Eyob Balcha
eyobbalcha.bsky.social
Eyob Balcha
@eyobbalcha.bsky.social
Academic researcher
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As the #global #assault on #migrants intensifies, this deeply #personal #commentary I wrote in 2017 for Al Jazeera English about growing up #undocumented in the #UnitedStates is as relevant now as it was back then. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/201...
Legal invisibility was the best thing to happen to me
I became an undocumented migrant at age six and it changed my life.
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October 8, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Great #AfricaCharter writing workshop at #ASAA25, with real experiences of the 'inner layers' of the Africa Charter (epistemic justice, language, extraversion and the development frame) parc.bristol.ac.uk/2025/10/03/a... @divinefuh.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social
An Africa Charter writing workshop
parc.bristol.ac.uk
October 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
የ"ማሞዮብ ፖለቲካል ኢኮኖሚ" በኢትዮጲያ - The "Mamoyob Political Economy" in Ethiopia
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September 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Where are the hard-working Americans who screamed, “They’re stealing our jobs”?

You’re getting your wish. Immigrant workers aren’t showing up, and farm owners are hiring.
August 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Thanks a lot, Matthew Write @lbc.co.uk
youtu.be/ZduWL73njfE?...
Labour to announce ‘biggest cuts since austerity' | LBC
YouTube video by LBC
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March 24, 2025 at 7:16 AM
In this piece, I argued that decolonising academic knowledge practices would be more fruitful if it takes epistemic issues seriously, focuses on both the knowledge and the knower and the power-mediated processes of academic knowledge production. @eadi.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Decentering Coloniality: Epistemic Justice, Development Studies and Structural Transformation - The European Journal of Development Research
The debate on decolonising development studies (DS) can be more fruitful if we focus on epistemic issues. Since mainstream DS has been essentially Eurocentric, where coloniality is normalised, I sugge...
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March 17, 2025 at 7:10 AM
March 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM