Rachel Humphris
@rachelhumphris.bsky.social
Professor of Political Anthropology & Director Centre for Study of Migration @QMUL. PI ERC Starting Grant Digital Welfare Borders (DigiWeB)
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New Publication 📘
Happy to share that our special issue, “Digital Technologies and Migration: Behind, Beyond and Around the Black Box”, with Marie Godin and @rachelhumphris.bsky.social has now been published.
🔗 Available open access here: doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Happy to share that our special issue, “Digital Technologies and Migration: Behind, Beyond and Around the Black Box”, with Marie Godin and @rachelhumphris.bsky.social has now been published.
🔗 Available open access here: doi.org/10.1080/1369...
July 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
New Publication 📘
Happy to share that our special issue, “Digital Technologies and Migration: Behind, Beyond and Around the Black Box”, with Marie Godin and @rachelhumphris.bsky.social has now been published.
🔗 Available open access here: doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Happy to share that our special issue, “Digital Technologies and Migration: Behind, Beyond and Around the Black Box”, with Marie Godin and @rachelhumphris.bsky.social has now been published.
🔗 Available open access here: doi.org/10.1080/1369...
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New paper out in JEMS with R. Humphris & G. Hudson
We examine how sanctuary cities in the UK and Canada have come under attack in the digital age, and explore the possibilities for resistance
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...
@scmrjems.bsky.social
@rachelhumphris.bsky.social
We examine how sanctuary cities in the UK and Canada have come under attack in the digital age, and explore the possibilities for resistance
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...
@scmrjems.bsky.social
@rachelhumphris.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
New paper out in JEMS with R. Humphris & G. Hudson
We examine how sanctuary cities in the UK and Canada have come under attack in the digital age, and explore the possibilities for resistance
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...
@scmrjems.bsky.social
@rachelhumphris.bsky.social
We examine how sanctuary cities in the UK and Canada have come under attack in the digital age, and explore the possibilities for resistance
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...
@scmrjems.bsky.social
@rachelhumphris.bsky.social
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“Digital Technologies and Migration: Behind, Beyond and Around the Black Box”, published #OpenAccess in JEMS:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
edited by:
@mariegodin.bsky.social @deryaozkul.bsky.social @rachelhumphris.bsky.social
@koenleurs.bsky.social @kinanalajak.bsky.social #RianneDekker
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
edited by:
@mariegodin.bsky.social @deryaozkul.bsky.social @rachelhumphris.bsky.social
@koenleurs.bsky.social @kinanalajak.bsky.social #RianneDekker
Digital technologies and migration: behind, beyond and around the black box
Digital technologies have often been criticised due to their tendency to operate as ‘black boxes’, owing to their complexity and opacity, which pose challenges to understanding their inner mechanis...
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August 4, 2025 at 8:18 AM
“Digital Technologies and Migration: Behind, Beyond and Around the Black Box”, published #OpenAccess in JEMS:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
edited by:
@mariegodin.bsky.social @deryaozkul.bsky.social @rachelhumphris.bsky.social
@koenleurs.bsky.social @kinanalajak.bsky.social #RianneDekker
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
edited by:
@mariegodin.bsky.social @deryaozkul.bsky.social @rachelhumphris.bsky.social
@koenleurs.bsky.social @kinanalajak.bsky.social #RianneDekker
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📢 Call for Trustees! The Urban Studies Foundation is recruiting new Trustees to join our Board.
Deadline for applications: August 8th, 23:59 UTC+0.
Find out more:
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#UrbanStudies #TrusteeRecruitment
Deadline for applications: August 8th, 23:59 UTC+0.
Find out more:
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June 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
📢 Call for Trustees! The Urban Studies Foundation is recruiting new Trustees to join our Board.
Deadline for applications: August 8th, 23:59 UTC+0.
Find out more:
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#UrbanStudies #TrusteeRecruitment
Deadline for applications: August 8th, 23:59 UTC+0.
Find out more:
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In Making Sanctuary Cities, @rachelhumphris.bsky.social provides a new understanding of how citizenship is negotiated and contested in sanctuary cities and what political potentials are opened (and closed) by this designation. #ReadUP
www.sup.org/books/anthro...
www.sup.org/books/anthro...
April 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
In Making Sanctuary Cities, @rachelhumphris.bsky.social provides a new understanding of how citizenship is negotiated and contested in sanctuary cities and what political potentials are opened (and closed) by this designation. #ReadUP
www.sup.org/books/anthro...
www.sup.org/books/anthro...
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Are you worried about changes to the ‘Good Character’ guidance for refugees? Join our online event with ITN Solicitors + Garden Court Chambers tomorrow @ 12.30pm.
This event will include info on what to do if you are affected + a Q&A with immigration lawyers.
Book a free ticket: buff.ly/8ntTcdM
This event will include info on what to do if you are affected + a Q&A with immigration lawyers.
Book a free ticket: buff.ly/8ntTcdM
March 31, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Are you worried about changes to the ‘Good Character’ guidance for refugees? Join our online event with ITN Solicitors + Garden Court Chambers tomorrow @ 12.30pm.
This event will include info on what to do if you are affected + a Q&A with immigration lawyers.
