Am #Weltflüchtlingstag diskutiert IMIS- und SFB1604-Mitglied @mauricestierl.bsky.social in der Volksbühne zum Thema #Bewegungsfreiheit im Kontext zunehmenden #Autoritarismus. #Migration #Migrationsforschung #Flucht #Menschenrechte

Am Samstag bin ich in der Volksbühne und diskutiere mit Bafta Sarbo, Valeria Hänsel, Dorothee Krämer und Helen Rezene zum Thema Bewegungsfreiheit in immer autoritärer werdenden Zeiten. Kommt vorbeit! @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social

"And Yet They Move! Mobility conflicts and migrant manoeuvres in the Mediterranean Sea" - I published a new article in the journal Movements, suggesting the lens of conflict to understand what goes on at Europe’s external borders. #OpenAccess journals.uni-goettingen.de/movements/ar...

Selbst deutsche Diplomaten sprachen schon 2017 von „KZ-ähnlichen Zuständen“ in den libyschen Internierungslagern für Migrant:innen. Gestern stand zum ersten Mal einer der verantwortlichen Milizenführer in Den Haag wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit vor Gericht. taz.de/Internationa...

🔴 BREAKING: Italy is investigating our captain! After rescuing 166 people from distress at sea and being SHOT AT, CHASED, AND THREATENED WITH ABDUCTION by EU-funded Libyan militias, our crew is now being targeted – WTF?!

www.theborderchronicle.com/the-dna-arch... Sharing this newly published investigation, coreported by me and a colleague. The DNA database crucial in migrant identification in the borderlands for years has itself gone missing. Co-published by @theborderchronicle.bsky.social and @highcountrynews.org

@mauricestierl.bsky.social forscht im #SFB1604 zur Produktion von Räumen migrantischen Verschwindens. Mit @brotfuerdiewelt.bsky.social hat er über die problematischen Zahlen zu Toten auf #Migrationsrouten gesprochen. ➡️ buff.ly/rpnZ66M #Migration #Migrationsforschung #Grenzen #EU #Politik

Heute gedenken wir den Opfern des rassistischen Anschlags in #Hanau vor 6 Jahren. Neun Menschen verloren am 19.02.2020 ihr Leben. Inzwischen ist ein weiteres Opfer hinzugekommen: Ibrahim Akkuş. Er verstarb am 10. Januar 2026 an den Spätfolgen von Schussverletzungen. #HanauIstÜberall

I know the govt is in meltdown again… but meanwhile I wrote about how their immigration policies create a subclass of migrant workers exposed to abuse in an increasingly “Dubai-style” rightless immigration model & I explain what to do about it

Israel entzieht 37 deutschen & internationalen Hilfsorganisationen die Registrierung, darunter auch medico international. Unsere Pressemitteilung:

The lack of coverage is disturbing

"Turning vast geographies such as the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea into death zones is not enough for those who see their fight as a civilisational one, steeped in racial mythology and 'remigration' fantasies that will ultimately also turn against Europe’s minority citizens." Great piece.

Wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian: "Since migration has become the cornerstone of the current authoritarian turn, it is precisely around migration that resistance needs to form." www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

In a new article #SFB1604 members Nandita Dutta & @mauricestierl.bsky.social discuss how the figure of the ‘modern slave’ emerges in their respective fields of #research, what political function it plays and what colonial, racial and spatial imaginaries it is embedded in. #modernslavery #migration

One can really sense the excitement that the Frontex press team must have felt when realising that they could now use a refugee story to promote its work of pushing back refugees.

Publication out in the journal Sociology, a conversational piece with Nandita Dutta: "Modern Slavery and Migration: A Conversation on the Production of Invasive Figures and Racist Imaginaries" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In a new article on the #Portolan blog @smartitaz.bsky.social and #SFB1604 member @mauricestierl.bsky.social stress that #migration has become a key vehicle for #authoritarianism. buff.ly/8ors8j5 #Borders #Asylum #EU #Rights #Asyl #Flüchtlingsschutz #Einwanderung #Politik #Gesellschaft #Rechtsruck

Honoured that we were invited by Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra to contribute to their new blog #Portolan! The text by Martina Tazzioli and myself is called “Punitive Environments and the anti-immigration authoritarian commonsense”. portolan-journal.org?post=punitiv...

