Ben Rosher
@benrosher.bsky.social
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Ben Rosher
@benrosher.bsky.social
· Nov 7
Hello, lots of new folk here.
I’m a political sociologist and I primarily research borders and migration.
Here are some recent(ish) publications:
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I’m a political sociologist and I primarily research borders and migration.
Here are some recent(ish) publications:
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
dcubrexitinstitute.eu/2022/06/rebo...
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New paper!
Ian Paterson and I explore Scotland’s desecuritisation of immigration, outlining how desecurisation can be an affectively attractive method to pursue the self as well as an ethical ontological security seeking practice.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Ian Paterson and I explore Scotland’s desecuritisation of immigration, outlining how desecurisation can be an affectively attractive method to pursue the self as well as an ethical ontological security seeking practice.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Wha’s like us? The desecuritisation of migration as ontological security-seeking in Scotland | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Wha’s like us? The desecuritisation of migration as ontological security-seeking in Scotland
www.cambridge.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
New paper!
Ian Paterson and I explore Scotland’s desecuritisation of immigration, outlining how desecurisation can be an affectively attractive method to pursue the self as well as an ethical ontological security seeking practice.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Ian Paterson and I explore Scotland’s desecuritisation of immigration, outlining how desecurisation can be an affectively attractive method to pursue the self as well as an ethical ontological security seeking practice.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
At this point it’s fairly certain that labour will combine digital ID with the bankID system prevalent across the Nordics which means nobody can access *anything* without it.
It’ll be the hostile environment on digital steroids.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It’ll be the hostile environment on digital steroids.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK seeks inspiration from Denmark to shake up immigration system
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is taking cues from some of the toughest migration laws in Europe.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
At this point it’s fairly certain that labour will combine digital ID with the bankID system prevalent across the Nordics which means nobody can access *anything* without it.
It’ll be the hostile environment on digital steroids.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It’ll be the hostile environment on digital steroids.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New paper!
Ian Paterson and I explore Scotland’s desecuritisation of immigration, outlining how desecurisation can be an affectively attractive method to pursue the self as well as an ethical ontological security seeking practice.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Ian Paterson and I explore Scotland’s desecuritisation of immigration, outlining how desecurisation can be an affectively attractive method to pursue the self as well as an ethical ontological security seeking practice.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Wha’s like us? The desecuritisation of migration as ontological security-seeking in Scotland | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Wha’s like us? The desecuritisation of migration as ontological security-seeking in Scotland
www.cambridge.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
New paper!
Ian Paterson and I explore Scotland’s desecuritisation of immigration, outlining how desecurisation can be an affectively attractive method to pursue the self as well as an ethical ontological security seeking practice.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Ian Paterson and I explore Scotland’s desecuritisation of immigration, outlining how desecurisation can be an affectively attractive method to pursue the self as well as an ethical ontological security seeking practice.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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once again struck by the way the left always has to moderate itself in left wing areas in case it puts off moderates elsewhere and the right just... never thinks about that? at all?? and no one calls them on it???
![Screenshot of article that reads: “A Mamdani victory is a serious political problem for those in the party who believe, as we do, that our primary focus must be on flipping red and purple seats blue, expanding the map for Democrats, and creating a path back to Congress and the White House,” Matt Bennett, executive vice president of center-left think tank Third Way, told MSNBC. “The [Democratic Socialists of America] platform — which Mamdani has not repudiated — hands a potent set of weapons to Republican ad makers eager to tie Mamdani-style politics to Democrats running in much tougher places than deep blue New York.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ozma3timm5c32fa7bimb4zaj/bafkreidedpbe5cweyx6x5pz66ypn74fumifyvinjjr4prysjpvopaqi4vi@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
once again struck by the way the left always has to moderate itself in left wing areas in case it puts off moderates elsewhere and the right just... never thinks about that? at all?? and no one calls them on it???
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This case has always shown the farcical, and inhumane, nature of the Home Office, across multiple governments and Home Secretaries. A scared kid messes up on their claim and it takes 26 years to accept they should have been provided with asylum from the start
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...
October 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This case has always shown the farcical, and inhumane, nature of the Home Office, across multiple governments and Home Secretaries. A scared kid messes up on their claim and it takes 26 years to accept they should have been provided with asylum from the start
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...
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📣 Anyone working on creative methods in political research and attending @mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2026 next year? We are looking for another participant in our roundtable on zine-making and creative methods as part of @cawpbisa.bsky.social if it sounds like you - please get in touch ASAP!
October 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
📣 Anyone working on creative methods in political research and attending @mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2026 next year? We are looking for another participant in our roundtable on zine-making and creative methods as part of @cawpbisa.bsky.social if it sounds like you - please get in touch ASAP!
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📢Call for Abstracts📢
Bianca Naude and I are looking to put together a panel on state personhood for #BISA2026!
We are looking for new conceptualizations of state personhood, new critiques, as well as reflections on relevant post-2004 disciplinary and political developments!✨
@mybisa.bsky.social
Bianca Naude and I are looking to put together a panel on state personhood for #BISA2026!
