(1/3) 🚀 MeDiMi at the 2025 ICON•S Conference @icon-s.bsky.social in Brasília! 🎓 MeDiMi's Sofía Reca Milanta presented her research from our project on the Inter-American and the European Court of Human Rights, led by ICON•S Co-President @mhailbronner.bsky.social at @uni-muenster.de.

New blog post by MeDiMi researchers on the incompatibility of restrictions on #refugees’ access to #healthcare with Germany’s #humanrights obligations 👇

Hear me talk about integration in this short snapshot video from the Vienna Centre for Migration & Law (VCML) @univie.ac.at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh6f...

Jetzt erschienen: das Jahrbuch des Migrationsrechts 2024/25 (Hrsg. Berlit/Hoppe/Kluth), in dem ich ein Kapitel zur Rechtsprechung des EGMR beisteuern durfte. www.nomos-shop.de/de/p/jahrbuc... @nomosverlag.bsky.social

📢 TraCe Annual Conference 2025 Join our fourth annual conference “Beyond the Spectacle: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Slow Violence and Political Harm”, from November 19–21 in Marburg @zfk-mr.bsky.social! 📝 Registration: eveeno.com/slow-violence 🔗 Program: www.trace-center.de/en/events/an...

I was honored to serve as a facilitator at the summer school CRITICAL TIMES 2025 DISRUPTIONS with a session on “Disrupting the Affective Work of Anti-Immigration Narratives and Images“. The Institute is offering Visitor Fellowships that one can apply for until 30 September 2025: lnkd.in/eBNEtynx.

📢 MeDiMi Working Paper No. 2 is out now! 📝 MeDiMi Coordination Unit: Humanrightization. Theses on a Theory of Discursive Practice in Migration Societies. Discussion Paper 👉 Available in German and English on the MeDiMi website: www.medimi.de/en/article/2... (1/2)

🚨 Save the Date: #MeDiMiConference2026! 🚨 💥 We are thrilled to officially announce the final conference of MeDiMi's first research phase! 📅 May 7–8, 2026 📍 Justus Liebig University Giessen 👉 A detailed announcement and a call for papers will follow – stay tuned!

👇 Spannendes Feature über die Geschichte des migrantischen #Feminismus in Deutschland - mit Beiträgen unserer Projektleiterin Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez: tinyurl.com/476fu7av

🔥Last week, it was time for our biannual working meeting @jlugiessen.bsky.social ! 🔥 👏 Many thanks to everyone involved for 2 days of intense discussions on the theory of #humanrightization. 👉 Stay tuned for our forthcoming Working Paper No. 2!

🎬 The next #MeDiMiInsights video is now online! 💡MeDiMi project leader Jürgen Bast on "Restricting the Free Movement of Asylum Seekers: Human Rights Limits of EU Border Policy" 👉 youtu.be/itEd4Z26K50

🎙️ Our researcher Dr. Mina Ibrahim appeared on the “Justice Visions” Podcast, hosted by Eva Willems at #GhentUniversity. 💡 Topic is the role of #archives of Syrian, Sudanese, and Peruvian #diaspora communities in #TransitionalJustice processes. 👇 tinyurl.com/2n3pwu4n

(1/3) ☀️ MeDiMi at #TheMigrationConference2025 in London (June 11-17, 2025) 🎓 Researchers from 4 MeDiMi projects presented their findings in a special session entitled "Human Rights Discourses in Migrant Societies."

(1/2) ☀️ MeDiMi at the 2025 Summer Event of the Giessen Graduate Centre for Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Law (GGS) on 11 June. 💡 Highlight: Talk by MeDiMi PI @greta-olson.org on "Trump 2.0: The Return & Resistance."

📢 New MeDiMi publication! 📝 Laura Borchert / Janina Schlüsselburg: 'Cover(ing) #Migration: The Visual #Narrativisation of Flight, #Asylum, and #Security Practices' 👉 Published Open Access in European Journal of English Studies: doi.org/10.1080/1382...

