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Dr Franzisca Zanker @franziscaz.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Join us next week for the 3rd AMMODI Lecture with the wonderful Prof Amanda Hammar👇 Next Wed at NOON

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Kristian Ulrichsen @kristianulrichsen.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

I'm peer reviewing a manuscript for a reputable publisher and came across fake references which must be AI-generated - including to an article attributed to me which sounds fascinating but which I never wrote.

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Dr Franzisca Zanker @franziscaz.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

And now it's time: exciting to properly start working on our new @erc.europa.eu funded project PolMig giving voice to migrants in defining their political agency and centring Afrotheoretical perspectives for global knowledge.

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Dr Franzisca Zanker @franziscaz.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Freue mich auf die Diskussion morgen 👇

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Jesper Bjarnesen @jesperbjarnesen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

New on the AMMODI blog: Saleh Seid Adem portrays the fates and aspirations of Ethiopian domestic workers in the Gulf States, who often long to escape their sponsorship arrangements (Kafala) and draw courage from the material objects left behind by former #migrants ammodi.com/2025/01/31/t...

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The Ruins of Kafala Bending

Kafala is a sponsorship system that governs the employment of migrant workers in the Gulf States, particularly in sectors such as construction, domestic work, and hospitality. Under the kafala syst…

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Dr Franzisca Zanker @franziscaz.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Check out the most recent AMMODI Blog on IDP hosting in Zimbabwe post Cyclone Idai and the ways integration is shaped by local context and attitudes. From the wonderful Joyce Takaindisa

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Jesper Bjarnesen @jesperbjarnesen.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

New on the AMMODI blog: Joyce Takaindisa reflects on recent fieldwork conducted in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe where Cyclone Idai displaced thousands and left a trail of destruction in 2019, highlighting the spirit of #ubuntu as informing the hospitality of host communities ammodi.com/2025/04/09/w...

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Welcoming the Newcomers Our Way

Mainstream perceptions in public, media, and policy discourses predominantly assign the responsibility of integrating internally displaced persons to local and national institutions. In this post, …

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Dana Schmalz @danaschmalz.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Wer verbreitete Sorgen in der Bevölkerung ernst nehmen will, muss sich evidenzbasiert mit ihnen auseinandersetzen. Eine faktenfeindliche Panik-Politik der Härte schafft Chaos, wo Ordnung ersehnt wird. www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

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Dr Franzisca Zanker @franziscaz.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

In this blog, I revisit my presentation from a conference on African Migration Governance organised by Cathrine Taallerass & Kiya Gezahegne in Addis Ababa last December. Read more about the project on the effects of EU externalisation in the Middle East & Africa here: www.cmi.no/projects/247...

Panelists at a roundtable on "What is in the African or Global Agendas?"

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Lucy Kinski @lucykinski.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

⭐I am looking for 2 PhD candidates w/ focus on qualitative representation research in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg! On the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex... Applications due: 2 May 2025 Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex... #EUsky #poliscijobs #qualitativemethods

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Dr. Natalie Welfens @nwelfens.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Looking forward to discussing writing practices and learning from colleagues! Thank you @ecdeisa.bsky.social for organising this important event! Co-writing is already one of the best tips I can offer ☺️

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maurice stierl @mauricestierl.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Not that it really matters but if anyone wants to read my book on migrant resistance, now that we have clearly entered an era of growing authoritarianism that organises itself around migration, let me know (drop me an email or your email address).

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Daniele Saracino @dansaracino.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Ein (weiterer) Einwurf zu den Koalitionsverhandlungen: Migration lässt sich nicht einfach stoppen. Nachhaltige politische Lösungen müssen auf Forschungserkenntnissen basieren. Danke für diesen vorbildlichen Journalismus, liebe @krautreporter.bsky.social! krautreporter.de/flucht-und-g...

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Es gibt keine Politik, die unerlaubte Migration stoppen kann

Die Forschung sagt: Geschlossene Grenzen sind Symbolpolitik. Nur wenn man die deutsche Wirtschaft ruiniert, kommen weniger Migranten.

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Ulrike Krause (she/her) @ulrikekrause.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Gerda Henkel Foundation’s Special Program on Forced Migration is open for project proposals. 🗓 Deadline: 5 May 2025 🔍 Learn more about the call, the 6 core areas & the process: www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/en/forced_mi... #ForcedMigration #ResearchFunding #AcademicGrants #CallForProposals

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Dr Franzisca Zanker @franziscaz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

As we continue our race to the bottom, re-posting the academic EVIDENCE on the problems with deportations, a reading list @leoniefelicitas.bsky.social, Laura Lambert, Judith Altrogge & I prepared last year for the @abi-freiburg.bsky.social : www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/read...

