Dr. Natalie Welfens
@nwelfens.bsky.social
Political Sociologist University Duisburg-Essen. Migration, refugee protection, EU external relations, IOs, gender, feminist approaches, practice theory. And cats. She/her.
Germany's cabinet approved a bill in July that would allow AI use in visa, residence and asylum procedures. Josefine Flesch, Bernard Quante, and Natalie Welfens @nwelfens.bsky.social, unpack the rights and bias concerns it raises. buff.ly/SZWJ2GO
Germany's Draft Law on AI in Migration Raises Rights and Bias Concerns
Germany’s new AI migration law could reshape visa, asylum, and residence procedures. Natalie Welfens, Josefine Flesch and Bernard Quante examine risks.
techpolicy.press
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Feminist Foreign Policy Without Migration?", @hlmuehlenhoff.bsky.social, Lara Sosa Popovic & @nwelfens.bsky.social investigate why migration is sidelined as a policy issue within FFP Guidelines in Germany 🇩🇪 🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟 buff.ly/eG8uces
💥 Explore the full Special Section #FeministForeignPolicy in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social. Thanks to all contributors! @tonihaastrup.bsky.social @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social @nwelfens.bsky.social @karolinefaerber.bsky.social @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social @balnik.bsky.social @hlmuehlenhoff.bsky.social
Feminist Foreign Policy Without Migration? Examining Exclusions in Germany’s FFP Guidelines | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
Feminist Foreign Policy Without Migration? Examining Exclusions in Germany’s FFP Guidelines
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#OpenAccess from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social - Feminist Foreign Policy Without Migration? Examining Exclusions in Germany’s FFP Guidelines - https://cup.org/4mQimRB - @hlmuehlenhoff.bsky.social, Lara Sosa Popovic & @nwelfens.bsky.social #FirstView
Very excited to share a new preprint. @jesperasring.bsky.social and I study how politicians engage with evidence in the real world. Link: osf.io/8zv9s
Was kommuniziert ihr euren Studis zu #KI #LLMs und #chatgpt in der Lehre und mit Blick auf Hausarbeiten und Referate? Gibt es an euren Instituten schon Leitlinien dazu? #askingforafriend #wissenschaft
📖Buchvorstellung DIE HEIMAT DER ANDEREN. HERKUNFTSLANDINFORMATIONEN IN ASYLVERFAHREN ⚖️Wie wissen Richter:innen genug, um über Asylanträge zu entscheiden? Eine Analyse anhand der Beispiele #Syrien und #Afghanistan. 📆20. Mai 2025 @leuphana.bsky.social www.leuphana.de/news/termine...
On 4 June I present my paper with @nwelfens.bsky.social on the impact of migration research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. @judithkohlenberger.bsky.social will act as discussant! There will be lots of room for discussion, so please join! The event is hybrid. www.oeaw.ac.at/isr/institut...
Why has migration research so little impact?
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One more time for the folks in the back.
Tarik Abou-Chadi@tabouchadi.bsky.social · last yr.3) Moving right on immigration normalizes the radical right, their positions and rhetoric. Normalization is a key precondition for electoral expansion of the radical right. Programmatic accommodation and collaboration normalize the radical right and open new segments of the electorate for it.
🗳️ Populism is a warning sign. English local elections show it again: People feel abandoned & look scapegoats. Drawing on own research & others, I argue 👇🏽 💡 To counter populism: We need to reinvest in citizens, e.g. housing, health & dignity. Short 🧵 📖 www.socialeurope.eu/to-counter-p...
To Counter Populism and Bolster Security, Europe Must Reinvest In Its Citizens
Facing security threats and rising populism, Europe needs state investment in citizens, not austerity that fuelled discontent.
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#Asyl: Thym kritisiert Kritik an Abschaffung des #Amtsermittlungsgrundsatzes als konservativ bzw. innovationsresistent, prognostiziert allerdings nur ein "Mischmodell, dessen praktischer Mehrwert unklar bleibt". Wir warten gespannt auf den Gesetzesentwurf zum Mischmodell. @verfassungsblog.de
Verfassungsblog@verfassungsblog.de · last yr.Die Themen Asyl und Migration haben den letzten Bundestagswahlkampf maßgeblich bestimmt. Doch welche Forderungen schafften es in den Koalitionsvertrag? Und was davon ist juristisch umsetzbar? DANIEL THYM über die migrationspolitischen Vorhaben von Schwarz-Rot: verfassungsblog.de/migration-un...
Interested in maritime law and (im)mobility? check out the call for papers for our next international workshop 👇
Itamar Mann@itamann.bsky.social · 2y agoJessica Larsen and I are organizing a workshop in beautiful Copenhagen this coming Fall, come join us! Special issue call for papers: Straits, Canals and Choke Points, September 15-16, 2025 mobilitylaw.ku.dk/news/2025/ca... Thanks @mobileucph.bsky.social for hosting this project
Hi! Ich suche einen guten Einführungstext zum Asylsystem Deutschlands (auf deutsch) für BA Studierende. Hat jemand Ideen? @maxpichl.bsky.social @ulrikekrause.bsky.social @marcusengler.bsky.social @judithkohlenberger.bsky.social @jolafkleist.bsky.social @tabeascharrer.bsky.social
A new study has examined 8 million speeches from 140 years of Congress, showing a massive decline in evidence-based language since the 1970s. www.iflscience.com/use-of-facts...
