Sarah Kunz

📢🎉The UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition, @sarahkunz.bsky.social and I coordinated a letter signed by 103 academics calling for universal anti-SLAPP provisions in the next King's Speech to protect academic freedoms. More info below:

📢🟡100+ academics have signed a letter calling for the introduction of universal anti- #SLAPP provisions to protect #AcademicFreedom.

antislapp.uk/2026/03/04/a...

UCU Essex supports the crucial work @samaritans.bsky.social do. Our students and staff include a number of proud Samaritans volunteers 💚

Julie Bentley, CEO of Samaritans, sits on our University Council - which has just approved 400+ redundancies. We went to raise awareness at Sams HQ today.

Did you know that before studying migration, Adrian Favell (University College Cork) thought he would become a journalist? For the latest Borders & Belonging Podcast episode, Adrian shares how curiosity about politics, music and writing led him to study Europe’s mobile elite, ‘Eurostars.' 1/2 🧵

It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.

Please share widely.

Therapy Culture for the Business Class: Exploring How CEO Peer Groups Make and Legitimate Elite Cohesion In the current context of extreme economic inequality and rising concentrations of income and wealth at the top, the social processes through which elites restrict the wider population's access to re...

New article out now 🚨
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@sheffielduni.bsky.social

While researching the wealthy business class in and around Manchester, I stumbled upon CEO peer advisory groups — little-known but powerful sites of elite cohesion. 🧵

Walking Tour: Migration and the City of London Where better to discover the richness of Britain’s migration histories, than the City of London - where hundreds of stories, over thousands of years demonstrate that migration is woven into the fabric...

Looking for summer activities in London and keen to learn more about its history through migration? The Migration Museum Walking Tour: Migration and the City of London can be booked for up to 20 people. Duration approx 90 mins. And you'll be helping the team build Britain's missing museum too. 1/2

Courting English Law | Emma Mack | Substack A Substack where I share articles longer than a LinkedIn post about commercial disputes, English law, and legal developments. Click to read Courting English Law, by Emma Mack, a Substack publication w...

Great reading for anyone interested in SLAPPs - which should be everyone interested in press and academic freedom 😉 courtingenglishlaw.substack.com

Looking forward to joining the UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies as a Visiting Fellow next year!

Thank you, Tena!

In Berlin wurde diese Woche zweimal eine Veranstaltung mit der UN-Sonderberichtserstatterin @franceskalbs.bsky.social abgesagt. Zusammen mit @amnesty-de.bsky.social warnt medico international vor dem Angriff gegen internationale Institutionen des Völkerrechts.

Manchester University Press - Expatriate Expatriate - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Expatriate by Sarah Kunz

‘Expatriate: Following a migration category’ is now out in paperback 🎉 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182579/

Working on creative methods around urban protest and resistance from a geography perspective? If so consider submitting to our CfP - "Making space for protest" for #RGS2025. More info 👇 Deadline - 28th February 2025. With Architecture colleagues Goran Vodick and Stany Babu ✊

Roman Abramovich may owe UK £1bn in unpaid tax Leaked documents suggest oligarch's billions were managed from UK, undermining offshore tax avoidance plan

Abramovich’s companies were registered offshore but we’ve uncovered evidence they were being run from the UK – meaning they should have been paying UK taxes

Der Mann, der gegen den Straftatbestand der Vergewaltigung in der Ehe gestimmt hat, will die Migration mit der Begründung von „täglichen Gruppenvergewaltigungen“ aus dem „Asylmilieu“ beschränken.

Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’ Germany embraced Israel to atone for its wartime guilt. But was this in part a way to avoid truly confronting its past? By Pankaj Mishra

“Witnessing the German public sphere in recent months, it was hard to resist a similarly damning conclusion: that self-righteous hypocrisy had been normalised enough to turn into a mode of governance and thought. …“ www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...

Heute Abend um 17 Uhr in München zeigen, was wir von der CSU/CDU nach ihrem Pakt mit der AfD halten!

(Nichts)

Bundestagswahl - Trumpismus made in Germany - medico international Die Migrationspolitik wird zum Einfallstor eines autoritären Staatsumbaus.

Merz ist auf den Spuren von Orban und Meloni. Er gefährdet Europa, rüttelt an den Grundfesten von Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Demokratie, er wirft zentrale Lehren des Nationalsozialismus' über Bord. 1/3 www.medico.de/blog/trumpis...

⚜️ Born to rule: the making & remaking of the British elite

Don't miss next week's Max Weber Programme February Lecture featuring @lsesociology.bsky.social Prof. @aaronreeves.bsky.social on the evolution of the elite class in the UK.

📆 5 Feb.
⏰ 17:00-18:30
📍 EUI Badia

Register✍️ buff.ly/4jAHZpa

It's one week until Indulging Kleptocracy (@oxunipress.bsky.social @tenaprelec.bsky.social Tom Mayne) is released worldwide. We're launching the book in parliament on Feb 10th and at Frontline Club on Feb 11th. More launch events in UK, US, EU planned. Join Us!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kleptoscop...

So excited about this amazing panel next Tuesday run by @lseinequalities.bsky.social talking on the politics of social class in 2025 Britain.

This photo shows the room where someone seeking asylum has been housed. The bed is just a thin, blue mattress on the floor. The only privacy is provided by a collapsable screen and a sheet. The words "So nobody is forced to live like this" has been written onto the photo in Refugee Action branded font.

A group of cross-party MPs has launched an inquiry into the state of asylum housing – and we are submitting a mountain of evidence for it.

Will you take action and sign your name to show the government that we’ll be counting on them to act on it?
act.refugee-action.org.uk/page/164567/...