Great news for Berlin: our cover star kalaf will curate next year's @iKontinental African Book Festival! Click through for more info on a meeting this Friday, where the team will discuss program ideas.

High praise – and we'll take it <3

Old but gold. Activists placed signs in busy metro stations in #Brussels in early 2018 to raise awareness on #structural #barriers & #institutional #racism that #migrants face on a daily basis, and challenge the #meritocracy #myth that everyone has the same chance of success

I don't know who needs to hear this but: there's nothing wrong with being an economic migrant, and you shouldn't listen to anyone who tries to tell you otherwise. People have always moved for work, family and opportunity, and we always will. 🌏💫

A baker, some soldiers and a royal: all migrants. Love the framing on this story about migration between Germany and the UK bbc.co.uk/news/extra/DXC…

Find us in the latest Vogue Italia 💅🏿(that illustrated cover is 🔥!!!)

Almost a year since we commissioned those illustrations of kalaf's biggest influences from Amanda Baeza and we are still absolutely in love with them 😍

Italicization has too long been "a demarcation between 'exotic' words and those that have a rightful place in the text". Thanks to @mailbykite for this reality check – we will no longer be italicizing "foreign" words in our mag. catapult.co/stories/column…

"If we [with 'migration backgrounds'] belong to the victim group, the questioners belong to the perpetrator group. I think we should ask back: "How do you feel about this?" – Ferda Ceylan Ataman after #Hanau. zeit.de/gesellschaft/2…

Yoohoo, guess who 👋 It's been a while, but we've been hard at work on something new and we think you're going to like it. We'll be hitting inboxes with the news tomorrow morning, so sign up here to make sure you're the first to hear: eepurl.com/g7WGM5

The European Commission is inviting migrants to apply to join a group of "expert migrants" who will be consulted on migration, asylum and integration policies. Applications open now: ec.europa.eu/migrant-integr…

Based in Portland, All Rise is a magazine made by currently and formerly imprisoned people. It's crowd funding now please support if you can! ow.ly/gdlD50Cci28

Fascinating read by Christoph Kalter on the half a million white settlers who returned to Portugal from Angola & Mozambique in 1975 & how we might expand the definition of “refugee”. Adding another layer to Portugal’s migration history. via Africa Is a Country africasacountry.com/2020/12/the-st…

Oof, yep, this one got us, too. If you haven't already, you can sign up for our weekly Message from a Migrant here: eepurl.com/g7WGM5

Important analysis from Guiti News EN on which nations are including displaced people in their vaccination campaigns – and who's lagging behind. guitinews.fr/around-the-wor…

This week's Message from a Migrant asks what we can learn from two inspiring acts of solidarity: mailchi.mp/53724c3d0ee1/h…

As always, super important work from Migration Matters, this time on diversity in Germany's media industry 👏

Big NANSEN news: our third issue will be produced in Aotearoa New Zealand next year, with huge thanks to Copyright Licensing New Zealand Mdave Beason! After a long pause, we can’t wait to get back to work 🙏

After 50+ years in Germany, Aydin Akin – and potentially millions like him – will be able to get citizenship while holding on to their original passports 🥰 (Photo: Olga Baczynska)