Maurice Stierl @MauriceStierl Twitter profile

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Maurice Stierl

4 years

I've been terribly ineffective on this front so: if anyone wants to review my book for some journal or blog, please let me know and the publisher will (hopefully) send you a free copy.

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Maurice Stierl

@MauriceStierl

1 year

Protest at the port of Thessaloniki, days after the mass killing off the coast of Greece (via @Refugees_Gr )

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2 years

A little 🧵. There are approaches in Migration Studies that (still) believe governments can turn migration on and off like a tap. That they can simply ‘manage’ and neatly regulate migration through policy tools, usually depending on supposed market needs. 1/11

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11 months

Stop the pull-factor nonsense! Media workers and others: Whenever you feel the impulse to use the term “pull factor” in the #migration and #Mediterranean context, take a sec and note that using it will show that you have no clue about the dynamics of migration. A 🧵

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2 years

Today, I signed my contract at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies in Osnabrück, Germany. Over the next three years, I will be leading the research group “The Production of Knowledge on Migration” @IMIS_UOS ! Really looking forward to this! 1/3

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1 year

Grief spectacles: Greece announced three days of mourning for the dead of yesterday's shipwreck, possibly more than 600 people, including over 100 children. We've seen it before: The ones who produce the Mediterranean graveyard are the first at the funeral.

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5 missing, including a rich Pakistani businessman, on a vanity submarine trip. 550 missing after hours of non-assistance, including probably hundreds from Pakistan, escaping poverty. You just know who the world’s headlines belong to. And who is searched for. All. So. Grim.

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3 years

Difficult to keep up with the dying at Europe's maritime borders (that we know of) 11 days ago: 45 people, Atlantic 8 days ago: 11 people, central Med 2 days ago: 7 people, central Med Yesterday: 18 people, Atlantic Today: 36 people, central Med Hardly any reporting in the news

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10 months

Germany's chancellor: "We need to deport on a grand scale". What a time we live in, where politicians distract from their lack of answers to the polycrisis this world faces by obsessively blaming and scapegoating people not 'from here'.

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6 months

Well well well. Former #Frontex boss Fabrice #Leggeri stands as a candidate for the French far-right National Rally (previously National Front) in the European elections. No surprises here. Logical next career step, I'd say.

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2 years

I know every mum is the best but mine is currently drumming outside Hamburg city hall, calling for refugees to be welcomed and condemning EU border violence 💜

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@MauriceStierl

6 months

'The Nazis of today'... How is it possible that this person is one of the most prominent migration scholars in Germany, much sought-after by the media? Absolutely shameless.

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2 years

I published this book four years ago. It first came out as a very expensive hardback, then as a pretty expensive paperback. Academia really often isn't very accessible. Therefore once more: If you don't have access but would like to read it, inbox me and we'll find a way!

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1 year

Similar images but taken nearly 10 years apart. From #Lampedusa to #Crotone : A decade of wilful failure of EU migration policy and continuous border cruelty. Different political leaders, same rhetoric, same blame game, same racism, and no answers.

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2 years

Greece and Europe have watched a 5-year-old girl die due to #pushbacks and a scorpion sting, and are now watching again how a second girl is dying. The whole group is starving. Nobody is allowed to help them. If I ever hear anyone speak of 'European values' ever again...

@alarmphone

@alarm_phone

2 years

We had contact with Baida at 11:33 CEST today: "Hello, I am very tired, the situation is still very bad. The girl that got stung by a scorpion is in bad condition, we are still trying to reduce her temperature with the river water and drink it, but she is afraid that the river...

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5 months

Just got another check for the sales of my book: €31.88 for the whole of 2023. 🥳 Clearly, I am not making money off it. Don't buy it, it's way too expensive. If you'd like to read it, leave me an email address and there will be a way! #AcademicTwitter

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1 year

Now journalists were able to speak to survivors of the #Pylos disaster. 10 survivors report of #pushback attempts by Greek forces who were trying to tow the boat away from Greece! This is when panic on board caused the boat to sink. If true, a crime of unbelievable proportion.

