Nat Brinham
@natbrinham.bsky.social
Researcher at University of Bristol working on ID systems, statelessness, genocide.
This is my new article about how #Rohingya, #Kurdish and #Palestinian people resist citizenship violence. It urges policy makers and all of us who do anti-statelessness work to be more responsive to people on the ground. statelessnessandcitizenshipreview.com/index.php/jo...
August 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This is my new article about how #Rohingya, #Kurdish and #Palestinian people resist citizenship violence. It urges policy makers and all of us who do anti-statelessness work to be more responsive to people on the ground. statelessnessandcitizenshipreview.com/index.php/jo...
Our article for 8th anniversary of Rohingya genocide trt.global/world/articl...
TRT Global - Myanmar to Gaza: Impotence of courts in preventing genocides and punishing perpetrators
Eight years after Myanmar’s army launched a violent campaign to erase the Rohingya, the global community has done little to bring the perpetrators to book.
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August 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Our article for 8th anniversary of Rohingya genocide trt.global/world/articl...
Here's my new piece for Forsea It's about violent IDing and the "interoperability" of the infrastructures of genocide. forsea.co/digitising-s...
Digitising Statelessness and Genocide in Palestine and Myanmar - FORSEA
The genocides in Palestine and Myanmar have been facilitated by decades of systematic bureaucratic violence and the misuse of state identification systems, linked to mass atrocities.
forsea.co
August 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Here's my new piece for Forsea It's about violent IDing and the "interoperability" of the infrastructures of genocide. forsea.co/digitising-s...
Birds of a feather flock together www.biometricupdate.com/202507/india...
India pledges support for Myanmar digital ID pilot | Biometric Update
Myanmar and India have formalized their partnership on the pilot phase of Myanmar’s Digital Identity Programme with a Memorandum of Understanding.
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August 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Birds of a feather flock together www.biometricupdate.com/202507/india...
#Statelessness and #Genocide My new brief on Transcend for IAGS
"As the quest for a legal identity for all gathers momentum, Rohingya accounts provide a compelling case for integrating genocide sensitivity measures into plans for updating ID systems."
www.transcend.org/tms/2025/07/...
"As the quest for a legal identity for all gathers momentum, Rohingya accounts provide a compelling case for integrating genocide sensitivity measures into plans for updating ID systems."
www.transcend.org/tms/2025/07/...
Statelessness and Genocide
June 2025 - Oral histories of Rohingya genocide survivors highlight how Myanmar’s misuses of state ID systems have enabled the social, political, and physical destruction of their group. ...
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July 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
#Statelessness and #Genocide My new brief on Transcend for IAGS
"As the quest for a legal identity for all gathers momentum, Rohingya accounts provide a compelling case for integrating genocide sensitivity measures into plans for updating ID systems."
www.transcend.org/tms/2025/07/...
"As the quest for a legal identity for all gathers momentum, Rohingya accounts provide a compelling case for integrating genocide sensitivity measures into plans for updating ID systems."
www.transcend.org/tms/2025/07/...
Lammy's bloody hypocracy. “There’s nothing clickbait about genocide. He has Palestinian blood on his hands.” truthout.org/articles/gro...
Redirecting...
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May 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Lammy's bloody hypocracy. “There’s nothing clickbait about genocide. He has Palestinian blood on his hands.” truthout.org/articles/gro...
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@globalvoices.org on Nicaragua's weaponisation of citizenship law and identity documents to silence dissent and create #statelessness globalvoices.org/2025/04/17/n...
Nicaragua's stateless people seek justice
Nicaragua continues to strip citizens of their citizenship, whether officially or in silence. Nicaraguan exiles are exploring legal avenues to stop this repressive strategy.
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April 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
@globalvoices.org on Nicaragua's weaponisation of citizenship law and identity documents to silence dissent and create #statelessness globalvoices.org/2025/04/17/n...
This is what needs to be said. My academic sibling says it with kindness and compassion. www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanmars-...
Myanmar’s resistance faces a moral quandary after the quake
The swift delivery of aid to survivors of the recent earthquake must take precedence over transient political gains in a long-running conflict.
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April 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This is what needs to be said. My academic sibling says it with kindness and compassion. www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanmars-...
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Just published a new #BookReview! Yuriko Cowper-Smith from reviewed "Citizenship and Genocide Cards: IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar" by
@natbrinham.bsky.social . Read the #OpenAccess review here: refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/re...
@natbrinham.bsky.social . Read the #OpenAccess review here: refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/re...
