Aleks Lewicki
Political sociologist @sussex.ac.uk, writing on #racialisation, political economy of race-making, east-west inequalities in Europe, #migration, political resistance: Reader in #Sociology & Director @sei-sussex.bsky.social
- Reposted by Aleks Lewicki100% People around the world ask me “where is the resistance in the US?” We are here and growing! This is something the rest of the world can do. Please: we need your solidarity!
- Join us 23. January of course
- Join us 13.01., 1-2.30pm (CET): @japvie81.bsky.social, @hcpetersen.bsky.social, Jure Leko & I will present our research findings on the discrimination of people from the east of Europe in Germany - with @beauftragte.bsky.social (in German, free & online!)register: social.bscw.bund.de/pub/bscw.cgi...
- Join us 13.01., 1-2.30pm (CET): @japvie81.bsky.social, @hcpetersen.bsky.social, Jure Leko & I will present our research findings on the discrimination of people from the east of Europe in Germany - with @beauftragte.bsky.social (in German, free & online!)register: social.bscw.bund.de/pub/bscw.cgi...
- Reposted by Aleks Lewicki'Vigilant Whiteness: #racism, transphobia and the mainstreaming of far-right politics in Britain' New from #Identities, by Aleks Lewicki & Maddy Clark #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/1070... #farright @nasarmeer.bsky.social Aaron Winter Taylor & Francis Research
- In this panel, we want to critically interrogate constructions of racialised Whiteness - send us your abstracts!
- Working on whiteness from an ethnographic perspective? Aleksandra Lewicki @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social, Armanc Yildiz @armanc.bsky.social and I welcome submissions to panel P141 at #EASA2026! Deadline: 26.01.2026 @easainfo.bsky.social Info and submisson via: nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
- My piece on ‘East-West Inequalities and the Ambiguous Racialisation as Eastern European’ has been out for three years now - a good moment to celebrate its been the most cited piece in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies of the last three years! (1 of 3): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- (2) It is not always easy to be part of a group of scholars who establish a new research agenda, and the process can involve harsh questions or discouraging reviews – that’s why it took me three years to write it, I really wanted to get it right.
- (3) Many thanks to everyone who read it, commented on it, used it in their work – and a special thanks to those who wrote to me out of the blue – you are brill and I am so grateful for all the inspiring exchanges!
- Reposted by Aleks Lewicki“Slow and Sudden Violence is a good starting place for general readers who are interested in demystifying their assumptions about the uprisings in the US cities of Ferguson and Baltimore.” Vladimir Rizov reviews Derek Hyra’s @ucpress.bsky.social study of uprisings and their causes. buff.ly/Hg3a886
- Reposted by Aleks Lewicki1/ New chapter out (with Franz Knappik): “G.W.F. Hegel, Frantz Fanon, and Angela Davis on Recognition, Slavery, and Liberation” – in Matt Congdon and Thomas Khurana’s Recognition: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives. ⬇️ Short thread below:
- A short explainer of our key findings on the discrimination of people displaced from Ukraine in jobcentres (in German): www.instagram.com/reel/DSXGvil...
- It's been inspiring to engage with Anca Parvulescu's & @manuelaboatca.bsky.social's book 'Creolising the Modern': rather than doing a traditional review, I decided to extract the lessons the book offers to (still quite West-centric) scholarship on race & racism: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- This is part of a symposium coordinated by the great @bobi24.bsky.social and with really stimulating contributions by Kasia Kubin, Mariya Ivancheva and Ercüment Çelik. Drop me an email if the paywall is an issue, I am happy to share my review.
- Unsere Studie weist auch darauf hin, dass die geplante Bürgergeldreform in die falsche Richtung geht - sie verringert eher die Chancen, Ukrainer*innen nachhaltig in Arbeit zu bringen
- OUT NOW! Unsere Studie zu Diskriminierung von Menschen aus dem östlichen Europa in Jobcentern, zusammen mit @hcpetersen.bsky.social, @japvie81.bsky.social & Jure Leko, gefördert von @beauftragte.bsky.social: www.antidiskriminierungsstelle.de/SharedDocs/a...
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiNow confirmed
- EXCL: An agreement to rejoin Erasmus – the EU’s student exchange programme – set to be announced on Wednesday as part of UK government’s drive towards closer relations with Brussels. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiMenschen aus Osteuropa werden besonders oft in prekäre Beschäftigung gedrängt – nicht aus mangelnder Motivation oder Qualifikation, sondern weil rechtliche und politische Rahmenbedingungen ihnen kaum Alternativen lassen. Das zeigt eine neue von uns geförderte Studie.
- OUT NOW! Unsere Studie zu Diskriminierung von Menschen aus dem östlichen Europa in Jobcentern, zusammen mit @hcpetersen.bsky.social, @japvie81.bsky.social & Jure Leko, gefördert von @beauftragte.bsky.social: www.antidiskriminierungsstelle.de/SharedDocs/a...
- OUT NOW! Our findings on institutional discrimination of people from the east of Europe in German jobcentres (in German) - with @hcpetersen.bsky.social, @japvie81.bsky.social & Jure Leko, funded by @beauftragte.bsky.social: www.antidiskriminierungsstelle.de/SharedDocs/a...
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiPeople from Eastern Europe often experience discrimination in job centres in Germany. "According to a study (by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social and colleagues), Ukrainian refugees are accused of social tourism in job centres. As a result, they are prematurely pushed into low-wage jobs."
- "Menschen aus Osteuropa erleben in Jobcentern häufig Diskriminierung" @zeit.de berichtet exklusiv über unsere neue von der @beauftragte.bsky.social geförderte Studie. Danke für die Zusammenarbeit @hcpetersen.bsky.social @japvie81.bsky.social und Jure Leko) : www.zeit.de/arbeit/2025-...
- "Menschen aus Osteuropa erleben in Jobcentern häufig Diskriminierung" @zeit.de berichtet exklusiv über unsere neue von der @beauftragte.bsky.social geförderte Studie. Danke für die Zusammenarbeit @hcpetersen.bsky.social @japvie81.bsky.social und Jure Leko) : www.zeit.de/arbeit/2025-...
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiIn case you missed it: “Horrifying” levels of state violence at UK-France border detailed in new report | Sonia Lenegan
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiThe latest issue of The #Identities Newsletter is now published! Read Issue 9 (December 2025), including updates on our trending articles, events, podcast episodes, blog posts and more: sh1.sendinblue.com/a... @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
- In German: an explainer of structural patterns of East-West inequalities in Europe & how they underwrite the regulation of mobility to Germany - a country that has systematically recruited „cheap labour“ from its eastern neighbours. Thanks @bpb.de & @ostklick.bsky.social: www.bpb.de/mediathek/vi...
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiSomething incredible has happened - I was awarded an ERC Consolidator for my project titled "Racial Socialism: Racialization and Value in Socialist Red Cross Societies". I could not have done this without my brilliant colleagues & friends, and my family, who all supported me in various ways.
- The results of the ERC Consolidator Grant call have been announced! 📣 349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG! 👉 buff.ly/uu62uFV #FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiThis year I’m doing something different - I’m only going to talk about this one appeal. Please donate at the link here if you possibly can, or share this to beat the far right vigilante groups 👉 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
- Reposted by Aleks Lewicki🎥 WATCH: Immigration, Policy and Protest What shapes the UK's conversation on migration? @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social take a closer look in our latest Conversations event. VIDEO: buff.ly/MWOKjcO
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiWhat can the concept of “affective labour” tell us about how capitalism extracts value from the self? Diana García-Catena and co-authors on hospitality workers in Spain, precarity and the risk of investing yourself in your work. #OnlineFirst @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/JhjgHtX
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiHave you read our latest #IdentitiesBlog? Racism, transphobia and the mainstreaming of far-right politics in Britain' by Maddy Clark and @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social identitiesjournal.co... #farright #racism @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiThe Labour government has successfully triangulated itself to somewhere to the right of the Tories, Reform, and "Tommy Robinson" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiI spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
- Unsurprisingly, privatised humanitarian routes - such as the „Homes for Ukraine” scheme - are the new model for the future. That’s because they provide only temporary protection and are another nail in the coffin of full state based asylum: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- Reposted by Aleks Lewicki“At the summit, Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, said the slave trade was abhorrent but countries should be “looking forward” and addressing current challenges such as climate change.” Some philosophers — Nuti and Táíwò among them — might have a thing or two to say about that ‘but.’
