Am #Weltflüchtlingstag diskutiert IMIS- und SFB1604-Mitglied @mauricestierl.bsky.social in der Volksbühne zum Thema #Bewegungsfreiheit im Kontext zunehmenden #Autoritarismus. #Migration #Migrationsforschung #Flucht #Menschenrechte

maurice stierl@mauricestierl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Am Samstag bin ich in der Volksbühne und diskutiere mit Bafta Sarbo, Valeria Hänsel, Dorothee Krämer und Helen Rezene zum Thema Bewegungsfreiheit in immer autoritärer werdenden Zeiten. Kommt vorbeit! @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social

Am Samstag bin ich in der Volksbühne und diskutiere mit Bafta Sarbo, Valeria Hänsel, Dorothee Krämer und Helen Rezene zum Thema Bewegungsfreiheit in immer autoritärer werdenden Zeiten. Kommt vorbeit! @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social

"And Yet They Move! Mobility conflicts and migrant manoeuvres in the Mediterranean Sea" - I published a new article in the journal Movements, suggesting the lens of conflict to understand what goes on at Europe’s external borders. #OpenAccess journals.uni-goettingen.de/movements/ar...

Selbst deutsche Diplomaten sprachen schon 2017 von „KZ-ähnlichen Zuständen“ in den libyschen Internierungslagern für Migrant:innen. Gestern stand zum ersten Mal einer der verantwortlichen Milizenführer in Den Haag wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit vor Gericht. taz.de/Internationa...

Internationaler Strafgerichtshof: Libyscher Kommandant wegen Folter von Mi­gran­t:in­nen vor IStGH

Mord, Folter, Vergewaltigung sind nur einige der Vorwürfe gegen Mohamed Ali El Hishri. 2025 war er in Berlin verhaftet und nach Den Haag überstellt worden.

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🔴 BREAKING: Italy is investigating our captain! After rescuing 166 people from distress at sea and being SHOT AT, CHASED, AND THREATENED WITH ABDUCTION by EU-funded Libyan militias, our crew is now being targeted – WTF?!

BREAKING: After attack on Sea-Watch 5, Italy opens criminal investigation against captain • Sea-Watch e.V.

Saturday, 16 May – Italy has opened a criminal investigation against the captain of the Sea-Watch 5 with the accusation of “aiding and abetting unauthorized immigration”. The Sea-Watch 5 had entered t...

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www.theborderchronicle.com/the-dna-arch... Sharing this newly published investigation, coreported by me and a colleague. The DNA database crucial in migrant identification in the borderlands for years has itself gone missing. Co-published by @theborderchronicle.bsky.social and @highcountrynews.org

The DNA Archive Built to Identify the Border’s Missing Has Vanished

The Colibrí Center for Human Rights was a vital link between families and their missing loved ones. But now it's gone dark.

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@mauricestierl.bsky.social forscht im #SFB1604 zur Produktion von Räumen migrantischen Verschwindens. Mit @brotfuerdiewelt.bsky.social hat er über die problematischen Zahlen zu Toten auf #Migrationsrouten gesprochen. ➡️ buff.ly/rpnZ66M #Migration #Migrationsforschung #Grenzen #EU #Politik

Tote zählen auf den Migrationsrouten

Was ist die tödlichste Migrationsroute der Welt? Und was steckt hinter den verbreiteten Zahlen? Ein Gespräch mit dem Wissenschaftler Maurice Stierl über die...

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Heute gedenken wir den Opfern des rassistischen Anschlags in #Hanau vor 6 Jahren. Neun Menschen verloren am 19.02.2020 ihr Leben. Inzwischen ist ein weiteres Opfer hinzugekommen: Ibrahim Akkuş. Er verstarb am 10. Januar 2026 an den Spätfolgen von Schussverletzungen. #HanauIstÜberall

I know the govt is in meltdown again… but meanwhile I wrote about how their immigration policies create a subclass of migrant workers exposed to abuse in an increasingly “Dubai-style” rightless immigration model & I explain what to do about it

The New Statesman@newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Labour is creating a vulnerable migrant underclass @zoejardiniere.bsky.social

Israel entzieht 37 deutschen & internationalen Hilfsorganisationen die Registrierung, darunter auch medico international. Unsere Pressemitteilung:

The lack of coverage is disturbing

The UK media’s silence on the Palestine Action activists’ hunger strikes is a deliberate editorial choice - Media@LSE

LSE's Professor Bart Cammaerts discusses the lack of coverage of the hunger strikes of imprisoned Palestine Action activists in the UK media.

