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Emily Frank
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(She/her) postdoc in sociology @wzb.bsky.social currently working on asylum, family reunification, & mental health. In general: migration, asylum, mixed methods. Former Humboldt Uni / BIM / Hertie School
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emilyfrank.bsky.social
Happy to share the second publication from my PhD. In this article I demonstrate the implications of differential inclusion for immigrants’ experiences of (non-)belonging, with the empirical example of refugees’ labor market access in Germany: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Why It’s Different?”: Hierarchies of (Non-) Belonging in German Refugee Categorizations
Migrants’ perceptions of belonging are shaped by the social policies with which they are received by the state. In Germany, policies grant refugees different levels of labor market access according...
www.tandfonline.com
July 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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wzb.bsky.social
Was bringt Menschen dazu, ihr Land zu verlassen? Welche Erfahrungen machen sie dabei? Und wie reagieren die aufnehmenden Gesellschaften? Das neue Heft der WZB-Mitteilungen blickt aus verschiedenen Perspektiven auf #Migration.
Zum Heft: wzb.eu/de/migration
Migration
wzb.eu
July 1, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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ersjournal.com
#ERSNew #ERSSpecialIssue🐣🔓 A 7-year study of Canada’s Syrian Refugee Resettlement Initiative reveals how nuclear family structures and restrictive policies leave most families separated, impacting well-being. Article: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2474621
March 31, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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sifill.bsky.social
All of this undertaken in our name. Remember that.
jennycohn.bsky.social Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Mar 22
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
You literally cannot tell this incredibly cool part of American history without centering Native American identity. It is an powerful demonstration of how diversity provided tangible military advantages over an enemy committed to White supremacy.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whitewashi...
As the U.S. entered World Wars I and II, the military needed an efficient means of protecting its radio, telephone, and telegraphic messages from enemy intelligence. During this time, many Native Americans joined the armed forces and had a unique skill that would prove instrumental to the war effort. Each Native American tribe had their own language and dialect that few outside the tribes understood, many of which were not written down. Before their arrival in France during World War I, the Germans had broken every American code used, resulting in the deaths of many U.S. Soldiers. However, the Germans never broke the Native Americans’ “code,” and these Soldiers became affectionately known as Code Talkers.
March 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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maartenpvink.bsky.social
It is that time of the year again!

@eu-eurostat.extwitter.link today published data on citizenship acquisition updated to 2023

a 🧵 on a few things we learn from the data and some of the usual caveats to keep in mind

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Acquisition of citizenship statistics
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February 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
If the Great Resegregation proves successful, it will restore an America past where racial and ethnic minorities were the occasional token presence in an otherwise white-dominated landscape. It would repeal the gains of the civil-rights era in their entirety. What its advocates want is not a restoration of explicit Jim Crow segregation—that would shatter the illusion that their own achievements are based in a color-blind meritocracy. They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity while maintaining an unofficial racial hierarchy. Like elections in authoritarian countries where the autocrat is always reelected in a landslide, they want a system in which they never risk losing but can still pretend they won fairly.
February 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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fulelo.bsky.social
Swedish school shooting victims were seven women and three men
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#Orebro
Victims of Swedish school shooting were seven women and three men, police say
Families have been identifying victims of the attack - all between 28 and 68 years old.
www.bbc.com
February 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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mediendienst-integration.de
Das Thema #Migration dominiert die letzten Wochen vor der vorgezogenen Bundestagswahl am 23. Februar. Unsere Quellen für Journalist*innen dazu:
ℹ️ Zurückweisungen & Abschiebungen: mediendienst-integration.de/artikel/rege...
ℹ️ Familiennachzug: mediendienst-integration.de/artikel/was-...
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Asylpolitik - Regeln für Zurückweisungen und Abschiebungen
Nach dem tödlichen Messerangriff in Aschaffenburg wird über Grenzkontrollen, Zurückweisungen an den deutschen Grenzen und Abschiebehaft debattiert. Ein Überblick über Zahlen und rechtliche Grundlagen.
mediendienst-integration.de
February 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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mrothberg.bsky.social
These are dark times almost everywhere. But there is also light: last night I attended the launch of a new Association of Palestinian and Jewish Academics in Berlin.

Inspiring, moving, and just the kind of solidarity we need--and not just in Germany. pja-verein.de
Association of Palestinian and Jewish Academics
Visit the post for more.
pja-verein.de
February 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
emilyfrank.bsky.social
Took me way too long to delete my Twitter account for good. Hoping BlueSky stays a good place, and looking forward to engaging more here!
January 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
emilyfrank.bsky.social
Happy to share my latest article on refugees’ experiences with German government agencies, inequalities by legal status and the role of street-level bureaucrats:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>Public Administration Review</em> | ASPA Journal | Wiley Online Library
What factors influence refugees' perceptions of justice in bureaucratic institutions? As global migration movements draw increasing attention, migrants' experiences as constituents in destination cou...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 14, 2024 at 8:20 PM
emilyfrank.bsky.social
I now have a PhD! Thanks to @dynamics.bsky.social for a great 3 years 🥳

