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Jenna Mittelmeier
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Senior Lecturer in International Education at the University of Manchester. Research focuses on international students and international higher education. “Research with International Students” book out now! www.researchintlstudents.com
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jlmittelmeier.bsky.social
Contract signed! My new edited book, "The Untold Stories of International Student Mobilities", will be published by Bloomsbury in 2026/2027 🥳

You can find a little preview of the amazing authors contributing to it here:
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Contract signed! | Jenna Mittelmeier
Contract signed! My new edited book, "The Untold Stories of International Student Mobilities", will be published by Bloomsbury in 2026/2027 🥳 I'm so excited to work on this book and to share a littl...
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August 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
jlmittelmeier.bsky.social
Took a little break from Bluesky recently, but I'm back to share that our new journal has now published its first issue!

Journal of Global Higher Education: journal.libraries.wm.edu/global_highe...

Open for submissions in September!
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): Inaugural Issue | Journal of Global Higher Education
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July 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
jlmittelmeier.bsky.social
Recently got a physical copy of Derrida’s Writing and Difference, but a printing error from the publisher put the children’s book “A Tricky Trespasser: A Kitty Corner Adventure” in the front of the book before Derrida’s writing starts.

Feels…apt?
Front cover of Derrida: Writing and Difference First page of the Derrida book, with the misprint from Poppy Seed Publishers: “A Tricky Trespasser: A Kitty Corner Adventure” by Natalie Knox Page 13: an illustration of a cat licking his further with large size text “As Lucy approached the forest, the cats were already gathering around the feeding station. Each one was at a safe distance, their eyes and ears alert for both danger and food. Will I see the tricky trespasser?”
June 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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unsocialtheory.bsky.social
Make no mistake: this is not only about Harvard, nor only about the US, or even only about 'Trump'. It is meant to send all universities a reminder that things such as university autonomy and academic freedom are essentially liberal decoration on the precarious balance with the power of the state.
May 23, 2025 at 5:01 AM
jlmittelmeier.bsky.social
Nearly 7000 students at Harvard are having their entire lives upturned, and if your first reaction is 'but how will the institution survive' .... you might want to sit with that for a minute
May 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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dynarski.bsky.social
This framing is all wrong

Our international students are not a “crucial funding source”

They are our STUDENTS

They are the reason we EXIST

We teach STUDENTS
By Michael S. Schmidt and Michael C. Bender May 22, 2025 Updated 2:17 p.m. ET The Trump administration on Thursday halted Harvard University's ability to enroll international students, taking aim at a crucial funding source for the nation's oldest and wealthiest college in a major escalation in the administration's efforts to pressure the elite school to fall in line with the president's agenda.
May 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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kenglish.bsky.social
Excited to announce that in collaboration with @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social & @kathbrowne.bsky.social I am editing a handbook on queering research methods & accepting chapter contributions now. Please share & get in touch if you have any questions.

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Call for contributors: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Queering Research Methods: Methods and Methodologies Across the Research Process Edited by Kirstie Ken English, Harvey Humphrey and Kath Browne We are looking for contributions for this interdisciplinary handbook on queering research methods and methodologies. By showcasing groundbreaking work, we seek to demonstrate to readers how each phase of the research process can be queered. By their very nature queer approaches are not singularly definable. Therefore, we welcome a vast range of different interpretations of what it means to queer research. We are committed to amplifying contributions from individuals whose lived experiences and perspectives have been marginalized, excluded or erased. The core aims of this handbook are as follows: 1.Produce a resource for students to explore diverse queer approaches to methods 2.Provide ways for readers navigate the ambiguity of queer research without subscribing to ill-fitting categories 3.Showcase groundbreaking examples of queer research and approaches as ways to challenge and counter moral panics and anti-queer backlash 4.To prioritise interdisciplinary and intersectional thinking across this work learning from scholars across diverse global political contexts and career stages 5.This volume seeks to make space for queer and trans individuals from a variety of disciplines, countries and backgrounds who undertake queer research not limited to academics. 6.Provide examples of ways to approach queer research with ethical sensitivity in ways which do justice to queer communities We will respond to successful submissions by Autumn 2025, with first drafts expected in early 2026. Chapters should be less than 5,000 words. If you are interested, please fill in our submission form where you will be asked some information about yourself and your work and can provide an abstract (300 word maximum). The handbook will be broken down into five sections following the research process. You will be asked which of these five sections you think your contribution is best suited for between: ● ● ● ● ● Queering methodologies edited by Sophie Marie Niang & Robel Afeworki Abay Queering knowledge production edited by Jess Westbrook & Dean Tauches Queering research tools edited by Lizzie Reed & Bethany Lamont Queering analysis edited by Peggy Shannon-Baker & Edmund Coleman-Fountain Queering communication and outputs edited by Sophie Atherton & Valeria Venditti
May 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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rachelbrooks.bsky.social
We're currently advertising for a 3+ year post-doc position @education.ox.ac.uk working on the ESRC-funded @studentspolitics.bsky.social project with @rilleraaper.bsky.social, Tom Fryer & me - to start ASAP