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Wurde das #Fl üchtlingsschiff in #Griechenland #Kalamata gepushbackt? Meinem Kollegen @FalahElias haben verschiedene Geflüchtete erstmals diese These bestätigt. Das ist ein schwerer Vorwurf und wenn das wahr sein sollte, ein großes Verbrechen. #Refugees #Greece #Fl üchtlinge

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2 years

Given the situation in #Ukraine , the refugee protests in #Libya will not find much attention. But the courageous struggle of @RefugeesinLibya is important & needs international solidarity. @smartitaz & I have written this article for @openDemocracy .

One hundred days of refugee protest in Libya

Refugees in Libya rebelled in the face of widespread detention, abuse, and murder. The UN turned away, and then the crackdown came

www.opendemocracy.net

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3 years

'Race, Borders, and Global (Im)mobility' - happy to be part of this wonderful seminar series at Oxford! @refugeestudies @HannoBrankamp

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11 months

Let's not participate in spreading a myth. Let's finally put the pull factor theory to rest. #Migration will continue - that's a fact. Under what conditions and at what human cost - that's up to all of us. @euobs @IMIS_UOS

Migration: Let us put the 'pull factor' myth finally to rest

Factors such as the weather, and conditions in countries of departure, are much more key in explaining changing migration movements than talk of the 'pull' effect. But despite the many attempts to...

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1 year

Up to 650 people drowned due to Greek non-assistance 10 days ago. Since, ~35 people died in the Atlantic when rescue was delayed. ~40 people drowned off Tunisia on Thursday. Today, Malta failed to assist, one person died. The shipwreck was a ‘turning point’, sure…

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😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 From September on I'll be Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield! @ShefUniPolitics 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

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@vonderleyen Stop being saddened, start being ashamed

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Starting my new role as Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sheffield today! Hi there @ShefUniPolitics ! 👋🏼

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@MauriceStierl

2 years

Hassan Numan, an activist from Sudan, has passed away. He was key in organising anti-deportation protests in Germany. Whenever the police came to the camp, inhabitants used whistles to sound the alarm to prevent deportations. The yellow whistle is now a symbol of resistance.

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1 year

Every year, my mum and her group of Korean drummers perform in front of the city hall of Hamburg to welcome refugees. Proud son 😊

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3 years

Just another day in the Central Mediterranean Sea: EU-funded Libyan forces ram a migrant boat that is trying to escape. Caught on camera by activists, without whom we would know little about these crimes at sea. (Photo: @seawatch_intl ).

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2 years

Seen in Berlin today

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8 months

This EU #MigrationPact is a disaster. Whoever believes this #CEAS agreement will decrease violence at the EU's external borders is simply deluded. This pact is a victory for Europe's far right. A dark and shameful day.

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🧵 The #MigrationPact negotiations are over. As EU leaders are about to sell this as a "historic" reform of the migration system in Europe, we join other leading human rights orgs in denouncing its harms. What this Pact will mean for people in practice 👇🏾

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All chapters of the "Research Handbook on Irregular #Migration " are now available as PDFs on this website, including the chapter I co-authored with Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani:

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1 year

When 'migrants' are turned into monsters, this happens: ▪️16 people drown in the Caribbean ▪️40 drown in the Atlantic ▪️6+ boats capsize off Tunisia - unknown death toll ▪️Over 40 people burn to death in a detention camp in Mexico ▪️... All of this just over the last few days.

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Difficult to comprehend the scale of this. If 901 bodies were found, we can assume that so many more were not. @amara_tarek

Tunisia recovers 901 bodies of drowned migrants off its coast this year

The Tunisian coast guard recovered 901 bodies of drowned migrants off its coast from Jan. 1 to July 20 this year, the country's interior minister, Kamel Feki, said on Wednesday, marking an unpreced...

