending EU free movement a ‘disaster’ for Britain, says Green Party’s Zack Polanski
The party’s new leader calls for the migration pact to be reinstated as he sets out his stall on Brexit.
www.politico.eu
October 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The Green leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social told POLITICO that “really grim” plans by the Tories and Reform to leave the European Convention on Human Rights show “the slow march towards fascism that this country is on.”
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This is such a great idea and a fantastic resource! Check out the lesson plans complete with activities, prompts, questions, indicating which level & topic they cover! The worksheet for my episode on "Europeans" - A-level teaching on Culture & Identity and Globalisation is here tinyurl.com/5ast4z5d
We are excited to announce the launch of #lessonplans tied to our #Uncommonsense #podcast. Each highlights relevant AQA & Cambridge OCR modules, and shares recommended reading. You can find all episodes listed in this news story, here. Engage! Enjoy! Share! buff.ly/LUHf6md
October 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This is such a great idea and a fantastic resource! Check out the lesson plans complete with activities, prompts, questions, indicating which level & topic they cover! The worksheet for my episode on "Europeans" - A-level teaching on Culture & Identity and Globalisation is here tinyurl.com/5ast4z5d
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The Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement aimed at getting the centers built faster. https://cnn.it/4oDFP9W
October 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement aimed at getting the centers built faster. https://cnn.it/4oDFP9W
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This by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social on the need for "places to come together" for those interested in progressive politics is really great
www.ippr.org/articles/pla...
www.ippr.org/articles/pla...
Places to come together: Rebuilding local solidarities against the far right | IPPR
In late July 2024, the seaside town of Southport in Merseyside burst into the national consciousness when it suffered two different, violent events in succ
www.ippr.org
October 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
This by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social on the need for "places to come together" for those interested in progressive politics is really great
www.ippr.org/articles/pla...
www.ippr.org/articles/pla...
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RUTA member Olga Burlyuk has a new essay on the mis-imagination of Ukraine as an empty land. In the text, she scrutinises the all too common suggestions of surrender to Russian occupation as the pornography of land concessions and reminds us:
there are people here
platformraam.nl/artikelen/29...
there are people here
platformraam.nl/artikelen/29...
The myth of the 'empty steppe': how Europe misimagines Ukraine
platformraam.nl
October 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
RUTA member Olga Burlyuk has a new essay on the mis-imagination of Ukraine as an empty land. In the text, she scrutinises the all too common suggestions of surrender to Russian occupation as the pornography of land concessions and reminds us:
there are people here
platformraam.nl/artikelen/29...
there are people here
platformraam.nl/artikelen/29...
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TODAY: Immigration, Policy & Protest – a sociological look at the UK’s politics of #immigration.
🎙️ Speakers: Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
📅 Today from 18.30 to 20.00 BST
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🎙️ Speakers: Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
📅 Today from 18.30 to 20.00 BST
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October 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
TODAY: Immigration, Policy & Protest – a sociological look at the UK’s politics of #immigration.
🎙️ Speakers: Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
📅 Today from 18.30 to 20.00 BST
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🎙️ Speakers: Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
📅 Today from 18.30 to 20.00 BST
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TOMORROW: Immigration, Policy & Protest – an urgent conversation on Britain’s politics of #immigration.
🎙️ Hear from Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social and @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
📅 Weds 22 Oct 18.30-20.00 BST
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🎙️ Hear from Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social and @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
📅 Weds 22 Oct 18.30-20.00 BST
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October 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM
TOMORROW: Immigration, Policy & Protest – an urgent conversation on Britain’s politics of #immigration.
🎙️ Hear from Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social and @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
📅 Weds 22 Oct 18.30-20.00 BST
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🎙️ Hear from Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social and @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
📅 Weds 22 Oct 18.30-20.00 BST
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A lotta stuff seems to have happened „just like that” in the #LifeintheUK test handbook. Classes „appeared” and suddenly owned lots of land, Britain „grew” & „became” the „largest empire ever seen” and working conditions „gradually improved” - a history full of miracles, no violence, no struggles
October 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A lotta stuff seems to have happened „just like that” in the #LifeintheUK test handbook. Classes „appeared” and suddenly owned lots of land, Britain „grew” & „became” the „largest empire ever seen” and working conditions „gradually improved” - a history full of miracles, no violence, no struggles
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RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation
Annual Conference
12–15 July 2026
Rooted knowledges and dialogues for change
URL: ruta-association.org...
Annual Conference
12–15 July 2026
Rooted knowledges and dialogues for change
URL: ruta-association.org...
October 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation
Annual Conference
12–15 July 2026
Rooted knowledges and dialogues for change
URL: ruta-association.org...
Annual Conference
12–15 July 2026
Rooted knowledges and dialogues for change
URL: ruta-association.org...
