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Maureen Eger

@maureeneger.bsky.social
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Political sociologist researching immigration, welfare states, (neo-)nationalism, democracy and more. Associate Professor, University of Southern California Posts my own. www.maureeneger.com

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Monique Morrissey @moniquemorrissey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My @epi.org colleagues @elisegould.bsky.social & Hilary Wething put together a banger of a chartbook on wage suppression--the single biggest cause of the affordability crisis. Some of the charts are among EPI's greatest hits & some are new (at least to me). www.epi.org/publication/...
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Wage suppression in 10 charts
Wages for typical workers lag far behind productivity growth. It hasn't always been this way and does not have to be this way. These 10 charts outline the historical context of workers’ wage trajector...
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Based on our definition, it seems accurate to me. Neo-nationalism is an ideology that perceives established national boundaries and sovereignty to be under threat—socioculturally, politically, & economically. Hence, it is a boundary-maintenance project. (Eger & Valdez, 2015, p. 127; 2019, p. 384)
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Based on our definition, it seems accurate to me. Neo-nationalism is an ideology that perceives established national boundaries and sovereignty to be under threat—socioculturally, politically, & economically. Hence, it is a boundary-maintenance project.(Eger & Valdez, 2015, p. 127; 2019, p. 384).
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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
🎙️ NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE "Confronting Climate Migration Crises" Two 2024-25 CASBS fellows – @maureeneger.bsky.social & @ahsfarmer.bsky.social – discuss thorny scholarly and policy dimensions of the climate migration landscape w/journalist & 2017-18 CASBS fellow John Markoff 🎧 bit.ly/3Rluy3b 👂
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It’s not a “crackdown” — that implies stronger enforcement of existing policy. It’s The Great Delegalization. It’s ongoing and it’s beginning to cause acute pain and Congress could fix it.
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
California primary voters: I have known Janelle for almost 30 years and can personally attest to her intelligence, integrity, work ethic, and track record of solving problems. What makes Janelle uniquely qualified to be CA LG is that her experience actually matches the job!!! @janellekellman.com
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Important research from @namanrawat.bsky.social at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social on how violence targeting immigrants is associated with experiences of marginalization.
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Staffan I Lindberg /V-Dem Institute @silindberg.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Open Access: -110 initially nondemocratic countries of the third wave from 1970 to 2024 - 105 episodes of autocratization followed in 75=60 (55 %) of these 110 countries are democracies by 2024, but 50 never became democracies or have reverted back to autocracy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Fifty years of the third wave(s): from democratization to autocratization
This piece reflects on 50 years since Portugal’s 1974 Carnation Revolution, seen as a trigger for the “third wave of democratization,” a global trend that transformed many dictatorships into democr...
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
“Demonising migrants and refugees collectively as criminals, threats, or burdens on society—based on their origin, nationality or migration status—is inhuman, wrong…The U.S. has the obligation to comply with international human rights law and international refugee law.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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USA migrant crackdown: UN Human Rights Chief decries dehumanisation, harmful policies and practices
GENEVA - UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Friday called on the United States to ensure that its migration policies and enforcement practices respect human dignity and due process rights, decrying ...
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NPR @npr.org · 23/01/2026
Minnesota residents took to the streets of downtown Minneapolis to protest the federal government's immigration campaign in the state, after weeks of sustained resistance in their communities. Businesses across the region closed in solidarity.
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Minnesotans turn out in the frigid cold to protest Trump's immigration crackdown
Minnesota residents took to the streets of downtown Minneapolis to protest the federal government's immigration campaign in the state, after weeks of sustained resistance in their communities. Businesses across the region closed in solidarity.
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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From radical right to neo-nationalist
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Western European far right parties are neo-nationalist doi.org/10.1093/esr/..., primarily concerned with perceived threats to national sovereignty—economic, political, and social. Of course they oppose Trump’s imperialism, even while sharing his opposition immigration www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
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Why Europe's far right has split with Trump over Greenland
Many far-right groups across Europe, which aligned with Trump's MAGA movement in their fervent opposition to immigration, are suddenly in rebellion against an administration they once thought of as an...
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Take care of you.
