Stephanie Schwartz
@stephrschwartz.bsky.social
Political Science | Forced Migration | Assistant Professor @LSEIRDept | Views my own
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Dr @stephrschwartz.bsky.social has published a new research article titled, "Refugee Return without Refoulement: Rethinking State Strategies to Evade Asylum Norms" in International Migration Review.
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August 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Dr @stephrschwartz.bsky.social has published a new research article titled, "Refugee Return without Refoulement: Rethinking State Strategies to Evade Asylum Norms" in International Migration Review.
🔗 Read the full article to find out more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
🔗 Read the full article to find out more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It’s finally out: doi.org/10.1177/0197...
Refugee Return without Refoulement: Rethinking State Strategies to Evade Asylum Norms - Stephanie Schwartz, 2025
How do states avoid hosting refugees? Whereas scholars have documented at length the strategies that rich democracies use to avoid hosting refugees, conventiona...
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July 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
It’s finally out: doi.org/10.1177/0197...
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"From what I can tell, ICE is a secret police when acting in a public space...The comparativist in me wants to think about other police forces in history which had such broad and ill-defined powers. But such comparisons are too frightening."
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adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/week-19
WEEK 19
WEEK 19
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July 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
"From what I can tell, ICE is a secret police when acting in a public space...The comparativist in me wants to think about other police forces in history which had such broad and ill-defined powers. But such comparisons are too frightening."
adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/week-19
adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/week-19
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With unrest continuing in #LosAngeles and #Trump calling in more troops from the National Guard, where did this heavy response to anti-deportation #protests emerge from, and what is its aim?
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@stephrschwartz.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social and @abbeyst.bsky.social for @lseusablog.bsky.social
How the US immigration crackdown undermines democracy | USAPP
Trump's harsh immigration actions are part of the administration’s strategy for dismantling democracy by amassing coercive power.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
June 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
With unrest continuing in #LosAngeles and #Trump calling in more troops from the National Guard, where did this heavy response to anti-deportation #protests emerge from, and what is its aim?
@stephrschwartz.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social and @abbeyst.bsky.social for @lseusablog.bsky.social
@stephrschwartz.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social and @abbeyst.bsky.social for @lseusablog.bsky.social
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re-upping this piece with @stephrschwartz.bsky.social @lseblogs.bsky.social on how the immigration crackdown is a convenient cover for Trump to dismantle democracy -- given the developments in LA
blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
How the US immigration crackdown undermines democracy | USAPP
Trump's harsh immigration actions are part of the administration’s strategy for dismantling democracy by amassing coercive power.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
June 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
re-upping this piece with @stephrschwartz.bsky.social @lseblogs.bsky.social on how the immigration crackdown is a convenient cover for Trump to dismantle democracy -- given the developments in LA
blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
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This was predictable and exactly what people warned the USIP takeover was a stepping stone to.
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DOGE sought to assign a team to an independent nonprofit group
A representative of DOGE met with leaders of the Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit organization that advocates for lower incarceration rates.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 2:16 AM
This was predictable and exactly what people warned the USIP takeover was a stepping stone to.
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This is the second video of ICE agents shattering a window in the last week rather than have some patience. And in this case, they're allegedly detaining someone who already has asylum through his wife, with no reason given at all!
www.borderreport.com/news/video-s...
www.borderreport.com/news/video-s...
Video shows ICE agents shatter car window during Massachusetts arrest: attorney
Federal immigration agents are accused of shattering a car window in Massachusetts while detaining a Guatemalan man on Monday in a caught-on-camera incident – despite his attorney saying they had t…
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April 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
This is the second video of ICE agents shattering a window in the last week rather than have some patience. And in this case, they're allegedly detaining someone who already has asylum through his wife, with no reason given at all!
www.borderreport.com/news/video-s...
www.borderreport.com/news/video-s...
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The Justice Department’s latest filings make it abundantly clear that it is creating a black site for migrants in El Salvador that’s worse than Gitmo. slate.com/news-and-pol...
April 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The Justice Department’s latest filings make it abundantly clear that it is creating a black site for migrants in El Salvador that’s worse than Gitmo. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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I've spent time in the midst of three civil wars and multiple authoritarian regimes, and a weird normalcy is very typical. People still have to work their jobs and feed their families. Markets are still held, and religious services go on. The threats just behind the surface can be easy to forget.
It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.
March 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I've spent time in the midst of three civil wars and multiple authoritarian regimes, and a weird normalcy is very typical. People still have to work their jobs and feed their families. Markets are still held, and religious services go on. The threats just behind the surface can be easy to forget.
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Abject cowardice from some of the most powerful people in the country.
No solidarity for Perkins Coie so far coming from the highest ranks of BigLaw, according to @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/494a...
March 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Abject cowardice from some of the most powerful people in the country.
GRIID is hiring! 2-year post-doc at the University of Amsterdam @rpa-cs-uva.bsky.social
on government responses to displacement project w/ me,
@abbeyst.bsky.social & Adam Lichtenheld.
