Ceri Oeppen
@oeppen.bsky.social
Geographer. Interests include: Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora; migration, return migration, refugees and asylum; gaming. Views my own.
This is the power of the ‘small boats’ story. Why are the government and press so obsessed with an estimated 1% of immigration arrivals to the UK? Because they can be used to justify a racist fear-mongering narrative against all migrants. (At least, all non-white migrants)
Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?
Tough new conditions to be imposed on migrants who want to settle in the UK will not apply to more than a million people who arrived in the UK under the post-Brexit immigration surge
September 30, 2025 at 6:47 AM
This is the power of the ‘small boats’ story. Why are the government and press so obsessed with an estimated 1% of immigration arrivals to the UK? Because they can be used to justify a racist fear-mongering narrative against all migrants. (At least, all non-white migrants)
This is disastrous, socially, economically. Think of the impact on business transactions, education (particularly women’s online studies), remittances… (The Taliban has shut off fibre optic cables www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...)
Afghanistan sees telecom shutdown as Taliban cut off internet
Phone and internet links are down nationwide after the Taliban sever fibre-optic connections.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This is disastrous, socially, economically. Think of the impact on business transactions, education (particularly women’s online studies), remittances… (The Taliban has shut off fibre optic cables www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...)
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Good, nuanced analysis of the student mental health crisis at universities and the obligations & limitations of universities in responding to it:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Should student mental health responsibility fall to universities?
The number of students reporting mental health concerns is rising. But to what extent should the onus be on universities?
www.bbc.co.uk
July 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Good, nuanced analysis of the student mental health crisis at universities and the obligations & limitations of universities in responding to it:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Important news for anyone interested in the politicisation of immigration, and the intersection between war, migration and domestic politics. This involves a reckless endangerment of Afghan lives, a secret resettlement scheme and a super-injunction (only just lifted). www.ft.com/content/f6b4...
UK set up secret Afghan immigration scheme after data leak and gagged media
‘Super-injunction’ lifted two years after 100,000 people were placed at risk of Taliban reprisals
www.ft.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Important news for anyone interested in the politicisation of immigration, and the intersection between war, migration and domestic politics. This involves a reckless endangerment of Afghan lives, a secret resettlement scheme and a super-injunction (only just lifted). www.ft.com/content/f6b4...
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Visa policies harm science.
In this panel as in many panels at #IMISCOE2025 and other conferences, there is an empty chair, because a scholar was not authorised to travel. We all loose as colleagues are blocked from sharing their knowledge.
In this panel as in many panels at #IMISCOE2025 and other conferences, there is an empty chair, because a scholar was not authorised to travel. We all loose as colleagues are blocked from sharing their knowledge.
July 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Visa policies harm science.
In this panel as in many panels at #IMISCOE2025 and other conferences, there is an empty chair, because a scholar was not authorised to travel. We all loose as colleagues are blocked from sharing their knowledge.
In this panel as in many panels at #IMISCOE2025 and other conferences, there is an empty chair, because a scholar was not authorised to travel. We all loose as colleagues are blocked from sharing their knowledge.
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New from OPUS! We’re proud to publish Refugees in a World Without Aid, edited by @oeppen.bsky.social, Ali Ali, @mikecollyer.bsky.social, Priya Deshingkar, Anne-Meike Fechter and Tahir Zaman.
Refugees in a World Without Aid – Simple Book Publishing
Drawing on research from the international comparative project Protracted Displacement Economies, this book demonstrates the need for a ‘more than economic’ approach to refugee and displacement econom...
openpress.sussex.ac.uk
June 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
New from OPUS! We’re proud to publish Refugees in a World Without Aid, edited by @oeppen.bsky.social, Ali Ali, @mikecollyer.bsky.social, Priya Deshingkar, Anne-Meike Fechter and Tahir Zaman.
📖🚨New #OpenAccess book from the #displacementeconomies team! 🚨📖https://openpress.sussex.ac.uk/refugeesinaworldwithoutaid/ The book demonstrates the need for a ‘more than economic’ approach to refugee and displacement economies. Including chapters on the DRC, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Myanmar and Pakistan.
