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Kate de Rivero

@katederivero.bsky.social
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Global communications coordinator of the Mixed Migration Centre. Interests: AI, Philosophy, Sociology, Theatre, communications on research. Opinions my own.

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Mixed Migration Centre @mixedmigration.org · 11/05/2026
We interviewed +3800 Syria returnees (from abroad and IDPs). Economic reintegration is a key issue.  Social belonging is often strong  but income, housing and basic needs remain  precarious for many returnees.  More findings: f.mtr.cool/jwdydomynq
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Mixed Migration Centre @mixedmigration.org · 04/05/2026
As world leaders gather for #IMRF2026, MMC brings new 4Mi data collected in 2025 from 4,118 people on the move across three routes to Europe. This week's discussions on drivers, smuggling, regular pathways, vulnerability and return are all in our data. Here is what people on the move are telling us.
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Mixed Migration Centre @mixedmigration.org · 22/04/2026
Deaths are rising and it demands accountability. The International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) is the moment where States must answer for this.  In the GCM governments committed to save lives and coordinate international efforts on missing migrants. The data is in. Will States act? #IMRF2026
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 06/04/2026
“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián
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Mixed Migration Centre @mixedmigration.org · 30/03/2026
Without genuine partnerships with countries of origin, return policies based solely on controls and deportations risk becoming a costly revolving door - repeating the same ineffective cycle and causing harm to people instead of delivering sustainable outcomes.
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Mixed Migration Centre @mixedmigration.org · 05/03/2026
From Bangladesh to Italy via Libya: Many migrants interviewed started their journeys through legal migration channels or believed they were doing so. When those pathways become inaccessible or too costly, the same intermediaries can redirect migrants into irregular routes. bit.ly/4cZBb3e
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Mixed Migration Centre @mixedmigration.org · 04/12/2025
As the Global Alliance to Counter Migrant Smuggling meets in Brussels 10 Dec, many persistent myths about migrant smuggling will circulate. If you want to discuss based on evidence on “How smuggling really works” start here 📄👉: f.mtr.cool/evqoydftuy  #MigrantSmuggling
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Mixed Migration Centre @mixedmigration.org · 21/07/2025
Uptick in arrivals in Crete & the Balearics seem to result from EU’s short-term migration strategy: securitising routes & targeting smugglers via deals with third countries—without addressing migration drivers or the links between regular & irregular migration.
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Are Crete and the Balearics Revealing Cracks in the EU Migration Deterrence? | Mixed Migration Centre
Read about the uptick in arrivals at the Greek island of Crete, predominantly from Libya, and the sudden popularity of the Balearic islands as an entry point to Spain.
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Mixed Migration Centre @mixedmigration.org · 01/07/2025
“All workers who are beholden to their employers... face serious risks. This behaviour… extends to construction, retail, and services.” Climate, legal dependency, and low-wage work collide for migrant workers — the engine of Saudi Arabia’s economy. 📄
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Migrant workers, climate, and constraint: Behind the scenes of Saudi Arabia’s labour engine | Mixed Migration Centre
Read about how migrant workers and climate risks intersect in Saudi Arabia, shaping labour conditions, exposure, and (im)mobility outcomes
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Mixed Migration Centre @mixedmigration.org · 12/06/2025
Many Latin Americans in transit hit by new US migration policies are heading south. But the cost of the journey north has left people with few resources to return, forcing riskier travel. 3 routes from Panama to Colombia - many avoid the Darien after traumatic northbound journey.
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Mixed Migration Centre @mixedmigration.org · 11/06/2025
In Latin America, abrupt changes in U.S. migration policy have left migrants in transit stranded, without options for regular entry, exposed to fear. Many are heading south with few options, few resources, and little help. Their journeys are shaped by pressure & uncertainty 1/2
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Kate de Rivero @katederivero.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Our societies are so data driven on some issues... and then there is this
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Kate de Rivero @katederivero.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Help me find the right agency/team who can help us redesign the MMC website 👇👇 - any recommendations on great designs for research / policy orgs?
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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Academia, are we ready to fight back yet?
