Asiya Islam @asiyaislam Twitter profile

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

Today I’ve been in the UK for 10 years, 1 month, 2 weeks, 3 days. Yesterday I found out that the @UKHomeOffice decided to refuse my application for Indefinite Leave to Remain. Thread for details but basically #HostileEnvironment

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@ukhomeoffice @Cambridge_Uni @uk_chancellor @AnnaFazack1 @guardian Hardly surprising that under this govt, there is an attack on academics, which is driving away global researchers. Good luck building a ‘Global Britain’ (LOL) when you can’t even support global universities. #BrexitShambles and #HostileEnvironment – need I say more?

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

@ukhomeoffice @Cambridge_Uni Yes, that’s right – @UKHomeOffice refused my application because I was away DOING ACADEMIC WORK FOR A UK UNIVERSITY. The mind boggles. Note that in Spring 2019 statement @UK_Chancellor made the following commitment as “A signal to the World of our commitment to Global Britain”

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

3 years

Life update: I’ve married a researcher-turned-chef who makes excellent breads, beers & cheesecakes with an impostor syndrome to match that of academics. Fittingly for two people who proclaim themselves to be anti-romantic, our signing ceremony happened in a photocopy shop.

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

@ukhomeoffice They posted a letter which I only managed to pick up last night. What are these ‘exceptionally complex issues’, you ask? I was out of the country for too many days. And why was that? I was conducting fieldwork for a year in Delhi for a PhD which I was doing at @Cambridge_Uni .

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

@ukhomeoffice I submitted my application on 20 September, it cost almost £3500 which I paid out of my pocket. This included additional £800 for ‘super priority’ service which promises decision within 24 hours (it was either that or ‘normal’ application which is up to 6 months wait)

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

@ukhomeoffice @Cambridge_Uni @uk_chancellor They also considered my application with regards to my private life & decided that since I’m only 31 years old, I can “reintegrate back into life and society in India”. Oh and I can keep in touch with my UK friends through “modern communication” [cuz you know WhatsApp FTW]

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

The protest is growing! If you're an academic at a UK university, pls consider signing this open letter which just over the weekend has amassed over 100 signatures. #hostileenvironment

Open Letter to UK Home Office: Reconsider ILR for Asiya Islam

OPEN LETTER TO THE HOME OFFICE TO RECONSIDER ASIYA ISLAM’S APPLICATION FOR INDEFINITE LEAVE TO REMAIN The Rt Hon Priti Patel Secretary of State for the Home Department Home Office 2 Marsham Street...

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The Guardian

@guardian

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Academics protest as Cambridge fellow told to leave Britain

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

@ukhomeoffice @Cambridge_Uni @uk_chancellor I provided several letters to present the case that fieldwork is a crucial aspect of my work and should not count towards my days out of the country. But nope, apparently I “failed to provide any exceptional reasons in support of your out of time application”.

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

@ukhomeoffice I didn’t get a decision 24 hours later (and no refund). Instead I got an email telling me that a decision won’t be made within 24 hours because the case raises ‘exceptionally complex issues’. For the last 5 weeks, I kept frantically checking my emails hoping to hear back.

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

@ukhomeoffice @Cambridge_Uni @uk_chancellor I’m aware that I’m hardly the first academic to go through this. Recent reports by @AnnaFazack1 for the @guardian have documented other such cases.

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

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Full circle moment - 15 years ago, I arrived at @LSEGenderTweet as a Master’s student. Today I’ve joined as Assistant Professor in Gender, Development & Globalisation. Excited to continue my long association with @LSEnews and to return to the discipline that feels like home 🎉

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

Yesterday I submitted the final hard bound copy of my thesis. Amidst all that has been going on, choosing a colour for the cover and going to the yellow door once again was a nice celebration of what I enjoy doing. PhD done and done ✅

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

3 years

3rd time lucky! I’ve got a @BritishAcademy_ grant for a project on the gendered experiences of #WorkFromHome in infrastructure-deficient settings in Delhi. Using mixed methods & scholarship on home-based work + gig economy, it will contribute to discussions on the #FutureOfWork .

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@asiyaislam

5 years

Wow - over 1200 signatures, coverage in the @guardian , the @nytimes and @BBCLookEast - thank you! Goes to show the issue is much larger - when will the @ukhomeoffice take notice? #hostileenvironment

The New York Times

@nytimes

5 years

More than 1,000 scholars called on the UK's Home Office to reconsider the case of Asiya Islam, a Cambridge research fellow who has lived legally in Britain for a decade but could be ejected from the country by the end of January

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

3 years

Todays seems like a good day to share that in Jan 2022, I’ll be leaving Cambridge to join @CERIC_LUBS @LeedsUniBSchool @UniversityLeeds as a lecturer. After 6 enriching years in Cambridge, I’m excited to join a fantastic team of people researching work, inequalities & futures. 👩🏾‍💻

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@asiyaislam

5 years

Cambridge says NO TO CAA, NO TO NRC, in solidarity with widespread protests in India. #CitizenshipAmendmentAct #JamiaProtest #AMUprotest

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@asiyaislam

5 years

Last week between anger and exhaustion, I’ve been re-reading my refusal letter & the absolutely absurd, ill-informed political comments on immigration. My case is just one example that exposes @ukHomeOffice 's incompetent, unlawful, and dangerous decision making. Thread 👇

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

Today @DanielZeichner & I went to @ukhomeoffice to hand deliver the open letter signed by 2000 academics. An employee from @patel4witham ’s office collected it from us. If @BorisJohnson ’s govt is sincere about its ‘fairer immigration’ promise, I expect an urgent intervention.

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

3 years

New profile picture but more importantly new bio and new email address 😀 to celebrate my first day of work @LeedsUniBSchool @CERIC_LUBS

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

Ffs @BBCr4today stop saying Boris Johnson’s ‘private’ life and ‘behind closed doors’ as if the neighbours did something wrong by reporting the incident! This is how domestic violence is justified and made invisible! Ugh

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

How's this for 10 year challenge -- In 2009, I arrived in the UK. In 2020, I'm fighting to stay. For all those asking, despite a petition signed by over 2000 academics and numerous letters, inc from @DanielZeichner , there has been no action from the @ukhomeoffice / @patel4witham .

Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

Today I’ve been in the UK for 10 years, 1 month, 2 weeks, 3 days. Yesterday I found out that the @UKHomeOffice decided to refuse my application for Indefinite Leave to Remain. Thread for details but basically #HostileEnvironment

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Asiya Islam

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1 year

Last few months of work have been intense, but Aug is for slowing down & finding joy in what I do. Two exciting things helping me along - I won the @LeedsUniBSchool Dean's ECR Research Excellence Award & I have signed a contract with @CambPressAssess for my book 'A Woman's Job'!

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

4 years

To add to the Cambridge collection of snow photos this morning. Happy end of term!

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

Now that I've signed an official looking contract, delighted to (finally!) share that in Oct '19, I will be joining @Newnham_College as a Junior Research Fellow! Very much looking forward to a new home and the company of brilliant women! On to getting this PhD done 💪

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

Summer is here! #PhDone 🥳

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

Thank you everyone for the support and for reaching out for interviews. I’ll respond but right now I need to work on a presentation that I’m delivering via Skype tomorrow. I can’t be at the conference in Barcelona because of this ILR application but glad I can still present!

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

4 years

Excited to present my research at @Newnham_College later today, I’ll discuss what narratives of boredom among young women in Delhi tell us about gender & socio-economic change. This has been accepted for publication in @sociologyjnl & I look fwd to sharing it more widely soon!

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

So exhausted but so pleased that I did my first ever half marathon on International Women’s Day, raising money to support @CambRapeCrisis . #CambridgeHalf

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@asiyaislam

3 years

OPEN FOR REGISTRATION: Absolutely delighed to share the final programme for The Social Life of #Care conference @CRASSHlive 13-15 May 2021, featuring an ECR workshop, a roundtable on Covid19 and Care & 2 days of parallel sessions on care around the globe!

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

4 years

In today's paper rejection news, in response to an account of evolution of ethnographic methods, a reviewer has kindly informed me that "Ethnography in sociology, geography, psychology, education etc. does not have colonial roots." Laugh or cry?

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

2 years

I have a paper out in @Gend_Soc ! Entitled 'Plastic Bodies', it developed from an interlocutor relating how much she hated maintaining a 'plastic smile' in the cafe she worked at in Delhi. Read for discussion of #bodies #gender #class #work

Plastic Bodies: Women Workers and Emerging Body Rules in Service Work in Urban India - Asiya Islam,...

Drawing on the narratives of young lower-middle-class women employed in cafés, call centers, shopping malls, and offices in Delhi, India, in this paper I identi...

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@asiyaislam

5 years

Why are academics being penalised for doing academic work? The way @ukhomeoffice assessed my application fails all tests of reasonableness. @patel4witham needs to respond to the representations being made to her.

Jo Grady

@DrJoGrady

5 years

Today I wrote to the Home Secretary on behalf of @asiyaislam , whose application for indefinite leave to remain was refused on the basis she has spent extended time abroad for fieldwork. The Home Office have refused to recognise this was for research purposes. #HostileEnvironment

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Asiya Islam

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3 years

Sharing a newly published article, which I wrote during the first part of the pandemic. It's about shedding the obsession with #ethnographic location and engaging with dislocations or unexpected shuttling instead. Even comes with an illustration!

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

4 years

My article has a permanent home! I didn't know at the time of writing that we would be trapped behind screens in our homes but it sure makes the title more pertinent...'It gets really boring if you stay at home' is in @sociologyjnl 's latest issue. @CamSociology @Newnham_College

Sociology Journal

@sociologyjnl

4 years

Just published! Our October issue is out now

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@asiyaislam

4 years

In keeping with the theme of our upcoming #care conference & in view of how exhausting this term has been, we've decided to extend the abstracts deadline to 21 Dec! We hope this gives room for taking things a bit slower. We'd love to hear from you!

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

4 years

New paper! Women, work, temporalities in urban India I'd probably write this paper quite differently now BUT it's been 2yrs in the making & it's a topic that still holds my interest. Comments very welcome. If you can't access a copy, please email me.

‘It Gets Really Boring if You Stay at Home’: Women, Work and Temporalities in Urban India - Asiya...

This article explores narratives of boredom among young lower middle class women employed in the bourgeoning services sector in India, across cafes, call centre...

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@asiyaislam

4 years

Congratulations, @desai_manali ! The ‘firsts’ and the ‘only-s’ are important and ideally they are followed by many more. Proud to be part of @CamSociology . 💥

Varsity

@VarsityUK

4 years

Dr Manali Desai becomes the only woman of colour to currently head a Cambridge department

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

4 years

A @Newnham_College fellowship is an incredible opportunity for so many reasons. It enables me to work on what interests me in more ways than one. Just look at this amazing coffee and walnut cake getting me ready for an afternoon of discussions about gender, feminism, work! 💪🏾

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

2 years

Setting up shop in Delhi for a summer of reading, writing & fieldwork. Looking to speak to women workers in e-retail doing calling, sales, data entry, delivery, logistics work. #DigitalIndia #eCommerce #futureofwork Can anyone suggest any leads? Please RT.

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

2 years

Sharing a beautiful call for papers on the theme of 'Feminist Futures' for @FeministReview_ Please send your contributions by 15 November

Call for Papers: Feminist Futures (Issue 136, March 2024)

Submission deadline: 15 November 2022 In a world ruptured by the COVID-19 pandemic, Feminist Review are in the process of addressing our own ‘crisis of care’, in part prompted by confronting the su…

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

3 years

Tomorrow I will deliver my last (!) lecture for the Sociology of Gender paper at Cambridge. It's been a joy teaching on this paper, learning from & with students, over the last few years. Hope this discussion prompt for 'Gender and Labour' conveys how much I will miss it.

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@asiyaislam

3 years

Does it annoy you too when 'global' really only means the Global North? I have a new article in Geoforum challenging the Global North bias of scholarship on #WorkingFromHome , proposing a move beyond 'work/life balance' to work infrastructures.

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@asiyaislam

1 year

It's finally here! @TheSocReview Magazine issue on Strikes and Care #TSR_StrikesCare with brilliant articles, visual essay, and conversations from around the world. (1/7)

The Sociological Review Foundation

@TheSocReview

1 year

Care’s connection to protest goes beyond care strikes. Care is needed to organise and sustain strikes, the language of care is used to discredit strikes, and demands for care can fuel strikes, too. – @asiyaislam introduces our August issue #TSR_StrikesCare

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

2 years

Offering brief respite from climate calamity news by sharing the sweet relief of the arrival of monsoons in Delhi.

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

4 years

Really pleased to be joining @digitcentre as Marie Jahoda Visiting Fellow for the year & looking forward to collaborations with scholars researching the digital futures at work. I’ll be working on a project on young women, tech & work transformations in urban India.

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@asiyaislam

2 years

A massive thank you to everyone who bought tickets and came to the @leedsucu @LeedsUniUnite @UoLUnison fundraiser last night. 🎟 🎉 🥁*We raised a total of £1144!*🥁 All this money will go into the unions’ fighting funds. ✊🏾

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

THERE IS AN ACTUAL PLACE IN CAMBRIDGE SELLING CHAI AND CHAAT. You know for all those grey rainy day cravings. A bagful of pakoras later, I’m very happy. Find the Chai Wala near Christ’s College, Wednesday to Sunday (not getting a commission, just genuinely excited).

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@asiyaislam

3 years

Marking #IWD2022 in my Angela Davis tshirt ✊🏾 by protesting pension cuts and inequalities at @UniversityLeeds #BreakTheBias #WomensRightsAreWorkersRights

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

4 years

Tomorrow I'll be speaking at the Histories of Gender & Sexuality seminar at Edinburgh about emerging body rules in service work in urban India and how these function as a form of labour discipline specifically for women workers. Online at 4 pm, free for all to attend!

HGS

@hcahgsr

4 years

HGS seminar series continues on Wednesday 3 March at 4.00 pm with a paper from Dr @asiyaislam of the University of Cambridge, titled "She Wears Pants and Shirts to Work': Women Workers and Body Plasticity in Service Work in Contemporary India" To register, email hca-hgsr @ed .ac.uk

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5 years

Cambridge protest in solidarity with students in India, tomorrow 19 Dec, 12 pm at King’s Parade.

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@asiyaislam

4 years

It's teaching season soon! Reminding myself this morning that bell hooks, like many grad students, pondered upon the lack of training in teaching at university and ultimately relied on her experiences of school classrooms that were transformative. Teach in a way that liberates!

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

6 years

Yes, exactly. While I sympathise with EU migrants who will be worse off post-Brexit, conditions have been shit for many of us non-EU migrants for a while and nobody has shown any inclination to discuss that, least of all our universities.

Simukai Chigudu

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6 years

While I applaud this, I can’t help but feel snubbed. I asked @UniofOxford to pay my settlement fees when I joined the faculty & was told that this was not possible. I paid out of pocket when I was just finishing my DPhil. I guess I’m the wrong kind of migrant.

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5 years

@ukhomeoffice If you’re at a UK university, pls lend your support by signing this open letter -

Open Letter to UK Home Office: Reconsider ILR for Asiya Islam

OPEN LETTER TO THE HOME OFFICE TO RECONSIDER ASIYA ISLAM’S APPLICATION FOR INDEFINITE LEAVE TO REMAIN The Rt Hon Priti Patel Secretary of State for the Home Department Home Office 2 Marsham Street...

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

Sure, treat ‘global talent’ like s**t and then introduce (not so) new visas to add even more confusion to an already incompetent and racist system. So disappointing to see @CSkidmoreUK silent on my case despite its significance for migrant researchers aka ‘global talent’.

Chris Skidmore

@CSkidmoreUK

5 years

Today we’ve announced a new ‘Global Talent’ VISA route led by UKRI so that the U.K. can be even more open to leading researchers from across the world- as well as £300m investment in maths research and a major new Bureaucracy Review of research funding:

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@asiyaislam

5 years

Putting #hostileenvironment on the table for #UCUstrike . As university staff begin to strike...it is worth asking where UK universities are headed. The hostility that academics like me face – global researchers when we are desirable; migrants when we are not – is disconcerting.

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

Report by @anealla for @AJEnglish on my case. I’m glad to see the complexity of the case being discussed. People are put into impossible situations by the Home Office everyday. I’m one of the ‘lucky’ ones who still had a way to stay even if only temporarily.

Al Jazeera English

@AJEnglish

5 years

Anger as 'outstanding' sociologist from India is denied UK residency

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@asiyaislam

4 years

Ahhh so excited that this has taken shape with kind support of @CRASSHlive and @RDPcam ! If you’re at @cambridge_uni , writing your first book, and could do with some support + structure in good company, come join us! Apply by 12 March.

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@CRASSHlive

4 years

📣 Are you writing your first book? ✍️ We are excited to announce ‘Opening Lines’, a writing group with @asiyaislam for @Cambridge_Uni postdocs and early-career researchers in AHSS subjects. 👉 Apply by 12 March 2021! ➞ Funded by @RDPcam @CamArtsHums

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5 years

I’m at Delhi University for a conference on ‘Gender and Freedom’ and we went to the beautiful Miranda House, a women only college. The gardens in full bloom are making me hope that spring properly hits @Newnham_College soon!

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@asiyaislam

4 years

It's difficult to plan right now but I'll be convening a @CRASSHlive & @Newnham_College conference on 'The Social Life of Care' in 2021! I expect it to be at least partly online which I hope will broaden the range of perspectives on care. Pls get in touch if interested.

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@asiyaislam

5 years

@ukhomeoffice As stated in various interviews – the @ukHomeOffice processes are dehumanising. But they are also dangerous. This is not about numbers, it’s about people. I’m now challenging the HO decision hoping that they wake up soon to review their incompetent and unfair decision making.

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

PhD dream diary update: I had my viva, the examiners were my second choice examiners BUT I finally made biryani! They liked it even though there were aubergines (!?) in it. There was too much of it - they couldn’t finish it. Anyway I passed! Something is going right with my PhD.

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@asiyaislam

2 years

Doodling my way into fieldwork.

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

@ukhomeoffice Me: My long absence was for the purpose of ‘fieldwork’. HO: You have stated that your extensive period outside of the UK was for your research in your field of work. FIELDWORK ≠ Field of work. I could do some research in my field of work, but not fieldwork, from my desk!

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@asiyaislam

5 years

Let’s hold our elected govt to account. Today I’ve sent the open letter with 2000+ signatures, inc 183 eminent profs, to @patel4witham calling for reconsideration of my case. Will the @ukhomeoffice take notice or continue #HostileEnvironment against us?

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@asiyaislam

5 years

What do you do after passing the Life in the UK test? Treat yourself to ghee idli, of course! (Too bad they didn’t ask any questions about #BrexitShambles 🤣)

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@asiyaislam

5 years

. @BorisJohnson said: “...I want to send a message that the UK is open to the most talented minds in the world.” But many academics say that message is being drowned out by the #HostileEnvironment Excellent article by @AnnaFazack1 exposing the lies of global talent promises.

