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An important study comparing Instagram strategies of the UN refugee agency during the Syrian and the Ukrainian crises First in my reading list! David Ongenaert great topic!

If you're interested in how humanitarian organizations convey forced displacement and migration through their social media accounts, check out this #openaccess Journal of Refugee Studies work by David Ongenaert and Claudia Soler. Might interest STS-MigTec Evan Easton-Calabria @cmartinshields

How #refugees are represented impacts how real world policy manages crises and deservingness. @EveryHumanTZ Simon Turner Mogens K. Justesen consolata Sulley

The case for greater academic engagement in the humanitarian sphere has never been more important. Humanitarian needs have reached unprecedented levels –

Burkina Faso is the world's most neglected displacement crisis. Around the world the normalisation of neglect is exacerbating needs and deepening despair. We need a global reboot of solidarity and a refocus on where needs are greatest. nrc.no/news/2024/june…

Stop doomscrolling! Heard the latest? There's a new darling ruffling feathers in the academic publishing scene— without blemish or scandal. Her name? Sure, they call her: "Laughing from the Outside-In" for short! Get the scoop here Journal_Int_Development: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… #FreshFace

International aid groups in South Sudan should take concrete steps to better understand the dynamics that place their national staff at risk, including those dynamics that agencies are themselves responsible for: buff.ly/3RfyWxn

Trending in #Demography: ooir.org/index.php?fiel… 1) UNHCR’s Instagram communication strategies for the Syrian & Ukrainian crises (Journal of Refugee Studies) 2) ‘Bringing order to the border’: Fantasies of border control in the English channel (SCMR) 3) Towards migration-violence

De Jonge Akademie vraagt UNL de richtlijn voor protesten aan universiteiten te herzien. Universiteiten hebben een fundamentele verantwoordelijkheid om de vrijheid van meningsuiting, vereniging, vergadering en betoging te beschermen. Lees onze reactie hier: dejongeakademie.nl/publicaties/27…

CFP for a special issue in Journal of Intercultural Communication Research! "The #ecological turn in #Intercultural Communication". Submit your abstract by September 1st. Link to the full CFP below 👇

Some thoughts from me here on the use and abuse of refugee statistics: refugeehistory.org/blog/2022/8/4/…

Toponderzoekers zien in bezuinigingsplan van nieuw kabinet ‘vertrouwensbreuk met wetenschap’ via NRC nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/06…

'Volgens dit vonnis zou het betekenen dat wanneer journalisten een expert inschakelen, ze dan eerst alle persoonsgegevens zouden moeten schrappen. Gevolg? De journalistieke praktijk wordt gigantisch bemoeilijkt.' VVJ knack.be/nieuws/belgie/…

I am horrified by yet another senseless massacre of Palestinian civilians by Israel: 71 killed and nearly 300 wounded in a zone where Israel itself had told them to seek refuge. The justification is always the same: "targeting Palestinian militants". When is the world going to

Are you in the early stages of your PhD? Is your research focused on migration/borders/(im)mobility? Then join our vibrant community👇🏿

My new article with @[email protected] is live firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/… This article focuses on female migrant domestic workers (Āyí阿姨) in the Chinese gig economy. We explore how migrants achieve professionalization and valorization through platform-mediated recruitment and packaging.

Reminder: (1) Most people stay at home; (2) the overwhelming majority of people who migrate do so within countries; (3) most people crossing borders migrate to neighbouring countries; and (4) refugees represent about 10% of all migrants in the world. #HowMigrationReallyWorks

New Paper Alert! 🚨 In this paper I investigate how biases in global civil society and definitions of human rights on UN level shape the extent and the tone of the international media coverage of domestic protests in global South/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…