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Nick Micinski

@nickmicinski.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof at American University @ausis.bsky.social - migration, political economy of aid, development, climate displacement, UN, EU, human rights

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 22/09/2026
My conversation with Jill Williams of @acaciajustice.org and Becky Wolozin of the National Center for Youth Law on habeas petitions for children in ORR custody is now up. Here are the CliffsNotes of what you need to know. 🧵 austinkocher.substack.com/p/no-child-s...
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"No child should need a habeas petition in order to get out of government custody."
Jill Williams from the Acacia Center for Justice and Becky Wolozin from the National Center for Youth Law explain why kids are being held longer than ever and what attorneys are doing about it.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Must read. And all of the Forbidden Stories on this topic to come. wapo.st/4dLG4wo
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How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation
Inside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own.
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sisresearch.bsky.social @sisresearch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Our first @ausis.bsky.social book launch of the academic year is one week away! Join us next Wednesday, September 16 at 5pm to hear from Prof. @nickmicinski.bsky.social and @kpnorman.bsky.social on their new book, "Aiding Autocrats." RSVP now: www.eventbrite.com/e/1998428371...
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SIS Book Launch: Aiding Autocrats
Join us at SIS for the launch of Nicholas Micinski's new book, Aiding Autocrats: Migration Management, Governance, and Repression in Africa
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sisresearch.bsky.social @sisresearch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🚨New @ausis.bsky.social book alert! In "Aiding Autocrats," Prof. @nickmicinski.bsky.social and his co-author @kpnorman.bsky.social examine how migration assistance funds authoritarianism and negatively affects migrants, refugees, and citizens alike. www.american.edu/sis/research...
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Nicholas Micinski, Aiding Autocrats
Nicholas Micinski's new co-authored book examines how migration assistance funds authoritarianism and negatively affects migrants, refugees, and citizens alike.
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Nick Micinski @nickmicinski.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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The erosion of migration multilateralism and the 'new world order' - Mixed Migration Centre
Nick Micinski discusses the erosion of the multilateral system as the United Nations faces unprecedented pressure from nationalist governments, funding crises, and a gridlocked Security Council. The r...
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Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi @liliantsourdi.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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
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Paul Nuki @paulnuki.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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...
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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
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Iona Craig @ionacraig.com · 07/02/2025
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...
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US-grown food aid is stranded in ports worldwide despite waiver
It’s valued at nearly $500 million, and right now much of it is at risk of spoilage.
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Peter Spiro @peterspiro.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
DOJ brief defending Trump birthright citizenship order below. Remarkably, almost laughably weak
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CNN @cnn.com · 04/02/2025
El Salvador to accept US deportees of any nationality, including imprisoned Americans, in unprecedented deal, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says
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El Salvador to accept US deportees of any nationality, as well as imprisoned Americans, in unprecedented deal | CNN
El Salvador has agreed to receive deportees from the United States of any nationality, including violent criminals who are US citizens currently imprisoned, in an unprecedented deal that has alarmed c...
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Sonia Chabane (she/her)| سنية @soniachabane.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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
Front cover of the report entitled "State Trafficking: Expulsion and sale of migrants from Tunisia to Libya"
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Nick Micinski @nickmicinski.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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.
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Trump’s tariff threats fit a growing global phenomenon: hardball migration diplomacy
Trump isn’t alone in using tariffs, travel bans and sanctions to make countries play ball on deportations. But the other side of migration diplomacy can be incentives for countries willing to take on ...
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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Good. More of this.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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.
s a general rule, it is not a crime for a removable alien to remain present in the United States. See INS v. Lopez-Mendoza, 468 U.S. 1032, 1038 (1984). If the police stop someone based on nothing more than possible removability, the usual predicate for an arrest is absent. When an alien is suspected of being removable, a federal official issues an administrative document called a Notice to Ap- pear. See 8 U. S. C. §1229(a); 8 CFR §239.1(a) (2012). The form does not authorize an arrest. Instead, it gives the alien information about the proceedings, including the time and date of the removal hearing. See 8 U. S. C. §1229(a)(1). If an alien fails to appear, an in absentia order may direct removal. §1229a(5)(A).
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Nick Micinski @nickmicinski.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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
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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.
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Nick Micinski @nickmicinski.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
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-...
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Funding for refugees has long been politicized − punitive action against UNRWA and Palestinians fi...
The US is among more than a dozen countries to freeze funding to UN agency providing aid to displaced Gazans over allegations of complicity in the Oct. 7 attack.
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Kai Thaler @kaimthaler.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
.@nickmicinski.bsky.social, 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...
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Israel's mass displacement of Gazans fits strategy of using migration as a tool of war
Mass forced movement of people has been used in conflicts to serve three goals: population control, territorial expansion and as a sorting mechanism. All three could be in play in Gaza.
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