Deadline: 9 June

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May 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
jlmittelmeier.bsky.social
I've spent the last few days trying not to scream every time I see a scholar writing a hot take about the immigration white paper only in terms of how it's going to impact university finances.
May 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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shirinhirsch.bsky.social
Starmer echoing Powell on 'strangers', the references to Birmingham, to lack of 'integration' and speaking English. It's such a despicable mix of all the worst parts of racism over the last half century. Even the way they upload his script, a desperate media spectacle www.gov.uk/government/s...
PM remarks at Immigration White Paper press conference: 12 May 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer's remarks at a press conference on the Immigration White Paper.
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May 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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runnymedetrust.bsky.social
Labour’s ‘new’ migration plans are a continuation of a long history of racist, xenophobic immigration policies.

This government says it's committed to race equality, but these plans are a form of modern day racism 🧵
May 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
jlmittelmeier.bsky.social
And I'll keep shouting about this:
The moment the UK left the EU, the continued designation of 'EU migrants' and 'non-EU migrants' became nothing more than a racialised hierarchisation of who is deemed 'good migrants' and 'bad migrants'
May 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
jlmittelmeier.bsky.social
This immigration white paper is so full of flaws in logic. You cannot say A) There were more migrants in period X, and B) The economy was worse in the same period, therefore C) Migrants made the economy worse
May 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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samwetherell.bsky.social
Lovely to hear from the Prime Minister that the historical policies which allowed my Mum to remain in the UK after studying here, thus enabling my existence, was a “squalid experiment in open borders”.
May 12, 2025 at 8:14 AM
jlmittelmeier.bsky.social
If the UK has 'open borders' and 'uncontrolled immigration', then why did I spend £15,000 over ten years and five visa applications to be here?
May 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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paulbernal.bsky.social
Toughening migration rules doesn’t challenge Reform. It validates them.
May 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
jlmittelmeier.bsky.social
I have a lot of thoughts about Starmer's immigration speech, but the prevailing one right now is: How embarrassing for the government to speak about human beings in this way
May 12, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.

📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background. Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress. Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.
May 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
jlmittelmeier.bsky.social
Finished a string of meetings this week to quadruple the the organizing team for @risnetwork.bsky.social, now a team of 14! Feeling both EXCITED because they are all amazing people with wonderful ideas for growing the network, and NERVOUS because our baby is now a teenager and I have to let it go.
May 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
jlmittelmeier.bsky.social
Every few months there’s a new article put out that recycles the same tired story about how economically valuable international students are, and it gets shared around in praise by a bunch of scholars who can’t see how dehumanizing that narrative is
May 6, 2025 at 7:45 AM
jlmittelmeier.bsky.social
Sitting outside after work on a warm sunny day, thinking about how I miss the sounds of cicadas in the summer. Mobility means always missing something (even when ‘home’ is complicated right now)
April 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Gladly signed.

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April 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Penguin Random House is looking for new queer voices and is currently taking unagented submissions for fiction and nonfiction by LGBTQ+ writers.
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April 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
jlmittelmeier.bsky.social
Happy to share a recording of my keynote speech at BALEAP last week, focusing on 'seeking kindness in our work with international students' www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPwK...
Jenna Mittelmeier: Seeking kindness in our work with international students (BALEAP 2025 keynote)
YouTube video by Research with International Students
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April 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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onnigust.bsky.social
Delighted to be giving the Gender & History lecture at Uni of Bristol on 15th May (and on Zoom). Join us for a discussion of trans history, colonial history, & non-human animal history. There will, of course, be merfolk.

Link here: ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...
Image of old merperson with Bristol logo and details of event (in post)
April 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM