Tabea Scharrer

This lady from the Philippines died because she was left outside of a shelter by the family she was worked for as a caregiver.

I see a lot of these stories about migrant workers being denied entry to shelters in Israel. Often without detail, and almost always false. In the case of Marie Anne De Vera, it's a blatant and horrible lie

Nothing for the millions of refugees and displaced persons the bombing creates.

Resharing this paper from a year:

„The Bab-El-Mandeb to the Suez Canal is part and parcel of our national security. […] If Djibouti becomes the theatre of global war, given the presence of all these military bases including of China and America, then we are trapped.“

Three men deported by US file legal case against Eswatini over detention The men, who had been released after completing criminal sentences, are from Cuba, Jamaica and Yemen

Three men deported by the US to Eswatini – rather than their home countries – have filed a case against Eswatini’s government with the African Union’s human rights body.

Eswatini's govt said: "These individuals are not detained or imprisoned. They are being accommodated in a secure environment."

From Bangladesh to Italy via Libya: Many migrants interviewed started their journeys through legal migration channels or believed they were doing so. When those pathways become inaccessible or too costly, the same intermediaries can redirect migrants into irregular routes. bit.ly/4cZBb3e

The ethics of migration policy dilemmas - Migration Policy Centre ‘Dilemmas’ explores the ethical challenges in migration and refugee policy-making, focusing on the real-world dilemmas faced by policymakers.

Really looking forward to the Workshop on "Migrant Integration Policy Dilemmas" starting today in Berlin, organised by @mpimmg.bsky.social & the @eui-eu.bsky.social's Migration Policy Centre, where the research on migration policy dilemmas had started: migrationpolicycentre.eu/the-ethics-o...

UK puts emergency brake on study visas for four countries’ nationals Shabana Mahmood says UK’s generosity abused as study visas halted for nationals from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan

Just so we’re clear:
❌ Travelling clandestinely or in a small boat to seek asylum: wrong
❌ Travelling safely and regularly to seek asylum: also wrong

Countries in Africa which have agreed to new health aid packages contingent on greater access to minerals and sharing the sensitive health information of Africans.

The new controversial health funding aid packages which are replacing USAID to align with America first agenda of the current administration are reportedly linked to granting US greater access to mineral resources and harvesting sensitive health data of Africans w little reciprocity or protections

Fascinating. Horrifying.

The Propagandists’ Playbook by Francesca Bolla Tripodi is the book to read if you want to understand a big part of why certain words trigger such different responses.

Bild von Peter Slotetdijk. Wohin steuert Europa? Bild von Daniel Cohn-Bendit. Nicht als „Katastrophenschattengewächs“, sondern als „Wunder“ möchte Daniel Cohn-Bendit Europa verstanden wissen.

Ich lese das Interview mit Sloterdijk und Cohn-Bendit im #Phiosophie Magazin. Dort stehen u.a. Sätze wie „Macron hat sich in sich selbst verloren” (CB) und „Die Menschen sind Tribalisten und müssen erst in die größere Form erzogen werden“ (S). You would totally love it, @rheinze.myatproto.social 😳

Put simply:

Humans: weak, multi-dimensional, cross-cutting belief systems.

LLM personas: concentrated, low-dimensional, highly predictable.

Not just stronger ideology—flattened geometry.

Ganz toll ist auch #DeadWood für die verstetigten Nicht-Direktor*innen an Max-Planck-Instituten (also z.B. ehemalige Forschungsgruppenleiter*innen, die neuen Direktor*innen im Wege sein könnten)

Deciding Where to go: Policies, People and Perceptions Shaping Destination Preferences There is considerable interest among European politicians and policymakers in the factors influencing the destination preferences of refugees and other migrants. Drawing on in-depth qualitative inter....

This paper with @j-hagen-zanker.bsky.social questions the extent to which deterrence policies have their intended or assumed effects. Preferred destinations are rarely identified solely, or even primarily, on the basis of migration policies

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The war on Iran likely brings a new oil price shock and windfall profits.

So, who stands to win?

