Karen Schouw Iversen
@karenschouw.bsky.social
Researching migration, humanitarianism, and resistance in Colombia. Otherwise chasing dogs, reading, and doing puzzles.
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Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement:
"Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?"
Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
"Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?"
Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
September 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement:
"Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?"
Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
"Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?"
Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
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How the Trump administration instrumentalised a 1798 relic of wartime legislation to facilitate the removal of over 200 Venezuelans ⬇️
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
September 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
How the Trump administration instrumentalised a 1798 relic of wartime legislation to facilitate the removal of over 200 Venezuelans ⬇️
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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I wouldn’t have thought many Labour MPs came into politics to strip the rights of torture survivors to be reunited with the spouses & children.
They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with.
They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with.
September 1, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I wouldn’t have thought many Labour MPs came into politics to strip the rights of torture survivors to be reunited with the spouses & children.
They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with.
They need to take a long hard look in the mirror & ask whether Starmer, Cooper & Reeves are really the leadership their careers should be remembered with.
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🧵My new paper "State Strategies and Gendered Labour: Neoliberalism's Impact on Tunisia's Working Class Composition" is now out in Third World Quarterly. It builds on my earlier state theory work, adding a crucial dimension: how dependency shapes state action in the South
doi.org/10.1080/0143...
doi.org/10.1080/0143...
State strategies and gendered labour: neoliberalism’s impact on Tunisia’s working class composition
This paper examines the role of the state in shaping the technical composition of the working class in Tunisia. Drawing on dependency theory and autonomist Marxism, it argues that states in the Sou...
doi.org
August 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
🧵My new paper "State Strategies and Gendered Labour: Neoliberalism's Impact on Tunisia's Working Class Composition" is now out in Third World Quarterly. It builds on my earlier state theory work, adding a crucial dimension: how dependency shapes state action in the South
doi.org/10.1080/0143...
doi.org/10.1080/0143...
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As predicted, Starmer’s far-right targeting of food delivery drivers has led to an attack.
August 4, 2025 at 7:06 AM
As predicted, Starmer’s far-right targeting of food delivery drivers has led to an attack.
My former supervisor (and great friend) @terminalias.bsky.social just published a new book on EU asylum infrastructure!
0ut today!
Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure is a carto-ethnography of the EU border machine told through the buildings that house it.
@SOASDevelopment @soasdevtrac @SOAS_CMDS
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/buildings-of...
a thread🧵
Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure is a carto-ethnography of the EU border machine told through the buildings that house it.
@SOASDevelopment @soasdevtrac @SOAS_CMDS
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/buildings-of...
a thread🧵
Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure
Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure; This book examines the buildings used as reception centres for asylum seekers in central Italy to reveal how they reflect the Euro...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
June 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
My former supervisor (and great friend) @terminalias.bsky.social just published a new book on EU asylum infrastructure!
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[Book Review 📖] @imenelamouri.bsky.social reviews Dr. Hassan Ould Moctar's book, a powerful analysis of how EU migration control reshapes race, labour, and everyday life in Mauritania. The book offers a vital, de-Eurocentric perspective on border externalisation: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
June 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
[Book Review 📖] @imenelamouri.bsky.social reviews Dr. Hassan Ould Moctar's book, a powerful analysis of how EU migration control reshapes race, labour, and everyday life in Mauritania. The book offers a vital, de-Eurocentric perspective on border externalisation: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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"We are not going to come forward with a wealth tax"
Labour spelling it out for anyone who had any doubt.
Squarely in the corner of the richest. Refusing to tax assets & property anywhere near as high as they tax people in work. The poor will have to pay again.
#r4today
Labour spelling it out for anyone who had any doubt.
Squarely in the corner of the richest. Refusing to tax assets & property anywhere near as high as they tax people in work. The poor will have to pay again.
#r4today
March 17, 2025 at 8:27 AM
"We are not going to come forward with a wealth tax"
Labour spelling it out for anyone who had any doubt.
Squarely in the corner of the richest. Refusing to tax assets & property anywhere near as high as they tax people in work. The poor will have to pay again.
#r4today
Labour spelling it out for anyone who had any doubt.
Squarely in the corner of the richest. Refusing to tax assets & property anywhere near as high as they tax people in work. The poor will have to pay again.
