Recycling a smear campaign: The Left in the EU parliament had done something similar in 2014, using old tweets of #AlaaAbdelFattah to justify withdrawing their nomination of Alaa for a HR award. He was free at that time but got rearrested shortly after #Egypt #UK manassa.news/en/news/29426

We are not witnessing a “migration crisis” in Europe, but rather a decades-old migration & emigration crisis in the "underdeveloped" & indebted South, stemming from restructured power dynamics & postcolonial dependencies that were never fully overturned 7/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...

The most effective playbook to follow by Southern elites―from Rabat to Amman & from Dhaka to Baku―to supply their police with modern equipment & maintain their uncontested grip on power, is to tap into the ever-rising “border management” funds set up by EUrope 6/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...

After "anti-communism", "the war on drugs" and "the war on terror'", "combating irregular migration" has, since 2015, turned into the new main smokescreen for supplying elites in the Global South with policing equipment, surveillance tec and training 5/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...

The collapse of Europe’s colonial empires gradually morphed into a neocolonial arrangement, in which population control, public order, and resource extraction were to be maintained through the policing support for southern regimes by the former masters 4/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...

Border externalisation's/management's key feature―police cooperation―not only aims at surveilling, preventing & containing migration movements, but also keeping southern regimes and their elites aligned and able to control their own populations 3/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...

The large-scale extractivism of resources and people from #Asia and #Africa during the colonial era has not ended—rather, it has transformed. To further maintain this order, the notion of "border management" is being mainstreamed across the globe 2/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...

#EU-rope-funded border regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of a neocolonial order How “border management” has turned into a dogma, providing its advocates with a powerful leitmotif to rally political and corporate support in sustaining this order 1/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...

#EU-rope-funded border regimes: Linchpin (and Achilles’ heel) of a neocolonial order How “border management” has turned into a dogma, providing its advocates with a powerful leitmotif to rally political and corporate support in sustaining this order 1/ turningpointmag.org/2025/12/17/e...

The invention of the foreigner "The roots of both ethnic exclusion and migrant marginalization in Africa lie in the colonial attempt to manage difference—not by transcending it, but by weaponizing it" via @africasacountry.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2025/11/the-...

Sinai and regime-affiliated "businesses" remain key for "managing" and profiting from the devastation, hunger and genocide in #Gaza via #MadaMasr www.madamasr.com/en/2025/12/1...

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Tomorrow's webinar on Syria: "Coming Back Is Not Going Home. Return and Displacement after the Fall of the Assad Regime" organized by RLS Beirut and Disorient @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social www.rosalux.de/en/event/es_...

An Egyptian imam, Mohamed Shahin, is facing deportation from #Italy for allegedly describing the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October as an act of “resistance after years of occupation” #Egypt www.middleeasteye.net/news/italy-d...

"The same Europe that enslaved our ancestors & continues to exploit our countries is again & again holding us to stay bound within walls. Africans must wake up & denounce Europe’s assumption as teachers from whom we have to learn how to manage our borders" refugees4refugees.org/en/2025/11/2...

This report aims at providing a mapping of the state’scrackdowns against harraga, the authorities’ retention infrastructure, the security services’ deportation practices, and Algeria’s engagement with foreign governments regarding the suppression of movement @FT_DES 11/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...

Migration control has turned into an ever-present subject of public discourses and government interventions across northern Africa. Corresponding matters in Algeria, however, remain strongly unreported 10/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...

The Algerian government nourishes the country’s alienation from its African neighbors by fueling racism, exploitation and the continuation of intermediary repression, helped along by EU agencies, EU governments, UN-affiliated bodies and neighboring states 9/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...

Today, the international solidarity occasionally vocalised by the #Algeria-n state is a conditional and selective one that is limited by the regime’s internal tug-of-war over access to hydrocarbon revenues and, at best, the “anti-imperialist strategies” of foreign policy 8/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...

As of today, however, only traces of this once staunch alignment with the Global South remain. Yet the state maintains a political imagery and foreign policy nurtured by the spirit of the post-colonial #Algeria of the 1960s and 70s 7/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...

The state’s reprisals against non-Algerian harraga, their precarisation and the widespread racism (re-)produced by the state and large parts of society are, however,in stark contrast to #Algeria-s anti-imperialist past 6/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...

Under President #Tebboune and army chief #Chengriha, however, the state initiated a cautious turnaround and expanded its (anti-)migration cooperation with #Italy, #Germany and #IOM, mostly in regards to police training and deportation cooperation 5/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...

In the past, #Algeria, unlike neighboring countries, was considered extremely reluctant to formally integrate into the European border regime, near-consistently refusing to take part in Europe-funded ‘border management’ projects 4/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...

The image of a prosperous New Algeria, propagated by President #Tebboune & the regime since 2021, is strongly contradicted by the reporting about the increasing number of Algerian harraga who are once again favoring the risks of clandestine migration over remaining in #Algeria 3/

In 2023, #Algeria responded to #Tunisia-s new deportation practices by also tightening migration control. Mass expulsions of people by ALG authorities to #Niger were expanded while the state deports more & more people to #Libya & once again, to #Morocco 2/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...

Migration control has turned into an ever-present subject of discourses & state policies across northern Africa. Corresponding matters in #Algeria, however, remain strongly unreported. Thus, this @FT_DES report aims at contributing to bridge this gap 1/ ftdes.net/en/suppressi...

How #ICMPD manages migration "for the benefit of European states": On the early history of the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (1993-2004) by Fabian Georgi, featuring an epilogue by Sofian Philip Naceur 8/ www.rosalux.de/en/publicati...

This publication now provides for an edited & shortened version of the original text to facilitate access to this valuable data in English for the first time, reconstruct the context in which the #ICMPD was established & trace its development over its first decade 7/ www.rosalux.de/en/publicati...

To gain a deeper understanding of the activities, role and importance of the #ICMPD today and to comprehend why the organisation grew so much since 2016, it is crucial to look at how the organisation emerged and developed in its early years 6/ www.rosalux.de/en/publicati...

One of the distinguished features of this study is that it draws on written sources that are no longer publicly accessible, as well as 7 interviews with #ICMPD employees, including the organisation’s founding director, Jonas Widgren 5/ www.rosalux.de/en/publicati...

Georgi’s in-depth research & the empirical data he was able to collect in the 2000s offer a unique insight into ICMPD’s ideological foundation, the motivations in creating it & its conception of migration as a ‘phenomenon’ to be ‘managed’, filtered & harnessed 4/ www.rosalux.de/en/publicati...

Given the expected further growth of ICMPD’s impact on European, African & Asian border regimes, it is even more important to better comprehend what the organisation stands for & to which extent it has sustained the spirit & ideology of its early years 3/ www.rosalux.de/en/publicati...

Since 2016, #ICMPD has played an important role in integrating states in the Balkans into the EUropean border regime, but also Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon & states along the ‘New Silk Road’ stretching from Eastern Europe via Central Asia to Pakistan, India & Bangladesh2/ www.rosalux.de/en/publicati...

#ICMPD has expanded significantly since 2016, but there is still surprisingly little literature on the organisation. To address this gap, we are now providing an English translation of an old but very insightful academic source written by Fabian Georgi 1/ www.rosalux.de/en/publicati...

A new brochure of mine was published by the Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation Tunis. It provides an edited English version of my 2004 study on the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), and includes an afterword by @sofiannaceur.bsky.social. Link: www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...

Constitutional Court in #Germany rules in favour of free radio in Freiburg: Searches due to incriminated linking to #Indymedia were unlawful. The case is part of the repression against #Linksunten. digit.site36.net/2025/11/19/r...

#ICMPD has expanded significantly since 2016, but there is still surprisingly little literature on the organisation. To address this gap, we are now providing an English translation of an old but very insightful academic source written by Fabian Georgi 1/ www.rosalux.de/en/publicati...

Earlier this week, during the Vienna Migration Conference, #Jordan's Minister of Interior al-Farrayeh suggested that ICMPD could help to train Syrian security forces. ICMPDs Spindelegger confirmed that respective consultations are underway, reports @derstandard.at www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Das #ICMPD ist heute ein zentraler Akteur bei der Aufrüstung von Polizei- und Zollbehörden in Europas ehemaligen Kolonien und damit indirekt damit betraut, neokoloniale Eliten an der Macht zu halten und Migration wirtschaftlich ausbeutbar zu machen 6/ www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1194...

Seit 2016 ist das #ICMPD zu einem einflussreichen Player im EU-Grenzregime mutiert und ist heute direkt involviert in die Aufrüstung von Polizei- und Zollbehörden in autoritären Staaten, u.a. #Tunesien #Marokko #Ghana #Libanon #Jordanien oder #Pakistan 5/ www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1194...

#Spindelegger ist nicht nur für die geographische Ausweitung von ICMPDs Aktivitäten in Afrika und Asien verantwortlich, sondern hat auch dessen operative Neuorientierung vorangetrieben; der frühere Soft-Power-Ansatz ist passé 4/ www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1194...

"Unter Spindelegger hat sich die Mitarbeiterzahl des #ICMPD auf 544 fast verdreifacht. Die Anzahl der Büros in Europa, Asien und Afrika stieg von 19 auf 31 und das von dem Wiener Grenzregimedienstleister verwaltete Projektvolumen von 111 auf bemerkenswerte 714 Millionen Euro" 3/

Für ICMPDs Direktor Spindelegger wird es die letzte VMC sein. Nach 10 Jahren an der Spitze des Grenzregimedienstleisters wird er 2026 von seiner ÖVP-Kollegin Susanne Raab abgelöst. Unter ihm ist das #ICMPD rasant gewachsen und hat seinen politischen Einfluss enorm ausgebaut 2/

Zum 10. Mal findet derzeit in #Wien die Vienna Migration Conference statt, das wichtigste PR-Event des #ICMPD und eine Konferenz, die für die koloniale und imperiale Kontinuität in den Beziehungen zwischen Europa und seinen früheren Kolonien einsteht 1/ www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1194...

Today, #ICMPD is a key player in the supply of police and customs authorities in Europe's former colonies with equipment and training and is thus indirectly entrusted with keeping neocolonial elites in power and making migration economically exploitable 6/ www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1194...

Since 2016, #ICMPD has become an even more influential player in the EU border regime and is now directly involved in arming police and customs authorities in authoritarian states, including #Tunisia, #Morocco, #Ghana, #Lebanon, #Jordan, and #Pakistan 5/ www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1194...

#Spindelegger is not only responsible for the geographical expansion of #ICMPD in Africa/Asia but has also overseen an operational reorientation; after mostly pursuing a soft power approach until the 2010s, ICMPD is since heavily engaged in operational hard power 4/ www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1194...

Since 2016, #ICMPDs staff almost tripled to 544 employees worldwide. The number of ICMPD offices across Europe, Africa and Asia increased from 19 to 31 and its contacted project volume skyrocketed from 111 to a staggering 714 million euro in 2024 3/ www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1194...

It'll be the last #VMC for Michael #Spindelegger as ICMPD's General Director. After 10 years in office, he is to handover his post in 2026 to his ÖVP collegue Susanne Raab. However, his legacy is significant as he has been key for ICMPDs rapid growth regarding operations and political influence 2/

Since yesterday, #ICMPD hosts the 10th edition of the Vienna Migration Conference, its flagship PR event and a highlevel conference that virtually embodies the imperial continuity of the neocolonial relations between Europe and the Global South 1/ #VMC www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1194...