Dr. Lucy Mayblin
@mayblin.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer Sociology & Co-Director Migration Research Group, University of Sheffield, UK.
www.lucymayblin.com
www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-research-group
www.Channelcrossings.org
www.lucymayblin.com
www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-research-group
www.Channelcrossings.org
Just digging out this blog I wrote for ECRE 6 years ago about the myth of the economic pull factor for asylum seekers -the myth that very much never dies! ecre.org/op-ed-pull-f...
October 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Just digging out this blog I wrote for ECRE 6 years ago about the myth of the economic pull factor for asylum seekers -the myth that very much never dies! ecre.org/op-ed-pull-f...
This is an interesting proposal from Future Governance Forum on how Asylum Management Centres could address small boat Channel crossings. I'd be interested to know what people think of this. www.futuregovernanceforum.co.uk/2025/05/15/w...
August 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
This is an interesting proposal from Future Governance Forum on how Asylum Management Centres could address small boat Channel crossings. I'd be interested to know what people think of this. www.futuregovernanceforum.co.uk/2025/05/15/w...
Really excited to see this textbook go to press! 'The modern world after colonialism: remaking the social sciences' comes out of the Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project (lnkd.in/eAeY-9_H). It shows what difference taking colonialism seriously means for a range of topics, aimed at first year UGs
July 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Really excited to see this textbook go to press! 'The modern world after colonialism: remaking the social sciences' comes out of the Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project (lnkd.in/eAeY-9_H). It shows what difference taking colonialism seriously means for a range of topics, aimed at first year UGs
Great article from @vickytaylor in @opendemocracy on Labour's new one in one our policy: "Labour has done what they said they wouldn’t – introduce performative gimmicks to convince voters they’re in ‘control’ of migration." www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
July 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Great article from @vickytaylor in @opendemocracy on Labour's new one in one our policy: "Labour has done what they said they wouldn’t – introduce performative gimmicks to convince voters they’re in ‘control’ of migration." www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
I hear that Macron has been talking about how the UK needs to do more to remove the pull factors of welfare and work in order to stop small boat Channel crossings. This is an analysis which doesn't event flirt with reality.
What are the pull factors?
What are the pull factors?
July 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I hear that Macron has been talking about how the UK needs to do more to remove the pull factors of welfare and work in order to stop small boat Channel crossings. This is an analysis which doesn't event flirt with reality.
What are the pull factors?
What are the pull factors?
I'm looking over the Channel policy timeline on our website. It so devastatingly shows the toxic relationship between borders and irregular migration, leading to human rights violations, racism and deep deep harm to people who are seeking asylum. channelcrossings.org/home-2/timel...
July 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I'm looking over the Channel policy timeline on our website. It so devastatingly shows the toxic relationship between borders and irregular migration, leading to human rights violations, racism and deep deep harm to people who are seeking asylum. channelcrossings.org/home-2/timel...
I have been working on building this database of crimes of solidarity&humanitarianism for a few years. It's a resource for research and legal cases and activists -to get an overall sense of patterns across different locations. If you would like to help please get in touch www.crimesofsolidarity.org
July 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I have been working on building this database of crimes of solidarity&humanitarianism for a few years. It's a resource for research and legal cases and activists -to get an overall sense of patterns across different locations. If you would like to help please get in touch www.crimesofsolidarity.org
These towers are capable of algorithmically identifying, detecting, and tracking individuals or subjects considered to be "of interest" - That's from Sam Storey's research for the MRN on these watchtowers migrantsrights.org.uk/projects/hos...
July 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
These towers are capable of algorithmically identifying, detecting, and tracking individuals or subjects considered to be "of interest" - That's from Sam Storey's research for the MRN on these watchtowers migrantsrights.org.uk/projects/hos...
The Aduril contract for the "Common Operating Picture and Command Interface Managed Service" (i.e. watchtowers) has been released by the UK Contracts Finder services. It's a £21,086,291 contract. A lot of it is redacted but you can read here:
www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/b244c...
www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/b244c...
July 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The Aduril contract for the "Common Operating Picture and Command Interface Managed Service" (i.e. watchtowers) has been released by the UK Contracts Finder services. It's a £21,086,291 contract. A lot of it is redacted but you can read here:
www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/b244c...
www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/b244c...
We need to be doing more to join the dots between those who profit from war, and those who profit from bordering. A good example is Anduril Industries, the military tech company.
July 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
We need to be doing more to join the dots between those who profit from war, and those who profit from bordering. A good example is Anduril Industries, the military tech company.
Important new book! Immigration Detention Inc. The Big Business of Locking up Migrants
by @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social Buy it here: www.plutobooks.com/978074534946...
by @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social Buy it here: www.plutobooks.com/978074534946...
July 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Important new book! Immigration Detention Inc. The Big Business of Locking up Migrants
by @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social Buy it here: www.plutobooks.com/978074534946...
by @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social Buy it here: www.plutobooks.com/978074534946...