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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
2024-25 CASBS fellow @maureeneger.bsky.social heads into winter break in fine fashion w/yet another pub, this time as co-editor of the book "Anti-Colonial Global Scholarship" 🙌 About the book: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/anti-colonia... Open access options: chooser.crossref.org?doi=10.51952...
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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The social mechanisms connecting identity & support for democracy NEW PUB coauthored by 2025 CASBS fellow @maureeneger.bsky.social in Int'l J of Comp Soc @sagepub.com sources data from 36 countries, focusing on mediating roles of civic beliefs & participation ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
A good question.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
New from me and @daralind.bsky.social for @immcouncil.org: If you want to know what happened with the huge pause on immigration benefit processing at USCIS, check out our explainer here! www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/trump-a...
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Trump Administration Responds to Tragedy By Putting Hundreds of Thousands of Legal Immigrants’ Lives On Hold  - American Immigration Council
Trump has halted immigration processing, expanded travel-ban rules, and launched reviews that could upend cases approved over the last four years.
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
“USC already stands for academic excellence, and we do it without ideological loyalty oaths.” Professors @profmpastor.bsky.social & @jodyav.bsky.social grade the Compact (F) and urge leaders “to stand up for academic freedom, fiscal responsibility and just plain common sense.”
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Immigrants make up only 4% of the world’s population but they are more than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prize winners. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys
The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Research supported by the Swedish Research Council @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social Grant No. 2019-02996. We also acknowledge the institutional support of Umeå University and @casbsstanford.bsky.social
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
What is the liberalizing potential of higher education? In this @bjsociology.bsky.social research, we show substantial variation in the association between field of study and anti-immigrant sentiment — a pattern most pronounced among those with tertiary degrees doi.org/10.1111/1468...
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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Apply for a 2026-27 academic year CASBS residential fellowship. Deadline: Oct 31, 2025 Much more info & link to application portal: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-... Watch former fellows talk about it in their own words in a suite of 17 short, awesome videos: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-...
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 06/09/2025
Immigrants help keep California’s $4T economy running. Trump’s mass raids and stripping people of legal status risk tearing it apart — gutting our workforce and raising costs for everyone while separating American families. End these senseless policies now, Donald Trump.
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
NEW PAPER! We look at immigrant criminality from the perspective of victims. Criminals tend to victimize the people in their community. If immigrants are setting off a crime wave, immigrants would be their 1st victims. Do we see that... no! Just the opposite... 🧵 www.cato.org/policy-analy...
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
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Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Two recently published studies show that individuals who studied humanities or art subjects are more socially liberal than those with degrees in other fields. 1) @maureeneger.bsky.social, @heypaolo.bsky.social &Mikael Hjerm (2025) in @bjsociology.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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What is the Liberalizing Potential of Higher Education? An Analysis of Academic Fields and Anti‐Immigrant Sentiment Across 32 Countries
The link between educational attainment and attitudes towards out-groups stands out as one of the most consistent statistical associations in the social and political sciences. However, a recent anal...
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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Does higher ed liberalize sentiments about immigrants? Using survey data across 32 countries, CASBS fellow @maureeneger.bsky.social & coauthors reveal substantial variation in the assoc b/w field of study & anti-immigrant prejudice 👉 @bjsociology.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 07/07/2025
California, 17 other states challenge 'suspicionless' stops by masked ICE agents in L.A.
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California, 17 other states challenge 'suspicionless' stops by masked ICE agents in L.A.
California and a coalition of 17 other states have backed a lawsuit calling for an end to unconstitutional immigration stops in Los Angeles.
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Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Me & @joanalker1.bsky.social on @npr.org's "It's Been a Minute" talking about the erroneous stereotypes that drive Medicaid cuts & the fundamental connections between all of us. When we harm those whom government deems "underserving," we ultimately harm everyone. www.npr.org/2025/07/04/1...
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Think the Medicaid cuts don't affect you? Think again. : It's Been a Minute
Republicans have passed President Trump's One Big, Beautiful bill, but is it built on bad faith stereotypes? The legislation guts funding for Medicaid, and for a long time Republicans have been attack...
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
@selcanmutgan.bsky.social et al. find that ethnic school segregation in Sweden is largely a downstream consequence of “the ethnic segregation of the housing market and the geographic distribution of schools.” @europeansocreview.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
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Ethnic preferences, opportunity structures, and the school segregation process
Abstract. Previous research has shown that parents often have strong ethnicity-related school preferences, and it has been suggested that these preferences
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Europe’s neo-nationalist turn www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/w...