On 11 November, we discussed how to “Counter the Production of Migration as Crisis”. The event was a response to the call by the Migration Scholars' Global Solidarity and Resistance Network to take action against the instrumentalisation of #migration for far-right and authoritarian projects.

Alerted by @alarmphone.bsky.social, our Aurora just rescued 22 people from distress at sea this evening. All guests are now safe on board and on their way to Lampedusa. We wish them resilience and strength in their continued struggle against Fortress Europe.

Join our Teach-In/Out "Counter the Production of Migration as Crisis" in Osnabrück next week! This is a response to a call by the new Migration Scholars' Global Solidarity and Resistance Network to take action against the increasing violence and hostility targeting racialised communities.

How many #migrants die en route to the #CanaryIslands? In an article, IMIS- & #SFB1604 member @mauricestierl.bsky.social and @msdionis.bsky.social analyze data collection practices and contradictory numbers. They demonstrate that the data has practical consequences and produces multiple realities.

Together with @msdionis.bsky.social I wrote this article (in Spanish) about contested data practices on migrant deaths and disappearance in the context of the Atlantic region, wondering about their performative and political effects. www.eldiario.es/andalucia/el...

📢 Neuer Beitrag von IMIS- und #SFB1604-Mitglied @mauricestierl.bsky.social in der Le Monde erschienen. Er zeigt: In der #Migrationspolitik setzen sich in immer mehr #EU-Staaten die Krisennarrative der extrem Rechten durch. #Flucht #Vertreibung #Fluchtforschung #Exil #Migration #Grenzen #EU

Hervorragende Auswahl von Beiträgen zu Flucht, Vertreibung und Migration in diesem neuen Heft, u.a. mit @leaypi.bsky.social, @mauricestierl.bsky.social, @chawi.bsky.social, Adam Shatz sowie dem Artikel von Jérôme Tubiana und mir zur EU-Migrationspolitik und dem Aufstieg der Milizenführer in Libyen.

'Die Vergrenzung Europas', mein Beitrag ist nun in der Le Monde erschienen. Die Ausgabe 'Die Unerwünschten' sieht toll aus, mit Texten von Lea Ypi, Charlotte Wiedemann, Wolfram Lacher, Jérôme Tubiana und vielen anderen. monde-diplomatique.de/product_info...

Seit vielen Jahren geistert der Begriff #Wirtschaftsflüchtling durch Debatten um #Migration. Wie er das Ökonomische außerhalb des Politischen positioniert und daduruch die Legitimität von Asylgesuchen in Frage stellt, zeigt Lauren Stokes jetzt im Inventar. www.migrationsbegriffe.de/wirtschaftsf...

🚨 18 October – Manifestation in Rome 🚨 We refuse to stay silent while Italy renews its bloody deal with Libyan militias. We call on all comrades, refugees, allies & citizens of conscience: join us in Rome to say NO to the Italy–Libya Memorandum! ✊🏾 📍 Piazza dei Santi Apostoli – Rome 📅 18 October

How do civil society actors in #Malta navigate the politically contentious issue of #migration? New Border Criminologies blog post by @cettamainwaring.bsky.social (University of Edinburgh) and #SFB1604 member @mauricestierl.bsky.social #searchandrescue #Seenotrettung #Mediterranean #border

Several barriers impact solidarity work on migration in Malta, including the geography of the islands, socio-political environment and maritime imaginaries. But activism is still very much alive. From @mauricestierl.bsky.social and @cettamainwaring.bsky.social ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

J Butler: “It is time to resist the injustice now normalized by those who capitulate to powers willing to destroy the basic principles protecting the university’s independence & who imperil the future of critical thought, dissent, and democracy itself.” www.chronicle.com/article/when...

