Claire Healy
clairehealy.bsky.social
Claire Healy
@clairehealy.bsky.social
Migration, smuggling and trafficking researcher at the UN. Sci fi and sci reality obsessive. Social science, futurisms, ethics, politics and a good cup of black tea with milk. Born 🇮🇪, lived in 🇩🇪 🇦🇷 🇵🇹 and sort of 🇳🇬, now 🇦🇹
March 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Did an interview with Beatrice Tridimas for this well-written article!
Britain wants to smash the gangs – but what gangs? | Context
Britain drops Rwanda plan to stop small boats, but experts warn targeting smuggling gangs with counter-terror tactics may not work
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February 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Now more than ever.
February 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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I rarely post photos of oystercatchers because they are seen along all the island’s shores. But they are SO striking. A charismatic species with their piercing calls.
Isle of Bute.
February 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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We think the world will always be how it is now. But I think we need to imagine a world in which there are too few migrants, and many more nations competing to attract them. This is the first in a series I'll be publishing about global migration. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...
Opinion | Migration Is Remaking Our World, and We Don’t Understand It at All (Gift Article)
Migration is central to our politics and our world, but nobody really understands it.
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Glad to provide some further context on the 🌎 regulation of birthright citizenship, drawing on @globalcit.bsky.social, in this new @nytimes.com article.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/w...
Citizenship by Birthright? By Bloodline? Migration Is Complicating Both. (Gift Article)
In a world where people are more mobile than ever, nations are struggling to recalibrate who can be a citizen.
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
We are hiring! Research Officer (Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants) P3 at UNODC in Vienna
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January 23, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Did an interview for this BBC story (documentary available only in UK) on an interesting migrant smuggling case just concluded - involving the use of the hawala money transfer system
'Tripadvisor for smugglers' Welsh car wash owners plead guilty - BBC News
The smugglers offered the migrants bronze, silver, gold and platinum packages, depending on risk.
www.bbc.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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Our #migrantsmuggling research available here!
Observatory on Smuggling of Migrants
Observatory on Smuggling of Migrants
www.unodc.org
November 14, 2024 at 9:54 AM
Did an interview for this BBC story (documentary available only in UK) on an interesting migrant smuggling case just concluded - involving the use of the hawala money transfer system
'Tripadvisor for smugglers' Welsh car wash owners plead guilty - BBC News
The smugglers offered the migrants bronze, silver, gold and platinum packages, depending on risk.
www.bbc.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Our #migrantsmuggling research available here!
Observatory on Smuggling of Migrants
Observatory on Smuggling of Migrants
www.unodc.org
November 14, 2024 at 9:54 AM