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Why, now more than ever, we need to be engaging with our communities in Wales, having deep and meaningful conversations about key issues such as migration, representation and ultimately understanding what peace means for them.

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#OnThisDay 1943: David Low, in the Evening Standard, with one of the few cartoons directly addressing the Holocaust to appear in Britain during the Second World War

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This #RefugeeWeek, #OurSuperpower is being a 10-million-strong global movement fighting to end human rights abuses, including those against refugees. We’re proud that this week, Amnesty UK activists have organised dozens of events around the country to support and stand in solidarity with refugees.

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Refugee Week Ambassador Awssan says refugees should be integrated into the UK with dignity, equity and mutual respect to build communities.

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The Moomins are the mascot of World Refugee Week! And we’re celebrating their 80th anniversary today on our website, discussing the cultural phenomenon #Moomins #refugee #kidlit worldkidlit.org/2025/06/16/w...

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Absolutely cooked.

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For everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.

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The Hostile Environment has so many sinister outcomes and does not consider the impact on wider society. Government policies like this make everyone less safe. The only people who benefit are those who are willing take advantage of vulnerable, isolated people. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Great article and I appreciate that the author here is calling use of AI in academia cheating... for that is exactly what it is, and it's staggering how the students in this piece just aren't fazed. nymag.com/intelligence...

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Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered land and seascapes #WomensArt

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Starting to think about what comes next after your degree? Then please join us on Wednesday 7th, 11-12:30 for the InterPol Aber Alumni Career Talks. Discuss employability and career trajectories after InterPol with guest Alumni Speakers, Harry Taylor and Lara Wade. Lunch provided.

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Morning spot for some admin and #AcWri ☕️🥐

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Two years of conflict in Sudan, marked by continued attacks on civilians and aid workers #Refugees

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Devastating that this is viewed as a potential solution.

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'Bluebells', machine embroidered artwork by Alison Holt, UK textile artist #womensart

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Exceptional reporting by Today in Focus podcast @theguardian.com on the creation and dismantling of IDF narratives around massacre of humanitarians on 23rd March in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/audio/...

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You know why European countries are so quiet about the El Salvador situation? Because they started the normalisation of extraterritorial detention of migrants and asylum seekers, often without any due process. The UK’s Rwanda plan. Italy’s attempted plan with Albania. And some still want to do it.

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DOJ insists it can’t be expected to comply with Fed Dist Judge Paula Xinis’s order that it tell her, as directed by S.Ct.’s 9-0 ruling last night (4/10), how it plans to “facilitate” kidnapped Maryland resident Garcia’s return from El Salvador to the U.S.! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Morming spot for writing ☕️ 🥐 #acrwri #academia #SUAW #research

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Excellent episode on Trump's disappearances, undermining of refugee law and lack of Democratic accountability. www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...

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I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

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Yesterday, Joseph Thurgate with questioning from Prof Rachel Rosen of UCL and our own @catrineds.bsky.social successfully defending his thesis: ‘An investigation into the politics and problems of disputing and attributing ages to young people seeking asylum in the UK’. Congratulations Dr Thurgate!

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It's Shut Up and Write Time again with @hannahhughes.bsky.social! ☕️👩🏻‍💻📚🖊 #acrwri #academia #SUAW #pomodoros #writing

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Someone explain to me why it's illegal to give an old lady a bottle of water as she's waiting on line for hours in the sun to vote, but it's totally cool for an ultra-billionaire to bribe voters with million dollar checks in Wisconsin.

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Tea and books 2' by Leah Gardner, contemporary Chicago-based oil painter #WomensArt

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Properly-paid three-year postdoc at University College Dublin: Vietnamese boatpeople in the South China Sea in the 1970s and 1980s €45–58k/year, full time, working on Irial Glynn's ERC project on the global history of boat refugees Deadline soon – Tue, 1 April www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMG724/p...

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Non academic output to share but equally exciting! The Q(g)uilt is featured at the Quilter, the magazine of the UK Quilters' Guild. All made possible after an #AHRC funded engagement activity at @emfcamp.bsky.social last summer! @tripsandflips.bsky.social @gillianmcfadyen.bsky.social #academicsky

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Great to have our Mum Quilt Project featured in the Quilter spring edition 🙌🏼🧵🪡

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Spring on campus 🌞🏵️💛#LoveAber

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Truer words were never spoken.

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Other work by the Ladybird artists. ‘March’ (Shell Guide, 1957) Artist: SR Badmin

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"Nothing prepared me for the reality of mothering without the extended family to help take care of you, and the nonchalance with which the western world treats mothers." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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You might remember the Daily Mail sting where recordings were made of immigration solicitors allegedly encouraging false asylum claims. One of the solicitors was Rashid Khan of Rashid& Rashid sols whose pracising certificate was suspended. He has been cleared by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.

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According to the Times, the Gov will amend the Border Security bill to introduce a 24 week limit on the processing of asylum appeals. Given the backlog has grown 500% in the last two years, the shortage of legal reps and many other things, that seems challenging. www.thetimes.com/article/4d49...

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This afternoons office spot 🌞 #academia #AcWri

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Journalists just laughing....😬

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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Yuko Hosaka, contemporary Japanese illustrator and printmaker #WomensArt

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I have a piece at the LRB blog on the UK government's intention to permanently block refugees from citizenship.

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Nice example of the different types of teaching we have in the Department: here's Dr Gillian McFadyen's module, Questions of International Politics, where students engage in webinars with authors of their weekly seminar readings- getting to speak and critically engage with the authors one-on-one.

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When we warned the threat of American politics affecting abortion access was real, believe us the first time.

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Great class today, with Dr Carl Death (Manchester) joining us to chat about his chp on 'Can we save the planet?' in Global Politics textbook. Great Qs from students on social movements, divestment, climate policy and power of student movements! 🙌🏼 Thanks Carl! 🙌🏼

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