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1 year

Some questions about the #Pylos disaster: -Hellenic Coast Guard: “A sudden shift in weight is likely to be the cause of what led the boat to capsize”. Why was there a sudden “shift”? -Reports emerge the HCG towed the boat. Is this correct?

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11 months

I'm in #Lampedusa . That place many evoke when conjuring up a 'migration crisis'. No panic to be seen here. Instead, much public interest in the talks by @Yambiodavid of @RefugeesinLibya and Moctar Dan Yaye of @AlarmephoneS on border violence & acts of solidarity along the routes.

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2 years

Three people travelled all the way from Nigeria to the Canary Islands on the rudder of a tanker. They were stuck there for 11 days. The tenacity of people on the move impresses. Glad they survived a journey that has cost thousands of lives.

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2 years

Maria’s body has now been buried on the islet in the #Evros . She was killed not by a scorpion sting, but by Greek and EU border enforcement. Some initial (and unfinished) reflections on this horrible case and its wider significance. 1/9

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4 years

Exciting, my first ever tweet! Financed by #Banksy , the rescue ship #LouiseMichel now roams the #Mediterranean Sea. Read my & @lorenzo_tondo exclusive story for the @guardian . Thanks to the rescuers & Banksy for their trust in us. Fair winds to you!

Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

🟠 Hurrah, my article ‘The Mediterranean as a Carceral Seascape’ was accepted for publication in Political Geography! @Pol_Geog_Jl (Some positive news after I spent 4 hours today writing a single paragraph).

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9 months

The Collaborative Research Centre on the 'Production of Migration' @UniOsnabrueck is confirmed! Over the next 4 years, I will lead the project ‘The production of spaces of migrant disappearance’ and will soon send out information regarding one PhD position opening up. @IMIS_UOS

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1 year

More & more details emerge that question accounts by Greek authorities concerning the in/actions leading to this shipwreck. Can survivors be protected & testimonies heard? They are key witnesses. Past cases have shown how authorities intimidate, criminalise & deport survivors.

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A banner was dropped today from the Victory Column ( #Siegess äule) in #Berlin today, one month after the mass shipwreck off Greece. It reads: "Pylos, Lampedusa, Evros & co: Mass Murder From EU" (📸 @schoenbesetzen )

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It is unclear how many people drowned a few hours ago at Europe’s borders. Maybe several hundred. Europe will hide again, blaming others. But this, all of this, is done in Europe’s name, in the name of ‘protecting’ its borders. A poem by Khaled Mattawa.

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3 months

Cannot wait for people to say that we need to become even 'tougher on migration' because the fascists are winning.

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1 year

Shipwreck off #Crotone . Number of victims not yet clear. This is done in the name of Europe. Shameful.

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1 year

Despairing over the little outcry in Europe about the #Pylos disaster. Sure, there are important demos here & there but overall it feels very muted in light of the scale of the atrocity. One week ago, up to 650 people were left to die, why aren't the streets filled in protest?

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1 year

Reposting this article from a few weeks ago because of all the 'unfortunate tragedy' sentiments expressed these days. Let's not get fooled: delays in rescue, non-assistance and pushbacks are there by design. Shipwrecks are inevitable. As is their cover up.

The EU’s secret weapon against refugees — time

Delays in rescuing people at sea aren’t a European policy failure. They are a deliberate, cruel strategy.

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4 years

“This is a massacre at Europe’s borders,” said a spokesperson for Alarm Phone, a hotline for migrant boats in distress. “What else can we say? We have called for radical changes for years and still the dying continues. It is devastating.’’

More than 110 migrants die in Mediterranean in three days

Bodies of 74 people wash up on beach in western Libya as baby boy dies on rescue boat

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2 years

I hope this email doesn't find you. I hope that you've escaped, that you're free.

