Gemma Bird

This is tomorrow! Very much looking forward to it!

As part of our University of Sanctuary work we are very excited to welcome award winning journalist @sallyhayd.bsky.social to the @liverpooluni.bsky.social to discuss her new book This is Also a Love Story: Searching for Good in a Divided World with Dr Seán Columb www.liverpool.ac.uk/events/event...

The Department of Politics and Europe in the World Centre📚🇪🇺🗣️ invites you to join us to celebrate the launch of Professor Harris’ newest book, The Dilemma of Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

🚨 Our Department of Politics at the University of Liverpool is currently looking to appoint up to 7(!) new colleagues. This includes 2 permanent T&R positions: lnkd.in/eVabnhrP And up to 5 fixed-term T&S positions: lnkd.in/eyYX9tN5 The deadline for applications to both tracks is 28 June!

It was a pleasure to host @proftaylor.bsky.social at @livunihss.bsky.social and bring our research projects in conversation as part of the 'Transgressive border dialogue' series. We really enjoyed the dialogic format. Thank you Stefania Tufi, Anna Saunders & @gemmabird.bsky.social for organising it!

If you’re looking for something to do in the #BISA2026 coffee breaks today exhibition A Place Along the Way Stories from the Island of Samos is in the East Bar. You can also listen to the audio here open.spotify.com/show/0MZwQ1f... This is a collaboration with Simone van den Akker & Andrew Foreman.

New research alert 🚨📚❗: Dr Amal Abu-Bakare has co-authored/edited an article and special issue with the @universitypress.cambridge.org Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. This special issue also features the research of lecturers Dr Gemma Bird and Professor Andrew Russell

New research alert 📚📰🚨 See the latest blog post from our Senior Lecturer in Politics and IR and expert in Migration Studies, Dr Gemma Bird ( @gemmabird.bsky.social) via @bordercrim.bsky.social: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

A recent lethal collision off the island of Chios raises serious concerns about practices at EU borders, as well as Greece’s ability to provide independent monitoring. Read the latest post by @gemmabird.bsky.social and Emma Musty of @ihaverights.bsky.social 👇 blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Project Armonia does fantastic work challenging food insecurity in Athens and also providing free training and qualifications for people on the move looking to become qualified commis-chefs. If you can, please support this fantastic organisation to keep changing lives www.paypal.com/donate/?host...

Lovely to be back at the @livuninews.bsky.social VG&M for British Science Week. I’m continuing to collect recipes as a response to the Project Armonia cook book. Food brings people together, tells stories and builds community. If you are in the area come and share a recipe!

This year we are really pleased to be able to offer a new humanitarian scholarship at @liverpooluni.bsky.social, the Humanitarian Scholarship in Irish Studies, which offers tuition fees and maintenance support to a Palestinian student on the MRes in Irish Studies. www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Today is a dark day for anyone who believes in sanctuary in the UK. People who've fled war and torture should be able to rebuild their lives in peace and security - not live under a constant threat of removal. We must not stop fighting these appalling anti-refugee laws.

Green party wins Gorton and Denton byelection, pushing Labour to third place in blow to Keir Starmer

Trump’s Davos speech is just one racist, colonial, misogynistic stereotype after another! Rambling and offensive throughout!

There ought to be consequences for the abusive use of meritless prosecutions to harass activists.

Wrote a piece with @davideschmid.bsky.social on the “new” Guest Worker schemes in Europe and how they borrow from practices of the past!

Heading to the The University of Leeds for the day as the lovely people of the political theory seminar series kindly invited me to speak. Looking forward to testing out some of the ideas from the book I have been working on for the last eight years and that I am now in the final stages of editing!

See below EOI for AHRC-funded PhDs at UoL. Keen to supervise a project on critical approaches to migration.

Really excited to be spending the day in the @liverpooluni.bsky.social VG&M with the exhibition “A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos” as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science where we are also collecting your recipes as a response to the wonderful work of Project Armonia.

