Monish Bhatia
@monish.bsky.social
#Migration #Asylum #State #Race #Violence #Surveillance #CriminalLegalSystem
Academic. University of York, Sociology. Personal account (and views are mine).
He/Him 🌈
Academic. University of York, Sociology. Personal account (and views are mine).
He/Him 🌈
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Costs of asylum accomodation are down to firms making vast profits off of providing poor quality for people seeking safety and Home Office cruelty and ineptitude. It is not the fault of those forced into using them by a system which doesn't give them a choice. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Home Office 'squandered billions' on asylum accommodation, MPs say
"Flawed contracts" and "incompetent delivery" left the department unable to cope with demand for asylum accommodation, a report by MPs suggests.
www.bbc.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Costs of asylum accomodation are down to firms making vast profits off of providing poor quality for people seeking safety and Home Office cruelty and ineptitude. It is not the fault of those forced into using them by a system which doesn't give them a choice. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I have joined as a series editor for the Palgrave Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Indigeneity and Criminal Justice. More details here: link.springer.com/series/15777
Feel free to get in touch via email to discuss your ideas and/or if you are thinking of putting in a proposal.
Feel free to get in touch via email to discuss your ideas and/or if you are thinking of putting in a proposal.
October 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I have joined as a series editor for the Palgrave Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Indigeneity and Criminal Justice. More details here: link.springer.com/series/15777
Feel free to get in touch via email to discuss your ideas and/or if you are thinking of putting in a proposal.
Feel free to get in touch via email to discuss your ideas and/or if you are thinking of putting in a proposal.
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The issue is not whether 'Britain is far right' but why far-right politics have become so normalised
Rather than accepting this is a bottom-up, people-driven push, I argue that we must look at those who have the power to shape the agenda and public discourse
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
Rather than accepting this is a bottom-up, people-driven push, I argue that we must look at those who have the power to shape the agenda and public discourse
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
Is Britain far right?
Do most people in Britain really sympathise with far-right views? As Reform UK rises in the polls, we asked the experts.
www.bigissue.com
September 27, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The issue is not whether 'Britain is far right' but why far-right politics have become so normalised
Rather than accepting this is a bottom-up, people-driven push, I argue that we must look at those who have the power to shape the agenda and public discourse
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
Rather than accepting this is a bottom-up, people-driven push, I argue that we must look at those who have the power to shape the agenda and public discourse
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
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For those in London
Hey You'll 🙂✊🏾
"No Release" - a film based on my recent BA project on immigration GPS ankle monitors, directed by amazing Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. More details and registration link below.
dandelion.events/e/no-release...
"No Release" - a film based on my recent BA project on immigration GPS ankle monitors, directed by amazing Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. More details and registration link below.
dandelion.events/e/no-release...
September 19, 2025 at 10:53 AM
For those in London
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But... Great to be in great company : @monish.bsky.social whose work I admire so much! and so many promising early career scholars and some more established ones.
Yes it was @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
🧑🎓🧑🎓🧑🎓🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🧑🎓🧑🎓🧑🎓
Yes it was @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
🧑🎓🧑🎓🧑🎓🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🧑🎓🧑🎓🧑🎓
September 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
But... Great to be in great company : @monish.bsky.social whose work I admire so much! and so many promising early career scholars and some more established ones.
Yes it was @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
🧑🎓🧑🎓🧑🎓🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🧑🎓🧑🎓🧑🎓
Yes it was @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
🧑🎓🧑🎓🧑🎓🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🧑🎓🧑🎓🧑🎓
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Thanks to the organizers of the British Society of Criminology Midland group Symposia on politics, harm and justice for inviting me to speak about war and punitive emotions, as keynote speaker. A sad reminder of the centrality of war in criminology in these dark times.
But
But
September 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Thanks to the organizers of the British Society of Criminology Midland group Symposia on politics, harm and justice for inviting me to speak about war and punitive emotions, as keynote speaker. A sad reminder of the centrality of war in criminology in these dark times.
But
But
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Hey You'll 🙂✊🏾
"No Release" - a film based on my recent BA project on immigration GPS ankle monitors, directed by amazing Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. More details and registration link below.
dandelion.events/e/no-release...
"No Release" - a film based on my recent BA project on immigration GPS ankle monitors, directed by amazing Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. More details and registration link below.
dandelion.events/e/no-release...
September 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Hey You'll 🙂✊🏾
"No Release" - a film based on my recent BA project on immigration GPS ankle monitors, directed by amazing Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. More details and registration link below.
dandelion.events/e/no-release...
"No Release" - a film based on my recent BA project on immigration GPS ankle monitors, directed by amazing Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. More details and registration link below.
dandelion.events/e/no-release...
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The deportation of an Eritrean man under 'one-in, on-out' has been halted by a judge after an NRM decision indicating reasonable suspicion he'd been trafficked. Charity Medical Justice say vast majority detained under scheme are torture and trafficking survivors www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK deportation of Eritrean man to France under ‘one-in, one-out’ halted by judge
The 25-year-old claims to be trafficking victim and won high court challenge in what may prove major blow to Labour policy
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
The deportation of an Eritrean man under 'one-in, on-out' has been halted by a judge after an NRM decision indicating reasonable suspicion he'd been trafficked. Charity Medical Justice say vast majority detained under scheme are torture and trafficking survivors www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
NO RELEASE - A film based on my recent British Academy project on immigration GPS ankle monitors (aka tagging/electronic monitoring), directed by brilliant Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. Free registration.
dandelion.events/e/no-release...
dandelion.events/e/no-release...
September 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
NO RELEASE - A film based on my recent British Academy project on immigration GPS ankle monitors (aka tagging/electronic monitoring), directed by brilliant Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. Free registration.
dandelion.events/e/no-release...
dandelion.events/e/no-release...
Hey You'll 🙂✊🏾
"No Release" - a film based on my recent BA project on immigration GPS ankle monitors, directed by amazing Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. More details and registration link below.
dandelion.events/e/no-release...
"No Release" - a film based on my recent BA project on immigration GPS ankle monitors, directed by amazing Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. More details and registration link below.
dandelion.events/e/no-release...
September 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Hey You'll 🙂✊🏾
"No Release" - a film based on my recent BA project on immigration GPS ankle monitors, directed by amazing Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. More details and registration link below.
dandelion.events/e/no-release...
"No Release" - a film based on my recent BA project on immigration GPS ankle monitors, directed by amazing Sînziana Cojocărescu, is going to be screened at the BLOC cinema QMUL, on 22nd September. More details and registration link below.
dandelion.events/e/no-release...
Releasing at the end of 2025 (hopefully).
The Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance.
The Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance.
August 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Releasing at the end of 2025 (hopefully).
The Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance.
The Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance.
30 chapters.
30+ amazing contributors.
300,000 powerful words.
24+months in the making.
AND we finally pressed that 'send' button and off it goes to the publisher.
What a pleasure it was to work with Thalia, Kathryn and Jason.
30+ amazing contributors.
300,000 powerful words.
24+months in the making.
AND we finally pressed that 'send' button and off it goes to the publisher.
What a pleasure it was to work with Thalia, Kathryn and Jason.
July 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
30 chapters.
30+ amazing contributors.
300,000 powerful words.
24+months in the making.
AND we finally pressed that 'send' button and off it goes to the publisher.
What a pleasure it was to work with Thalia, Kathryn and Jason.
30+ amazing contributors.
300,000 powerful words.
24+months in the making.
AND we finally pressed that 'send' button and off it goes to the publisher.
What a pleasure it was to work with Thalia, Kathryn and Jason.
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BSC regional group symposium 18th Sept 2025 at Uni of Nottingham. registration now open! Free for all to attend. Great speakers lined up, on theme of politics, harm and justice. Register here forms.office.com/e/qH3qgUNwQj.
@stephenfarrall.bsky.social @warrcrim.bsky.social
@monish.bsky.social
@stephenfarrall.bsky.social @warrcrim.bsky.social
@monish.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
BSC regional group symposium 18th Sept 2025 at Uni of Nottingham. registration now open! Free for all to attend. Great speakers lined up, on theme of politics, harm and justice. Register here forms.office.com/e/qH3qgUNwQj.
@stephenfarrall.bsky.social @warrcrim.bsky.social
@monish.bsky.social
@stephenfarrall.bsky.social @warrcrim.bsky.social
@monish.bsky.social
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New work from the www.channelcrossings.org team!
We have been gathering a dataset of contracts that the government has with private companies related to Channel crossings. We are calling this the ‘border economy’. We have identified over £3billion worth of contracts...
We have been gathering a dataset of contracts that the government has with private companies related to Channel crossings. We are calling this the ‘border economy’. We have identified over £3billion worth of contracts...
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Visit the post for more.
www.channelcrossings.org
May 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
New work from the www.channelcrossings.org team!
We have been gathering a dataset of contracts that the government has with private companies related to Channel crossings. We are calling this the ‘border economy’. We have identified over £3billion worth of contracts...
We have been gathering a dataset of contracts that the government has with private companies related to Channel crossings. We are calling this the ‘border economy’. We have identified over £3billion worth of contracts...
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It's criminal justice/crimmigration day in my 2nd year UG understanding 'race' & migration module. Thinking back to a year ago when lucky students had @monish.bsky.social deliver the lecture in person 🙌. Many were deeply affected & chose this topic for their final reflexive learning assessment.
April 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
It's criminal justice/crimmigration day in my 2nd year UG understanding 'race' & migration module. Thinking back to a year ago when lucky students had @monish.bsky.social deliver the lecture in person 🙌. Many were deeply affected & chose this topic for their final reflexive learning assessment.
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🔥Another vital contribution from @monish.bsky.social shining a light on the violence of 'everyday' detention practices and deportability on women. Not sure I'm exactly 'looking forward' to reading, more approaching with trepidation, but appreciation for this important work. #TheseWallsMustFall
'Reproductive injustice in Britain: punishing illegalized migrant #women from the Global South and separating families' by @monish.bsky.social
From #Identities' International Women's Day Special Collection:
http://doi.org/10.10...
#IWD2025 @tandfresearch.bsky.social
From #Identities' International Women's Day Special Collection:
http://doi.org/10.10...
#IWD2025 @tandfresearch.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
🔥Another vital contribution from @monish.bsky.social shining a light on the violence of 'everyday' detention practices and deportability on women. Not sure I'm exactly 'looking forward' to reading, more approaching with trepidation, but appreciation for this important work. #TheseWallsMustFall
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'Reproductive injustice in Britain: punishing illegalized migrant #women from the Global South and separating families' by @monish.bsky.social
From #Identities' International Women's Day Special Collection:
http://doi.org/10.10...
#IWD2025 @tandfresearch.bsky.social
From #Identities' International Women's Day Special Collection:
http://doi.org/10.10...
#IWD2025 @tandfresearch.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
'Reproductive injustice in Britain: punishing illegalized migrant #women from the Global South and separating families' by @monish.bsky.social
From #Identities' International Women's Day Special Collection:
http://doi.org/10.10...
#IWD2025 @tandfresearch.bsky.social
From #Identities' International Women's Day Special Collection:
http://doi.org/10.10...
#IWD2025 @tandfresearch.bsky.social
Elon Musk, Nazi salutes and the reactionary redefinition of fascism.
What a stunning (and enraging) piece by @aaronwinter.bsky.social
Here's the link: www.identitiesjournal.com/blog-collect...
What a stunning (and enraging) piece by @aaronwinter.bsky.social
Here's the link: www.identitiesjournal.com/blog-collect...
Elon Musk, Nazi salutes and the reactionary redefinition of fascism
Bluesky: @identitiesjournal.bsky.social
www.identitiesjournal.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Elon Musk, Nazi salutes and the reactionary redefinition of fascism.
What a stunning (and enraging) piece by @aaronwinter.bsky.social
Here's the link: www.identitiesjournal.com/blog-collect...
What a stunning (and enraging) piece by @aaronwinter.bsky.social
Here's the link: www.identitiesjournal.com/blog-collect...
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'Reproductive injustice in Britain: punishing illegalized migrant #women from the Global South and separating families' by @monish.bsky.social
From #Identities' International Women's Day Special Collection:
http://doi.org/10.10...
#IWD2025 @tandfresearch.bsky.social
From #Identities' International Women's Day Special Collection:
http://doi.org/10.10...
#IWD2025 @tandfresearch.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
'Reproductive injustice in Britain: punishing illegalized migrant #women from the Global South and separating families' by @monish.bsky.social
From #Identities' International Women's Day Special Collection:
http://doi.org/10.10...
#IWD2025 @tandfresearch.bsky.social
From #Identities' International Women's Day Special Collection:
http://doi.org/10.10...
#IWD2025 @tandfresearch.bsky.social
🔥🔥🔥Happening Tomorrow🔥🔥🔥
Online and free to attend.
Few tickets remaining.
Registration compulsory. Follow the link below 👇
Online and free to attend.
Few tickets remaining.
Registration compulsory. Follow the link below 👇
🔥 Race and Justice Seminar 2025🔥
🚨The Fabrication of Homeland Security: Tracing policing entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel.
Speaker: Rhys Machold.
⏲️Thursday 27th Feb 12:00-13:30
🖱️Registration Link: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-fabric...
🚨The Fabrication of Homeland Security: Tracing policing entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel.
Speaker: Rhys Machold.
⏲️Thursday 27th Feb 12:00-13:30
🖱️Registration Link: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-fabric...
February 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🔥🔥🔥Happening Tomorrow🔥🔥🔥
Online and free to attend.
Few tickets remaining.
Registration compulsory. Follow the link below 👇
Online and free to attend.
Few tickets remaining.
Registration compulsory. Follow the link below 👇
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We argue that the proposed new offences will imprison more people trying to seek safety and a better life in the UK
This is already happening - over 550 people have been imprisoned 2022-24 for crossing the Channel.
@captainsupportuk.bsky.social works in solidarity with them.
This is already happening - over 550 people have been imprisoned 2022-24 for crossing the Channel.
@captainsupportuk.bsky.social works in solidarity with them.
New on the blog!
@vickytaylor.bsky.social and Catriona Götz discuss the new offences on Labour's Border Security, Asylum and Immigration bbill, which would significantly expand the state’s ability to use criminal powers against those it labels as having played a role in ‘facilitating migration’.
@vickytaylor.bsky.social and Catriona Götz discuss the new offences on Labour's Border Security, Asylum and Immigration bbill, which would significantly expand the state’s ability to use criminal powers against those it labels as having played a role in ‘facilitating migration’.
“Security at the heart”: Criminalisation and Labour’s Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 2025
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk
February 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
We argue that the proposed new offences will imprison more people trying to seek safety and a better life in the UK
This is already happening - over 550 people have been imprisoned 2022-24 for crossing the Channel.
@captainsupportuk.bsky.social works in solidarity with them.
This is already happening - over 550 people have been imprisoned 2022-24 for crossing the Channel.
@captainsupportuk.bsky.social works in solidarity with them.
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Member's new book!
Bhatia, M., Poynting, S. and Tufail, W. (eds) (2023) Racism, Violence and Harm: Ideology, media and resistance, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
This book examines connections between racism, violence, and social harms...
#migration #sociology
Bhatia, M., Poynting, S. and Tufail, W. (eds) (2023) Racism, Violence and Harm: Ideology, media and resistance, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
This book examines connections between racism, violence, and social harms...
#migration #sociology
Racism, Violence and Harm
This edited book examines connections between racism, violence, and social harms.
link.springer.com
December 31, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Member's new book!
Bhatia, M., Poynting, S. and Tufail, W. (eds) (2023) Racism, Violence and Harm: Ideology, media and resistance, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
This book examines connections between racism, violence, and social harms...
#migration #sociology
Bhatia, M., Poynting, S. and Tufail, W. (eds) (2023) Racism, Violence and Harm: Ideology, media and resistance, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
This book examines connections between racism, violence, and social harms...
#migration #sociology
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Great new article by @monish.bsky.social in Critical Criminology:
“… Here I Went Through Deportation – Which was also Torture for Me”: Air-Deportations and Liberal Violence in Great Britain.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
“… Here I Went Through Deportation – Which was also Torture for Me”: Air-Deportations and Liberal Violence in Great Britain.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
“… Here I Went Through Deportation – Which was also Torture for Me”: Air-Deportations and Liberal Violence in Great Britain - Critical Criminology
This article contributes to understanding violence in deportation. Drawing on data from eight months of fieldwork conducted between 2015 and 2017 and interviews with asylum seekers and practitioners, ...
link.springer.com
January 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Great new article by @monish.bsky.social in Critical Criminology:
“… Here I Went Through Deportation – Which was also Torture for Me”: Air-Deportations and Liberal Violence in Great Britain.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
“… Here I Went Through Deportation – Which was also Torture for Me”: Air-Deportations and Liberal Violence in Great Britain.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🔥 Race and Justice Seminar 2025🔥
🚨The Fabrication of Homeland Security: Tracing policing entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel.
Speaker: Rhys Machold.
⏲️Thursday 27th Feb 12:00-13:30
🖱️Registration Link: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-fabric...
🚨The Fabrication of Homeland Security: Tracing policing entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel.
Speaker: Rhys Machold.
⏲️Thursday 27th Feb 12:00-13:30
🖱️Registration Link: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-fabric...
January 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
🔥 Race and Justice Seminar 2025🔥
🚨The Fabrication of Homeland Security: Tracing policing entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel.
Speaker: Rhys Machold.
⏲️Thursday 27th Feb 12:00-13:30
🖱️Registration Link: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-fabric...
🚨The Fabrication of Homeland Security: Tracing policing entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel.
Speaker: Rhys Machold.
⏲️Thursday 27th Feb 12:00-13:30
🖱️Registration Link: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-fabric...
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I'm looking forward to speaking about my book, Racial Justice and the Limits of Law:
Thursday 23rd January, 12.00-13.30
Online, register at www.eventbrite.com/e/racial-jus...
Thursday 23rd January, 12.00-13.30
Online, register at www.eventbrite.com/e/racial-jus...
January 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM
I'm looking forward to speaking about my book, Racial Justice and the Limits of Law:
Thursday 23rd January, 12.00-13.30
Online, register at www.eventbrite.com/e/racial-jus...
Thursday 23rd January, 12.00-13.30
Online, register at www.eventbrite.com/e/racial-jus...