April 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Just published a new #BookReview! Yuriko Cowper-Smith from reviewed "Citizenship and Genocide Cards: IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar" by
@natbrinham.bsky.social . Read the #OpenAccess review here: refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/re...
@natbrinham.bsky.social . Read the #OpenAccess review here: refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/re...
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‘Digitising the US-Mexico border with(out) the CBP One app' - Martin Rogard writes in the MMB blog about US how border digitisation is expanding the state's reach beyond pre-existing democratic and legal means 👉👉 bit.ly/4i5m3An
April 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
‘Digitising the US-Mexico border with(out) the CBP One app' - Martin Rogard writes in the MMB blog about US how border digitisation is expanding the state's reach beyond pre-existing democratic and legal means 👉👉 bit.ly/4i5m3An
"The foundations of military-backed reform in Myanmar were built on fault lines that cracked and crumbled amid the 2021 coup. The military’s exploitation of the 2025 earthquake will, I fear, result in similar ends." theconversation.com/myanmar-mili...
Myanmar military’s ‘ceasefire’ follows a pattern of ruling generals exploiting disasters to shore up control
Thousands were killed in 7.7 magnitude earthquake. Yet military generals were slow to agree to pause in civil war fighting, and continued airstrikes.
theconversation.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
"The foundations of military-backed reform in Myanmar were built on fault lines that cracked and crumbled amid the 2021 coup. The military’s exploitation of the 2025 earthquake will, I fear, result in similar ends." theconversation.com/myanmar-mili...
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Come along to this public lecture by MMB Director Bridget Anderson on the banality of citizenship - nationalism, labour and mobility controls - on 1 May. Part of the Migrants and Solidarities research project @tcru-ucl.bsky.social and @sriucl.bsky.social.
The Banality of Citizenship: Nationalism, labour and mobility controls
Join us for this lecture by Professor Bridget Anderson on how recognising the banality of citizenship can help reframe debates on migration.
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April 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Come along to this public lecture by MMB Director Bridget Anderson on the banality of citizenship - nationalism, labour and mobility controls - on 1 May. Part of the Migrants and Solidarities research project @tcru-ucl.bsky.social and @sriucl.bsky.social.
wiser.wits.ac.za/content/citi... Come join the disscussion
Citizenship and Genocide Cards : IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar | Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research
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March 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
wiser.wits.ac.za/content/citi... Come join the disscussion
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Do join us to launch our new edited volume, 'Rethinking Migration: Challenging Borders, Citizenship & Race' on 25th March! Bridget Anderson will be joined by guest Maya Goodfellow and the book's contributors to discuss our approach to migration and mobility studies. Sign up here 👉 bit.ly/3Xralss
Book Launch 'Rethinking Migration: Challenging Borders, Citizenship & Race'
Join us for a discussion of MMB's new edited collection, which presents a new, interdisciplinary approach to migration and mobilities.
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March 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Do join us to launch our new edited volume, 'Rethinking Migration: Challenging Borders, Citizenship & Race' on 25th March! Bridget Anderson will be joined by guest Maya Goodfellow and the book's contributors to discuss our approach to migration and mobility studies. Sign up here 👉 bit.ly/3Xralss
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In this week’s Book Review 📚💡, @veronicasoon.bsky.social reviews Citizenship and Genocide Cards: IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar by Natalie Brinham: buff.ly/41plUTh
February 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
In this week’s Book Review 📚💡, @veronicasoon.bsky.social reviews Citizenship and Genocide Cards: IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar by Natalie Brinham: buff.ly/41plUTh
A generous review of my book. blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Book Review: Citizenship and Genocide Cards: IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar by Natalie Brinham
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March 2, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A generous review of my book. blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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We are on a mission to democratise digital forensic knowledge and enhance technical capacity among human rights defender communities across the world.
Join us! Visit securitylab.amnesty.org for more information.
#security #digital #students
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCIy...
Join us! Visit securitylab.amnesty.org for more information.
#security #digital #students
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCIy...
Digital Forensics Training Programme for Human Rights Defenders
YouTube video by Amnesty International
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February 9, 2025 at 3:44 AM
We are on a mission to democratise digital forensic knowledge and enhance technical capacity among human rights defender communities across the world.
Join us! Visit securitylab.amnesty.org for more information.
#security #digital #students
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCIy...
Join us! Visit securitylab.amnesty.org for more information.
#security #digital #students
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCIy...
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List of the subtle (and not so subtle) shifts in norms in authoritarian contexts - the United States.