We are looking for new conceptualizations of state personhood, new critiques, as well as reflections on relevant post-2004 disciplinary and political developments!✨
@mybisa.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
📢Call for Abstracts📢
Bianca Naude and I are looking to put together a panel on state personhood for #BISA2026!
We are looking for new conceptualizations of state personhood, new critiques, as well as reflections on relevant post-2004 disciplinary and political developments!✨
@mybisa.bsky.social
Bianca Naude and I are looking to put together a panel on state personhood for #BISA2026!
We are looking for new conceptualizations of state personhood, new critiques, as well as reflections on relevant post-2004 disciplinary and political developments!✨
@mybisa.bsky.social
Hello. Does anybody have any good recommendations for introductory literature on sanctuary cities? Particularly in relation to human rights or in the city’s relation to the state.
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October 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Hello. Does anybody have any good recommendations for introductory literature on sanctuary cities? Particularly in relation to human rights or in the city’s relation to the state.
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@benrosher.bsky.social and Aidan Campbell will analyse the findings of the 19th quarterly survey on the Conditions for North-South and East-West Cooperation.
Get involved at crossborder.ie/news/complet...
📽️ Watch their presentation on the last survey findings at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApBB...
Get involved at crossborder.ie/news/complet...
📽️ Watch their presentation on the last survey findings at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApBB...
18th Quarterly Survey Presentation
YouTube video by Centre for Cross Border Cooperation
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October 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
@benrosher.bsky.social and Aidan Campbell will analyse the findings of the 19th quarterly survey on the Conditions for North-South and East-West Cooperation.
Get involved at crossborder.ie/news/complet...
📽️ Watch their presentation on the last survey findings at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApBB...
Get involved at crossborder.ie/news/complet...
📽️ Watch their presentation on the last survey findings at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApBB...
Pals! @nataliejester.bsky.social and @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social have launched the BISA Critical Alternatives for World Politics Working Group.
CAWP is an experimental, creative research space for IR. learn more here www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...; here @cawpbisa.bsky.social and twitter at @cawpbisa
CAWP is an experimental, creative research space for IR. learn more here www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...; here @cawpbisa.bsky.social and twitter at @cawpbisa
Critical Alternatives for World Politics (CAWP)
The Critical Alternatives for World Politics (CAWP) Working Group aims to foster a welcoming space for experimental, creative, and non-mainstream research and researchers at the margins of Internation...
www.bisa.ac.uk
October 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Pals! @nataliejester.bsky.social and @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social have launched the BISA Critical Alternatives for World Politics Working Group.
CAWP is an experimental, creative research space for IR. learn more here www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...; here @cawpbisa.bsky.social and twitter at @cawpbisa
CAWP is an experimental, creative research space for IR. learn more here www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...; here @cawpbisa.bsky.social and twitter at @cawpbisa
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Our latest quarterly survey on North-South and East-West cooperation is open - and we would like to hear your thoughts on the current context for cooperation.
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October 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Our latest quarterly survey on North-South and East-West cooperation is open - and we would like to hear your thoughts on the current context for cooperation.
crossborder.ie/news/complet...
@cfni.bsky.social @communityfoundirl.bsky.social @benrosher.bsky.social @anthonysoares.bsky.social
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First day of school. I have my name on a door. And my own office. And a plant!
October 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM
First day of school. I have my name on a door. And my own office. And a plant!
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UK government to reintroduce maintenance grants (rather than loans) for students from the lowest income families
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Targeted maintenance grants for students to be reintroduced
Disadvantaged students studying priority courses will benefit from extra financial support to access and excel in higher education.
www.gov.uk
September 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
UK government to reintroduce maintenance grants (rather than loans) for students from the lowest income families
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Ok. They’ve pissed me off.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
September 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Ok. They’ve pissed me off.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:
1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.
For anybody who says we are not a “papers please society”. Bullshit. We have to show papers to travel, get a job, and rent a flat. ID cards would simply make this simpler.
Grey economies also exist in countries with ID cards. So for labour to pitch this as anti-migration is simply xenophobia.
Grey economies also exist in countries with ID cards. So for labour to pitch this as anti-migration is simply xenophobia.
Labour pitching ID cards as an explicitly anti-immigration measure is one of the dumbest things this government has done, among a very crowded field.
September 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
For anybody who says we are not a “papers please society”. Bullshit. We have to show papers to travel, get a job, and rent a flat. ID cards would simply make this simpler.
Grey economies also exist in countries with ID cards. So for labour to pitch this as anti-migration is simply xenophobia.
Grey economies also exist in countries with ID cards. So for labour to pitch this as anti-migration is simply xenophobia.
Labour pitching ID cards as an explicitly anti-immigration measure is one of the dumbest things this government has done, among a very crowded field.
September 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Labour pitching ID cards as an explicitly anti-immigration measure is one of the dumbest things this government has done, among a very crowded field.
A couple of points:
Why does it need to be digital (i)? Physical cards are easy to carry and don’t disenfranchise the elderly
(ii) The EUSS system constantly breaks
Will be we able to opt out of whatever AI training the govt will inevitably sign up to?
news.sky.com/story/politi...
Why does it need to be digital (i)? Physical cards are easy to carry and don’t disenfranchise the elderly
(ii) The EUSS system constantly breaks
Will be we able to opt out of whatever AI training the govt will inevitably sign up to?
news.sky.com/story/politi...
Politics latest: All British adults to require a digital ID 'Brit Card'
Keir Starmer is set to announce plans for mandatory digitial ID. Meanwhile, Andy Burnham has claimed Labour MPs are privately urging him to challenge the prime minister in his latest controversial int...
news.sky.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A couple of points:
Why does it need to be digital (i)? Physical cards are easy to carry and don’t disenfranchise the elderly
(ii) The EUSS system constantly breaks
Will be we able to opt out of whatever AI training the govt will inevitably sign up to?
news.sky.com/story/politi...
Why does it need to be digital (i)? Physical cards are easy to carry and don’t disenfranchise the elderly
(ii) The EUSS system constantly breaks
Will be we able to opt out of whatever AI training the govt will inevitably sign up to?
news.sky.com/story/politi...
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Have you completed the survey?
We're calling on civic society organisations & local authorities across NI & ROI to take part in participate in our survey on the Conditions for North-South & East-West Cooperation.
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September 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Have you completed the survey?
We're calling on civic society organisations & local authorities across NI & ROI to take part in participate in our survey on the Conditions for North-South & East-West Cooperation.
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@benrosher.bsky.social @anthonysoares.bsky.social
We're calling on civic society organisations & local authorities across NI & ROI to take part in participate in our survey on the Conditions for North-South & East-West Cooperation.
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We're inviting civic society organisations and local authorities in NI and ROI to respond to our Survey on the Conditions for North-South and East-West Cooperation. Reposts appreciated.
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September 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
We're inviting civic society organisations and local authorities in NI and ROI to respond to our Survey on the Conditions for North-South and East-West Cooperation. Reposts appreciated.
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NEW
The proscription of Palestine Action as a case study of terrorism law
Why is the general criminal law not sufficient to deal with direct action groups?
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/the-proscr...
Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/09/the-...
The proscription of Palestine Action as a case study of terrorism law
Why is the general criminal law not sufficient to deal with direct action groups?
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/the-proscr...
Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/09/the-...
September 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
NEW
The proscription of Palestine Action as a case study of terrorism law
Why is the general criminal law not sufficient to deal with direct action groups?
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/the-proscr...
Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/09/the-...
The proscription of Palestine Action as a case study of terrorism law
Why is the general criminal law not sufficient to deal with direct action groups?
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/the-proscr...
Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/09/the-...
If a government recognises Palestinian statehood then it recognises its right to exist. On that basis, that government cannot continue to fund and arm a state that is explicitly trying to destroy the newly recognised state.
Otherwise you’re just doing an actual virtue signal.
Otherwise you’re just doing an actual virtue signal.
September 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
If a government recognises Palestinian statehood then it recognises its right to exist. On that basis, that government cannot continue to fund and arm a state that is explicitly trying to destroy the newly recognised state.
Otherwise you’re just doing an actual virtue signal.
Otherwise you’re just doing an actual virtue signal.
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🔔New ARK Research Update 🔔
The latest Research Update by Professor @katyhayward.bsky.social and Dr @benrosher.bsky.social explores attitudes in Northern Ireland on the constitutional question.
Read here ➡️ www.ark.ac.uk/ARK/sites/de...
The latest Research Update by Professor @katyhayward.bsky.social and Dr @benrosher.bsky.social explores attitudes in Northern Ireland on the constitutional question.
Read here ➡️ www.ark.ac.uk/ARK/sites/de...
September 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
🔔New ARK Research Update 🔔
The latest Research Update by Professor @katyhayward.bsky.social and Dr @benrosher.bsky.social explores attitudes in Northern Ireland on the constitutional question.
Read here ➡️ www.ark.ac.uk/ARK/sites/de...
The latest Research Update by Professor @katyhayward.bsky.social and Dr @benrosher.bsky.social explores attitudes in Northern Ireland on the constitutional question.
Read here ➡️ www.ark.ac.uk/ARK/sites/de...
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What this piece shows is that the scheme is already a mess. The Home Office is deporting people entirely at random. Those in detention don't have legal representation. Ten children have been erroneously detained and released. Legal challenges will follow.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘We can’t eat. We can’t sleep. It’s a disaster’: the small boat detainees waiting to be sent back to France
This week the first migrants could be flown out of Britain under the ‘one in, one out’ deportation scheme. They talk about their fears and incomprehension
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
What this piece shows is that the scheme is already a mess. The Home Office is deporting people entirely at random. Those in detention don't have legal representation. Ten children have been erroneously detained and released. Legal challenges will follow.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Tell me again that Israel is not knowingly and intentionally committing a genocide
September 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Tell me again that Israel is not knowingly and intentionally committing a genocide
More politicians have condemned political violence in the last hour after the shooting of a guy who actively encouraged political violence than they have in the last 2 years of a genocide.
September 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
More politicians have condemned political violence in the last hour after the shooting of a guy who actively encouraged political violence than they have in the last 2 years of a genocide.