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Kate de Rivero @katederivero.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
An excellent article, must read on migration to Europe and specifically on the Atlantic route, on tracking deaths and disappearances, on humanising what this means, and informing policy
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Mixed Migration Centre @mixedmigration.org · 01/04/2025
🔍 There's no unified system to track how many people die or disappear trying to reach Europe.  Many are never identified.  Many families never find out.   Peter Grant, Roberto Forin, and @bramfrouws.bsky.social  write on the uncounted on the Atlantic route & what it means for migration policy. 🔗⬇️
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Jasmine Mooney is the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. Jasmine felt as if she had been kidnapped — “thrown into some sort of sick psychological experiment meant to strip us of every ounce of strength and dignity.” ICE lied to her, bound her in chains, seized every conceivable…
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Mixed Migration Centre @mixedmigration.org · 20/03/2025
The research focuses on key routes into the EU and UK:  The Central Mediterranean Route (CMR) The Western Mediterranean and Northwest African (Atlantic) routes into Spain The English Channel crossings into the UK 🔗
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Beyond restrictions: migration & smuggling across the Mediterranean, the Atlantic & the English Channel
This study focuses on three key routes into the EU, including the Central Mediterranean route (CMR), the two major routes into Spain – the Western Mediterranean route (WMR) and the Northwest African (Atlantic route)– as well as the English Channel crossing into the United Kingdom1, to understand how migration and smuggling dynamics have shifted since 2023, as well as the impact of these shifts on people on the move.
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Mixed Migration Centre @mixedmigration.org · 20/03/2025
✅ Officials cite reduced arrivals as proof that their policies work.  But as crossings decline on one route, they emerge or re-surge on others.  Arrivals decreased 2023-24 on the Western & Central Med Routes but movement surged along  Atlantic, English Channel & Eastern Med.🧵 2/7
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Kate de Rivero @katederivero.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Our latest on migration & smuggling to Europe - with info on different 4 main routes- shows how current policies are damaging to people and counterproductive to managing migration. Hardline policies create demand for migration as people suffer in transit countries, even those who wanted to stay.
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Kate de Rivero @katederivero.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Our full research paper on how migrants use smugglers in Sahel really questions some common assumptions on the role of smugglers, criminals or protectors?
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Mixed Migration Centre @mixedmigration.org · 12/03/2025
⚠️ Poorly planned returns lead to failed reintegration.  Our research shows returnees without savings or in debt struggle most & may remigrate. Those detained before return have the hardest time reintegrating. Yet EU proposal wants to extend detention.🧵2/5 
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Eight things we learned about migrant returns and reintegration | Mixed Migration Centre
Eight things we learnt from our research on returning migrants in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe, since 2017.
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Mixed Migration Centre @mixedmigration.org · 08/03/2025
🔹 1 in 5 women migrated to break free from violence and discrimination—and many faced violence on the road. For #IWD2025, our article, Voices of Women on the Move, shares insights and stories from 28,000 migrant women we’ve surveyed since 2019. 📢 Read more:
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Horror and hope in migration: voices of women on the move | Mixed Migration Centre
For international women's day we share their stories of horror and hope through selected data and quotes, highlighting gender-based violence as both a driver of migration and an extreme risk for those on the move.
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Kate de Rivero @katederivero.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A good and very useful read
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Kate de Rivero @katederivero.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
We are hiring a digital comms specialist in Nairobi to join my team - more of a technical webby/analytics profile, but interested in digital strategies to give visibility to research on migration and challenge misconceptions. Reach out for questions, info below
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Kate de Rivero @katederivero.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
When reading out latest data on smuggling in Central Sahel, what struck me is that smugglers seem more like trusted travel agents than the criminal orgs one might imagine. Even some people with legal documents prefer using smuggling services to travel, rather then regular channels. What's going on?
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Kate de Rivero @katederivero.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is our latest data from Darien Gap the treacherous jungle crossing from Colombia to Panama. In 2024 46% women interviewed who made it through, report sexual violence. At the same time there are higher reports of lack of medical assistance once in Panama.
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Mixed Migration Centre @mixedmigration.org · 19/02/2025
The US funding freeze on aid has significant consequences for humanitarian operations, including for our own org, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) that MMC is a part of. We fear that cuts in critical aid will affect over 2 million people DRC serves. See DRC’s statement below.
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Humanitarian aid for over 2 million people at risk as Danish Refugee Council faces suspension of U.S. funding
The recent directives by the U.S. government are sending shockwaves through communities already grappling with crises. Millions of vulnerable people, reliant on aid from organizations like the Danish ...
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Kate de Rivero @katederivero.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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Hostile Government Take Over (EDM Remix) @AGiftFromTodd
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Kate de Rivero @katederivero.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Our latest quarterly update on mixed migration in Eastern and Southern Africa, Egypt and Yemen. Increased people fleeing Sudan, shipwrecks in Indian ocean and Red sea, and hardening asylum policies in Egypt.
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Kate de Rivero @katederivero.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
A Berkeley study found hate speech on X rose 50% since Musk took over. Musk said in 2022 that negativity gets less reach on X—our posts on migration have plummeted, so is migration seen as inherently "negative" by the algorithm? 🤔 But if you attack migrants, then it gets boosted? 🤯 🔗 bit.ly/3ExPWLN
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Hate speech on X up 50% under Musk, new study finds
A new study by the University of California, Berkeley found that hate speech rose by 50 per cent in the months after billionaire Elon Musk purchased X, formerly Twitter.
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Kate de Rivero @katederivero.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We've just released findings from 256 interviews with people who arrived in Greece within the last two years, exploring their migration experiences, drivers, and destinations. Who we interviewed: 🔹 49% Afghans 🔹 18% Syrians 🔹 13% Egyptians 🔹 11% Palestinians 🔹 9% Iraqis
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Michaël Zemmour @michaelzemmour.cpesr.fr · 11/02/2025
Handicap : comment s'est construite la politique française ? @pyb.bsky.social via @franceculture.fr (7 min) www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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Handicap : comment s'est construite la politique française ?
Le 11 février 2005, une loi promettait l'égalité des droits et des chances pour les personnes handicapées en France. Considérée comme une étape décisive en matière d'inclusion, quelle est l'histoire d...
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Jill Rutter @jillyrutter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
One of my conclusions from the National Conversation on Immigration was sounding either cruel or unhinged on immigration wasn't a vote winner with many people. This is something all politicians should reflect on. Most of the public are 'balancers' who see the pressures and gains of immigration.
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Mixed Migration Centre @mixedmigration.org · 11/02/2025
This quarter, maritime and land movements of #Rohingya refugees have continued to surge due to worsened conditions in Rakhine, Myanmar and Cox’s Bazar Bangladesh. However, very little relief is provided to Rohingya in nearby countries.
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Kate de Rivero @katederivero.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Politico's reporting on the dismantling of USAID. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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How spending $153M to pay its bills put USAID in DOGE’s crosshairs
Aides to the president and Elon Musk suspected USAID officials were trying to go around a funding freeze.
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Sheila Foster @sheilarose.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Excellent by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social "If you’re always consumed by the next outrage, you can’t look closely at the last one. The impression of Trump’s power remains; the fact that he keeps stepping on rakes is missed. The projection of strength obscures the reality of weakness. Don’t believe him."
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Kate de Rivero @katederivero.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Quarterly update on migration trends and policies around the world is out - here are the key highlights from all regions, there's also one report per region for in depth/detailed updates
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Sophie Barel @sophiebarel.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Le tweet qui mérite d'être repartagé sur BS du jour.
Un tweet qui explique comment on détruit les services publics :/
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ECRE @theecre.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We're here because we're committed to continuing the fight with our allies and members for the rights of people on the move in Europe and beyond.
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Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Fixed It.
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Kate de Rivero @katederivero.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
USAID site has gone dark.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
If you conduct research with federal data of any kind I strongly suggest you spend this weekend downloading copies of everything you use.
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Kate de Rivero @katederivero.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
In case you missed it, starter pack for comms folks in think tanks policy and research go.bsky.app/PW3rfE2
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Médicos Sin Fronteras España @msfespana.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
❌🇺🇸  Las nuevas órdenes ejecutivas de Trump sobre migración son un retroceso devastador Bloquear a las personas para que no busquen asilo en EE. UU. y eliminar vías seguras y legales para la migración solo las expone a mayores riesgos y explotación. 👇
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Las nuevas órdenes ejecutivas de Trump sobre migración son un retroceso devastador
Bloquear a las personas para que no busquen asilo en los EE. UU. y eliminar vías seguras y legales para la migración solo expone a las personas a mayores riesgos y explotación. Para muchos, quedarse en casa no es una opción, y puede ser una sentencia de muerte. Buscar seguridad no es un crimen.
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Marine Tondelier @marinetondelier.fr · 29/01/2025
Le plus grave dans les propos de Bayrou, c'est quand il dit "les préjugés sont nourris par le réel". Donc pour lui, les personnes victimes de préjugés racistes, antisémites, sexistes ou homophobes en sont responsables. Il se croit à un congrès du RN ? Quelle faillite morale.
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Kate de Rivero @katederivero.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Hello, any comms folks working with research orgs (think tanks, university, NGOs, etc) and still on X? Please DM if you want to exchange on what is going on, still wondering whether to leave or not, or how to manage, etc. I'd love to exchange :-)
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Mixed Migration Centre @mixedmigration.org · 19/01/2025
What impact on mixed migration if Trump enacts mass deportations, shuts asylum, & toughens migration policies? Migration pressures won’t disappear—conflict, poverty & climate change will keep driving movement. So what can happen? Full article here: bit.ly/40Brd1E
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