List of the subtle (and not so subtle) shifts in norms in authoritarian contexts - the United States.
Week 12 — The Return
If reading this week’s list feels frenetic, that is because it is capturing the mood of the country. The return of Trump marks the return of his chaos and dysfunction, as if America is living in some ...
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February 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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List of the subtle (and not so subtle) shifts in norms in authoritarian contexts - the United States.
List of the subtle (and not so subtle) shifts in norms in authoritarian contexts - the United States.
Rest in power Tapan. Your struggle lives in on in all of us forsea.co/tapan-bose-a...
Tapan Bose, A renowned documentary filmmaker, rights and peace activist, writer and public intellectual: A Tribute - FORSEA
Tapan was such a grounded and down-to-earth person. He had mentored younger generations of activists and rights defenders across South Asia
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January 31, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Rest in power Tapan. Your struggle lives in on in all of us forsea.co/tapan-bose-a...
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Well another week is upon us #MilkTeaAlliance & here is the events thread for the week.
B4 we begin, want to add our voice to Sri Lankan civil society groups & activists who are demanding that the gov't doesn't deport 100 Rohingya Refugees back to Myanmar!
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B4 we begin, want to add our voice to Sri Lankan civil society groups & activists who are demanding that the gov't doesn't deport 100 Rohingya Refugees back to Myanmar!
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Sri Lankans rally to stop deportation of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan civil society groups and activists are mobilizing to save more than 100 Rohingya refugees rescued off the Indian Ocean island nation last month following a government announcement ...
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January 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Well another week is upon us #MilkTeaAlliance & here is the events thread for the week.
B4 we begin, want to add our voice to Sri Lankan civil society groups & activists who are demanding that the gov't doesn't deport 100 Rohingya Refugees back to Myanmar!
1/
B4 we begin, want to add our voice to Sri Lankan civil society groups & activists who are demanding that the gov't doesn't deport 100 Rohingya Refugees back to Myanmar!
1/
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Junta air strikes on a densely populated fishing village in Rakhine's Ramree township kill at least 41 civilians & injure 50, most of them #Rohingya, say rescue workers.
“I think they targeted crowded civilian areas,” an emergency responder said. #Myanmar.
myanmar-now.org/en/news/junt...
“I think they targeted crowded civilian areas,” an emergency responder said. #Myanmar.
myanmar-now.org/en/news/junt...
Junta airstrikes kill 41, injure 50 in Rakhine State’s Ramree Township
Emergency responders say the junta deliberately targeted a displaced community from the air
myanmar-now.org
January 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Junta air strikes on a densely populated fishing village in Rakhine's Ramree township kill at least 41 civilians & injure 50, most of them #Rohingya, say rescue workers.
“I think they targeted crowded civilian areas,” an emergency responder said. #Myanmar.
myanmar-now.org/en/news/junt...
“I think they targeted crowded civilian areas,” an emergency responder said. #Myanmar.
myanmar-now.org/en/news/junt...
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New report by Blood Money Campaign 'Close the Sky: The dire consequences of inaction on aviation fuel in Myanmar' highlights devastating impacts of airstrikes on civilians in #Burma & intl. govts' inaction on aviation fuel sanctions.
👇 drive.google.com/file/d/1XXkM...
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
👇 drive.google.com/file/d/1XXkM...
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
January 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
New report by Blood Money Campaign 'Close the Sky: The dire consequences of inaction on aviation fuel in Myanmar' highlights devastating impacts of airstrikes on civilians in #Burma & intl. govts' inaction on aviation fuel sanctions.
👇 drive.google.com/file/d/1XXkM...
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
👇 drive.google.com/file/d/1XXkM...
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Nightmare Passage: new report exposes terrifying smuggling ordeals of Rohingya women
A new report by community researchers exposes the terrifying ordeals suffered by Rohingya women at the hands of abusive smuggling gangs when seeking escape.
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A new report by community researchers exposes the terrifying ordeals suffered by Rohingya women at the hands of abusive smuggling gangs when seeking escape.
kaladanpress.org/wp-content/u...
kaladanpress.org
December 23, 2024 at 8:35 AM
Nightmare Passage: new report exposes terrifying smuggling ordeals of Rohingya women
A new report by community researchers exposes the terrifying ordeals suffered by Rohingya women at the hands of abusive smuggling gangs when seeking escape.
kaladanpress.org/wp-content/u...
A new report by community researchers exposes the terrifying ordeals suffered by Rohingya women at the hands of abusive smuggling gangs when seeking escape.
kaladanpress.org/wp-content/u...