- Closing date 30 April, starts fall 2025.
- More info & to apply:
werkenbij.uva.nl
on government responses to displacement project w/ me,
@abbeyst.bsky.social & Adam Lichtenheld.
- Closing date 30 April, starts fall 2025.
- More info & to apply:
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March 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
GRIID is hiring! 2-year post-doc at the University of Amsterdam @rpa-cs-uva.bsky.social
on government responses to displacement project w/ me,
@abbeyst.bsky.social & Adam Lichtenheld.
- Closing date 30 April, starts fall 2025.
- More info & to apply:
werkenbij.uva.nl
on government responses to displacement project w/ me,
@abbeyst.bsky.social & Adam Lichtenheld.
- Closing date 30 April, starts fall 2025.
- More info & to apply:
werkenbij.uva.nl
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📣 excited to announce a 2-year post-doc at the University of Amsterdam @rpa-cs-uva.bsky.social on government responses to displacement project w/ me, @stephrschwartz.bsky.social & Adam Lichtenheld.
- Closing date 30 April, starts fall 2025.
- More info & to apply:
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
- Closing date 30 April, starts fall 2025.
- More info & to apply:
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — Postdoctoral Position with the Conflict & Society Team
Are you a recent social sciences PhD who has conducted cutting-edge research on forced displacement and migration? Do you have experience conducting mixed-methods research? The “Conflict & Society” Re...
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March 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
📣 excited to announce a 2-year post-doc at the University of Amsterdam @rpa-cs-uva.bsky.social on government responses to displacement project w/ me, @stephrschwartz.bsky.social & Adam Lichtenheld.
- Closing date 30 April, starts fall 2025.
- More info & to apply:
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
- Closing date 30 April, starts fall 2025.
- More info & to apply:
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
100% this. This is a feature not a bug, this is what the policies are designed to do. @abbeyst.bsky.social and I write about that more here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
March 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
100% this. This is a feature not a bug, this is what the policies are designed to do. @abbeyst.bsky.social and I write about that more here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
Watching the cascade of asylum norm death in real time... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Poland suspends migrants' right to apply for asylum
The law will allow Polish authorities to temporarily spend asylum rights at the border with Belarus.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Watching the cascade of asylum norm death in real time... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The full story is here, and it includes multiple other cases of people, including other people who entered at ports of entry (not illegally) who were clearly detained and shipped to El Salvador solely on the basis of their tattoo and nothing more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos
The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.
www.motherjones.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The full story is here, and it includes multiple other cases of people, including other people who entered at ports of entry (not illegally) who were clearly detained and shipped to El Salvador solely on the basis of their tattoo and nothing more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The immigration crackdown is central to Trump's strategy to undermine democracy. What it can do that purging opponents or controlling the power of the purse cannot is enable military deployment on US soil & rally militia to enact their agenda unchecked. w/ @abbeyst.bsky.social for #USAPP
On the USAPP blog @stephrschwartz.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social and @abbeyst.bsky.social look at the #Trump administration's harsh #immigration policy.
They argue these actions are part a strategy for dismantling #democracy by amassing coercive power & rallying pro-government right-wing militias.
They argue these actions are part a strategy for dismantling #democracy by amassing coercive power & rallying pro-government right-wing militias.
How the US immigration crackdown undermines democracy | USAPP
The last two months have seen significant actions by the new Trump administration on immigration and against immigrants, from unwarranted deportations to increased enforcement at the Southern border.…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
March 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The immigration crackdown is central to Trump's strategy to undermine democracy. What it can do that purging opponents or controlling the power of the purse cannot is enable military deployment on US soil & rally militia to enact their agenda unchecked. w/ @abbeyst.bsky.social for #USAPP
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@stephrschwartz.bsky.social and I wrote a post for @lseblogs.bsky.social on how the immigration crackdown can help the administration mobilize US troops on US soil, and rally militia -- which would enable even more harm to groups this administration targets, like Trans Americans.
On the USAPP blog @stephrschwartz.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social and @abbeyst.bsky.social look at the #Trump administration's harsh #immigration policy.
They argue these actions are part a strategy for dismantling #democracy by amassing coercive power & rallying pro-government right-wing militias.
They argue these actions are part a strategy for dismantling #democracy by amassing coercive power & rallying pro-government right-wing militias.
How the US immigration crackdown undermines democracy | USAPP
The last two months have seen significant actions by the new Trump administration on immigration and against immigrants, from unwarranted deportations to increased enforcement at the Southern border.…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
March 24, 2025 at 7:54 AM
@stephrschwartz.bsky.social and I wrote a post for @lseblogs.bsky.social on how the immigration crackdown can help the administration mobilize US troops on US soil, and rally militia -- which would enable even more harm to groups this administration targets, like Trans Americans.
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In case it’s not clear, ICE is getting the names of pro-Palestine students to target from infamous pro-Israel watchdog groups Campus Watch, Canary Mission, etc
Those groups — not part of govt in any way — have enormous power right now with a direct pipeline to the deportation machine.