Book a free ticket: buff.ly/8ntTcdM
This event will include info on what to do if you are affected + a Q&A with immigration lawyers.
Book a free ticket: buff.ly/8ntTcdM
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Here with @rachelbenchekroun.bsky.social and @rachelhumphris.bsky.social we reflect on #mothering in a hostile political and policy environment journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Mothering in hostile environments: Migrant families negotiating the welfare and immigration regime nexus - RACHEL BENCHEKROUN, RACHEL HUMPHRIS, NANDO SIGONA, 2024
This article examines the production, working and impact of the UK's hostile environment on migrant families with precarious legal status. Our approach is ...
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March 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Here with @rachelbenchekroun.bsky.social and @rachelhumphris.bsky.social we reflect on #mothering in a hostile political and policy environment journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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⏳ Time is running out! Submit your essay for the Rainer Bauböck 2025 Essay Award by 31 March 2025! 📝🏆
Win €1,000, get published, and present your work in Florence! 🌍✨
Topic: How will geopolitics affect future citizenship laws and policies ❓
🔗 Full Details: shorturl.at/MLqXv
Win €1,000, get published, and present your work in Florence! 🌍✨
Topic: How will geopolitics affect future citizenship laws and policies ❓
🔗 Full Details: shorturl.at/MLqXv
March 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
⏳ Time is running out! Submit your essay for the Rainer Bauböck 2025 Essay Award by 31 March 2025! 📝🏆
Win €1,000, get published, and present your work in Florence! 🌍✨
Topic: How will geopolitics affect future citizenship laws and policies ❓
🔗 Full Details: shorturl.at/MLqXv
Win €1,000, get published, and present your work in Florence! 🌍✨
Topic: How will geopolitics affect future citizenship laws and policies ❓
🔗 Full Details: shorturl.at/MLqXv
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Their tactic is to flood the zone with xenophoibc rhetoric and policy to overwhelm.
Looking for a wooden plank to hold onto to navigate the flood of bigots and authoritarians scapegoating immigrants for their own purposes.
Check out @wstatescenter.bsky.social's new Xenophobia Report👇
Looking for a wooden plank to hold onto to navigate the flood of bigots and authoritarians scapegoating immigrants for their own purposes.
Check out @wstatescenter.bsky.social's new Xenophobia Report👇
Xenophobia Report
Biweekly round up of anti-immigrant political activity
open.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Their tactic is to flood the zone with xenophoibc rhetoric and policy to overwhelm.
Looking for a wooden plank to hold onto to navigate the flood of bigots and authoritarians scapegoating immigrants for their own purposes.
Check out @wstatescenter.bsky.social's new Xenophobia Report👇
Looking for a wooden plank to hold onto to navigate the flood of bigots and authoritarians scapegoating immigrants for their own purposes.
Check out @wstatescenter.bsky.social's new Xenophobia Report👇
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📣 2 x PhD scholarships @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social funded by the Migrant Futures Institute. 1st scholarship open to all subjects for UK applicants of migrant / refugee background. 2nd scholarship open to UK / international applicants on any migration topic. Please repost! @mediacomgold.bsky.social
Migrant Futures Doctoral Studentships
The Graduate School is pleased to announce the call for two fully-funded Migrant Futures Doctoral Studentships
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March 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
📣 2 x PhD scholarships @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social funded by the Migrant Futures Institute. 1st scholarship open to all subjects for UK applicants of migrant / refugee background. 2nd scholarship open to UK / international applicants on any migration topic. Please repost! @mediacomgold.bsky.social
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📌 Save the Date!
Join us on 26 February 2025 for a talk by @rachelhumphris.bsky.social, who will be discussing her forthcoming book, "Making Sanctuary Cities" @sociowarwick.bsky.social
This seminar will take place at 11 AM in room RO.14 of the Ramphal Building.
Join us on 26 February 2025 for a talk by @rachelhumphris.bsky.social, who will be discussing her forthcoming book, "Making Sanctuary Cities" @sociowarwick.bsky.social
This seminar will take place at 11 AM in room RO.14 of the Ramphal Building.
January 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
📌 Save the Date!
Join us on 26 February 2025 for a talk by @rachelhumphris.bsky.social, who will be discussing her forthcoming book, "Making Sanctuary Cities" @sociowarwick.bsky.social
This seminar will take place at 11 AM in room RO.14 of the Ramphal Building.
Join us on 26 February 2025 for a talk by @rachelhumphris.bsky.social, who will be discussing her forthcoming book, "Making Sanctuary Cities" @sociowarwick.bsky.social
This seminar will take place at 11 AM in room RO.14 of the Ramphal Building.
Fully-funded #PhD opportunity on digital borders, digital welfare states, community organising and housing - please share! Deadline 28th Feb. @citizensuk.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk liss-dtp.ac.uk/project/hous...
Housing Access and Digital Transitions: A Participatory Study with first-time home seekers in Tower Hamlets - LISS DTP
This studentship aims to investigate the relationship between digital technologies and housing access in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is anticipated to involve a participatory methodology w...
liss-dtp.ac.uk
January 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Fully-funded #PhD opportunity on digital borders, digital welfare states, community organising and housing - please share! Deadline 28th Feb. @citizensuk.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk liss-dtp.ac.uk/project/hous...