Refugees in a World Without Aid – Simple Book Publishing
Drawing on research from the international comparative project Protracted Displacement Economies, this book demonstrates the need for a ‘more than economic’ approach to refugee and displacement econom...
openpress.sussex.ac.uk
June 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
📖🚨New #OpenAccess book from the #displacementeconomies team! 🚨📖https://openpress.sussex.ac.uk/refugeesinaworldwithoutaid/ The book demonstrates the need for a ‘more than economic’ approach to refugee and displacement economies. Including chapters on the DRC, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Myanmar and Pakistan.
#refugeeweek is over for this year, but I just realised I forgot to share our @scmrjems.bsky.social blog about the #oursuperpower theme: blogs.sussex.ac.uk/sussex-centr... Here it is!
Community as a Superpower – Research in action. | Sussex Centre for Migration Research Blog
blogs.sussex.ac.uk
June 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
#refugeeweek is over for this year, but I just realised I forgot to share our @scmrjems.bsky.social blog about the #oursuperpower theme: blogs.sussex.ac.uk/sussex-centr... Here it is!
Really important 🧵. It seems like the people behind this graph (which I’ve seen shared widely on social media) need to (re)take Demography 101. @amrcampop.bsky.social perhaps an interesting example for your students to analyse!
I’m looking at former social scientist Matthew Goodwin’s “report”, published by Eric Kaufman’s comedy-named “Centre of Heterodox Social Science”. The “assumptions” made would be genuinely hilarious - except that our elites actually take this shit seriously. Examples below the fold…
Who is responsible for this ludicrously defined graph the telegraph is pushing I thought to myself but of course it’s Matthew fucking Goodwin it’s always Matthew fucking Goodwin
June 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Really important 🧵. It seems like the people behind this graph (which I’ve seen shared widely on social media) need to (re)take Demography 101. @amrcampop.bsky.social perhaps an interesting example for your students to analyse!
My @scmrjems.bsky.social co-director Tahir Zaman and I will be talking about our #displacementeconomies work here, as part of an event with Sussex colleagues from across social and health sciences. 18th June. Open to all, but please register here: www.sussex.ac.uk/research/abo...
The Value of Life Laid Bare during and after Conflict
A panel discussion focusing on consequences of conflict and displacement on education, neglected diseases, neighbourliness, solidarity and mutual aid
www.sussex.ac.uk
June 2, 2025 at 9:49 AM
My @scmrjems.bsky.social co-director Tahir Zaman and I will be talking about our #displacementeconomies work here, as part of an event with Sussex colleagues from across social and health sciences. 18th June. Open to all, but please register here: www.sussex.ac.uk/research/abo...
If you care about the rights of people with disabilities in the UK, please consider signing this about the #PIP reform proposals: www.change.org/p/stop-the-n...
STOP the new 4 point PIP rule
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
www.change.org
April 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
If you care about the rights of people with disabilities in the UK, please consider signing this about the #PIP reform proposals: www.change.org/p/stop-the-n...
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📢 Fully funded PhD opportunity at the University of Glasgow! Interested in the following questions?
❓How do national identities shape attitudes toward migration?
🌍 How does this relationship change over time and across countries?
Apply before 21 April. Details here: tinyurl.com/3cxay963
❓How do national identities shape attitudes toward migration?
🌍 How does this relationship change over time and across countries?
Apply before 21 April. Details here: tinyurl.com/3cxay963
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March 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
📢 Fully funded PhD opportunity at the University of Glasgow! Interested in the following questions?
❓How do national identities shape attitudes toward migration?
🌍 How does this relationship change over time and across countries?
Apply before 21 April. Details here: tinyurl.com/3cxay963
❓How do national identities shape attitudes toward migration?
🌍 How does this relationship change over time and across countries?
Apply before 21 April. Details here: tinyurl.com/3cxay963
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Lectureship in Migration and Development available at Oxford. Apply by 22 Abril. Details: www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/depa...
Departmental Lecturer in Migration and Development (Maternity Cover) | Oxford Department of International Development
www.qeh.ox.ac.uk
March 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Lectureship in Migration and Development available at Oxford. Apply by 22 Abril. Details: www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/depa...