(1/2) 👨‍🏫 MeDiMi spokesperson Jürgen Bast contributed to the 2025 ADiM-IntoMe Migration Conference in Viterbo, 🇮🇹. 🔶 Book presentation with Hiroshi Motomura: “Borders and Belonging. Toward a Fair Immigration Policy” 🔶 Keynote in the session on the "The New Pact on Migration and Asylum"

Looking forward to speaking at the GGS Summer Event 2025 on June 11. I will give a guest talk, titled "Trump 2.0: The Return & the Resistance," which will cover political pushback, activism, and hope. Register by June 4 via the QR code below or this link: shorturl.at/TSjFg. #TheReturn #TheResistance

(1/3) 🚨 MeDiMi goes conference! 👨‍🏫 Our PI Michael Knipper co-hosted the GTP conference on “Decolonizing Global #Child #Health: Critical Reflections and Dialogue to Ensure the Right to Health for All Children Worldwide,” at @jlugiessen.bsky.social from May 2-4, 2025.

Congratulations to our colleagues!

📣 Our researcher @leonzue.bsky.social visited @feministconlaw.bsky.social's chair for #EU-Law at Europa-Universität #Flensburg for a #research stay. 🇪🇺 Together with Kilian Umbach & Anna Kompatscher, he co-organized an interdisciplinary workshop entitled ' #Border concepts 40 years after #Schengen'.

🎬 Check out the next highlight from our #MeDiMiInsights series! 💡Our spokesperson Jürgen Bast on the discovery of migrants' #HumanRights in the long 1990s. The talk was held in the colloquium of @kfguniversalism.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social. 👉 youtu.be/-HTkEnviAFg

Join the upcoming lecture by MeDiMi's Janna Wessels 👇

Spannende Veranstaltung mit unserer MeDiMi-Kollegin Adriana Kessler 👇

A free and independent press is the necessary fourth branch of democracies. So important to speak about encroachments on press freedom during the first 100 days of the Trump 2.0 administration and what this means for us in Germany. @djv.de @profausberlin.bsky.social

Two new guest researchers are joining us today! 👋 Tehseen Jäger (@sceus.bsky.social) 👋 Janna Wessels (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social) They’re digging into migrant challenges in Europe's labour market and how states use human rights law to push migration control. Big welcome!

📣New video @lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de @for-medimi.bsky.social Jürgen Bast (Giessen): The Discovery of Migrants' Human Rights in the Long 1990s: A Legal History

📣 Join our next #MeDiMiImpulse! ➡️ Human Rights Contestations: Activist Interventions into Current Discourse on Migration. 📅 9 Mai 📍 Goethe University Frankfurt a.M. | SH 4.102 | Max-Horkheimer-Str. 4, Frankfurt a.M. 🖥️ Stream ✅ Details & Registration: rb.gy/x6183m & ⬇️

📢 Publication alert! ❓ What are the consequences of the current #pushback cases before the #ECtHR for the prohibition of collective expulsion? 👇 MeDiMi researcher Jessica Klüger analyzes the three potentially momentous hearings in an article for @ejiltalk.bsky.social:

Nearly 30 years ago, #border controls between #Schengen States were abolished. However - the 🇩🇪 - 🇦🇹 border is being controlled for over 10 years now. ⚖️ According to the #Bavarian Higher Administrative #Court in violation of #EU-Law! Further details see @verfassungsblog.de ⬇️ shorturl.at/AdDy8

🎬 We present the first video of our new series #MeDiMiInsights! 👩‍🏫 Our associated researcher Janina Schlüsselburg on border imaginaries, symbolic borders and metaphors in images of migration in 🇦🇺 and 🇩🇪. The talk was held in a seminar by @greta-olson.org @jlugiessen.bsky.social youtu.be/3me0LZf7Ej0

🏰 Our Research Group held its General Assembly in #Rauischolzhausen. 🔎 After 2 years, it was time for an interim evaluation. Many thanks to our reviewers @andrealiese.bsky.social, @krajewskimarkus.bsky.social, @hschwenken.bsky.social & Boris Nieswand! 🔥 Stay tuned for more #MeDiMi content!

🚨 Tomorrow! 🚨 The KFG welcomes Jürgen Bast (Giessen) as a guest speaker. He'll discuss "The Discovery of Migrants' Human Rights in the Long 1990s: A Legal History." 🗓 February 5, 2025 🕔 5:15 - 6:45 PM 📍 Room K201, Schellingstr. 12 Join us for an insightful talk!

KFG has joined Bluesky! Here, you will find news about the KFG Fellows, events and other KFG activities. We look forward to staying in touch!

In light of the global rise of right-wing movements, interdisciplinary research on migration, racism, and borders is becoming even more important. Further networking and linking of research perspectives and approaches is crucial

📣Event alert 👨‍🏫Guest lecture by Jürgen Bast: 'The Discovery of #Migrants' #HumanRights in the Long 1990s: A #LegalHistory' 🏛️KFG #Universalism and Particularism in #European Contemporary #History @lmumuenchen.bsky.social 🧑‍💻Stream ✅ 📅5.2.2025, 17:15-18:45h 👇Details & registration: shorturl.at/D3gcB

📣 Our spokesperson Jürgen Bast critically commented on #Merz 's ( #CDU) proposal concerning the permanent control of 🇩🇪 #borders and the rejection of #asylum seekers. 🔍 His assessment: The proposal is most likely illegal and undermines the essence of the #Schengen Area. Details 👇 shorturl.at/sjAYp

📣Publication alert 📕Our associated researcher Giulia Santomauro contributed the chapter 'European Court of Human Rights Jurisprudence and National Migration Policies: Exploring the Hermeneutic Tools of 'Proceduralisation' and Margin of Appreciation' to an edited volume. 👇Details: shorturl.at/0MmsW

Meet our new MeDiMi colleague Simona Adinolfi! 👇

📢 New interview from the last #MeDiMiLecture! 🎙️ Andreas von Arnauld (@uni-kiel.de) on how #Narratives influence #jurisprudence of #Courts in the field of #HumanRights and #Migration 👇 Available on YouTube: youtu.be/mFF9zv-UdYk

Join us today at 4:15 Frankfurt time for Dr. Carolin Gebauer's important talk on how to recognize and counter polarizing representations of migration. Everyone is welcome, no pre.registration necessary. @diml.bsky.social @for-medimi.bsky.social

❓ How can people affected by discrimination claim their #HumanRightToHealth? 📻 Our PI Michael Knipper discussed this question with the team of the #GutVersorgtPodcast. Check out the new episode on "Health without Borders" (in German)! 👇 shows.acast.com/65eef89b3e59...?

📢 CfP for a workshop on "Reverse Strategic Litigation by Governments on Migrants' Rights" by #MeDiMi and #ACMRL! Submissions from researchers at all career stages and various disciplines are welcome. 📅 27.-28.03.2025 📍 @vuamsterdam.bsky.social ⌛ Deadline: 20.12.2024 Details below 👇

👋Hello BlueSky! This is the new account of the Research Group MeDiMi. We’re happy to join the growing community of researchers working on the intersection of #HumanRights and #Migration here! (1/3)

(1/3) 👋Time to say #ByeByeElon - a farewell 🧵 Since @elonmusk took over Twitter, it has increasingly deteriorated. Sadly, it is no longer a place for fruit- & respectful exchange - especially regarding #HumanRights and #Migration, our core research topics.

📢 The final interview from the #MeDiMiConference2024 is online! 🎙️Anuscheh Farahat (@team_farahat) on the future of human rights and migration research. 👉 Available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/fHpAys5mm44?feature=shared

📢 The 7th video from the #MeDiMiConference2024 is online! 🎙️ Elizabeth Ngari from @women_in_exile on fighting for the #HumanRights of refugee women and her impressions from the conference. 👉 Available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/6-VY7VRnud0?feature=shared

📢 The 6th interview from the #MeDiMiConference2024 is online! 🎙️Michele LeVoy, director of @picum_ngo, on defending the #HumanRights of undocumented migrants in Europe. 👉 Available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QYZsIe_fy70

📢 Event Alert! ➡️MeDiMi Lecture: Courts as Storytellers? Narratological Approaches to Human Rights Adjudication Prof. Andreas von Arnauld (@kieluni) 📅 20.11.24 🕘 6–8 pm 📍 JLU Giessen | Dekanatssitzungssaal, Licher Str. 72 🖥️ online stream Details:...

📢 The 5th interview from the #MeDiMiConference2024 is online! 🎙️PhD researcher Oumaima Ramdani from Mohammed V University Rabat (@um5rabat) on her research on migration policy in Morroco 🇲🇦. 👉 Available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WDPu4q9jFno

📢 The 4th video from the #MeDiMiConference2024 is online! 🎙️Aghogho Akpome, Associate Professor at the University of Zululand (🇿🇦) on the relevance of analyzing narratives of migration. 👉 Available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5dGse3CW18I