Emma Patchett
@eepwrites.bsky.social
Lecturer in Law Northumbria - law and literature, critical border studies, law and film, place and migration in speculative fiction
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Check out our website for the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire research network! The network brings together a wide range of scholars engaged in the praxis of embedding the teaching of race, colonialism and empire into their work.
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Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire
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January 28, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Check out our website for the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire research network! The network brings together a wide range of scholars engaged in the praxis of embedding the teaching of race, colonialism and empire into their work.
sites.google.com/view/critica...
sites.google.com/view/critica...
"As the coercive arm of the state, the police—including CBP and ICE—are the primary instruments of state violence ... keeping us safe is not the objective. Instead, the modern police force—whether local, state, or federal—wages domestic war."
"Strangest of all is the liberal pipe dream that local police will stand up against ICE and CBP, when police have collaborated with ICE and been deployed to protect agents from protesters, even in so-called sanctuary cities."
An interview with Robin D.G. Kelley
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An interview with Robin D.G. Kelley
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Renee Good's Murder and Other Acts of Terror
An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.
www.bostonreview.net
January 22, 2026 at 4:08 PM
"As the coercive arm of the state, the police—including CBP and ICE—are the primary instruments of state violence ... keeping us safe is not the objective. Instead, the modern police force—whether local, state, or federal—wages domestic war."
"As borders multiply, so too must resistance. Borders are not neutral lines: they are weapons that extend colonial violence under the guise of security" @plutopress.bsky.social www.plutobooks.com/abolish-the-...
Abolish the Border Regime - A reading list - Pluto Press
As borders multiply, so too must resistance. Borders are not neutral lines: they are weapons that extend colonial violence under the guise of security. In Minnesota, people are standing up to ICE, and...
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January 22, 2026 at 4:04 PM
"As borders multiply, so too must resistance. Borders are not neutral lines: they are weapons that extend colonial violence under the guise of security" @plutopress.bsky.social www.plutobooks.com/abolish-the-...
"sovereign over-reach exposes the vulnerabilities of legal and political systems, and barely covers the actual weaknesses of these rapacious states. The assertion of sovereign exceptionality is never the end of the matter" @stewartmotha.bsky.social criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/20/g...
Greenland and the Spectre of Dispossession
When it came to grabbing territory, the British had effective techniques by the 1960s. Morning-tea at Downing Street could accomplish what a U.S
criticallegalthinking.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:54 AM
"sovereign over-reach exposes the vulnerabilities of legal and political systems, and barely covers the actual weaknesses of these rapacious states. The assertion of sovereign exceptionality is never the end of the matter" @stewartmotha.bsky.social criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/20/g...
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I have a poem in the new @new-sinews.bsky.social, thanks to @illepitaph.bsky.social. The poem — Grains of Rice — is long, complicated; traces inheritances, internalizations, and overlapping violences in my family's history (in Guangzhou, Hiroshima); and takes place at a Wendy's in New Jersey.
new_sinews issue9 is now live ... FEATURING: @zebulonhourse.bsky.social <> Hannah Brooks-Motl +
@israelbonilla.bsky.social >< Lisa Hsiao Chen +
@brandonshimoda.bsky.social <> Zachary Gary + Gabriel Palacios >< Amelia Moriarty + Zack Darsee <>
@mandysuzannewong.bsky.social
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@israelbonilla.bsky.social >< Lisa Hsiao Chen +
@brandonshimoda.bsky.social <> Zachary Gary + Gabriel Palacios >< Amelia Moriarty + Zack Darsee <>
@mandysuzannewong.bsky.social
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new_sinews issue9
_newsinews issue9_Zebulon Horse+Hannah Brooks-Motl+Israel Bonilla+Lisa Hsiao Chen+Brandon Shimoda+Zachary Gary+Gabriel Palacios+Amelia Moriarty+Zack Darsee+Mandy-Suzanne Wong
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December 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I have a poem in the new @new-sinews.bsky.social, thanks to @illepitaph.bsky.social. The poem — Grains of Rice — is long, complicated; traces inheritances, internalizations, and overlapping violences in my family's history (in Guangzhou, Hiroshima); and takes place at a Wendy's in New Jersey.
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The final episode of #MAGA & #migration #podcast series dropped last week:
whodowethinkweare.org/podcasts/who...