#r4today
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first proofs sent back ✅
endorsements are trickling in (and I am delighted) ✅
notebookLM autogenerated podcast ... uhmm ok ☑️
ETA 18 June 2025
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/buildings-of...
@soasdevelopment.bsky.social
endorsements are trickling in (and I am delighted) ✅
notebookLM autogenerated podcast ... uhmm ok ☑️
ETA 18 June 2025
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/buildings-of...
@soasdevelopment.bsky.social
Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure
Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure; This book examines the buildings used as reception centres for asylum seekers in central Italy to reveal how they reflect the Euro...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
March 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
first proofs sent back ✅
endorsements are trickling in (and I am delighted) ✅
notebookLM autogenerated podcast ... uhmm ok ☑️
ETA 18 June 2025
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/buildings-of...
@soasdevelopment.bsky.social
endorsements are trickling in (and I am delighted) ✅
notebookLM autogenerated podcast ... uhmm ok ☑️
ETA 18 June 2025
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/buildings-of...
@soasdevelopment.bsky.social
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Next week is World Social Work Day & I'm delighted to be celebrating by helping to launch a series of meetings on how we stand up to the hostile environment in all our work with @migrantsorganise.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Next week is World Social Work Day & I'm delighted to be celebrating by helping to launch a series of meetings on how we stand up to the hostile environment in all our work with @migrantsorganise.bsky.social
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join us next week and the week after for some great talks
We kick off with Wendy Pearlman
We kick off with Wendy Pearlman
March 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
join us next week and the week after for some great talks
We kick off with Wendy Pearlman
We kick off with Wendy Pearlman
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This is going to be an incredible event. Can’t wait!
Hosting a roundtable in Zürich on March 18 with some incredible people. Come join us! collegium.ethz.ch/events/fello...
@pollypw.bsky.social @smartitaz.bsky.social, Tom Scott-Smith, Elisa Pascucci, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Grégoire Castella
@pollypw.bsky.social @smartitaz.bsky.social, Tom Scott-Smith, Elisa Pascucci, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Grégoire Castella
February 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This is going to be an incredible event. Can’t wait!
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Are you in London this afternoon? Make sure to attend this event at birkbeck 2-4pm to launch this incredible new handbook on histories of socialism and development with @sulinlewis.bsky.social @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social and @jessicareinisch.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 online link available too, just lmk!
Another reminder - and correction - that this is tomorrow (TUESDAY not Thursday). Really looking forward to it! If anyone would like to join online, please let @jessicareinisch.bsky.social know, & thanks again to Jessica and Birkbeck's Centre for the Study of Internationalism for hosting us!
Next Thursday (2-4) we'll be launching Development, Socialism, and Internationalism in the Third World (edited with @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social) with a brilliant group of discussants (below)- many thanks @jessicareinisch.bsky.social for hosting us at Birkbeck!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/socialism...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/socialism...
February 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Are you in London this afternoon? Make sure to attend this event at birkbeck 2-4pm to launch this incredible new handbook on histories of socialism and development with @sulinlewis.bsky.social @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social and @jessicareinisch.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 online link available too, just lmk!
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What Francis Fukuyama failed to mention is when you get to the End of History the tape automatically rewinds
January 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
What Francis Fukuyama failed to mention is when you get to the End of History the tape automatically rewinds
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This is not a drill: Cardiff is closing its internationally renowned music department. My god. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs
Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says
www.bbc.co.uk
January 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This is not a drill: Cardiff is closing its internationally renowned music department. My god. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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When I read articles like this, I am reminded of Don Mitchell's Lie of the Land, where he says: the purpose of landscape is to make a scene appear unworked. Landscape is a social relation of labor, even as it is something that is labored over.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/b...
Book Review: ‘Picturing the Border,’ by Nadiah Rivera Fellah
“Picturing the Border” collects photographs of the United States-Mexico boundary dating back to the 1960s.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
When I read articles like this, I am reminded of Don Mitchell's Lie of the Land, where he says: the purpose of landscape is to make a scene appear unworked. Landscape is a social relation of labor, even as it is something that is labored over.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/b...
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In "Between ‘Trochas’, Orphans and Mourning" Soledad Álvarez Velasco illustrates how US border externalization is spatially embedded in Ecuador, producing both places of mourning and spaces of resistance.