"Gut Feeling" Is Outweighing Evidence-Based Rhetoric In US Politics"
A new study has examined 8 million speeches from 140 years of Congress, showing a massive decline in evidence-based language since the 1970s.
iflscience.com
Ich forsche seit zehn Jahren zu Resettlement und finde die temporäre Aussetzung der Programme fatal - zumal sie für Personen mit besonderem Schutzbedarf gedacht sind.
Jürgen Zimmerer@juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · last yr.Deutschland, schäme Dich in Grund und Boden! Und dies zum 80. Jahrestag des Kriegsendes, mit seinen Fluchtbewegungen..... Und Du, @spdde , machst mit.... web.de/magazine/pol...
Happy to see my article on IOM's role in refugee resettlement out in @ersjournal.com. How do IOM's pre-departure courses construe knowledge about resettlement as a pathways and host societies' norms and values? What are refugees' perspective on such courses? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Unpacking “expectation management”: the International Organization for Migration’s pre-departure orientation for resettling refugees
This article examines the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) pre-departure orientation (PDO) trainings for resettling refugees. Scholarly knowledge about the pre-departure phase of re...
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Ethnic and Racial Studies@ersjournal.com · 2y ago#ERSNew #ERSSpecialIssue🐣🔓 This article analyses IOM's role in refugee resettlement and its pre-departure orientation courses for refugees. How do PDO courses shape resettlement as an institution of unequal power relations? @nwelfens.bsky.social 's article: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2474616
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 · 2y ago✍🏽👩🏽💻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...
Special Issue: Refugee Resettlement as an Institution Unpacking ‘Expectation Management’: The International Organisation for Migration’s #PredepartureOrientation for #Resettling Refugees Author: @nwelfens.bsky.social University of Duisburg-Essen Coming soon! #expectationManagement
Exciting news! 🎉 I’ve been awarded a Change! Fellowship from the @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social and will lead a research group on 'Technological Transformation in Migration & Asylum Governance' @unidue.bsky.social for the next 5y. Looking forward to this journey! tinyurl.com/5cxhxekk
Die Gesellschaft positiv verändern: Stiftung fördert transformative Forschungsprojekte | VolkswagenStiftungSchließenWeiterWeiter
Für eine lebenswerte Gesellschaft sind positive Veränderungen nötig. Die Stiftung fördert mit "Change!" 17 Projekte mit 28 Mio. Euro, die Forschung und Praxiswissen verbinden – von Bildungsgerechtigke...
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Wie konnte es soweit kommen, dass die AfD mit ihren rassistischen, autoritären Positionen solchen Zuspruch bekommt? Alle befragen sich, was die eigenen Fehler waren. Nur in den Redaktionen der Medien gibt es anscheinend null Zweifel, null Selbstkritik. Alles weiter so. Das geht nicht.
Just so people do not draw the wrong conclusions. Like other social democratic parties, the SPD has lost only very few voters to the far right. Today's AfD supporters are mostly not former social democrats. We outline this in detail here, for example: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/media/1awhrc...
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Isabella M. Weber@isabellamweber.bsky.social · 2y agoThe big reversal in Germany’s election Extreme right (AfD) gained every where but particularly in the poorest regions. Social Democrats (SPD) lost everywhere but particularly in the poorest region.
I see it after all elections with wins for populist radical right parties (PRRPs), also now with AfD in Germany: Weird wild stories about how much ethnic minorities vote for PRRPs, explained by stereotypes. A lot of anecdata, not much actual data. But, I recently published this paper about it:
Dr. Sanne van Oosten@sbvanoosten.bsky.social · 2y ago✨New publication in Populism & Politics✨ Do minority voters tend to vote for Populist Radical Right Parties (PRRPs)? And why? Though Dutch Muslim minorities are much less likely to vote for the PVV, French and German Muslim minorities are actually just as likely to... 🧵
Wir haben gestern lange darüber gesprochen was wir tun würden wenn Autoritäre und Faschisten die Macht übernehmen. Behält man Stellen in Bürokratie und Wissenschaft, wandert man aus, wie würde man Widerstand organisieren? Als Deutscher kennt man diese Fragen. Man hat sie häufig rückblickend ... 1/
It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded and what’s next
The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the administration’s policy changes has shocked researchers.
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Have you checked out our new #ERSSpecialIssue V.48, Issue 4? The issue explores how migration governance relies on categorization, shaping migrants' experiences, despite discrepancies between bureaucratic labels and lived realities. Articles: https://buff.ly/3ElIvak
THE RESIST LIST IS HERE. Proud my team just started this @resistlist.bsky.social, which will list actions that happened and that are slated to happen.
Man kann es nicht oft genug sagen: Im Schatten von rechtsextremen Diskursen zu Migranten und Migrantinnen entwickelt sich eine Gewaltwelle. www.tagesspiegel.de/potsdam/bran...
Vereitelter Anschlag auf Flüchtlingsheim: Ein Brandenburger Dorf schrammt an der Katastrophe vorbei
Ein 21-jähriger Sachse soll einen Sprengstoffanschlag auf eine Brandenburger Asylunterkunft geplant haben. Das Ziel: das dörfliche Sedlitz bei Senftenberg. Ein Besuch.
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3 days until Germany votes. While much attention has been on Friedrich Merz who is all but guaranteed to become the next chancellor, the fate of Germany’s incoming government hinges on three small parties fighting to enter parliament. Here is what fellow Europeans should watch out for on Sunday:
