researcher—asylum advocacy/activism, detention economies, migration governance—educator—urban and global studies—wannabe runner—m-dash lover.
Joined February 2011
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16 Jul 2025
Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry on.ft.com/4nPHWaX
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21 Nov 2024
The scholarship provides:
the full cost of tuition fees
£12,000 in payments given directly to you for accommodation, study and living costs
£2,500 towards the cost of your travel to the UK, Visa and NHS surcharge (for healthcare)
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drdconlon retweeted
18 Nov 2024
Immigration courts now have 1,478,623 asylum cases pending--the most ever
850,720 defensive asylum applications were filed in FY 2024, also a record
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drdconlon retweeted
17 Nov 2024
pls share: funded by EPA: Economy & Space, up to 8 travel accommodation stipends available to enable doctoral & postdoctoral researchers to participate in the "ideational geographies" workshop at UBC, June 11-13, 2025. Application details:
blogs.ubc.ca/peck/research/i…
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drdconlon retweeted
7 Nov 2024
Sharing publications can feel misplaced in a world in deep crises, but as analyses of repetitive patterns are also part of a remedy, I´ll still share this SI in Migration and Society on "Colonialism, Postcoloniality, and the Study of Forced Migration" berghahnjournals.com/view/jo…
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drdconlon retweeted
21 Oct 2024
Have you registered for our final Geographers Take Action webinar? Meet tomorrow’s “Intro to Media” panelists who will share communication strategies to inspire you to share your work with the public and inspire action. bit.ly/3zqeJyX
@ackocher @queergeog @Kat_Geographic
ALT Promotional graphic for 'Geographers Take Action: Elevate 101—Introduction to Media'. Includes details of a 60-minute session on media storytelling with images and names of speakers: Austin Kocher, Assistant Research Professor at Syracuse University; Eden Kincaid, PhD candidate and Affiliate Assistant Professor at University of Delaware; Katrina Stack, Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Date and time specified as October 22, 6:00 PM EST.
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drdconlon retweeted
We're excited to invite you to the 2025 Detroit Pre-Conference to the AAG annual meeting! We're hosting a special, two-day collaborative event that centers the city of Detroit and the people who call it home.
Abstracts due Dec. 15; CFP linked below!
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drdconlon retweeted
21 Sep 2024
The first theme of our 2024 issue asks: What does it mean to “Indigenize” and how does it relate to processes of creativity and mapping? Drawing upon Papaschase Cree scholar Dwayne Donald’s emphasis on understanding relations through a site-specific orientation.
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drdconlon retweeted
17 Sep 2024
".. Huge profits are being made from our pain and misery by private companies who run detention centres and its facilities on behalf of the Governmen"
@CorpWatchUK investigation into private companies that run healthcare in Immigration detention centers🧵
corporatewatch.org/practice-…
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drdconlon retweeted
9 Sep 2024
Check out this great @openDemocracy piece by @thom_tyerman & Setareh Ghandehari from @DetentionWatch 🔥
Analysing the US transition from Trump to an ostensibly more liberal Biden govt, they point to lessons for the struggle for migrant rights in the UK.
opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-…
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drdconlon retweeted
29 Aug 2024
As @AlisonMountz writes: “Migration crises persist because crisis does political work.” We see this clearly today. We should ask: Who benefits politically from producing migration as crisis? How crises have helped militarise EU borders is discussed here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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drdconlon retweeted
22 Aug 2024
Meet the new website for Critical Legal Geography! 🎉
Find scholars, discover key texts and readings, and learn more about legal geography, all in one place.
@LegalGeoLSA @LegalGeography @theAAG @Feminist_Geo @Pol_Geog_Jl
clg.place/
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drdconlon retweeted
27 Jul 2024
If the NYTimes can’t frame Trump’s shitshow accurately, at least Kamala’s team can.
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drdconlon retweeted
22 Jul 2024
The UK asylum system must not be run for profit.
As @IPPR says, without significant reforms the cycle of poor housing and financial [mis]management will continue to the detriment of both ppl seeking asylum and the public purse.
#TakeAction:
act.refugee-action.org.uk/pa…
11 Jul 2024
Contractors are making hundreds of millions of pounds in profit every year through housing that actively harms people’s health.
This is money that could be spent housing people in our communities and improving services for everyone.
prospectmagazine.co.uk/polit…
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drdconlon retweeted
24 Apr 2024
Online First: The unsustainable life of British Universities - Kathryn Zacharek, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
#trade_union #universities #neoliberalism #activism #education
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drdconlon retweeted
9 Jul 2024
Latest ICE detention data out today:
- detained pop = 37,509
- 61.3% have no criminal record
- TX has largest detained pop
- ATD pop now = 180,000 (down from start of FY)
- ICE AOR in Chicago monitors most on ATD (no longer San Francisco)
Data here: trac.syr.edu/immigration/qui…
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drdconlon retweeted
22 Jun 2024
'The asylum system is increasingly geared towards making money rather than ensuring people’s protection or dignity' - @MBEGriffiths (@GeogBham).
Reposted via @conversationuk.
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