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Sociology professor & University Research Chair at the University of Waterloo, Canada — critical migration & border studies | political sociology |citizenship & social justice
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suzan ilcan @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social · 7d

event.newschool.edu/immigrationd...

Online Immigration Detention Event, with the authors, on November 6th

ONLINE | Book Talk: Immigration Detention Inc.

Join us ONLINE on November 6 for a book talk with authors Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon!The United States has the most extensive immigration detention system in the world, expanding from a capacity of less than 5,000 detainees per day in the 1980s to 52,000 by 2019, and even higher today. While the most vociferous anti-immigrant rhetoric may be attributed to Republicans, US detention infrastructure has grown exponentially regardless of the political party in power as reports of abysmal detention conditions pile up.Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon provide a damning exposé of the ways immigration detention generates income. At the same time, those detained are starved, sickened, and exploited as a matter of routine detention operations. Drawing on over a decade of research focusing on detention centers in New Jersey and New York, the authors map public-private financial relationships and trace how detention contracts for food, medical care, and in-facility stores are fought over to the penny. By dissecting the inner workings of immigration detention, they show a system governed by a capitalist logic that produces sickening and corrupting dependencies in communities across the US.Coming at a pivotal social and political moment, Immigration Detention Inc. makes the case for dismantling immigration detention regimes everywhere.

event.newschool.edu

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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 8d

Why DEI needs depth, not death

The future of equity in Canada depends on moving beyond simply counting racialized people in power and instead examining how power works, upholds injustice and can be transformed.

theconversation.com

Reposted by Suzan Ilcan

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11d

After bringing white South Africans to the United States as refugees earlier this year, the Trump administration has now granted protection to members of far-right European parties.

This plan, which becomes official today, makes the country's refugee program into a tool for white nationalism.

Trump could soon make America’s refugee program a tool for white nationalism

The White House is considering a plan to overhaul refugee admissions in favor of right-wing whites.

www.motherjones.com

suzan ilcan @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social · 12d

The journal is open access.

suzan ilcan @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social · 13d

Studies in Social Justice – New Special Issue Published (19: 3, 2025)

From Antagonism to Care: Reimagining Academic Freedom and Justice in Higher Education. Guest edited by Suzan Ilcan, Pinar Ensari & Lana Gonzalez Balyk.

Plus stand-alone contributions.

journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SS...

Vol. 19 No. 3 (2025): From Antagonism to Care: Reimagining Academic Freedom and Justice in Higher Education | Studies in Social Justice

journals.library.brocku.ca

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 13d

This is murder. I recommend this excellent discussion with @tessbridgeman.bsky.social @becingber.bsky.social @bcfinucane.bsky.social www.justsecurity.org/122950/podca...

The Just Security Podcast: Murder on the High Seas Part III

Tess Bridgeman is joined by Rebecca Ingber and Brian Finucane to assess how the campaign has evolved and what to expect moving forward.

www.justsecurity.org

Reposted by Mary Bosworth

suzan ilcan @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social · 14d

New blog on overlapping border regimes, published today in Border Criminologies

“No Laws to Protect You”: Life Between Cyprus’ Overlapping

blogs.law.ox.ac.uk

suzan ilcan @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social · 16d

balsillieschool.ca/event/the-bo...

The Border-Security Economy in the English Channel - Balsillie School of International Affairs

🔵 Public event Featuring Lucy Mayblin

balsillieschool.ca

suzan ilcan @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social · 16d

**Please mark your calendar:
Lucy Mayblin will be giving a virtual talk hosted by the Balsillie School of International Affairs, through its Migration, Mobilities, and Social Politics Research Cluster.
17 November, 12:00-1:30pm EST. See link for information on how to register: lnkd.in/gAr3B5_k

suzan ilcan @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social · 27d

Border criminologies’ new post
‘examines how national-level derogations, cloaked in procedural legality, represent a deeper erosion of mutual trust and constitutional coherence in the EU asylum system.’

Legal Walls, Silent Violations: How Germany and Greece Are

blogs.law.ox.ac.uk

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · Oct 6

3 MAGA extremists have re-intro'd a bill that allows South Carolina to execute women who receive an abortion. If you haven't heard about S 323, it's because corporate media has completely ignored it.

Here's the overview, the sponsors, & how to fight back:
www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...

S. Carolina RE-Intros Bill To Kill Women For Getting An Abortion

Here's what's in the bill, why it is so dangerous, and the meaningful steps you can take to fight back, support women's health, and help block this bill from becoming law

www.qasimrashid.com

Reposted by Suzan Ilcan

Hend Aly @hendaly.bsky.social · Oct 6

Our episode of Between Borders came out last week 🎉. I enjoyed the conversation with @rachelbenchekroun.bsky.social , Amandas Ong, Sabina Barone and @froeschert.bsky.social on conducting ethical research on migration in the context of social injustice. Please listen and share your thoughts.

