4th PSA Conference done ✅
Great time with some great people as per. We go again next year 🕺🏾
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Photo taken from Brasenose Lane with a view of the Radcliffe Camera.
Sideview of Jana giving her presentation.
Had a great time at #PSA2026 in Oxford! Grateful to @psa-race.bsky.social for the opportunity to present some PhD findings on how young adult women with lived experience of care and the UK criminal justice system experience, define, and negotiate their political representation.
Please also meet with our co-convenors, @mikebankole.bsky.social, @jessunderwood.bsky.social, and Samah Rafiq. We're planning to hold our first ever RMI workshop in September, and we would love to hear your thoughts and topic requests.
The RMI group is looking forward to hosting three panels at #PSA26. Join us Monday afternoon at St. Catherine's college for 'Future Agendas in Intersectionality' and 'Novel Approaches to the Growing Scholarship on Race'.
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*NEW PSA BLOG* 'Building space for Blackness in interdisciplinary conversations' by Dr Lydia Ayame Hiraide, in association with the PSA Race, Migration, and Intersectionality Specialist Group @psa-race.bsky.social
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In our latest video, Dr Michael Bankole reflects on how #equality #diversity & #inclusion can drive lasting change.
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🌟Submissions open: "Anti-Racist Feminist Politics: Thinking with Backlash, Creating New Worlds" at ECPG 2026 🌟
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Organised by @drashleec.bsky.social Akwugo Emejulu, Leah Bassel & me
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Quick reminder that *tomorrow* is the deadline to submit an abstract to present at our Borders in Motion workshop to take place in September. Find the link below: forms.gle/Z5VgJ9V5Qzek...
*PSA EVENT* 🌟 Call for abstracts 🌟 Race, Migration & Intersectionality (RMI) - Borders in Motion: Critical Conversations on RMI @psa-race.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
📆 Abstract proposals by 25 July
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We're looking for critical interdisciplinary insights on:
* The intersectional nature of im/migration
* Decolonisation debates and borders
* Racial, colonial, and carceral capitalism in border policy
* Resisting racialised marginalisation
* The role of digital technologies in bordering societies
The KCL Borders and Migration Research Group and the PSA Race, Migration, and Intersectionality Specialist Group invite you to submit an abstract for our workshop on Tuesday, September 16th, 2025, at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Borders are not just lines on a map; they are sites of violence, resistance, and the forging of new identities. In an increasingly interconnected world, how do racialized, gendered, and classed logics shape immigration policies and the experiences of migrants? Message us for the full call for papers
📢 Workshop: Call for Papers 📢
Borders in Motion: Critical Conversations on Race, Migration, and Intersectionality
Abstracts (up to 200 words) due: Friday, July 25th, 2025.
Submit here: forms.gle/Z5VgJ9V5Qzek...
Deadline to submit your abstract is TOMORROW! Don't miss your opportunity to contribute to this symposium with a view to publish in @psrjournal.bsky.social! Find the full call for papers and abstract submission link here: bit.ly/42tgmYC
Thanks to the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social for their support!
⏰⏰⏰ JUST ONE WEEK LEFT to submit your abstract for RMI's symposium: 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Blackness and Black Politics.' Deadline is 25th April. Apply here: forms.gle/jpPLz7Tuytuu...
And Samah Rafiq provided a postcolonial critique of the marketisation of border administration.
Fatima Farakhdust presented results of analysis of culture versus economic arguments on migration.
Sara van Goozen and John Evemy questioned the neutrality of ‘skills’ based criteria as a more morally legitimate migrant criteria.
An excellent panel brought together varying approaches critiquing the economics of migration, kicking off with an Everyday Political Economy perspective of debt financed migration from Seb Rumsby. @seb-rumsby.bsky.social
Finally, Patrick Vernon and Nicola Smith analysed the racialisation and heteronormativity of the ‘common people’
Next was Moé Suzuki’s analysis of humanisation of refugees from a decolonizing approach.
Busy day for the RMI SG. Started off the day with three great papers looking at migration. First was Hilal Zorba Bayraktar’s paper on Turkish migration policy and Syrian refugees @hilalzbayraktar.bsky.social
Fantastic line-up starting here in a minute!
Getting kicked off this morning with a strong start!
Finally, a great first presentation from PhD student Cian Bear unsettling colonial conceptions of violence.
Then another fantastic contribute from Dr Sadiya Akram from University of Birmingham on anti-racist institutionalism.
Excellent panel yesterday starting with Batikan Bulut batikanbulut.bsky.social on transnational Turkish diasporic communities from Germany. #PSA2025
Starting in a minute! 😲
Fantastic first session with Boya Li @boyalii.bsky.social, Katherine Tyler & Shardia Briscoe-Palmer @drshardiabpalmer.bsky.social. Three very distinctive papers, but supper complimentary on migrant identities, Reform and Black masculinity.