Now I can fully focus on my work at @wzb.bsky.social, where I’m looking at the effects of legal status, the asylum process, and family reunification on immigrants’ mental health.
September 28, 2024 at 12:04 PM
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heikekluever.bsky.social
Absolutely excited that the DFG has just approved the renewal of @dynamics.bsky.social 🥳🍾 We are delighted to train 20 additional PhD students working on demography, democracy and public policy during the next 5 years at Humboldt University and @hertieschool.bsky.social! www.dfg.de/service/pres...
DFG fördert zwölf neue Graduiertenkollegs
Weiterlesen
www.dfg.de
November 9, 2023 at 8:17 AM
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rossdahlke.bsky.social
Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish hate online stems from the same fringe, white supremacist communities who target both groups interchangeably, finds Hobbs, @nazita.bsky.social, Li & Lucas, suggesting we need to consider hate against both groups in tandem

doi.org/10.1007/s111...
Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish attitudes among respondents in the American Mosaic Project 2014 survey. Each jittered black point in the top panel of this figure represents the number of anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim attitudes reported by a White, Non-Hispanic respondent—the sum of yes responses to seven statements, including “They don’t share my morals or values” and “They want to take over our political institutions.” Purple ellipses represent a normal data ellipses for responses conditional on any problem (bottom left corner) and average conditional on a sum of problems across both groups greater than 10 (top right corner). Using the same data, the bottom two panels display the average number of problems attributed to a group conditional on the number of problems attributed to the other group This figure displays change in mentions of Jews and Muslims or Arabs that contained predicted hate speech compared to January 2017 among Gab users who posted every month January 2017 through August 2018 The bottom panel above displays hate crimes and bias incidents recorded by ADL and CAIR by month. The top panels compares these two sources. Overall, hate crimes and bias incidents gradually decline after the 2016 election—until a very large spike in anti-Jewish incidents in late 2018. In addition to the overall patterns potentially related to the election and inauguration of Donald Trump, we also see a longer term shift in anti-Jewish hate crimes relative to anti-Muslim hate crimes in mid-2017. This second shift mirrors the activity on fringe social media sites around Unite the Right Anti-Muslim or Arab and anti-Jewish aggravated assault, murders, manslaughter, arson, and kidnapping recorded in the FBI UCR data by month
October 30, 2023 at 6:51 PM
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mediendienst-integration.de
Sozialleistungen als Pullfaktor für Flüchtlinge? Aus der Wissenschaft gebe es dafür keine Belege, sagt der Sozialwissenschaftler Tim Müller. Er hat Migrations-Daten für 160 Länder ausgewertet. Mehr im Interview👇https://mediendienst-integration.de/artikel/demokratie-ist-ein-pull-faktor.html
Migration und Sozialleistungen - 'Demokratie ist ein Pull-Faktor'
Sozialleistungen würden Geflüchtete anziehen, sie seien ein "Pullfaktor" - so heißt es immer wieder in aktuellen Debatten. Aus der Wissenschaft gebe es dafür keine Belege, sagt der Sozialwissensch...
mediendienst-integration.de
October 31, 2023 at 2:07 PM
emilyfrank.bsky.social
Right now the public discussion in Germany has somehow set up Jewish safety and Muslim safety, Jewish safety and refugee safety as two opposing interests. Current world events are being mobilized to fuel preexisting German xenophobia - which now has a convenient new rationale.
October 31, 2023 at 2:36 PM
emilyfrank.bsky.social
Good afternoon from the University of Amsterdam
October 4, 2023 at 10:39 AM
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pengzell.bsky.social
Katalin Karikó on the status economy of academia. She’s the hero we don’t deserve.

Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...
There is a “centre” where the money, the fame, is; most likely your proposal gets funded because it’s on the most favourable topic. Maybe today, RNA is [most favourable]. If you are working with mRNA, maybe that's the centre there. And then there are people in the periphery. There is no fame, there is no money, no nothing there. The only thing in the periphery is freedom. You can do what you like to do, what you feel is important. Here’s what a proposal is: why they should give me money. And they should question that. “She came from university nobody knew about.” “She never had a mentor who was famous.” And somehow it gravitates always to the same people, same circle. They get published there, they get the money. And that's another explanation: I was not famous enough or didn't have anybody who would support me in a way that somebody that’s a famous and well-established scientist stands behind you and says, “Oh, look at this, it’s good.”
October 3, 2023 at 8:20 AM
emilyfrank.bsky.social
A consequence of the overburdened Berlin immigration office: there are no appointments for asylum seekers to renew their IDs - which they need to receive their social benefits, health insurance, and housing payments.
September 28, 2023 at 2:27 PM
emilyfrank.bsky.social
I will be spending October-November as a visiting PhD at the University of Amsterdam. Excited to engage with the migration research community there! HMU if you’re there and want to talk about social welfare rights of immigrants & refugees 😊
September 26, 2023 at 8:16 AM