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiIt’s almost become a prerequisite for the office of Home Secretary to demonstrate prowess at the cruelty olympics. How far and how high can one fly the cruelty flag? That’s the prerequisite. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Mamdani‘s victory reminds one of the leading German news outlets (FAZ) of Houllebecq‘s „Submission“ (!) - no further comment
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiDeadline tomorrow! (just to note, the only reason why I am not going for this is because as a former recipient I am ineligible - but it is an absolute recommendation)
- Reposted by Aleks Lewicki“Quite often, big social theorists actually formed their ideas in social movements, or in radical or activist spaces – what sociologists call counter-public spheres.” @alimeghji.bsky.social talks to Iris Pissaride about W.E.B. Du Bois’ legacy in the Magazine’s most recent issue. buff.ly/BWdBY33
- OUT NOW: In this new blog post, Maddy Clark and I examine some of the steps that got us to one of the largest far-right marches in UK history. The expansion of target groups - eg via racist & anti-trans agitation - is one of them:
- 'Racism, transphobia and the mainstreaming of far-right politics in Britain' New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Maddy Clark and @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social Read the blog post ⬇️ identitiesjournal.co... #farright #racism @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
- Reposted by Aleks Lewicki📣 Join us this Thursday: Europe's 'Muslim Question' and the politics of gender and sexuality (Felix Meritis, Amsterdam). A public presentation of the main findings of our research on how to better understand the systematic problematization and dehumanization of Muslims in Europe.
- Reposted by Aleks Lewicki📣 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Methodologies and Epistemologies of Social Reproduction Apply by 15 Nov to join a 2026 #workshop for scholars, practitioners and activists engaging with social reproduction theories, and employing traditional and non-traditional methods. ➡️ Find out more: buff.ly/ZFAUEkF
- Reposted by Aleks Lewicki'Racist and transphobic tropes thereby fulfil distinctive, but also complementary functions: both operate via projected scenarios of biological contamination and criminal transgression.'
- 'Racism, transphobia and the mainstreaming of far-right politics in Britain' New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Maddy Clark and @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social Read the blog post ⬇️ identitiesjournal.co... #farright #racism @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
- Reposted by Aleks Lewicki'Racism, transphobia and the mainstreaming of far-right politics in Britain' New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Maddy Clark and @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social Read the blog post ⬇️ identitiesjournal.co... #farright #racism @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
- See, all that stuff about the underdeveloped „wild east“ with its animals roaming free is just not true. We even put nappies on our sheep when we take them on the high speed train
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiNEW ISSUE: The Sociological Review journal 73.6 features 18 new papers and review articles, including 15 #openaccess. Our contributors turn a sociological eye on au pairing, Uber drivers and bonded labourers, kin-making and houseplants, and much more. ➡️ buff.ly/Xsw48ZN @journals.sagepub.com
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiGerman Court: Systemic flaws in Poland’s asylum system, especially for people entering via Belarus, mean Germany can’t send them back under the Dublin rules.
Oha: Wer über Belarus und Polen nach Deutschland reist, kann hier einen Asylantrag stellen, so das VG Hannover. "Systemische Mängel" in Polen verhinderten eine Rücküberstellung nach den Dublin-Regeln. Details von @mkolter.bsky.social.
- Join us tonight for the online lecture series: „Border Regimes on the Move" - I will share a panel with Hans Kundnani (Eurowhiteness) & discuss how thinking racialisation from its ambiguities helps us to dismantle key myths about race. Details and registration here: uni-goettingen.de/en/694576.html
- Apologies for the late notice, its been unusually busy with external speaking lately 😅
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiIt's been a busy October filled with some great events, including @thesociologicalreview.org Conversation on Immigration, Policy and Protest with @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social, Fizza Qureshi, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social and me. Here's the recording: youtu.be/FCiI5uH_vVM?...
- Reposted by Aleks Lewicki🎥 VIDEO: Immigration, Policy and Protest Watch our most recent Conversations event as panellists @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social look at the factors shaping a national conversation. buff.ly/vBALT9v
- If you’re around Cambridge this Friday, join @manuelaboatca.bsky.social and I on our panel on „Rethinking Europe”: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48642/
- The Green leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social told POLITICO that “really grim” plans by the Tories and Reform to leave the European Convention on Human Rights show “the slow march towards fascism that this country is on.”
