Dr. Sanam Roohi
@sanamroohi.bsky.social
Anthropology | inequality | migration | STEM | caste Researcher, CeMIS, Uni Göttingen II Co-initiator, Networked Futures II WG on digital inequalities, CAIS II Coeditor in chief, Comparative Migration Studies II WG 2 leader, ENIS COST Action
When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.
is probably the most evil tech company in the world, which, among other things, powers the ICE abductions of members of our communities. I can go on and on. I have zero good things to say about them. If I hated OpenAI more than Google, I hate Anthropic more than OpenAI.
Aju John and I write at the NewsMinute about the Opportunity Card that Germany is offering to skilled workers outside of the EU. Touted as an easy migration pathway, we show that it is becoming a migration trap and a pipeline to low wage work: www.thenewsminute.com/voices/why-g...
Why Germany’s Opportunity Card may be a migration trap for Indians
Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links.Priya* a 36-year-old woman from Pune, had spent nine years steadily building a career i
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Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
Independent research identifies few learning gains
economist.com
If you think American citizens should be summarily executed by masked federal agents, you’re not a patriot. If you think the lawless goons loyal to our demented pedophile criminal president are greater than the people of Minnesota, you’re not a patriot. You’re a fucking Nazi.
Here's a sentence I never thought I'd write: Die Zeit published a long-form piece featuring my research. Many thanks to Katharina Meyer zu Eppendorf and to everyone who, directly and indirectly, made this possible. www.zeit.de/campus/2026-...
Bürokratie: In die Bürokratie hineingerutscht wie andere in ihre Midlife-Crisis
Andere kaufen sich ein Rennrad, Alexandra Irimia erforscht die Bürokratie. Mal sieht sie darin eine verwunschene Schönheit, mal tödliche Gefahr.
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“What concerned Plato… was that inequality drove citizens apart and made their mutual friendship virtually impossible” – @laywilliams.bsky.social on why arguments against inequality do not boil down to mere “envy” of the rich #LSEInequalitiesBlog
Concern about inequality is not mere envy
Are those who object to inequality simply voicing their envy of the richl? If so, we must dismiss the principled arguments of Plato, Jesus, Hobbes, Mill and Marx
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"Just months after President Donald Trump first expressed interest in the United States possibly gaining control over Greenland, some of the richest people in the world—including Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg—began making strategic investments in the mineral-rich island." Forbes
Europe, don't be America's handmaiden! Take an independent and moral stance! Trump who is anyway trying to break the EU will not offer any real help when the need arises.
Kaja Kallas@kajakallas.bsky.social · 7mo agoI have spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and our Ambassador in Caracas. The EU is closely monitoring the situation in Venezuela. The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr Maduro lacks legitimacy and has defended a peaceful transition. (1/2)
Finally out: our introductory paper on "Critical transitions in migration studies: Comparative Migration Studies’ 10th anniversary issue" by @sanamroohi.bsky.social, @pwascholten.bsky.social, Martin Bak Jørgensen, Thais França, Andreas Pott, @zanavathi.bsky.social and myself. doi.org/10.1186/s408...
Critical transitions in migration studies: Comparative Migration Studies’ 10thanniversary issue - Comparative Migration Studies
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Speaking to colleagues in diff parts of 'East' Europe, it appears to be a generational thing, causing much discord between diff gens. I wonder if it is the same in East Germany. When I lived in Erfurt for a couple of years, my circle of friends, colleagues and students was largely West Germans..
The Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science@mpips.bsky.social · 9mo agoMany East Germans still sympathize with Russia - despite decades of Soviet occupation & now Putin’s war. Why? Nostalgia, post-reunification disappointment, capitalism’s failures, & as @steffenmau.bsky.social notes, an image of Russia that hasn’t evolved beyond the democratic hopes of the 1990s.
I missed the bit about Musk wistfully ‘handing it to’ Zohran Mamdani for being able to ‘light up a stage,’ Musk is clearly not going to forget being booed on stage at Dave Chapelle’a show Good. I hope it eats him alive. Anyway, let this feed my tanks of petty hate this am.
