Maureen Eger
@maureeneger.bsky.social
Political sociologist researching immigration, welfare states, (neo-)nationalism, democracy and more. Associate Professor, University of Southern California Posts my own. https://www.maureeneger.com/
🎙️ 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 👂
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.
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
Janelle Kellman@janellekellman.com · 3mo agoI'm Janelle Kellman, and I'm running for Lieutenant Governor of #California. Change is coming.
Important research from @namanrawat.bsky.social at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social on how violence targeting immigrants is associated with experiences of marginalization.
Naman Rawat @namanrawat.bsky.social · 5mo ago📢 New in IMR. We often ask whether #refugees “integrate.” But what happens when the host society becomes hostile? I develop the concept of social marginalization and show that refugees in more #violent German counties report stronger feelings of exclusion and discrimination. doi.org/10.1177/0197...
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....
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...
tandfonline.com
“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...
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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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.
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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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...
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...
latimes.com
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...
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford@casbsstanford.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe 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/...
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/...
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...
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.
americanimmigrationcouncil.org
“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.”
Dr. Manuel Pastor@profmpastor.bsky.social · 10mo agoWhy Trump’s Compact for Higher Ed deserves an ‘F’ (hint: it’s not just for the facism . . .) www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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...
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.
nature.com
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...
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-...
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.
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 11mo agoAs the Trump administration continues to ramp up immigration enforcement, industries key to the state’s $4 trillion economy like agriculture, construction and hospitality could be among those hardest hit by the loss of California’s immigrant workforce, new research suggests.
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...
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.
Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
theatlantic.com
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....
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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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/...
California, 17 other states challenge 'suspicionless' stops by masked ICE agents in L.A.
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.
latimes.com
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...
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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@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/...
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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I love when the radical right research robot @kai-arzheimer.com shares my brilliant Umeå University colleague’s work
RRResRobot@rrresrobot.bsky.social · last yr.A. Bohman. “Who's Welcome and Who's Not? Opposition Towards Immigration in the Nordic Countries, 2002-2014”. In: Scandinavian Political Studies 41.3 (2018), pp. 283-306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9477.12120.
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...
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.
latimes.com
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.
@devorahmanekin.bsky.social · last yr.
"...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."
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
theguardian.com
