Thanks to the Northeast Africa Forum & @oxfordgeography.bsky.social for inviting me to re-launch OCCUPIED REFUGE at Oxford. Thanks to the online & in-person audience for a really engaged discussion!
Thx also to discussant Loren Landau & to hosts @jasonmosley.bsky.social & @mwangimwaura.bsky.social
A pleasure to host you, and discuss a provocative & well-researched book. (You have modestly neglected to mention the publisher's discounted price of £15.39 with coupon code E26BRNKM:
mngbookshop.co.uk/9781478033134/occupied-refuge)
Most European citizens will likely never have heard of VFS Global. But across much of Africa, Asia + the Middle East, the visa giant has become notorious
Our investigation finds VFS has made huge profits by exploiting people with 'weak' passports
Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️
I don’t know about you guys but my own enthusiasm for the Moon mission is slightly dampened by the genocidal fascists who are funding and celebrating it as an achievement for…*checks notes*…humanity?
Outsourcing giant VFS Global has made huge profits by exploiting people around the world whose ‘weak’ passports require them to apply for visas to travel
Sometimes research means hanging out with amazing hip hop artists during rehearsal✨🔥
Photo: MC Sharon and her crew
UK Govt once again showing its talent for utter bullsh*t that contradicts any migration research in the last decades. As if the punitive, underfunded and crumbling UK asylum system is a “pull factor” that attracts people to come here.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