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"Turning vast geographies such as the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea into death zones is not enough for those who see their fight as a civilisational one, steeped in racial mythology and 'remigration' fantasies that will ultimately also turn against Europe’s minority citizens." Great piece.

maurice stierl@mauricestierl.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian: "Since migration has become the cornerstone of the current authoritarian turn, it is precisely around migration that resistance needs to form." www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

Wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian: "Since migration has become the cornerstone of the current authoritarian turn, it is precisely around migration that resistance needs to form." www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

Ten years of fortress Europe has served only cruelty, profiteers and racists. The next decade is up to us | Maurice Stierl

The hard right and far right are the political winners from the migration ‘crisis’, but only because centrist parties keep legitimising them, says migration and border researcher Maurice Stierl

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In a new article #SFB1604 members Nandita Dutta & @mauricestierl.bsky.social discuss how the figure of the ‘modern slave’ emerges in their respective fields of #research, what political function it plays and what colonial, racial and spatial imaginaries it is embedded in. #modernslavery #migration

maurice stierl@mauricestierl.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Publication out in the journal Sociology, a conversational piece with Nandita Dutta: "Modern Slavery and Migration: A Conversation on the Production of Invasive Figures and Racist Imaginaries" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

One can really sense the excitement that the Frontex press team must have felt when realising that they could now use a refugee story to promote its work of pushing back refugees.

Frontex@frontex.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Meet Laurindo, who had to flee civil war in Angola and move to Portugal with his siblings when he was 12 years old. He overcame the many challenges life threw at him, and became a Frontex officer 🇪🇺

Publication out in the journal Sociology, a conversational piece with Nandita Dutta: "Modern Slavery and Migration: A Conversation on the Production of Invasive Figures and Racist Imaginaries" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Modern Slavery and Migration: A Conversation on the Production of Invasive Figures and Racist Imaginaries - Nandita Dutta, Maurice Stierl, 2025

What makes up the figure of the ‘modern slave’ and why does it appear so regularly in discussions over both climate change and migration? In this conversation, ...

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In a new article on the #Portolan blog @smartitaz.bsky.social and #SFB1604 member @mauricestierl.bsky.social stress that #migration has become a key vehicle for #authoritarianism. buff.ly/8ors8j5 #Borders #Asylum #EU #Rights #Asyl #Flüchtlingsschutz #Einwanderung #Politik #Gesellschaft #Rechtsruck

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Honoured that we were invited by Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra to contribute to their new blog #Portolan! The text by Martina Tazzioli and myself is called “Punitive Environments and the anti-immigration authoritarian commonsense”. portolan-journal.org?post=punitiv...

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On 11 November, we discussed how to “Counter the Production of Migration as Crisis”. The event was a response to the call by the Migration Scholars' Global Solidarity and Resistance Network to take action against the instrumentalisation of #migration for far-right and authoritarian projects.

Alerted by @alarmphone.bsky.social, our Aurora just rescued 22 people from distress at sea this evening. All guests are now safe on board and on their way to Lampedusa. We wish them resilience and strength in their continued struggle against Fortress Europe.

Join our Teach-In/Out "Counter the Production of Migration as Crisis" in Osnabrück next week! This is a response to a call by the new Migration Scholars' Global Solidarity and Resistance Network to take action against the increasing violence and hostility targeting racialised communities.