Our research shows: Last time around (2022), the US reaped the largest fossil fuel profits of any country ($377bn). 50% went to the top 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵

I predicted this shift to temporariness in my 2024 CEEMR @ceemr-journal.bsky.social article. Soon it will be discussed in the EU as well because this is how a race to the bottom works. But implementing far-right migration policies remains a losing strategy for "centre" parties and their societies.

Fall in UK net migration threatens to carve deep hole in public finances Issue is expected to come under the spotlight in chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement

The migration doom loop at work: does anyone in government seriously think that a strategy designed to keep out skilled workers and students makes either economic or political sense?

://www.ft.com/content/7408ad00-e4eb-41c7-8849-36061bc0eac1

An old shelf filled with animal specimens from pre-1945.

In my series “German things you didn’t know survived the war and are still in use by Poles” I want to give you a glimpse of an amazing research day I had some time ago.
Let me take you on the most unexpected journey through artefacts that survived the 1945 border change.
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Class Background Matters for Career Progression — in Academia and Beyond - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Anna Stansbury of MIT's Sloan School of Management and Kyra Rodriguez of UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business discuss their Stone Center working paper: “The Class Gap ...

Socioeconomic background is notably absent from most research on elite career progression. In their blog post, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar @annastansbury.bsky.social and Kyra Rodriguez of UC Berkeley discuss their forthcoming paper, "Class Background Matters for Career Progression."

Newspaper snippet from the Neues Deutschland about a GDR state visit in Somalia in 1976

Have just been reading this newspaper article from a 1976 edition of the Eastern German 'Neues Deutschland' about a GDR state visit in Somalia – and it somehow reads as generic as written by an AI LLM ...

Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine has entered its 5th year. We have spoken with IMIS member Franck Düvell about his observations regarding displacement since the start of the war. More information: buff.ly/qBAJtgR

#Ukraine #WaragainstUkraine #Displacement #Migrationsforschung #EU

Invitation to join the demonstration for Ukraine in Berlin, 24.02.2026, 18:00 CET, Lustgarten, organised by @vitsche.bsky.social

Four years (or rather twelve) ...

Not quite sure how to articulate this, but: it seems like, as AI becomes steadily more common, more & more of what you encounter in the world -- the whole world, not just online -- is going to be algorithmically selected for you. And that in turn is going to make it effectively impossible ...

How does it feel to have an AI company copy your hard work? Asking as an author whose books were used with no compensation to train your AI

🚨 New WP w/ @leonardocarella.bsky.social on OSF

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

We usually think that social identities precede preferences

We show the reverse is also true: people update their social identities to match their immigration preferences

Focus: class identity in 🇬🇧 + Christian identity in 🇮🇹

Hindus and Jews are much more likely to have a four-year college degree than Americans in other religious groups, according to Pew Research Center’s 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS). Seven-in-ten Hindus and 65% of Jews have a bachelor’s degree or more education. That compares with 35% of U.S. adults overall. On the other end of the spectrum, lower shares of evangelical Protestants (29%) and members of historically Black Protestant denominations (24%) hold college degrees. The shares of college graduates for several other religious groups range from 35% to 45%.

American adults with a four-year college degree
Hindus 70%
Episcopalians 67%
Jews 65%
Agnostics 53%
Atheists 48%
Muslims 44%
Buddhists 41%
Catholics 35%
National average 35%
Evangelicals 29%
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/02/19/which-us-religious-groups-are-most-highly-educated/

The most religiously diverse countries
1 Singapore
2 Suriname
3 Taiwan
4 S Korea
9 Australia
10 France
11 Canada
12 UK
16 NZ
20 Germany
24 Japan
32 US
34 Nigeria
78 India
83 Brazil
126 China
160 Egypt
201 Yemen
www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

this kid was spirited away to a "short-term residency program" owned by Bethany Christian Services, an evangelical adoption agency connected to Betsy DeVos

Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).

Auch als Reaktion auf Hanau wurde Studie zum Rassismus in deutschen Behörden vom Bund in Auftrag gegeben. Nun liegt sie vor, über deutliche Ergebnisse reden, will man nun eher nicht. „Das BMI scheint kein großes Interesse zu haben, dass die Studie gelesen wird“, sagt eine Studienleiterinnen. 1/x