Guardian Education

@GuardianEdu

5 years

Cambridge sociologist’s visa fight ‘sends shockwaves’ through universities

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@asiyaislam

5 months

Going to watch this on repeat all day today

Philip Proudfoot 🇱🇧🇵🇸

@PhilipProudfoot

5 months

This is both hilarious are precisely the right level of contempt they both deserve

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@asiyaislam

5 years

What an absolute delight and honour to review Silvia Federici’s latest on witch hunting in the contemporary world.

The Sociological Review Foundation

@TheSocReview

5 years

Book Review: 'Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women' by Silvia Federici @asiyaislam writes that Federici's new book acts as 'a form of protest against the deliberate ignorance and trivialisation of violence against women in the name of witch-hunting'

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@asiyaislam

4 years

Eid Mubarak to everyone from Marx and me! 🤩 Glad to be with family this year, wishing my Cambridge communities - @Newnham_College @Gates_Cambridge @CamSociology - a very #happyEid too!

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@asiyaislam

8 months

It was a delight to edit this @TheSocReview Magazine issue on 'Work'. So many great contributions on the changing and un-changing world of work!

The Sociological Review Foundation

@TheSocReview

8 months

“Where does one begin to talk about work? For this issue, we invited empirical investigations and reflections on the changing nature of the world of work.” Editor @asiyaislam introduces our latest Magazine issue, #TSRWork , and reflects on the theme.

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3 years

Opening Lines is one of the most rewarding things I have done in my time at Cambridge! Thank you to @RDPcam & @CRASSHlive for their support, to @Jennychambles for being a fantastic writing coach, and to the dozen writers in the original cohort of the programme!

CRASSH, Cambridge

@CRASSHlive

3 years

✍️ New Blog!⁠ Q&A with @asiyaislam , convenor of 'Opening Lines' a writing group at CRASSH.⁠ "We wanted to cultivate a space that could be kinder, that could be more generous, that could be much more constructive, and I think we achieved that."⁠ 📃 ➞ .

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@asiyaislam

5 years

The saddest thing about this whole saga has been learning how many people have gone through exactly what I'm going through. And yet there is frustrating deliberate silence from all those who should respond, inc, @CSkidmoreUK @ukhomeoffice @BorisJohnson

Dr. Nazia Hussein

@Naziahussein_

5 years

My ILR was refused last year due to a gap in my UK stay when I was doing my PhD fieldwork in Bangladesh! Continued examples of the 'hostile environment' @annafazack1 @asiyaislam

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@asiyaislam

2 years

I don't think I've ever been this excited about an academic publication! 'Formations of Class and Gender' is a text that inspired my PhD research and that I have been returning to over the years.

The Sociological Review Foundation

@TheSocReview

2 years

CALL for contributions 📣 On the 25th anniversary of the publication of @bevskeggs ’ acclaimed Formations of Class and Gender, we’re looking for expressions of interest for a special section of the journal looking at its legacy. #sociology #class #gender

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5 years

Part of listening to Harry Potter books as an adult is realising how much emotional labour Hermione did for two emotionally stunted boys 🤦🏾‍♀️

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4 years

Today was all about Onam sadya, 22 dishes, served on a banana leaf. I can confirm that no cutlery was used in the process of eating and yes, I took a nap after.

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Asiya Islam

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2 years

An exciting update: I am starting as one of the new Editors (along with Milena Kremakova) of @TheSocReview Magazine! Very pleased to be taking my writing, editing, imagining forward through this excellent platform.

