Finally out: our introductory paper on "Critical transitions in migration studies: Comparative Migration Studies’ 10th anniversary issue" by @sanamroohi.bsky.social, @pwascholten.bsky.social, Martin Bak Jørgensen, Thais França, Andreas Pott, @zanavathi.bsky.social and myself. doi.org/10.1186/s408...

The Danish party that inspired Labour’s hardline immigration policy is on course to lose Copenhagen for the first time in more than a hundred years. Among the reasons cited: fatigue and frustration with its hardline immigration policy.

What surveys with 170 smugglers in the Puntland region of Somalia say about smuggling dynamics in the Horn of Africa. ⬇️⬇️ Read all: https://f.mtr.cool/omtzsloywz

As the US and France scaled back counterterrorism efforts in #Africa, the UAE, Russia and Turkey expanded their military #interventions in the continent's #conflicts, deploying more forces each year since 2018, to countries like Mali, Somalia, and Sudan.

Among the many things wrong with Labour’s immigration strategy, this stands out: to “fight” a few thousand so-called illegal migrants, Shabana Mahmood is willing to make life hell for hundreds of thousands of people who are legally in the UK. 🔗 theconversation.com/labours-plan...

The global humanitarian system is disintegrating in real time; this is the reality for @unhcr.org: 1. UNHCR is ending 2025 with $1.3 billion less than last year, a 30% workforce reduction, and 185 offices consolidated or closed. (1/x)

Online presentation on conflict and peace in Ethiopia’s Southern Lowlands, "Individual Accountability, Collective Punishment, and the Securitization of Development", by Lucie Buffavand, next Thursday 20.11.2025, 6pm (CET), organised by WAKHVA, more information and registration: hornvonafrikaev.de

"Der Plan von der Abschaffung des Asyls" Der Titel des Editorials ist einem Roman entlehnt: CONSTANTIN HRUSCHKA beobachtet, dass auch das Asylrecht zur Fiktion wird. Über kalkulierten Rechtsbruch, gesetzgeberische Hyperaktivität und die Rolle von Empathie. verfassungsblog.de/asyl-geas-gr...

At the UK's Brook House, migrants describe being trapped in a system driven by profit rather than policy — a place where private companies earn more the longer people are kept in limbo, a new investigation reveals.

In 2023 @tom-clark.bsky.social got me to write a chapter for his book on UK poverty about how immigration limbo, which Labour wants more of, makes people destitute. It was the most distressing piece I've ever worked on. We sent a copy to every MP. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/6081...

A drying climate in East Africa reduced the amount of water in Kenya’s Lake Turkana over thousands of years, which unleashed earthquakes and volcanoes from underneath it.

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:

A groundbreaking, eye-opening, and much needed investigation into Tigray's postwar goldrush: one of the most overlooked causes of the region's calamitous law and order breakdown—and its slide back to war. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Online presentation on conflict and peace in Ethiopia’s Southern Lowlands, "Individual Accountability, Collective Punishment, and the Securitization of Development", by Lucie Buffavand, next Thursday 20.11.2025, 6pm (CET), organised by WAKHVA, more information and registration: hornvonafrikaev.de

Matriarchs of the East African coast Power, Property and the changing status of Women in the Swahili world (1300-1900CE) Many coastal societies followed matrilineal principles of descent and inheritance, and nearly all followed a matrilocal residence rule www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/matriarchs...

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The situation in Tanzania is worse than we realised. Some journalists have managed to smuggle information out of the country. Current death toll is close to 1,000 by some reports. A harshly enforced curfew is in place.

Pleased to share the GI-TOC's latest report on #humansmuggling in #Niger. 🇳🇪 In 2024, following the repeal of Law 2015-36, movements rebounded, but didn’t reach pre-2015 levels. Read why here 👇 globalinitiative.net/analysis/hum...

As aid dries up in Kenya, millions are threatened by the climate-driven disease kala-azar. grist.org/health/kala-...

If you’re in Nairobi, displaced youth from Sudan are hosting a fundraiser for mutual aid groups in Darfur on Saturday November 8th. Lumin is a great community space ran by displaced youth from Sudan and Ethiopia and they have great coffee and tea. Tell your friends to tell their friends.

Tens of thousands of nationals from at least 77 countries have been trafficked into more than 100 scam compounds in Myanmar in recent years.Among them have been at least 75 South Africans.

ICE fährt durch die Straßen amerikanischer Städte, scannt die Gesichter und wenn die App behauptet, das seien keine US-Bürger, dann springen diese Gangster aus dem Wagen, weisen sich nicht aus und verschleppen die Betroffenen. Dystopischer wird es kaum.

State building in pre-colonial Somalia: the Sultanate of Geledi (ca. 1750-1908) www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/state-buil...

«Die RSF wird schon seit Langem von Deutschland und der EU unterstützt – weil sie die ‹Festung Europa› aufrechterhalten soll. Der RSF-Anführer hat … wiederholt bekannt gegeben, dass er ‹die Arbeit der EU› machen würde und prahlte mit Zahlen von festgenommenen und abgeschobenen Migrant:innen.»