How many #migrants die en route to the #CanaryIslands? In an article, IMIS- & #SFB1604 member @mauricestierl.bsky.social and @msdionis.bsky.social analyze data collection practices and contradictory numbers. They demonstrate that the data has practical consequences and produces multiple realities.

maurice stierl@mauricestierl.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Together with @msdionis.bsky.social I wrote this article (in Spanish) about contested data practices on migrant deaths and disappearance in the context of the Atlantic region, wondering about their performative and political effects. www.eldiario.es/andalucia/el...

Together with @msdionis.bsky.social I wrote this article (in Spanish) about contested data practices on migrant deaths and disappearance in the context of the Atlantic region, wondering about their performative and political effects. www.eldiario.es/andalucia/el...

El laberinto de las cifras: datos sobre muertes y desapariciones en la ruta migratoria a Canarias

Documentar muertes y desapariciones en el mar es una tarea sumamente compleja, dado que muchas embarcaciones desaparecen sin dejar rastro en lo que se ha denominado 'naufragios invisibles'. Reconstrui...

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📢 Neuer Beitrag von IMIS- und #SFB1604-Mitglied @mauricestierl.bsky.social in der Le Monde erschienen. Er zeigt: In der #Migrationspolitik setzen sich in immer mehr #EU-Staaten die Krisennarrative der extrem Rechten durch. #Flucht #Vertreibung #Fluchtforschung #Exil #Migration #Grenzen #EU

maurice stierl@mauricestierl.bsky.social · 10mo ago

'Die Vergrenzung Europas', mein Beitrag ist nun in der Le Monde erschienen. Die Ausgabe 'Die Unerwünschten' sieht toll aus, mit Texten von Lea Ypi, Charlotte Wiedemann, Wolfram Lacher, Jérôme Tubiana und vielen anderen. monde-diplomatique.de/product_info...

Hervorragende Auswahl von Beiträgen zu Flucht, Vertreibung und Migration in diesem neuen Heft, u.a. mit @leaypi.bsky.social, @mauricestierl.bsky.social, @chawi.bsky.social, Adam Shatz sowie dem Artikel von Jérôme Tubiana und mir zur EU-Migrationspolitik und dem Aufstieg der Milizenführer in Libyen.

'Die Vergrenzung Europas', mein Beitrag ist nun in der Le Monde erschienen. Die Ausgabe 'Die Unerwünschten' sieht toll aus, mit Texten von Lea Ypi, Charlotte Wiedemann, Wolfram Lacher, Jérôme Tubiana und vielen anderen. monde-diplomatique.de/product_info...

Seit vielen Jahren geistert der Begriff #Wirtschaftsflüchtling durch Debatten um #Migration. Wie er das Ökonomische außerhalb des Politischen positioniert und daduruch die Legitimität von Asylgesuchen in Frage stellt, zeigt Lauren Stokes jetzt im Inventar. www.migrationsbegriffe.de/wirtschaftsf...

Wirtschaftsflüchtling - Inventar der Migrationsbegriffe

Die von der Bundesrepublik Deutschland unterzeichnete UN-Flüchtlingskonvention von 1951 definiert ‚Flüchtlinge‘ als Personen mit einer „begründeten Furcht vor Verfolgung wegen ihrer Rasse, Religion, N...

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🚨 18 October – Manifestation in Rome 🚨 We refuse to stay silent while Italy renews its bloody deal with Libyan militias. We call on all comrades, refugees, allies & citizens of conscience: join us in Rome to say NO to the Italy–Libya Memorandum! ✊🏾 📍 Piazza dei Santi Apostoli – Rome 📅 18 October

How do civil society actors in #Malta navigate the politically contentious issue of #migration? New Border Criminologies blog post by @cettamainwaring.bsky.social (University of Edinburgh) and #SFB1604 member @mauricestierl.bsky.social #searchandrescue #Seenotrettung #Mediterranean #border

Border Criminologies@bordercrim.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Several barriers impact solidarity work on migration in Malta, including the geography of the islands, socio-political environment and maritime imaginaries. But activism is still very much alive. From @mauricestierl.bsky.social and @cettamainwaring.bsky.social ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...