The Sociological Review Foundation

@TheSocReview

2 years

📣 WELCOME to The Sociological Review Magazine’s new Editors @asiyaislam & Milena Kremakova and Magazine Project Officer Carol Rogerson. 🙏 SINCERE THANKS to outgoing Editors @EmmakJackson & @jones01_p and Digital Engagement Fellow @pshar1312 Read more:

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

2 years

. @DamniKain and I have written a response to the NITI Aayog report that lauds the emergence of gig economy in India. A critical view that takes into account workers’ issues, inc those raised by @Connect_IFAT @TGPWU @aigwu_union is needed for inclusive #FutureOfWork .

The India Forum

@TheIndiaForum

2 years

NITI Aayog’s recent report on the gig economy in India & its belief that platformisation will create an inclusive working environment is a deliberate attempt to ignore the erosion of workers’ rights, security, and welfare. @asiyaislam @DamniKain write

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

3 years

I'll be speaking at this important and timely workshop on #ConceptualDiversity tomorrow, discussing how the term 'middle', rather than simply an emic description of class, is deployed as a concept by young women in Delhi to understand/explain their lives. Come join us!

LSE Gender

@LSEGenderTweet

3 years

There's still time to sign up for our workshop on the Epistemic Urgency of #ConceptualDiversity The range of speakers and papers is incredible- have a look! Info on each speaker is on our website: 📝(drop-ins per panel welcome!)

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@asiyaislam

4 years

I might have just bought myself a fountain pen meant for men only! How unusually risqué of me 😱 (cc: @manwhohasitall )

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

4 years

Sumi is an absolutely amazing teacher and scholar. A decade on, I still think about the incredible energy that she brought to the classroom and how that inspired my learning. I also keep referring to her important and excellent work on agency. Big congratulations @sumi_madhok !

LSE Gender

@LSEGenderTweet

4 years

🥳We're celebrating our wonderful faculty colleagues today (even more than usual)! Sumi Madhok has been promoted to professor! She was also awarded the Excellence in Education prize, given to faculty who make outstanding contributions to teaching. Congratulations, @sumi_madhok

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

Amidst battling the Home Office, I’m keeping up with what I’m here for - my academic work. Really looking forward to supervising @Newnham_College sociology students tomorrow and then speaking at @CambridgeGender on Thursday (ironically on methodologies).

Hakan Sandal-Wilson

@hsandalwilson

5 years

Looking forward to hosting the brilliant @asiyaislam at @CambridgeGender this Thursday! All welcome!! fb event page: website:

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

4 years

Very excited to share that the #CfP for the @CRASSHlive conference 'The Social Life of Care' (14-15 May 2021) is now open - . Deadline for abstracts - 11 Dec 2020. The conference will be online and we hope this will encourage a global conversation on #care

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

Join @DanielZeichner and me at @ukhomeoffice (2 Marsham Street, London) tomorrow 21 Jan, 12 pm. We will hand in the open letter and ask @patel4witham for a response. We cannot let this become commonplace - #endhostileenvironment . 💪 (FB event - ()

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

3 years

I started a new job (my first lectureship!) in January and as much as I would have liked to not have my new and exciting work disrupted, I had no choice but to strike given devastating changes to our pensions, inequalities of pay, and apathy of university senior management.

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

I ran my first 10K today! I only started running three years ago motivated by the beautiful meadows in Cambridge, so feels good to have done the Cambridge #townandgown10k #runlikeagirl

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

Dear Cambridge, if you want us, pay for us. Yours, migrant academics. @CambridgeUCU #HostileEnvironment

International and Broke

@intnlandbroke

5 years

U Cambridge: a. ? b. No (interest free loan available) c. No (loan as above) d. No

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

3 years

It’s ridiculous that the only conversation happening around vaccination and international travel is about holidays when so many people have been separated for such a long time from their families in other parts of the world.

Hatice Yıldız

@hyildizhistory

3 years

Dear @NicolaSturgeon I am a fully vaxxed Scotland resident & lecturer at UoE. I haven’t seen family in Turkey for 2 yrs. Is there anything Scottish govt can do to prevent its immigrant workers from being treated as holiday makers? E.g. reducing the punitive £2,285 quarantine fee?

