Dear all,
I hope some colleagues on this list might be interested in the initiative below. Please write directly to [log in to unmask] if you want to add your name, rather than to me or to this list. Apologies for cross-posting!
Best, Christine
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Subject: FW: Open letter to David Cameron and Theresa May - to be published in Observer this Sunday
>Dear all,
>
>
>Apologies for the mass email, in the midst of conference season. I am
>writing to you in your capacity as heads of politics departments to ask
>for your support for the attached open letter calling on the government
>to change their stance on asylum and refugees in response to the
>current crisis. Many of you will have seen the extraordinary footage
>from Turkey and South East Europe in recent days, and the strong public
>response to this. I have myself been working to contribute to this
>public response.
>
>
>I have a commitment from the Observer to publish an open letter this
>Sunday, and would like to recruit as many leading experts on politics,
>public policy, migration and so forth as signatories to this letter.
>They plan to make a lead news story out of it too, running with a
>headline such as "leading experts call for action..." The more names we
>can gather together the greater the collective weight and pressure will
>be.
>
>
> I would therefore like to ask, first, if you would consider signing
>the attached letter yourselves? Second, could you please circulate it
>to your departmental colleagues, and other interested colleagues you
>know. Could you please ask them to contact me to add their names? Time
>is rather short, and I am keen to gather as large a range of names as
>possible from across the discipline and related disciplines.
>
>
>Many thanks for your consideration of this.
>
>
>Yours sincerely
>
>
>Rob Ford
>
>Robert Ford
>
>Senior Lecturer in Politics
>University of Manchester
>http://manchester.academia.edu/RobertFord
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