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Reading list about the meanings, consequences and geopolitics of deportation | Arnold Bergstraesser Institute

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Olivia Sundberg Diez @oliviasundberg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Today's EU proposals on return are a "new low", says @amnestyeu.bsky.social. The @ec.europa.eu has caved to unworkable and inhumane demands of a few anti-migration govts. Beyond return hubs, it sets out a disproportionate and punitive approach to returns that ignores all evidence. bit.ly/3DyuTbB

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EU: Return proposals a “new low” for Europe’s treatment of migrants

Today, the European Commission introduced a proposed revision to the 2008 Return Directive, amending the EU legal framework on returns or deportations outside of the EU. Following pressure from certai...

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Daniele Saracino @dansaracino.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Etwas, das nahezu allen Migrationsforscher:innen auf der Seele brennt und sich nie zu verbessern scheint: Der galaktische Graben zwischen Forschungserkenntnissen und implementierter Politik. Das muss sich verbessern, sonst werden wir keine nachhaltigen Lösungen finden.

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Birgit Glorius @bglorious.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Mit freundlichen Grüßen an die Sondierungsrunde erinnern wir an die Bedeutung einer evidenz-und menschenrechtsbasierten Migrations- und Asylpolitik. fluchtforschung.net/fuer-eine-ev...

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Für eine evidenz- und menschenrechtsbasierte Migrations- und Asylpolitik – Netzwerk Fluchtforschung

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Africa Centre for Transregional Research @actunifreiburg.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Eine Delegation der #Maka aus #Kamerun ist in #Freiburg angekommen. Die Schädel 5 ihrer Ahnen ruhen seit über 100 Jahren in der anthropologischen Sammlung der @uni-freiburg.de Heute findet eine erste Begegnung mit den Ahnen statt. @decolonialitynow.bsky.social @colonial-memories.bsky.social

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Dr Franzisca Zanker @franziscaz.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

TFW...when 1,5 years after online first, your article gets an issue number😀my article on different forms of resistance to the EU by West African states in response to the hot 🥔of return in Territory, Politics & Governance out now 👉free dwnld here or DM for access👇 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TN6KS...

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A typology of resistance: the ‘hot potato’ of European return in West Africa

Forced returns from Europe are politically highly sensitive across West Africa. Yet, there is enormous pressure from the European Union on West African governments to improve cooperation on returns...

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Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut Freiburg @abi-freiburg.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

🥳Out now: IQAS Issue Vol 44 N 4 Researching #Asia in #Pandemic Times Topics: Digital & Hybrid Ethnographies New Implications for Ethics Funding Issues Read more: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/new-...

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Dr Franzisca Zanker @franziscaz.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Kurz vor den Wahlen: was wollen wir eigentlich? In diesem @mtafrika.bsky.social Spotlight zeige ich, dass legale, sichere Migration aus Afrika nach Europa zunehmend schwieriger geworden ist. Und Migrationspartnerschaften haben dabei wenig Wirkungen trotz des Bedarfes an Fachkräfte👉 shorturl.at/zxzWv

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Eine Frage von Standardregelungen? Koloniale Kontinuitäten der afro-europäischen Visaregelungen und Mobilitätspartnerschaften

Legale, sichere Migration nach Europa ist für Afrikaner*innen aufgrund rassifizierter Mobilitätsstrukturen zunehmend schwieriger geworden....

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Dr Franzisca Zanker @franziscaz.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Warum rasante Abschiebungen vielleicht doch nicht so einfach, zielführend oder wünschenswert sind, erläutern @schammann.bsky.social, Thomas Oberhäuser und ich in aller Kürze für den @tagesspiegel.de 👇

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Dr. Natalie Welfens @nwelfens.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Auf dem Blog des @fluchtforschung.bsky.social kommentieren Kolleg:innen die aktuellen Schlagworte der politischen Debatte und wie sie aus wissenschaftlicher Sicht zu bewerten sind: Pullfaktor, Vollzugsdefizit, GEAS etc. #LauteWissenschaft #BTW2025 fluchtforschung.net/fluchtforsch...

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Felix Braunsdorf @fbraunsdorf.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Wichtiger Beitrag zu Mythen in der aktuellen Debatte um Migration und Flucht zu Pullfaktoren, Vollzugsdefizit, Ausreisepflicht, Dauerhafte Grenzkontrollen, GEAS, Illegale Migration, Kontroll- und Begrenzungsnarrativ, „Verschärfung“ und „Härte“ in der Migrations- und Flüchtlingspolitik

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Dr Franzisca Zanker @franziscaz.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

In this @mtafrika.bsky.social Spotlight I reflect on access to visas to Europe for African colleagues, the ties to colonial legacies and how migration partnership agreements (think Germany/Kenya) fall short in rectifying our complicity in unjust mobility regimes.👇

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Dr Franzisca Zanker @franziscaz.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Totally agree with this, best way to start your Saturdays 😍@thecontinent.org 👇

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Global Studies Programme @gspunifreiburg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Exciting news: Dr. Faisal Garba, head of GSP at UCT, will give a talk within the De/Coloniality Now Online Lecture Series. When: Jan 29th, 5 pm CET. Title "Contemporary Capitalism and the Coloniality of Labour Migration". Everyone is invited to attend (via Zoom, link below).

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Tim Glawion @timglawion.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Is there any good reason to return to X? Yes! To retweet one last time such a fantastic message: Welcome @abi-freiburg.bsky.social and please everybody follow this fantastic institute that does research with (not just on) the Global South, including on #migration #governance & #peace

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Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut Freiburg @abi-freiburg.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

😍 We are happy to be with you on #Blueskye! Please spread the news, help us gather our followers again. We are looking forward to sharing our work with you soon. Thank you!

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Leonie Felicitas @leoniefelicitas.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Great to see this is out as a Special Issue! Contains - among other amazing work - an article on the coloniality of knowledge & externally funded 'migration capacity building' projects that I wrote based on data collected within the #AMIREG project - @franziscaz.bsky.social @mradike.bsky.social

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Dr Franzisca Zanker @franziscaz.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The ABI is hiring: we are looking for a postdoc working on transnational dimensions of peace, conflict and fragility- with a Global South focus, preferably on the MENA region. Apply by the 19th January, start date is April 2025. www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/call...

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Call for applications: Post-Doc for the cluster Conflict and Fragility | Arnold Bergstraesser Institute

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Dr Franzisca Zanker @franziscaz.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

In a new piece for @theconversation.com Amanda Bisong and I unpack what migration could mean for development in Africa if only issues like strict visa rules, resistance to accepting migrants into communities & Europe’s aversion to migration from Africa didn't get in the way 👉 shorturl.at/zdUwd

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Dr Franzisca Zanker @franziscaz.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

📢I am looking for 2 PostDocs and 1 PhD researcher for my ERC-funded project POLMIG on migrants in Africa: the positions will be for four years, based in Freiburg, Germany - Job ads available here arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/call... Deadline 27th December

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Call for applications: Two Post-Doc and a PhD position for the project PolMig | Arnold Bergstraesser Institute

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Dr Franzisca Zanker @franziscaz.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

New blog piece envisaging a feminist migration future... with Toni Cela, Anita Ghimire , Meena Poudel, Mary Setrana and Marcia Vera Espinoza blogs.sussex.ac.uk/sussex-centr...

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Feminist Migration Futures? Reflections on a Feminist Migration Policy | Sussex Centre for Migration Research Blog

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Dr Franzisca Zanker @franziscaz.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Coming up on the 28th November: AMMODI Virtual Roundtable which brings together librarians, researchers and journal editors to discuss how to challenge the knowledge production hierarchies in migration research. You can register here: www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/ammodi-vi...

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Dr Franzisca Zanker @franziscaz.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

La contradiction réapparaît à chaque nouveau naufrage. L’Europe est choquée, elle se désole... Mais dans le même temps elle ne change rien à ses politiques, et s’accommode finalement de voir ses frontières transformées en une fosse commune pour non-Européens.👇grt new piece from Antoine Pecoud

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Comment Lampedusa incarne les mythes migratoires européens

Les politiques migratoires semblent reposer sur des croyances inchangées depuis plusieurs décennies. Comment comprendre que ces dernières perdurent ?

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Sebastian Haug @sebhaug.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

To the polisky community in Germany (and beyond): @sidtrip.bsky.social & I are organising a panel on global North-South dynamics for the 2024 conference of the German political science association (DVPW). Submit abstracts by 31 Oct! dvpw.de/en/dvpw2024/...

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Ulrike Krause (she/her) @ulrikekrause.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Gemeinsam für einen Menschenrechtspakt in der Flüchtlingspolitik 1514 Unterzeichner*innen zusätzlich zu 270 Wissenschaftler*innen! Personen aus Zivilgesellschaft, Recht, Politik & weiteren Bereichen unterstützen den Aufruf. @verfassungsblog.de @maxpichl.bsky.social @markard-chair.bsky.social

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Dr Franzisca Zanker @franziscaz.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Hello Bluesky :=) Happy to have made it to the other place😉No latest publications to report but I did just do an interview with the Nigerian Voices for African Refugees, you can read it here: voiceforafricanmigrants.org/2023/09/30/w...

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Why my research work is to highlight,counteract unjust and treatment of refugees , migrants-Dr Franz...

The places I have lived – UK, France, Netherlands, Australia and Germany – do not exactly have the best reputation of...

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