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Critical transitions in migration studies: Comparative Migration Studies’ 10thanniversary issue - Comparative Migration Studies

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...

In it, we reflect on current debates in migration studies and the role our journal, CMS, has played in these discussions and could potentially play in the future.

Critical transitions in migration studies: Comparative Migration Studies’ 10thanniversary issue - Comparative Migration Studies

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...

Centre-left tipped to lose Copenhagen for first time in electoral history Political rivals say PM’s divisive politics have encouraged voters to ditch the Social Democrats for the far right

The Danish party that inspired Labour’s hardline immigration policy is on course to lose Copenhagen for the first time in more than a hundred years.

Among the reasons cited: fatigue and frustration with its hardline immigration policy.

What surveys with 170 smugglers in the Puntland region of Somalia say about smuggling dynamics in the Horn of Africa. ⬇️⬇️
Read all: https://f.mtr.cool/omtzsloywz

Peacekeeping and Foreign Interventions in Africa's Conflicts, 2011-2025

As the US and France scaled back counterterrorism efforts in #Africa, the UAE, Russia and Turkey expanded their military #interventions in the continent's #conflicts, deploying more forces each year since 2018, to countries like Mali, Somalia, and Sudan.

Labour’s plan for migrants to ‘earn’ permanent residency turns belonging into an endless exam In this hierarchical system, migrants are kept on extended probation and judged by standards never applied to British nationals.

Among the many things wrong with Labour’s immigration strategy, this stands out: to “fight” a few thousand so-called illegal migrants, Shabana Mahmood is willing to make life hell for hundreds of thousands of people who are legally in the UK.
🔗 theconversation.com/labours-plan...

The global humanitarian system is disintegrating in real time; this is the reality for @unhcr.org:

1. UNHCR is ending 2025 with $1.3 billion less than last year, a 30% workforce reduction, and 185 offices consolidated or closed. (1/x)

Gathering in South Ethiopia

Online presentation on conflict and peace in Ethiopia’s Southern Lowlands, "Individual Accountability, Collective Punishment, and the Securitization of Development", by Lucie Buffavand, next Thursday 20.11.2025, 6pm (CET), organised by WAKHVA, more information and registration: hornvonafrikaev.de

Zitat aus dem Leitartikel von Constantin Hruschka: Ein demokratischer Staat darf Fehler machen, er kann daran sogar scheitern. Wer aber das eigene Recht bewusst verletzt und dies als Tugend verkauft, beschädigt die Grundlage des Vertrauens, die jeden Rechtsstaat trägt.

"Der Plan von der Abschaffung des Asyls"

Der Titel des Editorials ist einem Roman entlehnt: CONSTANTIN HRUSCHKA beobachtet, dass auch das Asylrecht zur Fiktion wird.

Über kalkulierten Rechtsbruch, gesetzgeberische Hyperaktivität und die Rolle von Empathie.

verfassungsblog.de/asyl-geas-gr...

Drugs, violence and profit: Inside Britain’s Brook House detention centre At the UK's Brook House, migrants describe being trapped in a system driven by profit rather than policy — a place where private companies earn more the longer people are kept in limbo, a new investigation reveals.

At the UK's Brook House, migrants describe being trapped in a system driven by profit rather than policy — a place where private companies earn more the longer people are kept in limbo, a new investigation reveals.

Destitute by design: trapped in the immigration system Migration policy is not only failing people forced to arrive in Britain by boats. In an extract from a new edited volume, Daniel Trilling reports on t...

In 2023 @tom-clark.bsky.social got me to write a chapter for his book on UK poverty about how immigration limbo, which Labour wants more of, makes people destitute. It was the most distressing piece I've ever worked on. We sent a copy to every MP. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/6081...

When rift lakes dry up it can cause earthquakes and eruptions Lake Turkana in Kenya, known as the cradle of humanity, has shrunk in recent millennia – and the loss of water has led to increased seismic activity, which could have impacted our ancient ancestors

A drying climate in East Africa reduced the amount of water in Kenya’s Lake Turkana over thousands of years, which unleashed earthquakes and volcanoes from underneath it.