Really excited to be involved in a pop up exhibition Migration, Refuge & Solidarity‘ on 7th & 8th Nov at @victoriagallery.bsky.social. I will be sharing audio-visual exhibition ‘A Place Along the Way: Stories from the Island of Samos’ as a part of it. vgm.liverpool.ac.uk/whats-on/exh...

Congratulations to Dr Sarah Elmammeri, our former PhD candidate and the winner of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of ExcellenceDoctoral Thesis Prize.Her lecture titled ‘Between Layers of Borders: Reflecting on EU Policies and Asylum Seekers’ reflects the very best of our PhD student scholarship.

1️⃣ Reporting on migration & accountability can often feel futile Not today The ECHR ruled Greece violated the right to life in the 2018 Agathonisi shipwreck: 16 dead, incl. 7 children & 2 babies @rsaegean.org fought for the families; We had investigated w/ former @spiegel.de colleagues Decision ⬇️

no words

“Cinema is a friend for life”. Never a truer word spoken from @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social at the @cinemaforall.bsky.social #100YearsGala

“#Gaza is being obliterated, reduced to a wasteland. Gaza is being emptied from its starving population forced to move into the so called “humanitarian” area of Mawasi.” Full statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

Some great summer reads!

“I had to break the news to my wife. She hasn’t been able to stop crying since she heard the news. What is the value of this life if you have to be separated from the people you love? Both of us are completely shattered by this." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

They tried students and they tried care workers, but that wasn't enough. Now they're coming for families. My impassioned thoughts on today's sickening family reunion announcement. open.substack.com/pub/notanoth...

This is appalling! People flea unimaginable horrors, claim asylum and will then face another awful challenge of fighting to be back with their family. This is just an added layer of cruelty in a broken system that no longer truly gives the refuge it should! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“All of those who have influence must use it with determination and a sense of moral duty. Every hour counts," says UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini. The amount of aid entering the #Gaza Strip is insufficient to meet the scale of humanitarian need. This can be reversed. Let aid in.

Condemnation and words are not enough. Political figures worldwide need to do so much more in the face of these constant atrocities! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

“In Gaza, to be an academic today is to refuse to be reduced to a statistic.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The British media keeps calling the situation in Gaza a hunger crisis, but this underplays the reality. What we are witnessing is a starvation crisis, this is an active choice not to deliver aid, not a passive outcome with an unknown cause!

Doctors Without Borders joins more than 100 organizations to sounding the alarm that lifesaving aid must enter #Gaza. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-as...

Gaza: More than 30 people killed 'as Israeli troops open fire towards Palestinians waiting for aid'

What more will it take for the world’s leaders to respond than the killing of children waiting for water! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Suspension of processing of #asylum applications just announced by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is illegal! #Greece The Greek government announced today that emergency legislation will be tabled in Parliament tomorrow, Thursday, 10 July, for the suspension of asylum processing of (1/6)

10 years after the so-called long summer of migration, the deadliness of the European border regime is back in full swing. @alraven.bsky.social from our Research and Investigations team tries to put a figure on the extent of the suffering this regime has brought. borderviolence.eu/blog/tallyin...

Me for Metro: The crucial point is deterrence & border violence has never & will never work We need safe routes & the right to work legally for asylum seekers - IT IS SCREAMINGLY OBVIOUS But pressure might be working, we must press harder than ever for a humane policy💪 metro.co.uk/2025/07/02/a...

“While life in Gaza is being obliterated and the West Bank is under escalating assault, this report shows why Israel’s genocide continues: because it is lucrative for many,” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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I did an interview with the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my new book. We talked about contemporary feminism, masculinities, gender-based violence and abortion rights in northern Ireland. @manchesterup.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social Recording here - newbooksnetwork.com/womens-troub...

A great listen, and a pleasure to be included in this conversation. Thanks for having me!

Very proud to know and have had the pleasure to engage with Dr Sarah Elmammeri’s excellent thesis “Trapped between Borders” who is now the very deserving winner of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence thesis prize for 2025! @sarahelm.bsky.social www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/new...