Kathleen Commons
@kabcommons.bsky.social
Researching immigration control in 17C England, and what it tells us about citizenship now and then. Co-convenor @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar. Co-Director, Room to Heal, trustee @afrilcharity.bsky.social, Abigail Housing.
Our next seminar will be with the wonderful Anne Irfan's paper on 'Structural displacement and enforced immobility: Palestinian refugee history in Gaza since 1948' on 28 October. Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... or join our mailing list: forms.gle/8JtLfYwH1MYL...
Structural displacement and enforced immobility: Palestinian refugee history in Gaza since 1948
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October 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Our next seminar will be with the wonderful Anne Irfan's paper on 'Structural displacement and enforced immobility: Palestinian refugee history in Gaza since 1948' on 28 October. Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... or join our mailing list: forms.gle/8JtLfYwH1MYL...
Congratulations! (Belatedly) - and I do!
September 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Congratulations! (Belatedly) - and I do!
Feels a little bit on the nose in today's discourse, though I think the idea that stronger rights for subjects enables refugee protection is perhaps a (small) indication of a way to think about refugee protection as a net positive - for citizens and migrants
September 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Feels a little bit on the nose in today's discourse, though I think the idea that stronger rights for subjects enables refugee protection is perhaps a (small) indication of a way to think about refugee protection as a net positive - for citizens and migrants
While at the same time, those seeking to deny protection to Huguenots argued that to extend rights to migrants was a denigration of subjects' rights.
September 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
While at the same time, those seeking to deny protection to Huguenots argued that to extend rights to migrants was a denigration of subjects' rights.
Migrants' rights were and are enmeshed with subjects'/citizens' rights, but in complex ways. In late 17thC England, assertions of subjects' rights in some ways opened up the possibility of extending protection - and rights - to persecuted migrants
September 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Migrants' rights were and are enmeshed with subjects'/citizens' rights, but in complex ways. In late 17thC England, assertions of subjects' rights in some ways opened up the possibility of extending protection - and rights - to persecuted migrants
Or, in the case of the Glorious Revolution, break allegiance and settle the crown on someone else?
September 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Or, in the case of the Glorious Revolution, break allegiance and settle the crown on someone else?
The 40 year debate over general naturalisation highlights the ways that extending 'refugee protection' was contingent upon differing views of 'natural allegiance': under what circumstances is it legitimate to break allegiance with a monarch and settle elsewhere
September 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The 40 year debate over general naturalisation highlights the ways that extending 'refugee protection' was contingent upon differing views of 'natural allegiance': under what circumstances is it legitimate to break allegiance with a monarch and settle elsewhere