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1/2 To “remove improper ideology”.
Does anyone still baulk at naming this fascism?
This is why it’s so important to resist History Reclaimed’s propaganda in The Telegraph, Mail, GB TV etc here too.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Does anyone still baulk at naming this fascism?
This is why it’s so important to resist History Reclaimed’s propaganda in The Telegraph, Mail, GB TV etc here too.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 28, 2025 at 7:19 AM
1/2 To “remove improper ideology”.
Does anyone still baulk at naming this fascism?
This is why it’s so important to resist History Reclaimed’s propaganda in The Telegraph, Mail, GB TV etc here too.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Does anyone still baulk at naming this fascism?
This is why it’s so important to resist History Reclaimed’s propaganda in The Telegraph, Mail, GB TV etc here too.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
As an unpaid carer (aka someone who loves someone else, who happens to have a disability) I’m subsidising the public purse by 💰 (alongside working full-time and paying taxes, btw). The meanness of the proposed reforms to #PIP and UCHealth, make me both furious and exhausted.
March 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
As an unpaid carer (aka someone who loves someone else, who happens to have a disability) I’m subsidising the public purse by 💰 (alongside working full-time and paying taxes, btw). The meanness of the proposed reforms to #PIP and UCHealth, make me both furious and exhausted.
If you’re wondering why people are so upset about the proposed reforms to PIP, this excellent 🧵explains much of it.
Five things you might not know about PIP and a thread.
1) PIP is not a ‘benefit’ of disability, it’s welfare support to cover the additional costs of living with chronic illness or disability - medicine, transport, therapy, specialist equipment (and no, not all of these are available on the NHS)
1) PIP is not a ‘benefit’ of disability, it’s welfare support to cover the additional costs of living with chronic illness or disability - medicine, transport, therapy, specialist equipment (and no, not all of these are available on the NHS)
March 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
If you’re wondering why people are so upset about the proposed reforms to PIP, this excellent 🧵explains much of it.
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It's completely disingenuous to bring PIP up in apposition to employment statistics. PIP is not a means-tested or employment-related benefit. It's not enough to live on. Nobody is claiming PIP instead of working. They might be enabled to work part time on PIP though!
March 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
It's completely disingenuous to bring PIP up in apposition to employment statistics. PIP is not a means-tested or employment-related benefit. It's not enough to live on. Nobody is claiming PIP instead of working. They might be enabled to work part time on PIP though!
Proud of my Sussex Global Studies colleagues for developing this exciting new degree. Know someone who wants to learn more about climate justice? Send them Sussex’s way! www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Sussex to launch UK’s first climate justice undergraduate degree
University announces new BA, after survey found most 14- to 18-year-olds want more rigorous climate change education
www.theguardian.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Proud of my Sussex Global Studies colleagues for developing this exciting new degree. Know someone who wants to learn more about climate justice? Send them Sussex’s way! www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Great 2.5 year post-doc opportunity at the University of Brighton, on a project co-led by my @scmrjems.bsky.social colleague Prof. Linda Morrice, called "The role of digital technology in social networks and wellbeing of unaccompanied young refugees" jobs.brighton.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Vacancy at the University of Brighton: Research Fellow
This is an exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to develop their academic career by joining an international and interdisciplinary research team to work on the ESRC-funded project “...
jobs.brighton.ac.uk
February 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Great 2.5 year post-doc opportunity at the University of Brighton, on a project co-led by my @scmrjems.bsky.social colleague Prof. Linda Morrice, called "The role of digital technology in social networks and wellbeing of unaccompanied young refugees" jobs.brighton.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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🚨 Fully funded PhDs at the University of Glasgow! 🚨
We are offering 5 PhD studentships, incl. 3 for low/middle-income country applicants @uofgsps.bsky.social.
📍 Apply by 31 March 2025 👉 shorturl.at/tutIq
🔎 Anyone interested in a migration/refugee politics or MENA-related project, get in touch!
We are offering 5 PhD studentships, incl. 3 for low/middle-income country applicants @uofgsps.bsky.social.
📍 Apply by 31 March 2025 👉 shorturl.at/tutIq
🔎 Anyone interested in a migration/refugee politics or MENA-related project, get in touch!