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

4 years

Very excited to be involved with @OtherwiseMag - a magazine of ethnographic storytelling. We're working on the content for now but do follow for snippets in the meantime!

Otherwise Magazine

@OtherwiseMag

4 years

"While researching women’s work in Delhi in 2016, I met Rama, a field worker for an NGO. In 2017, before I returned to Cambridge, Rama invited me to her house and made delicious stuffed parathas for me as a farewell meal." @asiyaislam

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

2 years

New publication alert 🚨 A collaborative working paper based on research funded by @digitcentre , research conducted in the field with @NirantarTrust , data processing by Preeti Manchanda & infographics by @HPreston_ . A true team effort! More on the findings next week...

Digital Futures at Work Research Centre

@digitcentre

2 years

📑New working paper! Gender Inequalities in Digital India: A survey on digital literacy, access, and use by @asiyaislam + Preeti Manchanda 👉 @LeedsUniBSchool @SussexUBusiness @ESRC

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

4 years

I will be speaking about hostile environment and undoing borders this Saturday at 6.30 pm - please feel free to join!

Cllr Ria Patel (they/she)

@CroydonRiaPatel

4 years

❗️ Join @UBKCL , Cambridge, and Abertay Undoing Borders on Saturday 28th November at 18:30 to learn about why undoing borders matters! 💚 Special guests speaking about personal experiences will be attending. 👉🏽 Book your tickets!

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

2 years

Strikes | Protests | CARE ✊🏾 Looking for contributions on strikes and care from around the world for @TheSocReview Magazine. Reflections on relationship between caring & striking, care workers’ strikes, strikes and self-care welcome. Send your pitch by 10 May.

The Sociological Review Foundation

@TheSocReview

2 years

#Contribute : Magazine editor @asiyaislam is seeking writing for a broad readership for our Strikes & Care issue: #keyworkers , #NHS , #labour rights, #privatisation , #costofliving , #care , #selfcare & more. Pitch deadline 10 May Pic

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

Today’s selection of Cambridge street names, collected while out running. I also saw Garlic Row but the photo came out blurry. Happy Saturday!

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

Yesterday I spoke to @BBCCambs @bbcasiannetwork @BBCLookEast & @VarsityUK about how the @ukhomeoffice bullies people through its silence + how @BorisJohnson ’s promise of fairer immigration is empty rhetoric. (1/5)

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

5 years

@ukhomeoffice Before fieldwork (2016), I asked the uni – what about excess absences? They asked the @ukHomeOffice . Their reply: “…[if the] absence from the UK was authorised and part of the course, this does not automatically make the applicant ineligible for Indefinite Leave to Remain.”

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

3 years

So excited to share (in case you haven't seen yet) that on 14 May, 4-5.30 pm BST, The Social Life of Care #CareAtCam will host an opening conversation on 'Envisioning Care' with Joan Tronto, Mary Evans, Lyn Ossome, chaired by @alpashah001 🤩 All welcome!

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

3 years

Some @CRASSHlive #CareAtCam conference news: The conference recordings are now available - + We have written about organising academic conferences with care during (and hopefully beyond!) the pandemic - .

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

3 years

Thread: T-2 days to the @CRASSHlive Social Life of Care conference! I am excited and nervous - it is an entirely online 3 days event in the middle of a raging pandemic. Before I get even more snowed under I want to share some thoughts on academic care #CareAtCam

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

3 years

Eid Mubarak from very rainy Aligarh

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Asiya Islam

@asiyaislam

4 years

Absolutely despicable to *boast* about ending free movement. And we know what a load of hogwash ‘skills, not where they’re from’ is.

Priti Patel MP

@pritipatel

4 years

After many years of campaigning, I am delighted the Immigration Bill which will end free movement on 31st December has today passed through Parliament. We are delivering on the will of the British people.

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