That‘s what I call big news! 😉 🤩 I am thrilled and honored to have been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant #ERCCoG to investigate how political actors respond to ethical dilemmas of migration governance. Look out for vacancy announcements soon!

Department for Migration and Globalisation@demigkrems.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🎉 We’re very happy to share that @julia-mp.bsky.social Permoser has received an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant for her project Ethics in Action. She’ll study how political & civil society actors navigate ethical dilemmas in migration policy across 10 sites worldwide: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Don’t miss out on this really interesting talk! Taking place online this Thursday as part of our DEMIG talks. Everyone is welcome to join!

Department for Migration and Globalisation@demigkrems.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Navigating Legal Uncertainty – DEMIG Talk with Gisela P. Zapata, Assistant Professor at @ufmgbr.bsky.social 🎙️ “Complexity and Unevenness in Migrants’ Regularization Pathways in Latin America” 🗓️ 13 November 2025 | 🕒 15:00–16:00 CET | 📍 Online 🔗 Details & Zoom link: www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...

#OpenAccess from the latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs - Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration - cup.org/4f6dbuy - @lukasschmid.bsky.social, Martin Ruhs, Rainer Bauböck & @julia-mp.bsky.social

1) "Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration" - Lukas Schmid, Martin Ruhs, Rainer Bauböck, and Julia Mourao Permoser @julia-mp.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S089...

Happening tomorrow! 🤩 Don’t miss it! 👇

Department for Migration and Globalisation@demigkrems.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us for the next DEMIG Online Talk with Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Assistant Professor at UIC. She will discuss the transformation of migratory pathways across the Americas over the last decades amid global political developments. 📅 May 28th, 2025 🕒 3-4 pm CET 📲 donau-uni.zoom.us/j/6916422094...

This!👇🤮

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · last yr.

It's not really deportation if people are sent to countries where they never lived. It's a human trafficking ring. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Impressive, must-watch video by three Yale professors explaining why they are leaving the US👇

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

I am over the top with joy to welcome the amazing scholar Soledad Alvarez to an online talk on the 28th of May hosted by our department. 🤩 Soledad’s work on migration corridors in the americas, border economies and practices of resistance is inspirational. Don’t miss out on this talk! 🗣️

Department for Migration and Globalisation@demigkrems.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us for the next DEMIG Online Talk with Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Assistant Professor at UIC. She will discuss the transformation of migratory pathways across the Americas over the last decades amid global political developments. 📅 May 28th, 2025 🕒 3-4 pm CET 📲 donau-uni.zoom.us/j/6916422094...

My article “Can States Resist Migration Blackmail While Protecting Migrants?” has been published open access in Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy. #migcitsky #philsky #poltheory jesp.org/index.php/je...

Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy

Migration blackmail occurs when one state threatens to engineer a “migration crisis” on the borders of a target state by creating or permitting an irregular migration flow unless political or economic...

jesp.org

I’ll do a full thread later, but for now I would like to thank Rainer Bauböck, Martin Ruhs, @julia-mp.bsky.social & @lukasschmid.bsky.social for getting me started in thinking about this topic, and for their helpful feedback.

Step 1. Screening social media of immigrants. Step 2. Screening social media of naturalized immigrants. Step 3. Screening social media of all citizens.

NPR@npr.org · last yr.

Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.

Best article on Trump‘s tariffs I’ve read so far. Thank you, Rolling Stone! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump Launches Trade War With Penguins, Not Putin

Donald Trump’s new global trade war declaration will place tariffs on America’s economic allies and Arctic waterfowl, but not Russia.

rollingstone.com

Three great positions at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute in The Hague.

Frank van Tubergen@frankvantubergen.bsky.social · last yr.

We're hiring! Vacancies for 3 permanent research positions at the Assistant/Associate Professor level at NIDI (The Hague), in the field of labor market studies, inequality, and human geography/spatial studies. #Sociology #Demography #SocialSciences #Economics nidi.nl/en/about-us/...

Join us for This Great online Talk as Part of our Inhouse DEMIG Talk Series on Migration and violence 👇

Department for Migration and Globalisation@demigkrems.bsky.social · last yr.

At the next DEMIG Online Talk on March 27, 2-3 pm CET, Fekadu Adugna Tufa, Professor of Social Anthropology in Addis Ababa, will discuss the diverse conditions of im/mobility that Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia are confronted with. Please join the event via this link donau-uni.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The #IMISCOE2025 spring conference at the @unikrems.bsky.social is in full swing, with 26 panels, 3 keynotes & 2 roundtables on the topic of irregular migration. The booklet is available here donau-uni.ac.at/dam/jcr:1fe8... Tmrw is the final day, we hope to see many of you there, in person or online

Spannende Diskussion mit Vertreter*innen der Kommunalpolitik und Studierende an der Uni Wien. Organisiert von der ÖH und SOS Balkanroute. Tolles Zusammenkommen von Wissenschaft, Politik und Zivilgesellschaft!