@michaelacbenson.bsky.social & I reflect back on our conversations with 4 excellent guests: Cecilia Menjívar; Rachel Humphris, Ernesto Castañeda and Heba Gowayed
Brief recap🧵
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@michaelacbenson.bsky.social & I reflect back on our conversations with 4 excellent guests: Cecilia Menjívar; Rachel Humphris, Ernesto Castañeda and Heba Gowayed
Brief recap🧵
S4 E5 The pace of change: MAGA, the US, the UK
Who Do We Think We Are?
whodowethinkweare.org
December 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The final episode of #MAGA & #migration #podcast series dropped last week:
whodowethinkweare.org/podcasts/who...
@michaelacbenson.bsky.social & I reflect back on our conversations with 4 excellent guests: Cecilia Menjívar; Rachel Humphris, Ernesto Castañeda and Heba Gowayed
Brief recap🧵
whodowethinkweare.org/podcasts/who...
@michaelacbenson.bsky.social & I reflect back on our conversations with 4 excellent guests: Cecilia Menjívar; Rachel Humphris, Ernesto Castañeda and Heba Gowayed
Brief recap🧵
‘We don’t have to consume the shitty cake or crime plots baked for us by corporate entertainment, or live off tragically meagre cultural crumbs. Small presses show us there is so much more out there, styles of survival, ways of knowing and acting” - Lucy Mercer @artreview.bsky.social
Shitty Cakes, Endless Crime
The year in reading: In 2025, small presses in the UK stood up against a dominant culture of dumbing down and selling out
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December 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
‘We don’t have to consume the shitty cake or crime plots baked for us by corporate entertainment, or live off tragically meagre cultural crumbs. Small presses show us there is so much more out there, styles of survival, ways of knowing and acting” - Lucy Mercer @artreview.bsky.social
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📢 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻:
#2026Roundtable – “𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦”, convened by Dr @Róisín Á Costello (Trinity College Dublin), meeting on 𝟭𝟵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Papers engaging recent arts productions (theatre, fiction, visual art) are warmly encouraged.
#2026Roundtable – “𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦”, convened by Dr @Róisín Á Costello (Trinity College Dublin), meeting on 𝟭𝟵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Papers engaging recent arts productions (theatre, fiction, visual art) are warmly encouraged.
December 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
📢 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻:
#2026Roundtable – “𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦”, convened by Dr @Róisín Á Costello (Trinity College Dublin), meeting on 𝟭𝟵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Papers engaging recent arts productions (theatre, fiction, visual art) are warmly encouraged.
#2026Roundtable – “𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦”, convened by Dr @Róisín Á Costello (Trinity College Dublin), meeting on 𝟭𝟵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Papers engaging recent arts productions (theatre, fiction, visual art) are warmly encouraged.
My conversation with James Campbell is featured in this episode of Mapping the Arts and Humanities, which 'dives into the creative & disruptive world where law meets the arts': using arts & humanities to explore law and justice, and the collaborative & productive role of mapping @ials.bsky.social
Law and the Humanities in Practice: Voices from the Sector
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December 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
My conversation with James Campbell is featured in this episode of Mapping the Arts and Humanities, which 'dives into the creative & disruptive world where law meets the arts': using arts & humanities to explore law and justice, and the collaborative & productive role of mapping @ials.bsky.social
Book Review by Holly Bird - Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control by @mfbosworth.bsky.social blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Book Review: Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British
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November 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Book Review by Holly Bird - Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control by @mfbosworth.bsky.social blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Look, for fuck’s sake, humans have been migrating continuously for our entire existence.
Every single human in the world is the product of migration.
It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human.
That’s never going to change.
Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.
Every single human in the world is the product of migration.
It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human.
That’s never going to change.
Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Look, for fuck’s sake, humans have been migrating continuously for our entire existence.
Every single human in the world is the product of migration.
It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human.
That’s never going to change.
Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.
Every single human in the world is the product of migration.
It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human.
That’s never going to change.
Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.
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Another day another migration story. Terrifying in here tho is the reform of the ECHR she will attempt. This will be Labour's biggest and most dangerous mistake, I GUARANTEE. It will set up the infrastructure for a Reform govt. to dismantle all our protections. news.sky.com/story/home-s...