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1 year

More than 100.000 people have reached Italy via the sea so far this year - movements we haven't seen since the mid-2010s. After a decade of violent EU border militarisation, we can conclude: migration still finds its way, relentlessly, tenaciously, stubbornly. 📸 @IuventaCrew

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11 months

A radical view these days: "Those who risk their lives at sea do not invade, they look for welcome, for life"

Pope Francis insists Europe does not have migrant ‘emergency’

Pontiff’s comments come as Italy threatens naval blockade of Tunisia and France beefs up patrols on southern border to stop crossings

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4 years

I know my tweets feel repetitive but the dying in the Med is a constant repetition. Yesterday and today about 100 people drowned. Don't look at the official statistics of IOM and UNHCR that will circulate the next days for the total death count for 2020. It is much much higher.

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2 years

Tomorrow evening I'll speak at @refugeestudies , Oxford University: "Carceral Geographies, Racial Violence: The contested Mediterranean borderzone". It's online. Hopefully what I'll say makes sense, Covid really is rather unpleasant...

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4 months

The migration scholar who referred to an activist vandalising the Balfour painting as the 'Nazis of today' is invited to one of the most important German news shows to discuss the UK's #Rwanda deal, basically agreeing with its 'deterrence effect'. Terrible @Tagesthemen

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"Wenn wir nur nach der praktischen Wirkung fragen, dann halte ich den Plan für sehr wirkungsvoll", sagt Migrationsforscher @Ruud_Koop_mans im Gespräch mit den #tagesthemen . #Gro ßbritannien #Ruanda #Abschiebegesetz (red)

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3 years

No better example for the animalisation of people on the move than this.

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Europe is testing a "sound cannon" to be used against refugees.

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Finally! After 7 years, the case against the #Iuventa crew is over. Criminalised for rescuing, the persecution of activists was from the onset a shameful - and deadly - political stunt. How many lives could've been rescued with the crew not in court rooms but out at sea?

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THREAD! THE TRIAL IS FINALLY OVER‼️ BUT IT SHOULD HAVE NEVER STARTED‼️ After 5 years of investigation and 2 years of preliminary trial, both the prosecution and the judge admit that the accusations were baseless. 1/5

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2 years

Having worked on and against EU border violence for some time now I thought I had developed a thick skin. But this ruling - a 439 year prison sentence for three innocent survivors - absolutely floored me. Only solidarity and resistance can be the answer.

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Even though the court acknowledged that they are not smugglers that acted for profit, dropped the charges of "being part of a criminal organization" and did not impose life sentences, the three fathers were still convicted for "facilitating unauthorized entry". /1 #Paros3

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What a horror show. I've just returned from a trip to #Tunisia , where the government is systematically repressing opposition, civil society & press. Whose president whipped up racist hatred against Black people. Europe: "You did well, take 1 billion".

EU offers Tunisia over €1bn to stem migration

Brussels proposes €255mn in grants for Tunis, linking longer-term loans of up to €900mn to reforms

www.ft.com

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2 years

Terrifying image. The final thing you see before you are dragged back across European borders, beaten and robbed, or left to die at sea.

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2 years

They crossed the Mediterranean and made Europe home, despite its borders, despite its hostile environments. It is this material fact of migration that gives me hope in pretty dark times. 11/11

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2 years

Publication alert! I am super happy that, after many (so many!) years, our special issue on “Bordering Practices” is completely out now in Environment and Planning C! It was a pleasure to work with @suzanilcan and @vidkowiaksquire on this. @IMIS_UOS

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@MauriceStierl

10 months

Lived abroad for so long that being exposed to debates on Israel & Palestine in Germany feels bizarre, toxic, so bruised. Calling for a ceasefire seems a radical demand here. A friend tells me "I lost another 14 members of my family in #Gaza ". What insane world. End the bombing.

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After listening to survivors of the #Pylos disaster last Friday who spoke about how the Greek coastguard caused the death of 600+ people, today the BBC report on Greek forces murdering migrants at sea, as well as reports on two catastrophes in the central Med. It is too much.

