Nick Micinski

Our SI w/ @federicazardo.bsky.social on #migration governance through funding now published in the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies! In the intro doi.org/10.1080/1556... we advance a typology & scrutinise transparency, accountability & effectiveness impacts @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social

US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps

US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off.

Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

US-grown food aid is stranded in ports worldwide despite waiver It’s valued at nearly $500 million, and right now much of it is at risk of spoilage.

Utter madness. 36 million people. 👇

At least 500,000 tons of American-grown food meant for food-insecure people worldwide are stuck in ports and warehouses due to Trump administration freeze on USAID.
It’s enough to feed >36 million people and valued at ~ $500 million.
www.devex.com/news/us-grow...

DOJ brief defending Trump birthright citizenship order below. Remarkably, almost laughably weak

El Salvador to accept US deportees of any nationality, as well as imprisoned Americans, in unprecedented deal | CNN El Salvador has agreed to receive deportees from the United States of any nationality, including violent criminals who are US citizens currently imprisoned, in an unprecedented deal that has alarmed c...

El Salvador to accept US deportees of any nationality, including imprisoned Americans, in unprecedented deal, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says

Front cover of the report entitled "State Trafficking: Expulsion and sale of migrants from Tunisia to Libya"

It identifies the five stages of "a logistical chain which have been integrated and refined, also as a result of the agreements between the EU and Tunisia"

You can access it here in English, French or Italian. (I will add some info after my class) statetrafficking.net

Trump’s tariff threats fit a growing global phenomenon: hardball migration diplomacy Trump isn’t alone in using tariffs, travel bans and sanctions to make countries play ball on deportations. But the other side of migration diplomacy can be incentives for countries willing to take on ...

Trump's tariffs are part of the wider phenomenon of Hardball Migration Diplomacy.

This is not new. Trump used threats in his first term. And the EU, Bush, and Obama also used visa sanctions and threats to get states to cooperate on deportations and other migration policies.

Good. More of this.

What a lie. Here's the Supreme Court in 2012 making clear that simply being in the country without permission is NOT a crime: "As a general rule, it is not a crime for a removable alien to remain present in the United States."

It's a civil violation, not a crime.

Why the “Finance COP”in Baku Missed the Mark COP29 was focused on scale but not enough on the how and what of climate finance.

Why the “Finance COP”in Baku Missed the Mark?

#COP29 was focused on scale but not enough on the how and what of climate finance. @carnegieendowment.org

Funding for refugees has long been politicized − punitive action against UNRWA and Palestinians fi... The US is among more than a dozen countries to freeze funding to UN agency providing aid to displaced Gazans over allegations of complicity in the Oct. 7 attack.

Cutting funding to UNRWA politicizes refugee aid and collectively punishes Palestinians.

@kelseypnorman and I explain the long history of politicization of UNRWA and how this part of global pattern of politicized aid to refugees

theconversation.com/funding-for-...

Israel's mass displacement of Gazans fits strategy of using migration as a tool of war Mass forced movement of people has been used in conflicts to serve three goals: population control, territorial expansion and as a sorting mechanism. All three could be in play in Gaza.

.@nickmicinski.bsky.social, Adam Lichtenheld, & Kelsey Norman on how Israeli forces are engaging in mass displacement as a strategy of war, likely violating international law given all signs point to unwillingness to let people return theconversation.com/israels-mass...