Fumi Showers (@fumishowers) 's Twitter Profile
Fumi Showers

@fumishowers

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies @UConn (studies race, gender, immigration, healthcare, health professions). Author of "Migrants Who Care"

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Southern Responses to Displacement (@southernresp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

πŸ“£πŸ“’πŸ“£CfP: Recentering the South in Studies of Migration - the deadline for submissions is 15 May - see more here: southernresponses.org/category-news/…

Robtel Neajai Pailey (@robtelneajai) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Eligible and interested candidates should apply by 30 April for the Peace and Security Fellowships for African Women co-sponsored by the African Leadership Centre (#Nairobi) and Kings College London: bit.ly/2OUoji3

Sarah Pierce (@sarahpierceesq) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Soon after the Trump admin took office, I started keeping a list of the immigration-related changes they made. It ended up being wildly handy & I referenced it regularly. Today we published that list. Including all 200+ changes. migrationpolicy.org/research/immig… Some interesting bits:

Fumi Showers (@fumishowers) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So sad to hear this. He heard me present at a conference while still a grad student. He reached out and had been a wonderful mentor ever since.

ACMS Wits University (@acmswits) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are seeking to recruit a Postdoctoral Fellow to join the Migration and Health Project Southern Africa: maHp. The Postdoctoral Researcher will work with Prof Prof. Jo Vearey exploring migration, gender, and health system responses in South Africa. - mailchi.mp/d217330f9ac6/m…

Fumi Showers (@fumishowers) 's Twitter Profile Photo

UCONN has given me a contract and an email address, and my colleagues at CCSU have given me a great sendoff. Happy to now share that starting in the Fall of 2019, I will be continuing my career as an asst prof of Sociology and Africana Studies at UCONN.

Centre for Global Social Policy (@cgsp_uoft) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The #GlobalCareworkSummit in #Toronto is a chance to dialogue with care scholars from the UK, Australia, Costa Rica, Singapore, New Zealand, Chile, and Poland, to name a few. More information here: ow.ly/5PZV50uqvO7 #Carework #Care #Migration

The #GlobalCareworkSummit in #Toronto is a chance to dialogue with care scholars from the UK, Australia, Costa Rica, Singapore, New Zealand, Chile, and Poland, to name a few. More information here: ow.ly/5PZV50uqvO7 #Carework #Care #Migration
Ibukun Abejirinde (@lade_abeji) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fully paid/funded PhD in Social Science on decision support tools for hypertensive disorders in pregnancy. Candidate will be hosted at the University of Amsterdam. Field work in Ghana. uva.nl/en/content/vac…

Sabrina Mahtani (@sabrina_mahtani) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Welcome to Brussels Airport. Where, if you are flying to a destination in #Africa with Brussels Airlines, you are crammed into a bus and then taken to a separate terminal just for African flights with very few facilities. Equality in air travel?

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Workshop opportunity: β€œWe invite applications from graduate students in any discipline who are engaged in dissertation-level, ethnographic research on the Global South.β€œ dornsife.usc.edu/soci/gss-ss-cr…

Sociology of Health Professions Education (@soc_hpe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Save the Date for an ASA Sociology Preconference: β€œThe Social Transformation of the Sociology of Health Professions Education” to be held Aug 17th in Philadelphia. For info, see bit.ly/41APEtt or contact a co-organizer: Alexandra Vinson Kelly Underman Lauren Olsen Tania M. Jenkins, PhD | @taniamjenkins.bsky.social

Loneke T. Blackman Carr, PhD, RD (@drloneke) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Circulating this #postdoc opening w/ me, Jolaade K., & Dr. Kristen Cooksey, in collaboration w/ InCHIP at UConn. Postdoc focused on #healthequity, #BlackWomen, #nutrition, #policy, #stress and #CVD. Details & application #AcademicTwitter: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/cw/en-us/job/4…. Apply 07/28.

Circulating this #postdoc opening w/ me,   <a href="/DrJolaade/">Jolaade K.</a>, &amp; Dr. <a href="/CookseyKristen/">Kristen Cooksey</a>, in collaboration w/ <a href="/UConn_InCHIP/">InCHIP at UConn</a>. Postdoc focused on #healthequity, #BlackWomen, #nutrition, #policy, #stress and #CVD. Details &amp; application #AcademicTwitter: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/cw/en-us/job/4…. Apply 07/28.