School kids understand its not good for their development: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Pupils fear AI is eroding their ability to study, research finds
One in four students say AI ‘makes it too easy’ for them to find answers
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:20 AM
School kids understand its not good for their development: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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I reviewed Darya Tsymbalyuk's soul-crushing yet vital book "Ecocide in Ukraine," my latest for @kyivindependent.com.
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New book exposes Russia’s ecocide as a war against Ukraine’s land – and memory
When Russia destroyed Ukraine’s Kakhovka Hydroelectric Dam in June 2023, unleashing catastrophic floods across the country’s south, it seemed like such a blatant act of environmental and humanitarian ...
kyivindependent.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I reviewed Darya Tsymbalyuk's soul-crushing yet vital book "Ecocide in Ukraine," my latest for @kyivindependent.com.
kyivindependent.com/new-book-exp...
kyivindependent.com/new-book-exp...
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JOIN US ONLINE on 22 October at 18:30 BST as we look at the shifting politics of #immigration in the UK, how policy is shaped and challenged, and the state of protest and public debate.
With @michaelacbenson.bsky.social Fizza Qureshi @aaronwinter.bsky.social @mayblin.bsky.social
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With @michaelacbenson.bsky.social Fizza Qureshi @aaronwinter.bsky.social @mayblin.bsky.social
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October 14, 2025 at 7:10 AM
JOIN US ONLINE on 22 October at 18:30 BST as we look at the shifting politics of #immigration in the UK, how policy is shaped and challenged, and the state of protest and public debate.
With @michaelacbenson.bsky.social Fizza Qureshi @aaronwinter.bsky.social @mayblin.bsky.social
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With @michaelacbenson.bsky.social Fizza Qureshi @aaronwinter.bsky.social @mayblin.bsky.social
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This is how I am spending my weekends in autumn term 😅. You might hear more about my frustrations with this „syllabus“, but let’s start on the good news. „Migrants” from the South East of Europe were the first to farm the land in early Britain. That’s quite a long history of providing food, hm?
October 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
This is how I am spending my weekends in autumn term 😅. You might hear more about my frustrations with this „syllabus“, but let’s start on the good news. „Migrants” from the South East of Europe were the first to farm the land in early Britain. That’s quite a long history of providing food, hm?
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Flowers of Srebrenica @legalalienstheatre.bsky.social is opening next week in London and I'll be joining forces with @zrinka.bsky.social, Clare Finburgh-Delijani, @aidanhehir.bsky.social, and Kim Sadique to discuss theatre, memory & collective healing. Join us www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/the-f...
October 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Flowers of Srebrenica @legalalienstheatre.bsky.social is opening next week in London and I'll be joining forces with @zrinka.bsky.social, Clare Finburgh-Delijani, @aidanhehir.bsky.social, and Kim Sadique to discuss theatre, memory & collective healing. Join us www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/the-f...
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Steve Laws has been arrested and says he is under strict bail conditions. He posted "NF p___ out" recently about the Home Secretary and was also retweeted by Elon Musk when saying he wants total remigration of all of the foreigners in Britain
Among hundreds of examples of racist abuse by Laws
Among hundreds of examples of racist abuse by Laws
September 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Steve Laws has been arrested and says he is under strict bail conditions. He posted "NF p___ out" recently about the Home Secretary and was also retweeted by Elon Musk when saying he wants total remigration of all of the foreigners in Britain
Among hundreds of examples of racist abuse by Laws
Among hundreds of examples of racist abuse by Laws
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In German: I was on the radio show Politikum to discuss the emboldening of far right politics and violence in the UK - (starting about 3 minutes in) www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:...
Podcast: Wehrdienst im Homeoffice & Rassismus in Großbritannien
Rechtsextreme Positionen einfach zu übernehmen, stärkt die Extreme nur weiter, meint unsere Gesprächspartnerin – nicht nur in Großbritannien. Außerdem: Wie steht der Verfassungsschutz 10 Jahre nach se...
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October 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
In German: I was on the radio show Politikum to discuss the emboldening of far right politics and violence in the UK - (starting about 3 minutes in) www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:...
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An excerpt from our chapter Metamorphic Necropolitics: Deadly Othering in the European East-West Power Relations, that we wrote with Magdalena Górska and Ewa Majewska for the soon to be published Routledge Handbook of Queer Death Studies, edited by Nina Lykke, Marietta Radomska and Tara Mehrabi
October 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
An excerpt from our chapter Metamorphic Necropolitics: Deadly Othering in the European East-West Power Relations, that we wrote with Magdalena Górska and Ewa Majewska for the soon to be published Routledge Handbook of Queer Death Studies, edited by Nina Lykke, Marietta Radomska and Tara Mehrabi