The no. of people travelling through the Balkans to claim asylum in Europe hit its highest since 2015 last year – & the route is now more deadly We've found that a growing number of bodies of those attempting the journey are piling up in morgues or being buried without a trace

One of our Co-Directors Dr Amanda R Beattie will begin a 12 month tenure as Chair of the Rights Thematic Discussion organised by Migration Policy and Practice 🧡. We look forward to being a part of these ongoing conversations and thank Danai Papachristopoulou for all her work this past year as outgoing Chair.

📢New PhD project about EU #border violence, supervised by Jelena Obradovic and I with NoNameKitchen: "Reporting #Violence at the Border: Investigative Journalism, Activism and Epistemic Injustice in Narratives on Migration" Funding: Economic and Social Research Council jobs.ac.uk/job/DFQ711/phd…👈#PhDposition

📣New Event Alert! 📣 We are co-hosting a concert 16 February at 2 pm. Details👇Music and chat! An excellent half term activity! All welcome! eventbrite.co.uk/e/sounds-of-un… Refugee and Migrant Centre🧡 Migration Policy and Practice 🧡 Restore 🧡 ACH 🧡 Kings Heath Action Bearwood Action City of Sanctuary Birmingham Schools of Sanctuary 🧡

New article on the strategic use of #injury at EU borders: "The Politics of Injury: Debilitation and the Right to Maim at the EU Border" Now Open Access in Geopolitics, written with @Isakjee and Jelena Obradovic👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 🧵1/

In our new @JIRD_jour piece ‘Archives of border crossing: Crafting emotional proximity & distance on the walls of Athens’Jelena Obradovic & I engage with #Athens street art to think through questions of memorialisation, whitewashing, borders & community link.springer.com/epdf/10.1057/s…

& a whole chapter of 'My Fourth Time, We Drowned' is focused on Rwanda (chapter 19) - consider reading it if you haven't already: waterstones.com/book/my-fourth… x.com/sallyhayd/stat…

📢LEGAL UPDATE - the Rwanda Act and Treaty📢 In response to the Guardian article today announcing the Home Office plan to start detaining people for the Rwanda flight, we've just published this update. We will add more info as we find out more. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ righttoremain.org.uk/what-we-know-a…

Message from These Walls Must Fall Organiser: 'We are outside the immigration reporting centre in Manchester. The press are here and asking migrants questions about their immigration histories. We advise you not to give your details, unless you are 100% sure it is safe to do so.’

🚨NEW blog on IMMIGRATION RAIDS🚨 as we navigate Rwanda confusion: ⚡️What's a raid? ⚡️What're your RIGHTS in a raid ⚡️What to do if you SEE a raid ⚡️Key groups Stay informed, stay vigilant, stand together. Thank you Anti Raids Network @migrants_rights ✊ righttoremain.org.uk/immigration-ra…

Heading down to Bristol for this today with Jelena Obradovic. We had the absolute honour of sharing our research on borders and bordering with the Paperbirds team and of seeing some of the rehearsals, can’t wait to see the final piece today in a theatre!

1/5 This article in Geopolitics by my co-authors Thom Davies and Jelena Obradovic delves into the way in which the deliverance of injury is used in a myriad of ways to immobilise and repel migrants along the Balkan route: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

We are humbled to receive such a gift. Thank you for honouring our work & vision of a community committed to supporting people who are on the move. Our gratitude goes to Aston Alumni & @Christiane_No18 for supporting @CMFD's longterm goals. #ItTakesAVillage

Join us for our next event as we screen two short films, followed by a discussion with the director. 📍BRIG, Digbeth, Birmingham 🎫Ticket info eventbrite.co.uk/e/art-and-migr…