Yesterday, our teams and survivors on the Ocean Viking were deliberately shot at by Libyan Coast Guard, on a vessel gifted by Italy. We demand a full investigation into these horrifying events and an immediate end to all European collaboration with Libya. www.sosmediterranee.org/sos-med-liby...

An effigy of refugees, burned by a crowd: this is where Europe’s brutal fantasy of border control has led us | Maurice Stierl

My piece for the Guardian on 10 years since Europe’s border crisis: “The burning of an effigy of refugees is what happens after a decade of dehumanisation. Many have implanted a dangerous border fantasy that will continue to divide, hurt and kill.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“All these traumas are the reason why the Irish took almost 150 years before they could memorialise what they experienced in the 1840s. Those who inflict starvation are aware of this, they know that what they’re doing is actually dismantling a society.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The sanctions imposed by the United States on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese set an unacceptable precedent and constitute a direct attack on the international human rights order. This is the first time that a state has imposed targeted punitive measures on a UN mandate holder.

"How did 'imported antisemitism', a far-right anti-immigrant buzz phrase, make it into the political mainstream?" Do read Mithu Sanyal's comment for the Guardian. @mithu.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"The #weaponisation and securitisation of #migration has a long history,” says Stierl, “the hybrid warfare narrative [...] is just the latest attempt to justify European deterrence efforts in places like #Libya, where the humanitarian situation is unimaginable for those stuck there.”

Out now: Collective article that examines the role of #reflexivity in the field of #migrationstudies, written by @mauricestierl.bsky.social, @laurastielike.bsky.social, @phischaefer.bsky.social, Inken Bartels, Anna Amelina, Iva Dodevska, Maissam Nimer, Omololá S. Olarinde-Olomola: buff.ly/v9aPfij

New article, right on time for #IMISCOE2025: “Reflexivity as Critique? A Conversation on the Politics of Knowledge Production in Migration Studies”. With L. Stielike, P. Schäfer, I. Bartels, A. Amelina, I. Dodevska, M. Nimer, & O. Olarinde-Olomola. journals.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/index.php/zm...

Yesterday, our monitoring aircraft crew sighted three bodies floating in international waters off Libya. On a second flight, we discovered two more. A Libyan militia boat, funded by Italy, was nearby but refused to respond to our calls. [1/3]

Die #Bundesregierung stoppt die finanzielle Hilfe für die zivile #Seenotrettung. Dabei sei deren Präsenz auf dem #Mittelmeer unabdingbar, um Menschenleben zu retten, denn sichere #Fluchtwege fehlen, so IMIS- & #SFB1604-Mitglied @mauricestierl.bsky.social‬ im Interview mit dem MDR. buff.ly/i2xUqrC

After 104 days of being unjustly detained for his advocacy for Palestinian rights, Mahmoud Khalil is finally home with his wife and newborn son.

Wenn der Genozid in Gaza möglich ist, wenn die Bombardierung der 15-Millionen-Stadt Teheran möglich ist, wo sind noch rote Linien? 1/5

🧵 Two Years Since the Pylos Shipwreck On June 14, 2023, the deadliest maritime tragedy in recent EU history occurred off the coast of Pylos, Greece. An estimated 750 people, mainly from Syria, Pakistan, and Egypt, were on board.

"One's own deportation as an adventure story" @fr-hessen.bsky.social Apparently, the EU border agency #Frontex produced this 'cute' poster to explain the process of deportation to children. Monstrous. Abolish @frontex.bsky.social!

Statistics on deaths at sea vary considerably and are themselves deeply contested, and geographical designations of 'the Sahara' or 'the Mediterranean' are anything but specific — but that has not prevented the circulation of dubious estimates on ‘desert deaths’, warns Dr Maurice Stierl.