Dr Teresa Piacentini
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Dr Teresa Piacentini
@teresap.bsky.social
Sociologist teaching/researching/writing about asylum & refugee migration, community mobilisations, solidarity & resistance practices. Also writing about developing critical pedagogy in Migration Studies.
And yes the Home Office is a disgrace.
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I did an update on who is seeking asylum in the UK

🧐 Are they all men?
🤔 What countries do they come from?
🤨 Why are only half of Afghans being recognised as refugees? www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsOc...
The TRUTH about migrants seeking asylum in the UK
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner
www.youtube.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Massive congrats to my brilliant pal & colleague
@nickyburns.bsky.social
& co-editors on the publication of this urgent, important intervention. Very much looking forward to learning more!
www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/mig...
Migrant and Refugee Access to Health Systems
‘Bringing together the literature on borders, healthcare, and mobility justice, this book reveals how people on the move must navigate the “sedentary bias” of modern health systems. Eye-opening case s...
www.e-elgar.com
May 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This arrived in paperback!
Lovely to recieve this today.
In times of so much turbulence, reminded of why we need critical, ethical, transformative classrooms.
Please do get in touch if you'd like to hear more!
April 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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For the @theguardian.com I wrote about the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil & Trump's exploitation of anti-Palestinian racism to descend the nation into authoritarianism, with the full collaboration of academia.

No one is free until Palestine is free.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump is using Mahmoud Khalil to test his mass deportation plan | Heba Gowayed
The Palestinian student’s arrest at Columbia University is a harbinger of what’s to come on college campuses
www.theguardian.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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We held back briefly while waiting for mainstream news platforms to pick up our letter. After prolonged silence, however, we feel we cannot delay this message any longer.

1/4
March 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Deep thanks to Ömer Gökhan Ulum & International Migration Journal for the detailed, thoughtful, & critically engaged review of my book. The generous & positive insights & feedback have given me much to reflect on & work with 🙏🏽
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Developing a critical pedagogy of migration studies: Ethics, politics and practice in the classroom By Teresa Piacentini, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2024. pp. 194
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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We really need a discussion about how the far-right is essentially normalised by the way leaders like Meloni are covered, and how it is rising by the way in which leaders like Sunak treat them as allies.
October 6, 2023 at 6:53 PM