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3 years

Greece considers suspending the right to asylum (once more) if a substantial number of Afghans are trying to find refuge in Europe. Peculiar sort of right that is suspended once it is needed.

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3 years

Nach @derspiegel -Infos überlegt Griechenland das Recht auf Asyl (wieder) auszusetzen, wenn eine substanzielle Anzahl an Afghanen Schutz in Europa suchen will. Vorgehen am Evros Ende 02/2020 ist Blaupause, Mauer schon gebaut, Grenzkräfte werden verstärkt.

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After the #Pylos disaster there was some public attention on Europe's deadly migration policies. That's why the shipwreck in the Atlantic the week after received unusual attention. Yesterday, another boat sank, 51 died & I fear we are back to usual, with hardly anyone noticing.

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1 year

⚫ Shipwreck in the #Atlantic ! We are shocked to learn the 55 people did not reach land. Their boat capsized yesterday. Only 4 people survived & are in a hospital in #Laayoune . Our solidarity and condolences to all those who lost loved ones once again at Europe's deadly borders.

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There's a certain insanity to EU migration policy when we use Einstein’s famous definition of insanity - “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”. A 🧵 (📸 @seawatch_intl )

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1 year

Next week I’ll give a (digital) talk at Yale University: ‘Imagining Europe through racial ‘b/orders’ and struggles over migration’. Thanks to Fatima El-Tayeb for the kind invitation! @Yale @IMIS_UOS

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3 years ago @vonderleyen referred to Greece as "our European shield", blocking people seeking safety from entering the EU. Cause of Greek mass #pushbacks people travel all the way from Turkey to Italy by boat. This disaster, as many before, is the result and will not be the last.

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11 months

We live in the stupidest of worlds

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3 years

Good news of the day: Over 500 people escaped Libya and survived the Mediterranean crossing on a single boat. Bad news: BBC and other media outlets still reproduce crisis narratives.

Europe migrant crisis: More than 500 people rescued off Italian island

Italian coastguards rescue 539 people from a small fishing boat believed to have set off from Libya.

www.bbc.com

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2 years

9 years ago today, 368 people drowned close to Lampedusa. It prompted the rescue operation Mare Nostrum that ended a year later, falsely characterised as a "pull-factor". More than 15.000 people have lost their lives in the central Med since.

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The EU Asylum and Migration Pact was agreed just now. Of course, migration will continue, it always does. And the implementation of this pact is more than questionable. Still, this is a dark day for all who struggle against racist border violence. #CEAS #EUMigrationPact

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1 year

Got my royalty statement for 2022. Last year this one earned me 45.43 Euro. Academy = 💰💰💰

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2 years

There is something so deeply perverse about these 'humanitarian' gestures and spectacles around migrant deaths. You'd not have to recover Maria's body if you hadn't pushed her back, forced her onto a scorpion infested islet, and let her die.

Greece seeks ways to recover migrant girl's body from border

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greece says it will work with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent to seek the body of a child who a group of asylum-seekers said had died of a scorpion sting...

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11 months

Push-pull theories of migration fail to capture the complexity and multiplicity of factors that underlie migration projects and dynamics. This has been demonstrated in research time and time again (see @smartitaz and Garelli, 2021). 2/17

Migration and ‘pull factor’ traps

Abstract. This article engages with the centrality that the push–pull theory regained in the context of border deaths in the Mediterranean Sea and particul

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2 years

"So the adults killed you too, right?" Today it is seven years ago that Alan Kurdi drowned. Here he stands next to 5-year-old Maria, who was killed a few weeks ago by the Greek-European pushback regime.

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"Our boat tilted to the right. We shouted ‘No. No. No.’ and they kept towing us until we capsized. They then cut the rope and moved further away." An important reconstruction. Should have been entitled "Tracing a state crime" though...

