Mike Slaven
@mcslaven.bsky.social
Author of "Securing Borders, Securing Power" (Columbia UP, 2022) http://tinyurl.com/yeywvdaa Doing migration politics/policy research, currently @colmigproject.bsky.social. Political speechwriter of yore. Obscure academic in provincial England, AZ guy 🌵
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Mike Slaven
@mcslaven.bsky.social
· May 13
Saying racism: calling anti-immigration policies racist as effective pro-immigrant politics in Arizona
Identifying anti-immigration policies as racist commonly features in political discourse in many majority-white countries. Both behavioralist studies of voter attitudes and studies of party positio...
www.tandfonline.com
Does calling anti-immigrant policies racist work at opposing them? Much analysis (validly) says no, but I have a new 📖 article 📖 on why this was essential to changing immigration politics in Arizona 🌵. Sometimes the effective arguments aren't already popular! 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Our project members Anita Huizar-Hernandez and @mcslaven.bsky.social presented their research on Friday at the Roatch-Haskell Lectures at Arizona State University, on "The Complex Historical and Political Events of the Southwest Borderlands."
Thanks to the hosts and everyone who came!
Thanks to the hosts and everyone who came!
November 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Our project members Anita Huizar-Hernandez and @mcslaven.bsky.social presented their research on Friday at the Roatch-Haskell Lectures at Arizona State University, on "The Complex Historical and Political Events of the Southwest Borderlands."
Thanks to the hosts and everyone who came!
Thanks to the hosts and everyone who came!
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For those interested in the history of the far right in Australia, @drjpersian.bsky.social, Vashti Jane Fox and I provide an overview in the introduction to our book 'Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia'.
www.academia.edu/121035689/Hi...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.academia.edu/121035689/Hi...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
August 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
For those interested in the history of the far right in Australia, @drjpersian.bsky.social, Vashti Jane Fox and I provide an overview in the introduction to our book 'Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia'.
www.academia.edu/121035689/Hi...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.academia.edu/121035689/Hi...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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absolutely incredible paragraph, and very sad about the lack of an alternate version in which The Big Lebowski played by Bill Buckley and David Cross plays Brandt
![Excerpt from the Wikipedia entry on The Big Lebowski: "Before David Huddleston was cast as "Big" Jeffrey Lebowski, the Coens considered Robert Duvall (who did not like the script), Anthony Hopkins (who was not interested in playing an American), Gene Hackman (who was taking a break from acting at the time), Jack Nicholson (who was not interested, he only wanted to portray Moses), Tommy Lee Jones (who was considered "too young"), Ned Beatty, Michael Caine, Bruce Dern, James Coburn, Charles Durning, Jackie Cooper, Fred Ward, Richard Mulligan, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Lloyd Bridges, Paul Dooley, Pat Hingle, Jonathan Winters, Norman Mailer, George C. Scott, Jerry Falwell, Gore Vidal, Andy Griffith, William F. Buckley, and Ernest Borgnine; the Coens' top choice was Marlon Brando.[18] Charlize Theron was considered for the role of Bunny Lebowski.[19] David Cross auditioned for the role of Brandt.[20]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6lshargyjiqvcvofiuqzo725/bafkreiajq5wfshg6b3iuhhkjxwvyhuo7ug37ziih54syfyyuwl7khwrvcu@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
absolutely incredible paragraph, and very sad about the lack of an alternate version in which The Big Lebowski played by Bill Buckley and David Cross plays Brandt
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The improvement in the employment rate of non-EU migrants to the UK over the past 15 years is remarkable, especially since the pandemic.
www.ons.gov.uk/employmentan...
www.ons.gov.uk/employmentan...
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The improvement in the employment rate of non-EU migrants to the UK over the past 15 years is remarkable, especially since the pandemic.
www.ons.gov.uk/employmentan...
www.ons.gov.uk/employmentan...
"A BBC edit was harsh to Trump so the people in charge there have been fired" is just such a bonkers story showing how much of the UK right is being colonized by Trump simps engaged in a culture war against their own country. An "issue" with close to zero resonance for the average British person.
Here’s the same data, but with trust broken down by political views (circles are trust among people on the left, +s the right).
It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.
It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"A BBC edit was harsh to Trump so the people in charge there have been fired" is just such a bonkers story showing how much of the UK right is being colonized by Trump simps engaged in a culture war against their own country. An "issue" with close to zero resonance for the average British person.
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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This would be an important development. This summer, @commissionerhr.coe.int highlighted that the 2-child limit was "an outlier in Europe and beyond" and that scrapping it was "among the most effective and urgent steps to lift children out of poverty"
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This would be an important development. This summer, @commissionerhr.coe.int highlighted that the 2-child limit was "an outlier in Europe and beyond" and that scrapping it was "among the most effective and urgent steps to lift children out of poverty"
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
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Mail Online reports Nigel Farage says that the BBC may have no future.
He imagines bringing to an end century of public service broadcasting in the UK - because the populist politician and his US political ally Donald Trump do not want the BBC to survive
No thanks, Nigel.
No thanks, Donald
He imagines bringing to an end century of public service broadcasting in the UK - because the populist politician and his US political ally Donald Trump do not want the BBC to survive
No thanks, Nigel.
No thanks, Donald
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Mail Online reports Nigel Farage says that the BBC may have no future.
He imagines bringing to an end century of public service broadcasting in the UK - because the populist politician and his US political ally Donald Trump do not want the BBC to survive
No thanks, Nigel.