February 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🚨 Fully funded PhDs at the University of Glasgow! 🚨
We are offering 5 PhD studentships, incl. 3 for low/middle-income country applicants @uofgsps.bsky.social.
📍 Apply by 31 March 2025 👉 shorturl.at/tutIq
🔎 Anyone interested in a migration/refugee politics or MENA-related project, get in touch!
We are offering 5 PhD studentships, incl. 3 for low/middle-income country applicants @uofgsps.bsky.social.
📍 Apply by 31 March 2025 👉 shorturl.at/tutIq
🔎 Anyone interested in a migration/refugee politics or MENA-related project, get in touch!
Thanks to everyone who came to this - we really appreciate your input and thought-provoking questions.
Come join us this Friday to discuss the concept displacement, hosted by @scmrjems.bsky.social. In person at Sussex and online - sign up at tinyurl.com/jemsforums.
January 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Thanks to everyone who came to this - we really appreciate your input and thought-provoking questions.
Come join us this Friday to discuss the concept displacement, hosted by @scmrjems.bsky.social. In person at Sussex and online - sign up at tinyurl.com/jemsforums.
January 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Come join us this Friday to discuss the concept displacement, hosted by @scmrjems.bsky.social. In person at Sussex and online - sign up at tinyurl.com/jemsforums.
Same story repeated over and over in British history... 'practice' on the insurgents, the colonised, the migrants; roll out to the police, the DWP, and other domestic institutions.
The government was using discriminatory algorithms to make biased decisions on visa applications years ago.
When forced to stop, all they did was work on rolling out the same automated discrimination to new areas, including welfare, now, too.
When forced to stop, all they did was work on rolling out the same automated discrimination to new areas, including welfare, now, too.
An artificial intelligence system used by the UK government to detect welfare fraud is showing bias according to people’s age, disability, marital status and nationality prompting fears of ‘hurt first, fix later’ approach
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
December 6, 2024 at 8:46 AM
Same story repeated over and over in British history... 'practice' on the insurgents, the colonised, the migrants; roll out to the police, the DWP, and other domestic institutions.
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Meet Walid
Arriving in Lebanon from Syria in 2013, he missed a year of school, but secured a scholarship in Canada through Mosaik’s programmes
We’re raising £20k to reach more people like Walid.
ALL DONATIONS ARE MATCHED 10 Dec buff.ly/4eM3gbG ⏳ One gift, double impact ✌️
youtu.be/det-aAnTtUY
Arriving in Lebanon from Syria in 2013, he missed a year of school, but secured a scholarship in Canada through Mosaik’s programmes
We’re raising £20k to reach more people like Walid.
ALL DONATIONS ARE MATCHED 10 Dec buff.ly/4eM3gbG ⏳ One gift, double impact ✌️
youtu.be/det-aAnTtUY
Overcoming Education Obstacles - Mosaik's Guidance Programme
YouTube video by Mosaik Education
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December 5, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Meet Walid
Arriving in Lebanon from Syria in 2013, he missed a year of school, but secured a scholarship in Canada through Mosaik’s programmes
We’re raising £20k to reach more people like Walid.
ALL DONATIONS ARE MATCHED 10 Dec buff.ly/4eM3gbG ⏳ One gift, double impact ✌️
youtu.be/det-aAnTtUY
Arriving in Lebanon from Syria in 2013, he missed a year of school, but secured a scholarship in Canada through Mosaik’s programmes
We’re raising £20k to reach more people like Walid.
ALL DONATIONS ARE MATCHED 10 Dec buff.ly/4eM3gbG ⏳ One gift, double impact ✌️
youtu.be/det-aAnTtUY
Gradually 'migrating' fully to BlueSky (I used SkyBridge Follower) to find people I followed on twitter/X on here - it seemed reasonably straightforward (recommended!). Happy to find some of my #Afghanistan twitter people on here too!
December 3, 2024 at 11:07 AM
Gradually 'migrating' fully to BlueSky (I used SkyBridge Follower) to find people I followed on twitter/X on here - it seemed reasonably straightforward (recommended!). Happy to find some of my #Afghanistan twitter people on here too!