Tracing a tragedy: How hundreds of migrants drowned on Greece’s watch

A Washington Post investigation retraced the route of the Adriana and how Greek coast guard decisions contributed to a preventable tragedy.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@MauriceStierl

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It honestly is so scary here. International attention and solidarity are welcome...

Hyo Yoon KANG 강효윤 | same @zirk.us & @bsky.social

@hyoyoonkang

4 months

Am seriously scared for the safety of my German colleagues who are merely pointing out right of free expression & academic freedom. Individual names & photos in right wing tabloid Bild, a Springer paper, with the complicity of the highest Gvt official for education and research.

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Just spoke to BBC radio about this report on how the Greek coastguard was reportedly murdering people by throwing them into the sea. I was asked how the Greek authorities should deal with sea migration. In so many words I said ideally without killing them.

Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say

More than 40 people are alleged to have died as a result of Greek coastguard actions, BBC analysis reveals.

www.bbc.com

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@MauriceStierl

3 years

Sounds basically like summer camp or your volunteer year abroad. Of course plus violently deterring people from different different countries and other other cultural backgrounds

Frontex

@Frontex

3 years

Meet Bettina, an officer from Austria working in Evros, Greece: “Regular participation in #Frontex missions has helped me to develop new skills and surround myself with people from different countries and cultural backgrounds" 🇬🇷 🇦🇹

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Being in favour of "calmness", "pragmatism" & "balance" and against a supposedly overemotional/irrational "culture of outrage" creates a dichotomy of reason/emotion that doesn't exist and that is used often to discredit those who struggle against global injustice. 1/6

Victoria Rietig

@VRietig

1 year

You are of course free to continue to be outraged @MauriceStierl . Your feelings are your decision. My decision is to point out that the culture of outrage on migration makes it harder to have calm conversations & find pragmatic solutions. As I do here:

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2 years

We are marching through Zarzis in Tunisia today. The mothers of the disappeared lead the way, followed by the fishermen of #Zarzis and activist supporters from around the world. #CommemorAction

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@MauriceStierl

1 year

'Migration crises' do not 'objectively' exist 'out there'. They are actively being produced. Important reminder to journalists to be conscious about their role and ethical responsibility.

Andrew Connelly

@connellyandrew

1 year

The media's obsessive focus on Calais fuels the UK's pathetically myopic conversation about factors behind global displacement, the nature of irregular journeys and workings of transnational crime.

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Shocking findings by @BorderlineEurop on the criminalisation of #migration . They looked into 81 smuggling trials in Greece: Trials last on average 37min & lead to an average sentence of 46 years. 'Smugglers' are the 2nd largest group in Greek prisons, 90% 3rd country nationals.

borderline-europe

@BorderlineEurop

1 year

Today, we publish our new study on the criminalization of people on the move for steering a boat or car to Greece. The report examines a total of 81 TRIAL OF 95 PEOPLE who were arrested and tried in Greece for smuggling. Our findings are shocking: 🧵 #37Minutes

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1 year

Two months ago today, over 600 people died due to in/actions by the Greek coastguard and #Frontex . The #Pylos disaster should have been a turning point for Europe’s cruel #migration policy. Instead, we have seen non-stop #pushbacks and shipwrecks since.

The Pylos Shipwreck

On 14 June 2023, a boat carrying hundreds of migrants sank inside the Greek search and rescue zone in the Mediterranean Sea—the deadliest migrant shipwreck in recent history. Our digital reconstruc...

counter-investigations.org

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2 years

Hans Leijtens will from now on lead the EU border agency #Frontex . We hope you'll fail, as your predecessors have. The agency embodies border violence and human rights abuses. It cannot be reformed. #AbolishFrontex

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6 months

This shows that indeed "borders are no longer at the border" (Balibar 1998). 'EUropean' borders & their enforcers not 'merely' impact inner-African mobilities but are tied in with (other) repressive political projects. We need an expansive understanding of borders to resist them.