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How Europe Got Tough on Migration
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Not just psychology! Our critique of a LCA analysis and its interpretation: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... And our reply to the original authors’ response to our critique: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
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Identifying varieties of nationalism: A critique of a purely inductive approach
Most theoretical and empirical approaches to nationalism not only distinguish between ethnic and civic notions of national belonging but also differentiate national identity from national hubris, pri...
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Mine too! bsky.app/profile/rrre... Thanks @kai-arzheimer.com for sharing previous work
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I love when the radical right research robot @kai-arzheimer.com shares my brilliant Umeå University colleague’s work
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devorahmanekin.bsky.social @devorahmanekin.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
7. Bottom line: tactics matter but so do our own biases when observing and reacting to resistance. Worth approaching coverage with skepticism and holding media accountable. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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All of L.A. is not a ‘war zone.’ We separate facts from spin and disinformation amid immigration raids
What's actually happening during the ICE sweeps and protests across Los Angeles.
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Noam Gidron @noamgidron.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
An important piece from the @apsrjournal.bsky.social (by @devorahmanekin.bsky.social and @tmitts.bsky.social) to make sense of ongoing events: it matters not only which tactics are adopted by protesters but also who they are.
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
"...university leaders have to explain to a larger public how Trumpists, in an unprecedented spree of national self-destruction, are busy preventing cancer cures, damaging American soft power, and killing one of the country’s major exports, namely higher education."
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Trump’s revenge spree on Harvard echoes well beyond education | Jan-Werner Müller
Attacks on the university make clear that the administration will wield its power against anyone who incurs its displeasure
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The Trump administration is engaging on an all-out assault on the institutions, workers and standards that make learning and knowledge production possible, in the hopes of securing political dominance forever. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
These various initiatives and policy changes are often regarded as discrete problems, but they comprise a unified assault. The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science. If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us. Like the inquisitors of old, who persecuted Galileo for daring to notice that the sun did not, in fact, revolve around the Earth, they believe that truth-seeking imperils their hold on power.
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
So your research area has been politicized and your federal funding cancelled, what now? I try to give some answers in this opinion piece for @nature.com 1/ www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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When the government cancels your research grant, here’s what you can do
The mass cancellation of US federal grants marks yet another escalation in political interference in science, but there are ways to keep crucial research going.
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
“…branding marginalized communities and their political opponents ‘terrorists’ is a surefire way to delegitimize them and diminish their capacity to dissent—and even to exist” warns @ssinnar.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...
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The Real Threat of the Nonprofit “Terrorism” Provision in Trump’s Big Bill
The Trump administration has already wielded the “terrorist” label to stigmatize and strip rights from student activists and migrants.
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Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford @casbsstanford.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Separately, migration & climate change are among the most politically polarized issues. But they interrelate across a variety of contexts. This enabled @maureeneger.bsky.social to widen the scope of inquiry in her CASBS fellows seminar, including reappraising mechanisms underlying existing theories
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Is this what he meant by “protecting women”? NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
So true. US universities are top notch, and magnets for talent that strengthen the US economy, *because* the US made a policy decision to invest in research. What the gov’t really does is run a competition to let university scientists compete for grant funding to do research that helps society.
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
We theorized about such patterns in this open access article published online in 2020—arguing that these post-pandemic spikes in migration would increase anti-immigrant sentiment and mobilize political support for reintroducing restrictive migration policies doi.org/10.1177/0197...
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
These data also show the impact of COVID-19 border closures on international migration and the post-pandemic spike in immigrant destinations all over the world
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Maureen Eger @maureeneger.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Beautiful visualization of social media data and trends largely comport with international migration scholarship www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First (Gift Article)
These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/04/2025
Today the NY Times posted an interview with Chris Rufo that anyone associated with universities — or anyone who benefits from advances in health care or any other aspect of the research taking place there — should listen to or read in transcript. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/p...?
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The Conservative Activist Pushing Trump to Attack U.S. Colleges
Christopher Rufo has helped inspire Republican messaging and bills on hot-button issues.
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