Episode Three: Ethical Methods

Podcast Episode · Between Borders · 22/09/2025 · 43m

podcasts.apple.com

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Hend Aly @hendaly.bsky.social · Oct 6

We have recently released issue 8 of Migration and Society. The issue engages with solidarity, hope and writing on migration in dark times.

The issue is open access. berghahnbooks.bsky.social

We will have an online launch of the issue on 21 Oct. Let me know if you need the registration details

www.berghahnjournals.com

suzan ilcan @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social · Oct 6

Italy’s Border Immigration Paradox

Italy's Borders Immigration Paradox: Rising Numbers, Falling

blogs.law.ox.ac.uk

Reposted by Mary Bosworth, Suzan Ilcan

Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · Oct 6

In India and the US, protection for asylum seekers seems to rest on political discretion, not legal obligation. Read the new blog post on translating Indian journeys to the US ⤵️

blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Daniel W. Drezner, Suzan Ilcan , and 1 more Anna O. Law, Daniel W. Drezner, Suzan Ilcan, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Oct 3

“They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down. We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

The worst of what we feared when Trump’s spending bill gave ICE a blank check is happening.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · Sep 19

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’

www.nytimes.com

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Sep 11

A bunch of folks have asked about my "Long Arc of Fascism" course - this is my opening lecture at our public teach-in last Spring.

Centre for Climate Justice @ccj-ubc.bsky.social · Sep 10

Watch @naomiaklein.bsky.social open the Long Arc of Fascism teach-in by challenging the conventional, narrow understanding of fascism, particularly the idea that it is a uniquely European phenomenon that began in the 1920s or ’30s and was defeated in 1945.
@ccms-sfu.bsky.social

Introduction Sketching Fascism’s Long Arc with Naomi Klein

YouTube video by Centre for Climate Justice

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Sep 10

It took less than 72 hrs for as many as a dozen workers detained during a massive immigration raid in Central New York to go from a factory floor in Cato to a landing strip in Central America.
Workers were herded through as many as three different Border Patrol stations & detention centers in 2 days

Speed, confusion, no courts: ICE ships Upstate NY factory workers to Central America in 72 hours

More than 40 workers detained in a massive Central NY immigration raid have been quickly shuttled to the Texas-Mexico border

www.syracuse.com

Reposted by Suzan Ilcan

Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · Sep 10

The latest Open Access volume of Migration and Society has been published!: bit.ly/4mbOY7L

Featuring research by: @malayfiroz.bsky.social @jenri.bsky.social @ernabodstrom.bsky.social @jesperbjarnesen.bsky.social @djamilak.bsky.social @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social and more!

suzan ilcan @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social · Sep 9

“How international aid cuts are eroding refugee protections in the Global South” has been published today on The Conversation.

Here's the link:

theconversation.com/how-internat...

How international aid cuts are eroding refugee protections in the Global South

In light of the U.S. retreat from humanitarian leadership, countries like Canada must assume a more prominent role in sustaining global protection systems.

theconversation.com

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · Sep 8

857 people arrested in a single day in London for holding signs opposing Israel’s genocide in Palestine

These include Holocaust survivors, vicars, retired nurses and teachers. So many of them are elderly.

Labour is dead

www.instagram.com/p/DOTb3nIjYIS/

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · Sep 6

Heads up, folks.

ICE Is Said to Have Begun Operation in the Boston Area

www.nytimes.com

suzan ilcan @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social · Sep 6

Our new article just published in Migration and Society, “Transversal Community-Building: Fostering Women's Collaboration and Solidarity Across Differences in Cyprus”

Open access:
doi.org/10.3167/arms...

doi.org

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 5

Immigration officers forced their way into a confectionery plant near Syracuse on Thursday and detained more than 70 workers, witnesses said, in what appeared to be one of the biggest workplace raids in New York since President Trump’s deportation crackdown began.

U.S. Agents Raid Upstate N.Y. Plant and Detain More Than 70 Migrants

Local law enforcement officers helped federal agents carry out an immigration raid near Syracuse. Witnesses said the agents used police dogs in the raid and wielded crowbars to gain entry.

nyti.ms

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Tony R. Walker @tonyrwalker1.bsky.social · Aug 25

Solidarity and support, Thank you !

More than two dozen academic and public sector unions from across the entire country have donated to our cause, thank you!

Solidarity is how we will all win fair contracts!

Keep Dal Strong
Dalhousie Faculty Association
#keepdalstrong