Andrei Popoviciu

@AndreiPopoviciu

6 months

The Senegalese government has deployed en elite EU-funded unit, meant to fight cross-border crime, to repress protesters during pro-democracy demonstrations in Senegal, according to evidence me and @JoseAntonio_BG published in @AJEnglish today with @porCausaorg

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Wrote a piece on 10 years of maritime resistance in the Mediterranean. “NGO rescuers remain a thorn in the side of EU governments because they reveal what is sought to be hidden away: Europe’s systematic border crimes.” (I did not pick the images...)

Ten years of maritime resistance in the Mediterranean Sea

European states may resent civilian rescuers helping migrant boats in distress, but they are here to stay.

www.aljazeera.com

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1 year

A week ago we learned about the devastating mass killing off Greece's coast. I was asked if this could be a turning point for the way Europe 'manages' migration. Clearly not. In the last 7 days we've seen pushbacks, acts of non-assistance, shipwrecks. So, business as usual.

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“We are living the afterlives of slavery and colonialism. Easy solutions that only emphasise diversity and inclusion will not work. Diversity and inclusion without justice, without radical transformation, mean nothing.” Angela Davis in Berlin last night at @Oplatz

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Happy birthday, Angela Davis, who turns 80 today! Probably a good moment to suggest that when you celebrate her life and list her political achievements, it might be good to not omit her solidarity with Palestine and how key this has been throughout her political life.

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2 years

New investigation into Frontex' collaboration with the so-called Libyan coastguard published today by @hrw and @borderforensic . Another important contribution to the archive documenting EU border violence.

Airborne Complicity

Frontex Aerial Surveillance Enables Abuse

www.hrw.org

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3 years

In 2021, rescuing humans in distress at sea is indeed an act of resistance - against a segregationist regime of population control and its racialist violence

Mediterranea Saving Humans

@RescueMed

3 years

#25aprile #Resistenza #SavingHumans

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1 year

"In Europe, we take photos of migrants before they die." @connellyandrew

Europe’s Migration Apartheid Is Killing Asylum Seekers

The EU rails against people smugglers, but its draconian policies keep them in business.

foreignpolicy.com

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11 months

Over the last days, Salvini in Italy called migrant arrivals “an act of war” while UK's Starmer vowed to put smuggling on a par with terrorism. One day, we'll look back to this time and see the madness surrounding the migration discourse, engineered to poison & divide societies.

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3 years

Hello there, Politics and International Relations department Sheffield! First day of school!

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3 years

“Turn-around” tactics at sea, "developed in consultation with maritime experts." Would like to know who these lovely experts are! Also let's don't call them turn-arounds but what they are: illegal push-backs.

Priti Patel to send boats carrying migrants to UK back across Channel

Border Force is training to use ‘turn-around’ tactics but France warns plan could endanger lives

www.theguardian.com

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8 months

Reminder: Come & work with me! Below the PhD position that I am seeking to fill for the project: ‘The Production of Spaces of Migrant Disappearance’. There're 21 job opportunities at Osnabrück University! Please read the FAQs before writing to me 😀.

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For over 10 years, I’ve worked on migrant death at EU borders, esp. the Med, where the last decade’s death toll stands at 32.000 (surely a massive undercount). In Gaza estimates speak of 37.000+ killed - just since October. This horror is incomprehensible.

The Missing Children of Gaza

How many children are missing in Gaza? We can't be sure. This story outlines where Gaza's missing children could be, the psychological impact of loss, the action Save the Children is taking and what...

www.savethechildren.net

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Germany’s (academic) self-provincialisation continues and prompts international consternation. The latest example, this letter by the president of The New School, reacting to philosopher Nancy Fraser’s disinvitation by the University of Cologne.

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#Frontexfiles ! Leaked documents increase pressure on EU border agency. A treasure for journalists and researchers.

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