OUT NOW: In this new blog post, Maddy Clark and I examine some of the steps that got us to one of the largest far-right marches in UK history. The expansion of target groups - eg via racist & anti-trans agitation - is one of them:

When Tigray became a ‘wild west’ of illegal gold mining, Canadian firms staked a claim A postwar gold rush in Ethiopia razed the landscape and sowed seeds for conflict. The Globe looks into Canadian-licensed sites at the heart of it, and their ties to Beijing

A groundbreaking, eye-opening, and much needed investigation into Tigray's postwar goldrush: one of the most overlooked causes of the region's calamitous law and order breakdown—and its slide back to war.

www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Gathering in South Ethiopia

Online presentation on conflict and peace in Ethiopia’s Southern Lowlands, "Individual Accountability, Collective Punishment, and the Securitization of Development", by Lucie Buffavand, next Thursday 20.11.2025, 6pm (CET), organised by WAKHVA, more information and registration: hornvonafrikaev.de

Matriarchs of the East African coast: Power, Property and the changing status of Women in the Swahili world (1300-1900 CE) Historical traditions of several pre-colonial African societies are awash with stories of titled women who played prominent roles in the continent’s political history, such as the Candaces of ancient ...

Matriarchs of the East African coast
Power, Property and the changing status of Women in the Swahili world (1300-1900CE)

Many coastal societies followed matrilineal principles of descent and inheritance, and nearly all followed a matrilocal residence rule
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/matriarchs...

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Wow, great news! And well deserved!

The situation in Tanzania is worse than we realised. Some journalists have managed to smuggle information out of the country. Current death toll is close to 1,000 by some reports. A harshly enforced curfew is in place.

Human smuggling and trafficking in North Africa and the Sahel Since 2016, the GI-TOC has monitored the political economy of human smuggling and trafficking in North Africa and the Sahel. The 2025 series features country reports on Libya, Niger, Chad, Tunisia and...

Pleased to share the GI-TOC's latest report on #humansmuggling in #Niger.

🇳🇪 In 2024, following the repeal of Law 2015-36, movements rebounded, but didn’t reach pre-2015 levels.

Read why here 👇

globalinitiative.net/analysis/hum...

As aid dries up in Kenya, millions are threatened by the climate-driven disease kala-azar Rising temperatures and erratic rainfall have supercharged the breeding of sandflies that spread the climate-driven disease kala-azar.

As aid dries up in Kenya, millions are threatened by the climate-driven disease kala-azar. grist.org/health/kala-...

If you’re in Nairobi, displaced youth from Sudan are hosting a fundraiser for mutual aid groups in Darfur on Saturday November 8th. Lumin is a great community space ran by displaced youth from Sudan and Ethiopia and they have great coffee and tea. Tell your friends to tell their friends.

ANALYSIS | Myanmar’s scam economy poses growing threats to African security | News24 Cyber scam operations in Southeast Asia are highly sophisticated, industrial-scale enterprises that pressgang unsuspecting job seekers into servitude in shockingly exploitative conditions where they f...

Tens of thousands of nationals from at least 77 countries have been trafficked into more than 100 scam compounds in Myanmar in recent years.Among them have been at least 75 South Africans.

ICE fährt durch die Straßen amerikanischer Städte, scannt die Gesichter und wenn die App behauptet, das seien keine US-Bürger, dann springen diese Gangster aus dem Wagen, weisen sich nicht aus und verschleppen die Betroffenen.

Dystopischer wird es kaum.

State building in pre-colonial Somalia: the Sultanate of Geledi (ca. 1750-1908) For much of Somalia’s pre-colonial history, political organization was structured along clan and lineage divisions within largely acephalous societies.

State building in pre-colonial Somalia: the Sultanate of Geledi (ca. 1750-1908)

www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/state-buil...

«Die RSF wird schon seit Langem von Deutschland und der EU unterstützt – weil sie die ‹Festung Europa› aufrechterhalten soll. Der RSF-Anführer hat … wiederholt bekannt gegeben, dass er ‹die Arbeit der EU› machen würde und prahlte mit Zahlen von festgenommenen und abgeschobenen Migrant:innen.»