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 9mo agolmao
"We don't study race here (in academia), its American". Who would have believed it, I wonder?!
🚨 DEADLINE EXTENSION‼️ 📢Comparative Migration Studies (CMS) welcomes proposals for the Thematic Call special issue – 2025 with as thematic ‘Regional perspectives on migration’. ⏳New deadline: 15th October 2025 (23:59 CEST). 🔗More information: www.imiscoe.org/news-and-blo...
Call for proposals for the Thematic Call special issue – 2025 ‘Regional perspectives on migration’ - IMISCOE
IMISCOE is the largest European network of scholars in the area of migration and integration. The focus is on comparative research and joint research projects.
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Die AfD verliert alle drei OB-Stichwahlen in NRW. In Gelsenkirchen, Duisburg, Hagen. Die AfD wird in NRW weiterhin keinen Oberbürgermeister stellen! #KommunalwahlNRW #Kommunalwahl
Our new article 'Cumulative Precarity in Times of Polycrisis:..South Asian Students in Finland', that shows how precarity is cumulative, temporal and transnationally accumulated, while strategies of resilience are more situated, can be accessed here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glob.70033
Cumulative Precarity in Times of Polycrisis: Transnational Insecurities and Geo‐Spatialized Resiliences Among South Asian Students in Finland
On the basis of ethnographic research among South Asian students in Runolahti (anonymized), this article explores their experiences during a time of compounded crises. It examines how COVID-19 polici...
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"Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die." Now imagine it hadn't been Elon Musk saying this but Sadiq Khan. Or Zohran Mamdani. Or Ilhan Omar.
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 11mo agoKemi Badenoch's refusal to even mildly criticise a convicted far-right criminal and his billionaire mate, openly calling for violence on our streets, tells you everything you need to know about her leadership
Our new article 'Cumulative Precarity in Times of Polycrisis:..South Asian Students in Finland', that shows how precarity is cumulative, temporal and transnationally accumulated, while strategies of resilience are more situated, can be accessed here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glob.70033
Cumulative Precarity in Times of Polycrisis: Transnational Insecurities and Geo‐Spatialized Resiliences Among South Asian Students in Finland
On the basis of ethnographic research among South Asian students in Runolahti (anonymized), this article explores their experiences during a time of compounded crises. It examines how COVID-19 polici...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
As part of Speaking from the Margin's Academic Lecture Series 2025, I will give a talk titled: (Un)Belonging as Method: Refusing Neutrality in Transnational Research. The event is chaired by Prof. Nasreen Chowdhory 🗓️ July 27 | 🕓 4 PM IST | 📍 Zoom Meeting ID: 610 4219 2924 Passcode: 120407
Super interesting. A holistic medical school that prioritises prevention over cure! time.com/7303692/alic...
The World's Richest Woman Has Opened a Medical School
The Alice L. Walton School of Medicine is trying a new approach to medical education.
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Of course there's a desi angle! How does the Right learn from each other? Through such brokers. The US-Indian-Israeli right's shining example of cooperation by subjugation and overtake of popular culture.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last yr.🤦🏿♂️
If Russia India and the United States were building solar at the same rate as China the renewable energy transition would be over in no time. Unfortunately three of these countries are easily controlled by the interests of fossil fuel capitalists
Are a few people ruining the internet? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... by @jayvanbavel.bsky.social "Just 10% of users produce roughly 97% of political tweets." "It amplifies the loudest & most extreme voices while muting the moderate," "...distorts how the rest of us make sense of the world."
Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?
Why does the online world seem so toxic compared with normal life? Our research shows that a small number of divisive accounts could be responsible – and offers a way out
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🚨A New York Times investigation reveals that Prime Minister Netanyahu repeatedly sacrificed ceasefire opportunities in Gaza to preserve his fragile far-right coalition and remain in power. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
At about 20 minutes after midnight, Zohran Mamdani emerged to greet his supporters on a brewery rooftop in Long Island City. Read our full election coverage at the link in bio. www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/m...
