Our SI w/ @federicazardo.bsky.social on #migration governance through funding now published in the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies! In the intro doi.org/10.1080/1556... we advance a typology & scrutinise transparency, accountability & effectiveness impacts @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social

US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off. Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Utter madness. 36 million people. 👇 At least 500,000 tons of American-grown food meant for food-insecure people worldwide are stuck in ports and warehouses due to Trump administration freeze on USAID. It’s enough to feed >36 million people and valued at ~ $500 million. www.devex.com/news/us-grow...

DOJ brief defending Trump birthright citizenship order below. Remarkably, almost laughably weak

El Salvador to accept US deportees of any nationality, including imprisoned Americans, in unprecedented deal, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says

It identifies the five stages of "a logistical chain which have been integrated and refined, also as a result of the agreements between the EU and Tunisia" You can access it here in English, French or Italian. (I will add some info after my class) statetrafficking.net

Trump's tariffs are part of the wider phenomenon of Hardball Migration Diplomacy. This is not new. Trump used threats in his first term. And the EU, Bush, and Obama also used visa sanctions and threats to get states to cooperate on deportations and other migration policies.

Good. More of this.

What a lie. Here's the Supreme Court in 2012 making clear that simply being in the country without permission is NOT a crime: "As a general rule, it is not a crime for a removable alien to remain present in the United States." It's a civil violation, not a crime.

Why the “Finance COP”in Baku Missed the Mark? #COP29 was focused on scale but not enough on the how and what of climate finance. @carnegieendowment.org

Cutting funding to UNRWA politicizes refugee aid and collectively punishes Palestinians. @kelseypnorman and I explain the long history of politicization of UNRWA and how this part of global pattern of politicized aid to refugees theconversation.com/funding-for-...

[email protected], Adam Lichtenheld, & Kelsey Norman on how Israeli forces are engaging in mass displacement as a strategy of war, likely violating international law given all signs point to unwillingness to let people return theconversation.com/israels-mass...