Home secretary to tackle UK's 'excessive generosity' with sweeping immigration reforms
In a statement to MPs on Monday, Shabana Mahmood is expected to tighten up the rules to allow for more deportations, and reduce the "pull factors" that attract migrants to the UK.
news.sky.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Another day another migration story. Terrifying in here tho is the reform of the ECHR she will attempt. This will be Labour's biggest and most dangerous mistake, I GUARANTEE. It will set up the infrastructure for a Reform govt. to dismantle all our protections. news.sky.com/story/home-s...
Delighted to have my chapter 'Place Making, Pomparles Bridge and Public Space Protection Orders' published in Cultural Practices of Place, edited by Sarah Earnshaw #lawandliterature #place #PSPOs link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Delighted to have my chapter 'Place Making, Pomparles Bridge and Public Space Protection Orders' published in Cultural Practices of Place, edited by Sarah Earnshaw #lawandliterature #place #PSPOs link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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CFP for the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography, Concepción, Chile: 17-20 March 2026
“the South should not be reduced to a source of raw data that are to be inserted or simply included into the Northern theory factories” Diana Ojeda & Nicholas Blomley (2024) ‘Grounding…
“the South should not be reduced to a source of raw data that are to be inserted or simply included into the Northern theory factories” Diana Ojeda & Nicholas Blomley (2024) ‘Grounding…
CFP for the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography, Concepción, Chile: 17-20 March 2026
“the South should not be reduced to a source of raw data that are to be inserted or simply included into the Northern theory factories” Diana Ojeda & Nicholas Blomley (2024) ‘Grounding legal geography: Conversations on law, space, and power across disparate geographies’. Politics & Space, 42(3):325-333 at 326. I had the pleasure of attending the First International Conference of Critical Legal Geography, which was held in Turin, Italy in February 2024.
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September 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
CFP for the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography, Concepción, Chile: 17-20 March 2026
“the South should not be reduced to a source of raw data that are to be inserted or simply included into the Northern theory factories” Diana Ojeda & Nicholas Blomley (2024) ‘Grounding…
“the South should not be reduced to a source of raw data that are to be inserted or simply included into the Northern theory factories” Diana Ojeda & Nicholas Blomley (2024) ‘Grounding…
'A cinematic jurisprudence of homemaking in His House' - engaging with the 'subversive' act of homemaking in the asylum process through law-as-film, based on a critical reading of Remi Weekes' 2020 film His House - JPPEL www.emerald.com/jppel/articl...
October 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
'A cinematic jurisprudence of homemaking in His House' - engaging with the 'subversive' act of homemaking in the asylum process through law-as-film, based on a critical reading of Remi Weekes' 2020 film His House - JPPEL www.emerald.com/jppel/articl...
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The lines from the ledge(r): ink, paper, photograph, mountain
"I started to draw pictures. Not of people, or buildings or street scenes. Of mountains. It was fun at first, then a fascinating pastime, building a mouontain on a blank sheet of paper...Memories crowd in on you as you delicately bring…
"I started to draw pictures. Not of people, or buildings or street scenes. Of mountains. It was fun at first, then a fascinating pastime, building a mouontain on a blank sheet of paper...Memories crowd in on you as you delicately bring…
The lines from the ledge(r): ink, paper, photograph, mountain
"I started to draw pictures. Not of people, or buildings or street scenes. Of mountains. It was fun at first, then a fascinating pastime, building a mouontain on a blank sheet of paper...Memories crowd in on you as you delicately bring to life on paper the various features of the mountains you have seen so often. Your pen moves through a mist of dreams..."
lukebennett13.wordpress.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The lines from the ledge(r): ink, paper, photograph, mountain
"I started to draw pictures. Not of people, or buildings or street scenes. Of mountains. It was fun at first, then a fascinating pastime, building a mouontain on a blank sheet of paper...Memories crowd in on you as you delicately bring…
"I started to draw pictures. Not of people, or buildings or street scenes. Of mountains. It was fun at first, then a fascinating pastime, building a mouontain on a blank sheet of paper...Memories crowd in on you as you delicately bring…
Archives of Arrival: Place is not a backdrop; it’s part of the record.
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Archives of Arrival: Place is not a backdrop; it’s part of the record.
Place is not a backdrop; it’s part of the record.
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October 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Archives of Arrival: Place is not a backdrop; it’s part of the record.
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Commentary on asylum hotels considering how govt can develop dignified community-based housing that meets multiple social needs. Warehousing people in camps and continuing a failed experiment in privatisation causes nothing but further harm @geogdurham.bsky.social theconversation.com/after-the-ep...
