Zina Weisner I zinaw.bsky.social

PhD'ing @demigkrems #MIGNEX | EU External Migration & Border Governance | podcasting @Polis180 | formerly @boell_stiftung @giz_gmbh @UniPassau @_seebruecke_

[Zina Weisner I zinaw.bsky.social @ZinaWeisner]

👋After months of sifting through #EU #NDICI #GlobalEurope programming docs for #Niger, #Tunisia, and #Libya and #OECD rules on #migration-related spending, my research for @OxfamEU is finally published! 👉https://t.co/pi2Lvji8n8
🧵below with some key findings of the 50p report:

[Zina Weisner I zinaw.bsky.social @ZinaWeisner]

Hi and bye! 👋 Blue skies in Vienna and a blue mood because of blue politics (in AT and GER) seems like a good day to join bluesky! Come join me @zinaw.bsky.social ☀️

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

In Iran, a student harassed by her university’s morality police over her “improper” hijab didn’t back down. She turned her body into a protest, stripping to her underwear and marching through campus—defying a regime that constantly controls women’s bodies. Her act is a powerful reminder of Iranian women’s fight for freedom. Yes we use our bodies like weapons to fight back a regime that kills women for showing their hair.

This happened at Tehran’s Science and Research University She has since been arrested by the authorities.
Be her voice.
#WomanLifeFreedom

[Lighthouse Reports @LHreports]

People abducted on the street for being black, pregnant women & children left to die in the desert

Deserted, Europe’s Deadly Migration Policy, a documentary produced by @LHreports @BR_presse @ndr @DeutscheWelle, reveals the deadly realities of Brussels’ migration deals

[Txema Santana ✳️ @txemita]

Más de 1.600 supervivientes, al menos 48 desaparecidos (podrían ser cientos de personas más) y hasta 6 personas muertas desde el viernes en la ruta canaria.

2024 sigue siendo un año sin precedentes en personas desaparecidas, muertas y supervivientes en esta ruta migratoria.

[Department for Migration and Globalisation @demigkrems]

Join us for the DEMIG Online Talks on the topic: Migration and (Im)mobility in the Light of Violence and Conflict. On Nov 19, Lamis Abdelaaty discusses whether and how economic, legal, and moral arguments influence Americans' support for accepting refugees https://t.co/RnhwbAcDZ4

[Zina Weisner I zinaw.bsky.social @ZinaWeisner]

💥The new issue of the Monitoring #Externalisation Bulletin is out! It covers the EU's self-serving priorities for #Sudan, support for violent regimes in North Africa & makes 50 #EU documents public. Check it out below 👇

[Migration-Control.info @MigControl]

🚨Just out: 3rd issue of @StatewatchEU @MigControl #ExternalisationBulletin

Covering EU’s priorities for #Sudan ( @MigControl #HoAMediaOffice) & its support for violent & authoritarian regimes in #NorthAfrica (@StatewatchEU)

➕50 (previously unpublished) EU docs

Links⬇️⬇️⬇️

[Migration-Control.info @MigControl]

#French and #Arabic translations of the last @StatewatchEU @MigControl bulletin are out!

Supported by @BROT_furdiewelt @Misereor @ProAsyl @nothilfe

Find them here⤵️
https://t.co/7KhX9cjkAr

[Statewatch @StatewatchEU]

🚨 The 3rd issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin by @Statewatch & @MigControl is out now.

This issue covers the EU's self-serving priorities for Sudan & support for violent regimes in North Africa. It makes 50 EU documents public 🧵

@BROT_furdiewelt @Nothilfe @ProAsyl @Misereor

[Brot für die Welt @BROT_furdiewelt]

⚠🌍 Wie reagiert die EU auf die Fluchtkatastrophe im Sudan? Mit weiterer Aufrüstung von Grenzen in Nordafrika. Mehr dazu im dritten 🚨 #ExternalisationBulletin von @StatewatchEU @MigControl @BROT_furdiewelt @nothilfe @Misereor und @ProAsyl.
👉 https://t.co/FasTFXM3X2

[Zina Weisner I zinaw.bsky.social @ZinaWeisner]

Excellent research by @porCausaorg and others about how a Spanish "international cooperation agency" trains and equips West African security & border personell w/o mechanisms for monitoring human rights abuses.