No thanks, Donald
He imagines bringing to an end century of public service broadcasting in the UK - because the populist politician and his US political ally Donald Trump do not want the BBC to survive
No thanks, Nigel.
No thanks, Donald
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We estimate the number of non-EU citizens with ILR is likely to be between 620k and 820k
More details on how we reached those figures in the commentary
More details on how we reached those figures in the commentary
A key recent discussion about UK migration has been people's rights to settle permanemently - or "indefinite leave to remain" - but how many people have this status? Our latest piece gives you the info (NB - doesn't include EU settlement scheme) migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...
How many migrants in the UK have settlement? - Migration Observatory
This commentary estimates the number of non-EU citizens who currently have settlement, also known as indefinite leave to remain (ILR).
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
We estimate the number of non-EU citizens with ILR is likely to be between 620k and 820k
More details on how we reached those figures in the commentary
More details on how we reached those figures in the commentary
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I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
www.gravityisgone.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
I mean, all very clever until voters figure there is no reason to trust you'll help them in the end, while Donald Trump, learning that Democrats won't actually fight, does something like deploy the National Guard to monitor voting during the midterms in minority areas in swing states, or something.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I mean, all very clever until voters figure there is no reason to trust you'll help them in the end, while Donald Trump, learning that Democrats won't actually fight, does something like deploy the National Guard to monitor voting during the midterms in minority areas in swing states, or something.
we live in a world that is both political-science normal (governing party overreach, thermostatic reaction, etc) and seriously abnormal (congressional majorities treating the president like a king for partisan reasons)
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
we live in a world that is both political-science normal (governing party overreach, thermostatic reaction, etc) and seriously abnormal (congressional majorities treating the president like a king for partisan reasons)
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This is why this surrender isn't just about this narrow issue but is rather the whole constitutional ballgame:
Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever
Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This is why this surrender isn't just about this narrow issue but is rather the whole constitutional ballgame:
Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever
Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever
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When you've lost *checks notes again* Chris Cillizza
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
When you've lost *checks notes again* Chris Cillizza
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The impossible dream some people on the British right are chasing is that you can have a BBC News operation that retreats from detail and expertise, that takes dictation from the government, but this will only create incompetence and failure when it suits you:
To fix the BBC, focus on competence and cash
Corporation fails to learn from criticism, while politicians have consciously reduced its scope for quality journalism
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The impossible dream some people on the British right are chasing is that you can have a BBC News operation that retreats from detail and expertise, that takes dictation from the government, but this will only create incompetence and failure when it suits you:
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
the rampant criminality is really something you figure is probably priced in to people voting for Trump in 2024 yet I think actually has exceeded most people's expectations, to the extent they even hear about it
Breaking News: President Trump pardoned Rudy Giuliani and others who tried to overturn the 2020 election. The move doesn’t shield them from state charges.
Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election
The pardons of former Trump aides, which would only apply in federal court, are largely symbolic and cannot shield them from ongoing state-level prosecutions.
nyti.ms
November 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
the rampant criminality is really something you figure is probably priced in to people voting for Trump in 2024 yet I think actually has exceeded most people's expectations, to the extent they even hear about it
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Reports suggest that the UK plans to emulate Denmark's migration system
@kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social argues that "research from the country suggests that drawing lessons from the Danish migration policy should be done with caution and involves pitfalls for British politicians."
🔗 bit.ly/3LA1UI4
@kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social argues that "research from the country suggests that drawing lessons from the Danish migration policy should be done with caution and involves pitfalls for British politicians."
🔗 bit.ly/3LA1UI4
Denmark’s migration policy – an example to follow? - UK in a changing Europe
Kristina Bakkær Simonsen explains why countries feel they have something to learn from Denmark's strict migration policy, but argues that there are many key pitfalls.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Reports suggest that the UK plans to emulate Denmark's migration system
@kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social argues that "research from the country suggests that drawing lessons from the Danish migration policy should be done with caution and involves pitfalls for British politicians."
🔗 bit.ly/3LA1UI4
@kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social argues that "research from the country suggests that drawing lessons from the Danish migration policy should be done with caution and involves pitfalls for British politicians."
🔗 bit.ly/3LA1UI4
Not to pile on criticism of the BBC's US coverage today, but it's really not true that the Democratic Senate defections on the shutdown break down on centrist/left lines. Most centrists aren't supporting it and the House Democrats aren't either. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Three takeaways from the US shutdown deal
The longest shutdown in US history appears to be drawing to a close, leaving Democrats divided and Trump's hard line paying off.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Not to pile on criticism of the BBC's US coverage today, but it's really not true that the Democratic Senate defections on the shutdown break down on centrist/left lines. Most centrists aren't supporting it and the House Democrats aren't either. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
The reasons that Denmark’s asylum policy won’t work in the UK are the same reasons you can have a British Home Secretary named Shabana Mahmood. Different societies that will deal with very different dynamics when it comes to who wants to go there and why.
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The reasons that Denmark’s asylum policy won’t work in the UK are the same reasons you can have a British Home Secretary named Shabana Mahmood. Different societies that will deal with very different dynamics when it comes to who wants to go there and why.
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It's "Let's copy Denmark" season again. With politicians and journalists making claims about a country they very clearly know absolutely nothing about. Did you know the Danish People's Party isn't the only radical right party in Denmark? No? Maybe you should not use the country as a reference point
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
It's "Let's copy Denmark" season again. With politicians and journalists making claims about a country they very clearly know absolutely nothing about. Did you know the Danish People's Party isn't the only radical right party in Denmark? No? Maybe you should not use the country as a reference point