@emilyfrank.bsky.social
(She/her) postdoc in sociology @wzb.bsky.social currently working on asylum, family reunification, & mental health. In general: migration, asylum, mixed methods. Former Humboldt Uni / BIM / Hertie School
Happy to share the second publication from my PhD. In this article I demonstrate the implications of differential inclusion for immigrants’ experiences of (non-)belonging, with the empirical example of refugees’ labor market access in Germany: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
28.07.2025 13:37 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Was bringt Menschen dazu, ihr Land zu verlassen? Welche Erfahrungen machen sie dabei? Und wie reagieren die aufnehmenden Gesellschaften? Das neue Heft der WZB-Mitteilungen blickt aus verschiedenen Perspektiven auf #Migration.
Zum Heft: wzb.eu/de/migration
#ERSNew #ERSSpecialIssue🐣🔓 A 7-year study of Canada’s Syrian Refugee Resettlement Initiative reveals how nuclear family structures and restrictive policies leave most families separated, impacting well-being. Article: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2474621
31.03.2025 08:09 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0All of this undertaken in our name. Remember that.
22.03.2025 22:02 — 👍 627 🔁 219 💬 0 📌 11You literally cannot tell this incredibly cool part of American history without centering Native American identity. It is an powerful demonstration of how diversity provided tangible military advantages over an enemy committed to White supremacy.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
It is that time of the year again!
@eu-eurostat.extwitter.link today published data on citizenship acquisition updated to 2023
a 🧵 on a few things we learn from the data and some of the usual caveats to keep in mind
ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sta...
If the Great Resegregation proves successful, it will restore an America past where racial and ethnic minorities were the occasional token presence in an otherwise white-dominated landscape. It would repeal the gains of the civil-rights era in their entirety. What its advocates want is not a restoration of explicit Jim Crow segregation—that would shatter the illusion that their own achievements are based in a color-blind meritocracy. They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity while maintaining an unofficial racial hierarchy. Like elections in authoritarian countries where the autocrat is always reelected in a landslide, they want a system in which they never risk losing but can still pretend they won fairly.
The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
22.02.2025 16:07 — 👍 5546 🔁 1930 💬 133 📌 120
Swedish school shooting victims were seven women and three men
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#Orebro
Das Thema #Migration dominiert die letzten Wochen vor der vorgezogenen Bundestagswahl am 23. Februar. Unsere Quellen für Journalist*innen dazu:
ℹ️ Zurückweisungen & Abschiebungen: mediendienst-integration.de/artikel/rege...
ℹ️ Familiennachzug: mediendienst-integration.de/artikel/was-...
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These are dark times almost everywhere. But there is also light: last night I attended the launch of a new Association of Palestinian and Jewish Academics in Berlin.
Inspiring, moving, and just the kind of solidarity we need--and not just in Germany. pja-verein.de
Took me way too long to delete my Twitter account for good. Hoping BlueSky stays a good place, and looking forward to engaging more here!
27.01.2025 12:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy to share my latest article on refugees’ experiences with German government agencies, inequalities by legal status and the role of street-level bureaucrats:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I now have a PhD! Thanks to @dynamics.bsky.social for a great 3 years 🥳
Now I can fully focus on my work at @wzb.bsky.social, where I’m looking at the effects of legal status, the asylum process, and family reunification on immigrants’ mental health.
Absolutely excited that the DFG has just approved the renewal of @dynamics.bsky.social 🥳🍾 We are delighted to train 20 additional PhD students working on demography, democracy and public policy during the next 5 years at Humboldt University and @hertieschool.bsky.social! www.dfg.de/service/pres...