[✳️porCausa @porCausaorg]

🔴 EXCLUSIVA
España equipa, entrena y financia a dictaduras de África para reprimir a quienes migran.
Las consecuencias son catastr��ficas: corrupción, asesinatos y 'regalos antimigratorios' en manos de grupos yihadistas y mercenarios rusos del Grupo Wagner.
⬇️⬇️⬇️ HILO ⬇️⬇️⬇️
https://t.co/5zx5a0uwh1

[Amnesty EU @AmnestyEU]

NEW: Damning @EUauditors report on EU Trust Fund for Africa migration funding.

"EU is failing in its basic task to ensure taxpayers' money [..] is not used to facilitate torture & other abuses by unaccountable security forces," says @OliviaSundberg1

🗞️@lauramdubois via @FT

[Zina Weisner I zinaw.bsky.social @ZinaWeisner]

What are the main causes of migration and how do development processes impact them?
After 6 years of #MIGNEX research, across 26 local areas in 🇦🇫🇨🇻🇪🇹🇬🇭🇬🇳🇳🇬🇵🇰🇸🇴🇹🇳🇹🇷, @jorgencarling, @j_hagenzanker and I share our 7 key findings in a non-technical way: https://t.co/hbE4RsbyOM

[Zina Weisner I zinaw.bsky.social @ZinaWeisner]

Presented my PhD research on the #Atlantic Route in panel on #migration trajectories & a paper written w/ @ElenaDueck & Elodie Thevenin on changes & continuities of migration discourse in POL, GER & EU after the Ukraine war in panel organized by @RefugeePolitics @DezimInstitut

[Zina Weisner I zinaw.bsky.social @ZinaWeisner]

It was a great 5th Conference of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies #NWFF2024. Especially the roundtables & discussions on how to engage better with policy/practice, given the current toxic debate & populist policies. I was also able to present on some great panels:

[Statewatch @StatewatchEU]

Newly obtained document shows that #German police want to use invasive social media research on visa applicants.

It also suggests developing "risk profiles" and giving that job to #Frontex.

These practices could lead to more invasive questioning & unjust visa rejections.

1/🧵

[Melissa Siegel @MelissaSiegel1]

6 years ago, #MIGNEX set out to explore some of the major questions on the migration-development nexus. One being: what are the developmental impacts of migration? In this report @j_hagenzanker @KatrinMarchand @ZinaWeisner
and I share our 6 key findings. https://t.co/gtYeSaNlPh

[Jessica Hagen-Zanker (@j.hagen-zanker.bsky.social) @j_hagenzanker]

4 years ago #MIGNEX set out to explore some of the major questions on the migration-development nexus. One being: what are the developmental impacts of migration?
In this report @MelissaSiegel1 @KatrinMarchand @ZinaWeisner and I share our 6 key findings: https://t.co/XnQWqqJSJs

[medico international @nothilfe]

Was für ein Mut: Frauen in #Afghanistan gehen weiter für ihre Rechte auf die Straße.

[Department for Migration and Globalisation @demigkrems]

Are you working on #irregularmigration and would like to discuss your research at the IMISCOE Spring Conference? The CfP is open until 9/16 on these topics: Aspirations, Capabilities & Decision-Making of Irregular Migrants; Knowledge Production; Governance; Integration Processes

[SVR Migration @SVR_Migration]

Die Eskalation in der öffentl. Debatte löst kein Problem, sie schürt Ängste & schadet dem gesellschaftl. Zusammenhalt, so Prof. Vorländer. Es gilt, Umsetzungsdefizite zu beheben & europäisch zu agieren.
👉Pressestatement von #SVRMigration zur #Asyldebatte: https://t.co/1sSMJvbWLR