This looks like an exciting postdoc opportunity at Goldsmiths: Migrant Futures Postdoctoral Fellowships. More information here: www.gold.ac.uk/research/cen...
June 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This looks like an exciting postdoc opportunity at Goldsmiths: Migrant Futures Postdoctoral Fellowships. More information here: www.gold.ac.uk/research/cen...
Today it's our annual migration research conference, organised by PhD students and for PhD students! There are students arriving from around the world, can't wait to listen to the papers. This year's theme: "Reimagining Migration: Decolonisation and identity across time and space"
June 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Today it's our annual migration research conference, organised by PhD students and for PhD students! There are students arriving from around the world, can't wait to listen to the papers. This year's theme: "Reimagining Migration: Decolonisation and identity across time and space"
On Friday the amazing Migration Matters Festival returns to Sheffield! The line up gets better every year. Art, politics, music and food. The schedule is available here: www.migrationmattersfestival.co.uk
June 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
On Friday the amazing Migration Matters Festival returns to Sheffield! The line up gets better every year. Art, politics, music and food. The schedule is available here: www.migrationmattersfestival.co.uk
The environment plays a big role in making & hiding borders in Calais. Man made lakes, nature reserves, and deforestation all play a role in securing the border. How can we make sense of environmentalism as bordering? We wrote an essay trying to understand this journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
June 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The environment plays a big role in making & hiding borders in Calais. Man made lakes, nature reserves, and deforestation all play a role in securing the border. How can we make sense of environmentalism as bordering? We wrote an essay trying to understand this journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I co-edited the Sage Handbook of Global Sociology a couple of years ago and there are so many brilliant chapters that taught me so much. Esp on blockchain, space technology, and environmental extraction. It's super expensive but good for libraries! uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/th... Highlights:
June 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I co-edited the Sage Handbook of Global Sociology a couple of years ago and there are so many brilliant chapters that taught me so much. Esp on blockchain, space technology, and environmental extraction. It's super expensive but good for libraries! uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/th... Highlights:
This blog by Deidre Conlon for Border Criminologies on using FOI requests to trace US detention economies is so helpful for those of us interested in how to access information which is purposefully obscured by states to limit democratic accountability blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
June 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This blog by Deidre Conlon for Border Criminologies on using FOI requests to trace US detention economies is so helpful for those of us interested in how to access information which is purposefully obscured by states to limit democratic accountability blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Alison Mountz is leading this important project 'Haven: The Asylum Lab' is a project designed to preserve, share and analyse obscured data surrounding immigration and border issues worldwide. Too much information is obscured as we know. More information here: haven.utsc.utoronto.ca
June 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Alison Mountz is leading this important project 'Haven: The Asylum Lab' is a project designed to preserve, share and analyse obscured data surrounding immigration and border issues worldwide. Too much information is obscured as we know. More information here: haven.utsc.utoronto.ca
I'm in Helsinki this week and super excited to give a one day workshop tomorrow on "Accounting for colonialisms in migration and borders research: from theory to practice". From the submitted papers, it looks like we have an amazing group of students doing fascinating work.
June 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I'm in Helsinki this week and super excited to give a one day workshop tomorrow on "Accounting for colonialisms in migration and borders research: from theory to practice". From the submitted papers, it looks like we have an amazing group of students doing fascinating work.
Went to a powerful exhibition by ActivistStills on the Palestinian struggle. Recommended if it comes to your city. More info here www.activestills.org
May 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Went to a powerful exhibition by ActivistStills on the Palestinian struggle. Recommended if it comes to your city. More info here www.activestills.org
This brilliant article about De Montford University will be deeply familiar to many working in the UK University sector. This feels like the story of most universities. Our staff survey even garnered the same "feedback" to management, and the same response! centralbylines.co.uk/news/educati...
May 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This brilliant article about De Montford University will be deeply familiar to many working in the UK University sector. This feels like the story of most universities. Our staff survey even garnered the same "feedback" to management, and the same response! centralbylines.co.uk/news/educati...
We have an online panel discussion on climate migration coming up in the Sheffield Migration Research Group. Monday 16 June 2025 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm GMT. Please join us! Details here: www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
May 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
We have an online panel discussion on climate migration coming up in the Sheffield Migration Research Group. Monday 16 June 2025 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm GMT. Please join us! Details here: www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
Companies are making billions from anti-immigration fears. Open Democracy's In Solidarity podcast . Listen to the discussion here: shows.acast.com/66bf3be84715...
May 28, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Companies are making billions from anti-immigration fears. Open Democracy's In Solidarity podcast . Listen to the discussion here: shows.acast.com/66bf3be84715...
Eco-coloniality and the violent environmentalism of the UK France border journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
May 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Eco-coloniality and the violent environmentalism of the UK France border journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Small Boats, Big Contracts: Extracting Value from the UK's Post-Brexit Asylum ‘Crisis’ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
May 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Small Boats, Big Contracts: Extracting Value from the UK's Post-Brexit Asylum ‘Crisis’ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...