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiThis is such a great idea and a fantastic resource! Check out the lesson plans complete with activities, prompts, questions, indicating which level & topic they cover! The worksheet for my episode on "Europeans" - A-level teaching on Culture & Identity and Globalisation is here tinyurl.com/5ast4z5d
- We are excited to announce the launch of #lessonplans tied to our #Uncommonsense #podcast. Each highlights relevant AQA & Cambridge OCR modules, and shares recommended reading. You can find all episodes listed in this news story, here. Engage! Enjoy! Share! buff.ly/LUHf6md
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiThe Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement aimed at getting the centers built faster. cnn.it/4oDFP9W
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiThis by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social on the need for "places to come together" for those interested in progressive politics is really great www.ippr.org/articles/pla...
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiRUTA member Olga Burlyuk has a new essay on the mis-imagination of Ukraine as an empty land. In the text, she scrutinises the all too common suggestions of surrender to Russian occupation as the pornography of land concessions and reminds us: there are people here platformraam.nl/artikelen/29...
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiTODAY: Immigration, Policy & Protest – a sociological look at the UK’s politics of #immigration. 🎙️ Speakers: Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social, @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social 📅 Today from 18.30 to 20.00 BST ➡️ Tickets buff.ly/DGBy564
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiTOMORROW: Immigration, Policy & Protest – an urgent conversation on Britain’s politics of #immigration. 🎙️ Hear from Fizza Qureshi @migrantsrights.bsky.social and @michaelacbenson.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social 📅 Weds 22 Oct 18.30-20.00 BST 🎟️ buff.ly/DGBy564
- A lotta stuff seems to have happened „just like that” in the #LifeintheUK test handbook. Classes „appeared” and suddenly owned lots of land, Britain „grew” & „became” the „largest empire ever seen” and working conditions „gradually improved” - a history full of miracles, no violence, no struggles
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiRUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation Annual Conference 12–15 July 2026 Rooted knowledges and dialogues for change URL: ruta-association.org...
- School kids understand its not good for their development: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiI reviewed Darya Tsymbalyuk's soul-crushing yet vital book "Ecocide in Ukraine," my latest for @kyivindependent.com. kyivindependent.com/new-book-exp...
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiJOIN US ONLINE on 22 October at 18:30 BST as we look at the shifting politics of #immigration in the UK, how policy is shaped and challenged, and the state of protest and public debate. With @michaelacbenson.bsky.social Fizza Qureshi @aaronwinter.bsky.social @mayblin.bsky.social 🎟️ buff.ly/f5IH9pL
- This is how I am spending my weekends in autumn term 😅. You might hear more about my frustrations with this „syllabus“, but let’s start on the good news. „Migrants” from the South East of Europe were the first to farm the land in early Britain. That’s quite a long history of providing food, hm?
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiFlowers of Srebrenica @legalalienstheatre.bsky.social is opening next week in London and I'll be joining forces with @zrinka.bsky.social, Clare Finburgh-Delijani, @aidanhehir.bsky.social, and Kim Sadique to discuss theatre, memory & collective healing. Join us www.jacksonslane.org.uk/events/the-f...
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiSteve Laws has been arrested and says he is under strict bail conditions. He posted "NF p___ out" recently about the Home Secretary and was also retweeted by Elon Musk when saying he wants total remigration of all of the foreigners in Britain Among hundreds of examples of racist abuse by Laws
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiAn excerpt from our chapter Metamorphic Necropolitics: Deadly Othering in the European East-West Power Relations, that we wrote with Magdalena Górska and Ewa Majewska for the soon to be published Routledge Handbook of Queer Death Studies, edited by Nina Lykke, Marietta Radomska and Tara Mehrabi
- Reposted by Aleks Lewicki1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system. Thread below ⬇️
- In German: I was on the radio show Politikum to discuss the emboldening of far right politics and violence in the UK - (starting about 3 minutes in) www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:...
- Reposted by Aleks Lewicki📣 Submit your paper to the @bjsociology.bsky.social 2026 Conference! The BJS conference will showcase cutting-edge research across Sociology, providing a platform to discuss the most exciting developments in the field. Submit your abstract by Monday 20 October 2025. www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiDon’t despair, Tories: look upon Reform and see your rightful and fitting legacy | Nesrine Malik
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiAfter a horrific antisemitic atrocity that took two lives yesterday, the Met essentially commits to devoting more resources to arresting pensioners protesting genocide than protecting Jewish communities and "focusing on serious crimes" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- Reposted by Aleks LewickiRead our response to the Government’s announcement that university maintenance grants will be reintroduced for certain courses, funded through a levy on international student fees bit.ly/4gPz7uO
- Reposted by Aleks Lewicki"We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less."
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