Dr Franzisca Zanker

@franziscaz.bsky.social

Political Scientist ABI Freiburg; research on politics of forced migration in Africa; head of research cluster "Patterns of (Forced) Migration"

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...

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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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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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...

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...

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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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?"
Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut Freiburg@abi-freiburg.bsky.social · last yr.

📝#African #agency in response to EU #externalization efforts @franziscaz.bsky.social in The Public Anthropologist: Pressure to comply with the EU regarding migration is high. Still, African states developed subtle and often implicit ways of responding. publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2025/03/21/a...

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 ☺️

ECD Group/ EISA@ecdeisa.bsky.social · last yr.

✍🏽👩🏽‍💻We invite ECRs to our first online #WritingRetreat on March 27, 2025 at 10:30 am CET. ➡️Starting off with practical writing advice by @nwelfens.bsky.social, @samarjit.bsky.social, and #JoanaRicarte followed by a 2hr joint online writing session. Sign up here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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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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...

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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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...

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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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

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 · 2y ago

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.👇

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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Netzwerk Fluchtforschung@fluchtforschung.bsky.social · 2y ago

#Fluchtforschung gegen #Mythen Migrationspolitische Debatten in Deutschland sind von zunehmend drastischeren Forderungen geprägt. 9 Wissenschaftler*innen klären Mythen u.a. zu Pullfaktoren, Vollzugsdefizit, Ausreisepflicht, GEAS, Illegalität, Flucht stoppen auf. fluchtforschung.net/blogbeitraeg...

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).