Those groups — not part of govt in any way — have enormous power right now with a direct pipeline to the deportation machine.
March 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
In case it’s not clear, ICE is getting the names of pro-Palestine students to target from infamous pro-Israel watchdog groups Campus Watch, Canary Mission, etc
Those groups — not part of govt in any way — have enormous power right now with a direct pipeline to the deportation machine.
Those groups — not part of govt in any way — have enormous power right now with a direct pipeline to the deportation machine.
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Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.
March 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.
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NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.
![I am the immigration attorney for Jerce Reyes Barrios, born in January 16, 1989 in Venezuela. 2. In February and March 2024, Mr. Reyes Barrios marched in two demonstrations in Venezuela protesting the authoritarian rule of Maduro. At the second demonstration, he was detained and taken to a clandestine building where he was tortured (electric shocks and suffocation) along with other demonstrators. 3. Shortly after his release, he fled Venezuela for the United States. He registered with CBP One in Mexico, then presented himself to CBP officials on the day of his appointment. He was taken into custody and detained at Otay Mesa Detention Facility in September 2024. 4. We applied for asylum, withholding of removal, and CAT protection in December 2024. His final individual hearing is set for April 17, 2025 before Judge Robinson at the Otay Mesa Immigration Court. 5. On March 15, 2025, Mr. Reyes Barrios was deported to El Salvador with no notice to counsel or family. It was not until March 18, 2025 that counsel was able to reach an ICE official and learn that he had in fact been deported. 6. Mr. Reyes Barrios was/is a professional soccer player in Venezuela. He has never been arrested or charged with a crime. He has a steady employment record as a soccer player, as well as a soccer coach for children and youth. 7. Initially, Mr. Reyes Barrios was placed in maximum security at Otay Mesa and accused of being a Tren de Aragua gang member. The accusation is based on two things. First, he has a tattoo on his arm of a crown sitting atop a soccer ball with a rosary and the word "Dies." OHS alleges that this tattoo is proof of gang membership. In reality, he chose this tattoo, because it is similar to the logo for his favorite soccer team Real Madrid. See logo below. [pictures of the tattoo and the pictures of the logo]. 8. Second, OHS reviewed his social media posts and found a photo of Mr. Reyes Barrios making a hand gesture that they allege is proof of gang membership.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifncv2sfxob3h7ozdkoymku3wfpbknlroa6bric46v5y7asbrzrim@jpeg)
March 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.
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"lack of specific information"..."actually highlights the risk they pose" confirms ICE is targeting people because of *who they are*, not for what they have done.
in polisci, this is known as collective targeting & it is the basis for eliminationist politics by expulsion, murder, disappearance.
in polisci, this is known as collective targeting & it is the basis for eliminationist politics by expulsion, murder, disappearance.
You've probably seen it, but we should keep raising up what an ICE official actually wrote to a court on Monday:
"The lack of a criminal record does not indicate they pose a limited threat. In fact… the lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose."
"The lack of a criminal record does not indicate they pose a limited threat. In fact… the lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose."
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March 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"lack of specific information"..."actually highlights the risk they pose" confirms ICE is targeting people because of *who they are*, not for what they have done.
in polisci, this is known as collective targeting & it is the basis for eliminationist politics by expulsion, murder, disappearance.
in polisci, this is known as collective targeting & it is the basis for eliminationist politics by expulsion, murder, disappearance.
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Inter-con, USIP security contractor, had contract terminated by USIP but still had one physical key to building. DOGE went to contractor VP's house and said "you either let us in or we're gonna cancel all your other government business." Inter-con then turned on USIP, and used key to let DOGE in.
March 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Inter-con, USIP security contractor, had contract terminated by USIP but still had one physical key to building. DOGE went to contractor VP's house and said "you either let us in or we're gonna cancel all your other government business." Inter-con then turned on USIP, and used key to let DOGE in.
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USIP owns their building. DOGE is vandalizing a building the federal government DOES NOT OWN.
After breaking into the US Institute of Peace (USIP) Monday, DOGE members immediately got to work taking down signs to erase the independent agency.
Photos taken yesterday shared directly with me:
Photos taken yesterday shared directly with me:
March 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
USIP owns their building. DOGE is vandalizing a building the federal government DOES NOT OWN.
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At the risk of being a parody of myself I think the roots to the "new" misogyny lie in the theology of slavery and the rationalization of mass rape for centuries by people who thought of themselves as the most devout people in the country www.liberalcurrents.com/guys-win-and...
Guys Win: Andrew Tate, Rape Politics, and the Authoritarian Right
Misogyny is a preeminent feature of authoritarian politics.
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March 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
At the risk of being a parody of myself I think the roots to the "new" misogyny lie in the theology of slavery and the rationalization of mass rape for centuries by people who thought of themselves as the most devout people in the country www.liberalcurrents.com/guys-win-and...