Folks, a *reminder*: there are still 4 weeks to submit your contribution to this year’s GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck 2025 Essay Award on the Global State of Citizenship. Pls share with early career researchers or submit smt yourself if you are one and have an interest in citizenship. #MigCitSky

GLOBALCIT@globalcit.bsky.social · 2y ago

🌍 Calling all early-career #Citizenship researchers! ✍️✨ Submit your entry for the 2025 GLOBALCIT – Rainer Bauböck Essay Award 🏆 The❓How will geopolitics affect future citizenship laws and policies? 🌐💡 🏅 €1,000 + publication 📖 📝 3,000 words 📅 Deadline: 31 March 2025 Full details ➡️ t.ly/cbRd_

You haven't yet registered for the upcoming IMISCOE Spring Conference on irregular migration (17-19 March)? Until Monday it's still possible to register for online or on-site participation (no fees). Join us and benefit from 2 keynotes, 2 roundtables and 26 panels www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...

Program

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Department for Migration and Globalisation@demigkrems.bsky.social · 2y ago

❕ Registration is now open for the next IMISCOE Spring Conference on the topic of irregular migration ❕ 🚞 17-19 March 2025/ Krems, Austria 📅 Deadline for registration: 3 March 2025 ℹ️ All details here: www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...

Confused about birthright citizenship? Have you heard of jus sanguinis v jus soli, but no clear idea what these terms mean? Why do countries apply different rules? Why does this matter? Check out the profiles of these brilliant citizenship scholars ✨ (and happy to add more) go.bsky.app/5vLDGon

The next DEMIG talk will be given by Alex Braithwaite (@uarizona.bsky.social) on factors influencing attitudes towards immigration. What effect does information about immigrants' past and potential future contributions to the host country have? 🗓️ Feb 20 4-5 pm CET 📝 donau-uni.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Fascinating piece by Alex Clark in The Guardian about the European population crisis. Without immigration, Europe is literally dying out! www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

So much worse than I imagined, because this administration really has no red lines www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

Under Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan, Some Migrants Are Being Sent to Panama

The administration has asked Panama to take in hundreds of people who can’t easily be sent back to their countries. Many say they are in danger.

nytimes.com

So happy that this will soon be published 🙌🏼 Congratulations, Daniel!

Daniel Sharp@deeesharp.bsky.social · 2y ago

This paper employs the migration policy dilemmas framework developed by @julia-mp.bsky.social et al, and so hopefully contributes the discussion around the ethics of migration policy (see here for an overview academic.oup.com/migration/ar...

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Department for Migration and Globalisation@demigkrems.bsky.social · 2y ago

Do you examine the topic of migration using economic methods and theories? Then why not present your work at the next Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association? It will take place on Sept 23-24 2025 at @unikrems.bsky.social. The cfp is open til March 15: www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/mig/noeg-...

The IMISCOE Spring conference this year will take place in beautiful Krems!!! ❤️ Come drink some exquisite white wine with us and engage in interesting discussions about migration (though maybe not in that order…) 😆

Department for Migration and Globalisation@demigkrems.bsky.social · 2y ago

❕ Registration is now open for the next IMISCOE Spring Conference on the topic of irregular migration ❕ 🚞 17-19 March 2025/ Krems, Austria 📅 Deadline for registration: 3 March 2025 ℹ️ All details here: www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...

Excellent analysis by Peter Spiro of what seems to be a mere chicanery but might, in the crazy times we live, become the biggest caesura in the US’s national self-conception since the adoption of the 14th amendment itself 👇 globalcit.eu/trumps-birth...

Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Chicanery - Globalcit

Among his first actions as re-installed president, Donald Trump issued a January 20 executive order purporting to roll back territorial birthright citizenship in the United States. Under the order, US...

globalcit.eu

Policy-making on migration is full of ethical dilemmas. Take a look at the @mpc-eui.bsky.social 'Dilemmas' project by @lukasschmid.bsky.social, @julia-mp.bsky.social, Rainer Bauböck, and Martin Ruhs with 45 open-access contributions. migrationpolicycentre.eu/the-ethics-o...

The ethics of migration policy dilemmas - Migration Policy Centre

Overview ‘Dilemmas’ explores the ethical challenges in migration and refugee policy-making, focusing on the real-world dilemmas faced by policymakers and civil society. While the growing field of poli...

migrationpolicycentre.eu

Tomorrow at 4pm CET we will host Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien for a talk on “racism and refuge”. Ben is one of the foremost experts on sanctuary cities in the US, and the author of “sanctuary cities: the politics of refuge” academic.oup.com/book/35080 Please register for the talk to get a zoom link!

Department for Migration and Globalisation@demigkrems.bsky.social · 2y ago

Exchange ideas with inspiring migration researchers – join us for the DEMIG Online Talks. On Jan 16, B.G. O’Brien,Assoc Prof at SDSU,discusses how anti-migrant stereotypes have spread in the US since the 1920s and continue to shape immigration discourse and policies donau-uni.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Don’t miss out on this!!! 🙀 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Department for Migration and Globalisation@demigkrems.bsky.social · 2y ago

Exchange ideas with inspiring migration researchers – join us for the DEMIG Online Talks. On Jan 16, B.G. O’Brien,Assoc Prof at SDSU,discusses how anti-migrant stereotypes have spread in the US since the 1920s and continue to shape immigration discourse and policies donau-uni.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#Policymakers in the Global North often grapple with the question ‘Should we protect #refugees here or there?’ This poses a significant ethical challenge ⚠️ This #WorkingPaper gathers responses from leading scholars around this dilemma. Full paper: loom.ly/34BQt9Q