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Between ‘Trochas’, Orphans and Mourning: Migrant Mobilities and the Effects of US ‘Soft’ Remote Control in Ecuador
This article proposes a two-scale analysis of how US border externalisation is spatially embedded in Ecuador, producing place-making transformations. On a national scale, it has turned Ecuador into...
www.tandfonline.com
January 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
In "Between ‘Trochas’, Orphans and Mourning" Soledad Álvarez Velasco illustrates how US border externalization is spatially embedded in Ecuador, producing both places of mourning and spaces of resistance.
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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In Salomé Ietter's article in @jpolideologies.bsky.social, she argues that the "Gilets jaunes represented a space of ingenuity and creativity [...] fostering the reconstitution of the antagonisms suppressed by the neoliberal discourse"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
In Salomé Ietter's article in @jpolideologies.bsky.social, she argues that the "Gilets jaunes represented a space of ingenuity and creativity [...] fostering the reconstitution of the antagonisms suppressed by the neoliberal discourse"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Join us for our second thematic seminar series of the year. Over the next few weeks, our speakers will offer insights on political activism, memories of violence, and the afterlives of revolutions
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@SOAS_CMDS
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@SOAS_CMDS
January 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Join us for our second thematic seminar series of the year. Over the next few weeks, our speakers will offer insights on political activism, memories of violence, and the afterlives of revolutions
👇👇👇
@SOAS_CMDS
👇👇👇
@SOAS_CMDS
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I thought I’d start putting together a list for people working within queer and trans Marxism.
Please let me know if that’s you, so I can add you!
go.bsky.app/6sdaeHP
Please let me know if that’s you, so I can add you!
go.bsky.app/6sdaeHP
January 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I thought I’d start putting together a list for people working within queer and trans Marxism.
Please let me know if that’s you, so I can add you!
go.bsky.app/6sdaeHP
Please let me know if that’s you, so I can add you!
go.bsky.app/6sdaeHP
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📢 As part of our #16DaysOfActivism series, Dr Falak Mujtaba shows how systemic violence still features in Canada’s Alternatives to Detention scheme, and calls for the complete abolition of immigration detention: https://buff.ly/3D1ETti
December 11, 2024 at 10:17 AM
📢 As part of our #16DaysOfActivism series, Dr Falak Mujtaba shows how systemic violence still features in Canada’s Alternatives to Detention scheme, and calls for the complete abolition of immigration detention: https://buff.ly/3D1ETti
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You cannot claim that the UK has ever had an "Open Borders" policy. The Conservatives implemented policies which have seen families ripped apart and people's lives destroyed. You also can't realistically implement a cap. They just can't work, and don't factor in people leaving. #r4today
December 5, 2024 at 7:04 AM
You cannot claim that the UK has ever had an "Open Borders" policy. The Conservatives implemented policies which have seen families ripped apart and people's lives destroyed. You also can't realistically implement a cap. They just can't work, and don't factor in people leaving. #r4today
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This is Lady. She just moved from Kentucky to Montana. Winter looks different here, and she’s making her feelings on that very clear. 13/10
December 3, 2024 at 7:41 PM
This is Lady. She just moved from Kentucky to Montana. Winter looks different here, and she’s making her feelings on that very clear. 13/10
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“These repeated attacks forced the committees to back out, effectively crippling the plan, which came during a critical period in northern Gaza when children were dying of malnutrition and dehydration on an almost daily basis.”
An important investigation into the deliberate targeting of aid!
An important investigation into the deliberate targeting of aid!
As northern Gaza hurtled toward famine earlier this year, UN agencies partnered with local communities to deliver aid to the north of Gaza. For a few days the plan worked before a series of Israeli strikes brought it crashing down. This is the untold story: ⬇️
Targeted aid killings: How Israel starved a population and sowed chaos in northern Gaza
The deliberate crippling of a nascent humanitarian effort could amount to the war crime of using the starvation of civilians as a method of warfare.
buff.ly
December 3, 2024 at 6:45 PM
“These repeated attacks forced the committees to back out, effectively crippling the plan, which came during a critical period in northern Gaza when children were dying of malnutrition and dehydration on an almost daily basis.”
An important investigation into the deliberate targeting of aid!
An important investigation into the deliberate targeting of aid!