Matti Välimäki
@mtaval.bsky.social
Postdoc Researcher, Centre for European Studies, Uni of Helsinki #GATEproject: #Deportation in Finland/Nordic countries, ~1950-2025: https://shorturl.at/flvJL Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matti-Vaelimaeki/research
My advice to EU leaders (who aren't far right): Offer help to the country concerned if it’s asked for, express sorrow for the deaths of people who are being manipulated into crossing borders illegally. Investigate and publish any co-ordination. Remove benefits to countries that weaponise migration.
Good piece. A thread on some comments I made yesterday on Times Radio. Two things can be true at the same time: 1. It’s very bad to have 60,000 people storm a border, and 70+ deaths. 2. European leaders' responses were opportunistic and disproportionate, and made incidents like this more likely.
Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 3d agoVance, Farage and Weidel posted fear-mongering messages about a Spanish migrant crisis that weren't true. They haven't retracted them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Interesting online event tomorrow: "Perspectives from the Norhern Moroccan Border" with two Moroccan scholars. facebook.com/events/s/per... #Ceuta #EUMigration #externalisation
The 24th IMISCOE Annual Conference, hosted by the Brussels Institute for Social and Population Studies (@brispo-vub.bsky.social) and the Brussels Interdisciplinary Research centre on Migration and Minorities at VUB, accepts submissions until 28 September 2026. 👉 More: www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...
Still 2 conferences to attend in Germany before the holidays. Will talk to colleagues about discourses of "defections" in Finland. Preparing slides. #GATEproject
It's hard to fathom what Europe will live next week. Thousands of records will be brutalized in Spain,France,UK,Benelux,Germany,Swiss,Austria and than the East Paris might record 4 consecutive days 40C UK will ridiculize its June national record Germany 10 days 37C+ This is CRAZY
Very happy to see this out on perceptions of welfare deservingness for different categories of migrants, together with @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social and Samir Negash @fggaleiden.bsky.social, open access in EPSR:
Unauthorised border crossings from the Soviet Union to Finland and returns by Finnish authorities, 1946-1990. -Including asylum applicants -2/3 returned -Bit of a change of policy from the late 1970s onward #defectors #loikkarit #coldwar #sovietunion 1/2
Award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan, set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup, was denied entry to the United States, a sports ministry official told AFP on Monday u.afp.com/SDH9
Good piece by Jefferson Pooley on how LLM-powered “research” tools like Google’s “Deep Research” and Elsevier’s “AI Discovery” likely strengthen the “Matthew effect”: highly-cited authors are amplified while undercited (often female) authors are increasingly ignored: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
The Matthew effect in AI summary - LSE Impact
AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate these biases ?
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I defended my dissertation last week! 🎉🎉🎉 I examine how mainstream parties & media respond to far-right challengers. Thanks so much to everyone who supported me along the way. I’m happy to carry on at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & continue ongoing work on reactionary politics & democratic defence.
In a bid to deport more Afghan migrants back to Afghanistan, the European Union is planning to invite officials from the Taliban government to Brussels for their first known official visit – despite numerous ethical and other concerns.
EU to invite Taliban officials to Brussels to discuss deportations
In a bid to deport more Afghan migrants back to Afghanistan, the European Union is planning to invite officials from the Taliban government to Brussels for their first known official visit – despite n...
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"Suomen kansalaisuuden saaneiden määrä saavutti uuden ennätyksen vuonna 2025" - Yht. n. 14 000 kansalaisuuden saanutta - Kaksoiskansalaisia Suomessa 2025 n. 198 000 stat.fi/fi/julkaisu/... #kansalaisuus #maahanmuutto
This beauty has now been submitted, approved by the publisher, and is set for production. Across 43 chapters, it covers a wide range of topics, approaches, and countries. Please stay tuned for updates. A big thank you to everyone involved! THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS OF THE FAR RIGHT
A total of 2,276 migrants have arrived on Spain's Canary Islands via the Atlantic route since the beginning of the year. Last year, a total of 17,788 migrants arrived on the archipelago; 46,843 people arrived on the same route in 2024.
Canary Islands: More than 300 migrants arrive on Spanish archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean
Late on Sunday, a wooden boat with 125 people on board was spotted off El Hierro. Earlier that day, a similar boat with more than 100 migrants on board was brought to port in Tenerife by Spanish rescu...
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🚨 Entering the last 2 weeks to apply for one of these postdoc positions on children's political socialization in my team at Aarhus Uni 🚨 I'm looking for talented candidates w qual methods skills who want to understand the deep roots of political marginalization: international.au.dk/about/profil...
Yle Areena: Passin historia areena.yle.fi/1-75854252 #maahanmuutto #historia
Passin historia – Kun yhdet saivat liikkua vapaasti, piti toisia valvoa tiukemmin | Elävä historia
Varhaisia ulkomaanpasseja kirjoitettiin lähinnä säätyläisille, sillä rahvaalla oli harvoin asiaa ulkomaille. Vielä 1800-luvun Suomessa myös maan sisäisillä matkoilla tarvittiin liikkumislupa. Sen saat...
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Our host at Osnabruck, IMIS, prof. Christoph Rass wrote a really nice blog post describing my and Morten Thomsen's current research interests. nghm.hypotheses.org/44954 @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social
IMIS Guests @ NGHM | Summer Semester 2026: Matti Välimäki (Helsinki) and Morten Baarvig Thomsen (Odense).
Since early April 2026, two visiting scholars have joined the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück as guests integrated into the NGHM Resear...
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"Historiantutkimus vaatii vastedes merkittävästi enemmän aikaa tai rahaa – tai suuntautuu muualle kuin @kansallisarkisto.fi aineistoihin, tutkijat pelkäävät", kirjoittaa @utu.fi historian alumni Ilkka Hemmilä @suomenkuvalehti.fi artikkelissaan Arkistot historiaan. suomenkuvalehti.fi/kotimaa/kans...
Kansallisarkisto sulkee puolet toimipisteistä – ”lahtaus” on uhka historiantutkimukselle, sanovat tutkijat
”Tämä on valtava asia kansallisen sivistyksen ja kulttuuriperinnön vaalimisen kannalta”, Suomen ja Pohjois-Euroopan historian professori Tiina Kinnunen sanoo.
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Bingo. “Danny Chin, former associate counsel at U.S.C.I.S.: These are countries with no real asylum process and rampant human rights violations…The administration uses these removals [to third countries] to instill fear. They want people to self-deport.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The View From Inside Trump’s DHS
Dozens of agents and officials share their stories about working in the Department of Homeland Security during the harsh crackdown on illegal immigration.
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📢 Don’t miss it! IMIS #SFB1604 Lecture with renowned migration researcher Nina Glick Schiller. Join us at #Osnabrück University (Room 11/212, Schloss) or via livestream: www.youtube.com/@IMIS_UniOsnabrueck #MigrationResearch #Migrationsforschung #Transnationalism #Migration #Migrationspolitik
This is simply genocidal language and is a horror in itself.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoRep. Carlos Gimenez: "I support what the president is doing. Iran is like a cancer. Sometimes the cure to cancer hurts, but the cancer has to be eliminated. And the cancer is Iran."
This is from my 2017 post: Normalizing Trump: An incredibly brief explainer pressthink.org/2017/09/norm... "A conflict in the journalist's code was created by a president wholly unfit for the job."
Ännu en tragedi som visar att en avskräckande migrationspolitik inte stoppar döden på Medelhavet eller andra migrationsrutter. www.dn.se/direkt/2026-...
Många migranter saknas sedan båt kapsejsat
Minst två personer har omkommit och ett 70-tal saknas sedan en båt med med irreguljära migranter kapsejsat I Medelhavet.
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Orbán gave us a 2-min Facebook update. No one's hurt, gas is still flowing, but then went on to emphasise that Europe is facing an energy crisis, that we're dependent on 🇷🇺 gas. The rest is anti-Ukrainian propaganda, claiming 🇺🇦 "has been working for years on cutting off Europe from Russian energy"
Gabriela Greilinger@gabrielagreilinger.com · 4mo ago🇭🇺 has 3 special legal orders (state of danger, emergency and war). The country's been in a "state of danger" since 2020 thanks to Fidesz. In a state of danger, elections can be held. In a state of emergency or war, they cannot. Let's hope they don't try to use this as a pretence to cancel elections
