Francesca Meloni
@francescameloni.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at King's College London
#migration, #citizenship, #racism and #belonging
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/francesca-meloni-2
#migration, #citizenship, #racism and #belonging
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/francesca-meloni-2
Reposted by Francesca Meloni
What do Britons know and think about #irregularmigration?
Read new @iclaimeu.bsky.social report out today
i-claim.eu/project/publ...
Read new @iclaimeu.bsky.social report out today
i-claim.eu/project/publ...
Public understanding and attitudes to irregular migration in the UK - I-CLAIM
This report summarises findings from the February 2025 I-CLAIM survey of 1,147 UK adults, exploring public knowledge of irregular migration, how people define it, and their attitudes toward irregular ...
i-claim.eu
December 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
What do Britons know and think about #irregularmigration?
Read new @iclaimeu.bsky.social report out today
i-claim.eu/project/publ...
Read new @iclaimeu.bsky.social report out today
i-claim.eu/project/publ...
Reposted by Francesca Meloni
You can read the full report, detailing how the digital immigration system leaves migrants excluded from society, blocked from working, denied the ability to rent, left in limbo and suffering increased stress and distress here👇
www.migrantvoice.org/resources/re...
www.migrantvoice.org/resources/re...
Exclusion by Design: Digital Identification and the Hostile Environment for…
Together with Derya Ozkul (University of Warwick) and Marie Godin (University of Leicester) and Open Rights Group, Migrant Voice have produced the report ‘Exclusion by Design: Digital Identification a...
www.migrantvoice.org
December 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
You can read the full report, detailing how the digital immigration system leaves migrants excluded from society, blocked from working, denied the ability to rent, left in limbo and suffering increased stress and distress here👇
www.migrantvoice.org/resources/re...
www.migrantvoice.org/resources/re...
Looking forward to reading this!
New special issue on the anti-refugee machine on Migration & Society
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
New special issue on the anti-refugee machine on Migration & Society
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
October 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Looking forward to reading this!
New special issue on the anti-refugee machine on Migration & Society
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
New special issue on the anti-refugee machine on Migration & Society
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
Reposted by Francesca Meloni
🗣️ The students of KCL have launched a re-occupation of the quad triangle at Strand campus in renewed rejection of the university’s complicity with Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza. There is a staff-student assembly tomorrow Wed 14 May at 1pm. All welcome.
May 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🗣️ The students of KCL have launched a re-occupation of the quad triangle at Strand campus in renewed rejection of the university’s complicity with Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza. There is a staff-student assembly tomorrow Wed 14 May at 1pm. All welcome.
Reposted by Francesca Meloni
Kent has become a testing ground for AI surveillance + other border technologies 👁️
MRN + The Folkestone Bookshop are proud to host a film screening feat. 2 groundbreaking films investigating violence + tech on the border. This will be followed by a panel + Q&A.
Free tickets: buff.ly/u0hMjHV
MRN + The Folkestone Bookshop are proud to host a film screening feat. 2 groundbreaking films investigating violence + tech on the border. This will be followed by a panel + Q&A.
Free tickets: buff.ly/u0hMjHV
April 24, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Kent has become a testing ground for AI surveillance + other border technologies 👁️
MRN + The Folkestone Bookshop are proud to host a film screening feat. 2 groundbreaking films investigating violence + tech on the border. This will be followed by a panel + Q&A.
Free tickets: buff.ly/u0hMjHV
MRN + The Folkestone Bookshop are proud to host a film screening feat. 2 groundbreaking films investigating violence + tech on the border. This will be followed by a panel + Q&A.
Free tickets: buff.ly/u0hMjHV
Reposted by Francesca Meloni
🇵🇸 PALESTINE: A Sociological Issue 🇵🇸
Join us for the second in our Conversations series as we put a sociological lens on the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
🍉 Thu 8 May 18.30-20.00 UTC+1 online
🍉 Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell & Rafeef Ziadah
🍉 Register: buff.ly/xE1NHos
Join us for the second in our Conversations series as we put a sociological lens on the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
🍉 Thu 8 May 18.30-20.00 UTC+1 online
🍉 Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell & Rafeef Ziadah
🍉 Register: buff.ly/xE1NHos
April 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🇵🇸 PALESTINE: A Sociological Issue 🇵🇸
Join us for the second in our Conversations series as we put a sociological lens on the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
🍉 Thu 8 May 18.30-20.00 UTC+1 online
🍉 Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell & Rafeef Ziadah
🍉 Register: buff.ly/xE1NHos
Join us for the second in our Conversations series as we put a sociological lens on the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
🍉 Thu 8 May 18.30-20.00 UTC+1 online
🍉 Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell & Rafeef Ziadah
🍉 Register: buff.ly/xE1NHos
Reposted by Francesca Meloni
🛑In this week's Calendar we highlight the Met's plans to install the UK’s first permanent live facial recognition (LFR) cameras in Croydon face objections from local councillors on the grounds of disproportionality & over-policing of certain communities.
www.computerweekly.com/news/3666223...
www.computerweekly.com/news/3666223...
Met Police to deploy permanent facial recognition tech in Croydon | Computer Weekly
The Met Police is set deploy permanent live facial recognition cameras on street furniture in Croydon from summer 2025, but local councillors say the decision – which has taken place with no community...
www.computerweekly.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
🛑In this week's Calendar we highlight the Met's plans to install the UK’s first permanent live facial recognition (LFR) cameras in Croydon face objections from local councillors on the grounds of disproportionality & over-policing of certain communities.
www.computerweekly.com/news/3666223...
www.computerweekly.com/news/3666223...
Reposted by Francesca Meloni
Congratulations 🥳 to the winner of the @hartpublishing.bsky.social SLSA Prize for Early Career Academics - Francesca Meloni @francescameloni.bsky.social for
‘Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth in the Shadow of Illegality’
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/ways-of-belo...
‘Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth in the Shadow of Illegality’
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/ways-of-belo...
Ways of Belonging - Rutgers University Press
Ways of Belonging examines the experiences of undocumented young people who are excluded from K–12 schools in Canada and are rendered invisible to the educ...
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org
April 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Congratulations 🥳 to the winner of the @hartpublishing.bsky.social SLSA Prize for Early Career Academics - Francesca Meloni @francescameloni.bsky.social for
‘Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth in the Shadow of Illegality’
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/ways-of-belo...
‘Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth in the Shadow of Illegality’
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/ways-of-belo...