Blick in den #Sudan 🇸🇩 In #Darfur massakriert die RSF-Miliz Frauen, Männer und Kinder - vor den Augen der Welt. Menschenrechtsermittler Nathaniel Raymond dokumentiert das Grauen seit Kriegsbeginn, unter anderem mithilfe von Satelliten. Ein Interview von Fritz Schaap. www.spiegel.de/ausland/krie...

The funny thing: Every aspect of the  internal social oorganisation of economics as a field proves some of the major assumptions of mainstream economics wrong! #econsky www.theglobalcurrents.com/p/economics-...

Immer wieder hat es diplomatische Versuche gegeben, den Konflikt im #Sudan zu entschärfen. Warum sie bisher alle erfolglos waren, beleuchtet Andrea Böhm im »Blätter«-Podcast 👉 www.blaetter.de/podcast Zu ihrem Text: www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...

How easy is it to fudge your scientific rank? Meet Larry, the world’s most cited cat -- Science www.science.org/content/arti...

🚨 New article out! “Right-Wing Terror, Media Backlash, and Voting Preferences for the Far Right” in @bjpols.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S000... We (Alex De Juan, @juvoss.bsky.social & I) examine how right-wing attacks shape support for the far-right in Germany. Short summary thread below 👇

New interview in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies between IEHS members Nancy Foner and Paul Statham: "Re-thinking how people and societies change through migration: comparisons across boundaries" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Online hate isn’t just virtual. Posts with Hindu nationalist hashtags on India’s Koo platform precede real-world attacks on Muslims & Christians. When the internet shuts down, so does the violence. Fresh research from colleague @sschutte.bsky.social et al Read more 👉 www.prio.org/news/3644

Matriarchs of the East African coast: Power, Property and the changing status of Women in the Swahili world (1300-1900 CE) www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/matriarchs...

Mit der @taz.de habe ich über die Krise der Klimapolitik gesprochen. Es ging darum, wie sich soziale Blockaden der Klimapolitik überwinden lassen, warum die derzeit dominante Weise, das Klima zu politisieren, in eine Sackgasse führt und wie Zohran Mamdani es besser macht. taz.de/Soziologe-ue...

Traffickers no longer focus almost exclusively on America: smuggling has gone global. The result is a system that is more dangerous to the world and more difficult to disrupt

A large mushroom farm near the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, is one of a kind: It grows fungi on an industrial scale — not as food for restaurants but as a building material that some Kenyans say could make more people homeowners.

For decades, Raila Odinga’s political flexibility held Kenya together through crisis after crisis. But his capacity for deal-making also stalled Kenya’s democratic reckoning. In death, as in life, he leaves the country suspended between gratitude and bewilderment.

A quick list of some Kenyans working on climate change: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Liebe Leute, wenn ihr nicht zitiert werden wollt, benutzt die Funktion in den Einstellungen. Man kann das auch nachträglich einstellen und muss nicht gleich blockieren, wenn man sein Thema nicht in einem erweiterten Diskurs will. Und ja, dafür gibt es genug Gründe - man muss sie nicht rechtfertigen.

Kleiner Tipp für Stadtbild-Besorgte und Brandmauer-Saboteure: Die Spaltung dieses Landes lässt sich nicht bekämpfen durch das Entfremden von 21 Millionen Menschen mit Einwanderungsgeschichte und Millionen weiterer Menschen mit Geschichtsbewusstsein.

Es ist nicht leicht über eine Zeit zu schreiben, in der wenig noch Sinn ergibt und die Wirklichkeit wie der Wind meiner Kindheitslandschaft Ostsee einem in die Glieder fährt, auf dass einem gar nicht mehr richtig warm wird. @beimwort.bsky.social kann das. beimwort.substack.com/p/mit-dem-bl...

'thanks' to the algorithm, this is what I woke up to every morning... As a foreigner, this really gets me in a good mood (not) for the day.

NEW: Net migration almost halved last year. But 84% of regular GB News viewers believe it went up. More importantly, new research revealing this also suggests the public opposes politicians presenting shows - contradicting Ofcom. Lisa Nandy now taking note: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

Die Verengung der migrationspolitischen Debatte auf Probleme, auf Ordnung, Kontrolle und Abwehr wird unserer Realität nicht gerecht. Gestern nicht, heute nicht, und auch nicht in der Zukunft. ethik-heute.org/interview-mi...

Die DFG lädt erneut zur Einreichung von Antragsskizzen für Kolleg-Forschungsgruppen in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften ein. Keine thematische Ausrichtung vorgegeben, offene Fragestellungen möglich. Antragsskizzen nach DFG-Beratung bis zum 03.03.2026. Alle Infos: sohub.io/6moi

Kenyans enlisting in the Russian army as a form of military migration. A number of new articles in the Kenyan newspaper Daily Nation (unfortunately behind paywall, but not expansive to access) nation.africa/kenya/news/i...

Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga dies in India According to the family, the 80-year-old passed away following a heart attack at Koothattukulam in Ernakulam in India, on Wednesday. Read more: shorturl.at/UCgj7

Migration und das Stadtbild... bemerkenswerte Aussage von #Merz: "Bei der Migration sind wir sehr weit [...] Aber wir haben natürlich immer im Stadtbild noch dieses Problem und deswegen ist der Bundesinnenminister ja auch dabei jetzt in sehr großem Umfang auch Rückführungen zu ermöglichen" 1/x