09.11.2023 08:17 — 👍 115 🔁 20 💬 5 📌 2
Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish attitudes among respondents in the American Mosaic Project 2014 survey. Each jittered black point in the top panel of this figure represents the number of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim attitudes reported by a White, Non-Hispanic respondent—the sum of yes responses to seven statements, including “They don’t share my morals or values” and “They want to take over our political institutions.” Purple ellipses represent a normal data ellipses for responses conditional on any problem (bottom left corner) and average conditional on a sum of problems across both groups greater than 10 (top right corner). Using the same data, the bottom two panels display the average number of problems attributed to a group conditional on the number of problems attributed to the other group
This figure displays change in mentions of Jews and Muslims or Arabs that contained predicted hate speech compared to January 2017 among Gab users who posted every month January 2017 through August 2018
The bottom panel above displays hate crimes and bias incidents recorded by ADL and CAIR by month. The top panels compares these two sources. Overall, hate crimes and bias incidents gradually decline after the 2016 election—until a very large spike in anti-Jewish incidents in late 2018. In addition to the overall patterns potentially related to the election and inauguration of Donald Trump, we also see a longer term shift in anti-Jewish hate crimes relative to anti-Muslim hate crimes in mid-2017. This second shift mirrors the activity on fringe social media sites around Unite the Right
Anti-Muslim or Arab and anti-Jewish aggravated assault, murders, manslaughter, arson, and kidnapping recorded in the FBI UCR data by month
Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish hate online stems from the same fringe, white supremacist communities who target both groups interchangeably, finds Hobbs, @nazita.bsky.social, Li & Lucas, suggesting we need to consider hate against both groups in tandem
doi.org/10.1007/s111...
Sozialleistungen als Pullfaktor für Flüchtlinge? Aus der Wissenschaft gebe es dafür keine Belege, sagt der Sozialwissenschaftler Tim Müller. Er hat Migrations-Daten für 160 Länder ausgewertet. Mehr im Interview👇https://mediendienst-integration.de/artikel/demokratie-ist-ein-pull-faktor.html
31.10.2023 14:07 — 👍 69 🔁 54 💬 3 📌 3Prime example here… m.bild.de/politik/inla...
31.10.2023 14:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Right now the public discussion in Germany has somehow set up Jewish safety and Muslim safety, Jewish safety and refugee safety as two opposing interests. Current world events are being mobilized to fuel preexisting German xenophobia - which now has a convenient new rationale.
31.10.2023 14:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Super interesting findings! Congrats 🙌🏻
20.10.2023 07:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good afternoon from the University of Amsterdam
04.10.2023 10:39 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0![There is a “centre” where the money, the fame, is; most likely your proposal gets funded because it’s on the most favourable topic. Maybe today, RNA is [most favourable]. If you are working with mRNA, maybe that's the centre there.
And then there are people in the periphery. There is no fame, there is no money, no nothing there. The only thing in the periphery is freedom. You can do what you like to do, what you feel is important.
Here’s what a proposal is: why they should give me money. And they should question that. “She came from university nobody knew about.” “She never had a mentor who was famous.”
And somehow it gravitates always to the same people, same circle. They get published there, they get the money. And that's another explanation: I was not famous enough or didn't have anybody who would support me in a way that somebody that’s a famous and well-established scientist stands behind you and says, “Oh, look at this, it’s good.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h6srr75ahvugj6gts7ql4cpl/bafkreie7jkxonqwgbbcuni4dh54nhodteq24wv4dp6smnvsomdpwpve4we@jpeg)
There is a “centre” where the money, the fame, is; most likely your proposal gets funded because it’s on the most favourable topic. Maybe today, RNA is [most favourable]. If you are working with mRNA, maybe that's the centre there. And then there are people in the periphery. There is no fame, there is no money, no nothing there. The only thing in the periphery is freedom. You can do what you like to do, what you feel is important. Here’s what a proposal is: why they should give me money. And they should question that. “She came from university nobody knew about.” “She never had a mentor who was famous.” And somehow it gravitates always to the same people, same circle. They get published there, they get the money. And that's another explanation: I was not famous enough or didn't have anybody who would support me in a way that somebody that’s a famous and well-established scientist stands behind you and says, “Oh, look at this, it’s good.”
Katalin Karikó on the status economy of academia. She’s the hero we don’t deserve.
Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...
Renewing online used to be an option - due to corona - but this is no longer available. Asylum seekers appear to be at the back of the line for appointments.
28.09.2023 14:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A consequence of the overburdened Berlin immigration office: there are no appointments for asylum seekers to renew their IDs - which they need to receive their social benefits, health insurance, and housing payments.
28.09.2023 14:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I will be spending October-November as a visiting PhD at the University of Amsterdam. Excited to engage with the migration research community there! HMU if you’re there and want to talk about social welfare rights of immigrants & refugees 😊
26.09.2023 08:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
