Being a researcher ‘of migration’ is pretty mad these days when another wave of migration hysteria & racism sweeps through on the back of a horrible crime committed by an individual. Maybe we need to ‘intervene’ but when the discourse is so far gone, where would we even start?

Wir begrüßen die Initiative, demokratische Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung von #Antisemitismus sowie gegen jede Form von Diskriminierung auf den Weg zu bringen. Aber. Ein Appell von Organisationen, Institutionen, Wissenschaftler:innen und Künstler:innen: medico.de/schaden-fuer-d…

As Alison Mountz writes: “Migration crises persist because crisis does political work.” We see this clearly today. We should ask: Who benefits politically from producing migration as crisis? How crises have helped militarise EU borders is discussed here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

1/ Schweizer Millionen für umstrittene Migrationsmanager. Gemeinsam mit FragDenStaat.de & DER STANDARD recherchierten wir vom WAV Recherchekollektiv zu Projekten der Migrationsagentur #ICMPD. Es geht um einen Korruptionsfall in Bosnien & umstrittene Partnerschaften in #Libyen. 🧵:

Aus (erneut) gegebenem Anlass: medico.de/zur-verteidigu…

Yesterday, in the name of 'security', Germany deported 28 people to Afghanistan, though it has no diplomatic relations with the Taliban. Tracking the deportation flight with glee, the government engages only in a politics of the spectacle. This helps no one but the fascist right.

Hello there, normalised fascism. What a disaster.

Lost for words. On the day that a fascist party becomes the strongest political force in a German federal state, the president of Germany declares that limiting access to migrants must be the country's 'main priority' in the coming years.

Reactions from the German political ‘centre’ to the victory of fascists show: they’ve still not understood. Not the fight against fascism is their priority but scapegoating ‘migrants’. After a moment of despair, we need to continue in our defence of (post-)migration society.

It’s an open secret that ‘EUrope’ collaborates actively with militias in migration control - with rather questionable ‘success’. Now, reports speak of the killing of ‘Bija’, a notorious militia boss in Libya, who Italy had invited in 2017 to discuss migration control. Bye bye.

Germany's having another normal one today, after the victory of fascists yesterday. Define vile anti-Muslim racism in 27 seconds? This is your clip, produced by the Bavarian interior ministry.

Mood today: “My point is not that everything is bad but that everything is dangerous, which isn't exactly the same as bad. If everything's dangerous, then we always have something to do. So my position leads not to apathy but to a hyper- and pessimistic activism.” (Foucault 2000)

Spoke to Ashifa Kassam: “We live in a migration society. Their mass deportation fantasies won't change this reality. What really worries me is the anger and hate that are being whipped up by both the radical right and parties of the supposed political centre.” theguardian.com/world/article/…

The The Guardian reports on the elections in #Thuringia and #Saxony and the shift to the right in #Germany. They also spoke with IMIS & #SGB1604 member Maurice Stierl about how #migration is politically instrumentalized: buff.ly/3Tayx08 #Landtagswahlen

Glad to escape the madness of the German migration debate for a few days to discuss with colleagues and friends at IRiS how the desire to 'border everything' is no answer to the problems that we all face in an age of rapid transformations. superdiversity.net/iris-conferenc…

Another boat 'left-to-die' in the Mediterranean?

Freshly purchased at the IRiS 'Bordering Society' conference. Can't wait to read your book Dr Kudakwashe Vanyoro!