After the Epping Forest case, the government needs to be bold and build asylum housing that works
Asylum housing needs to come back under public control.
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September 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Commentary on asylum hotels considering how govt can develop dignified community-based housing that meets multiple social needs. Warehousing people in camps and continuing a failed experiment in privatisation causes nothing but further harm @geogdurham.bsky.social theconversation.com/after-the-ep...
The 'spatiotemporal politics of the asylum system linger well after an ‘end’ point of the state decision has been reached...the fragmented governance of the asylum system is made visible in its temporal margins [& in] the extension of this system beyond its legal edges' @sarahhughes90.bsky.social
#OpenAccess in TIBG:
'Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK' by @sarahhughes90.bsky.social
This paper explores the '28-day gap' between the approval of an asylum claim and the ending of government support.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
'Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK' by @sarahhughes90.bsky.social
This paper explores the '28-day gap' between the approval of an asylum claim and the ending of government support.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
September 17, 2025 at 6:02 AM
The 'spatiotemporal politics of the asylum system linger well after an ‘end’ point of the state decision has been reached...the fragmented governance of the asylum system is made visible in its temporal margins [& in] the extension of this system beyond its legal edges' @sarahhughes90.bsky.social
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So shocked Conor Gearty has died
He was a fearless lawyer, teacher and writer
He was also one of the wittiest, smartest people you’d ever meet. It was an honour to call him a friend
I will miss him, terribly. Thoughts with his family, in London and Longford
www.matrixlaw.co.uk/news/profess...
He was a fearless lawyer, teacher and writer
He was also one of the wittiest, smartest people you’d ever meet. It was an honour to call him a friend
I will miss him, terribly. Thoughts with his family, in London and Longford
www.matrixlaw.co.uk/news/profess...
Professor Conor Gearty KC (Hon) - Matrix Chambers
It is with shock and sadness that we mourn the sudden passing of our valued colleague, and a founding member of Matrix, Professor Conor Gearty KC (Hon). Should you wish to leave a message of condolenc...
www.matrixlaw.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
So shocked Conor Gearty has died
He was a fearless lawyer, teacher and writer
He was also one of the wittiest, smartest people you’d ever meet. It was an honour to call him a friend
I will miss him, terribly. Thoughts with his family, in London and Longford
www.matrixlaw.co.uk/news/profess...
He was a fearless lawyer, teacher and writer
He was also one of the wittiest, smartest people you’d ever meet. It was an honour to call him a friend
I will miss him, terribly. Thoughts with his family, in London and Longford
www.matrixlaw.co.uk/news/profess...
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surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity
September 4, 2025 at 4:24 AM
surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity
“At its root, it is a story of public penny-pinching and market forces causing a problem that is then made worse by politicians promising a quick fix or finding a convenient scapegoat” @trillingual.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Targeted by the right, Britain’s asylum hotels are places of fear and disorder. Bad political decisions made it so | Daniel Trilling
In the frenzy of racism and culture warring, the issue of why hotels are used gets overlooked, says author Daniel Trilling
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August 10, 2025 at 10:06 AM
“At its root, it is a story of public penny-pinching and market forces causing a problem that is then made worse by politicians promising a quick fix or finding a convenient scapegoat” @trillingual.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My article on asylum accommodation and the construction of the home in law & film just published in JPPEL - A cinematic jurisprudence of homemaking in his house (2020) url: www.emerald.com/jppel/articl...
August 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
My article on asylum accommodation and the construction of the home in law & film just published in JPPEL - A cinematic jurisprudence of homemaking in his house (2020) url: www.emerald.com/jppel/articl...
Great article by @trillingual.bsky.social that highlights the way in which Starmer perhaps embodies the ambivalence of human rights law:the capacity for radical change on the basis of universal dignity vs a conservative reaffirmation of nation state neoliberalism www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights?
The long read: Many of his supporters hoped the prime minister would restore the UK’s commitment to international law. Yet Labour’s record over the past year has been curiously mixed
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Great article by @trillingual.bsky.social that highlights the way in which Starmer perhaps embodies the ambivalence of human rights law:the capacity for radical change on the basis of universal dignity vs a conservative reaffirmation of nation state neoliberalism www.theguardian.com/politics/202...