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Leonie Felicitas Jegen
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Still finding my way into bsky | Currently PhDing @UvA_AISSR | West Africa/Senegal - EU, b/orders, colonial continuities | She/her | Somewhere between Brx, Brln, Dkr - mostly in a library |🍉.
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Leonie Felicitas Jegen @leoniefelicitas.bsky.social · May 21
🚨#PublicationAlert:

The first article from my PhD research on counter migrant smuggling borderwork in #Senegal was published this week with #IPS. A mini 🧵
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theecre.bsky.social
We've just posted our initial reflection on the EU Migration and Asylum Strategy.

Head to our feed 👉 bit.ly/4a9rqwt
January 30, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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statewatch.bsky.social
Are the EU's border policy plans similar to the US?

Listen in as Statewatch journalist Frey Lindsay shares the answer on Lagos Talks radio.

Want to help change the direction? Follow our bulletin, Outsourcing borders, here: buff.ly/8qfXgJa

Speaker: @freylindsay.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 11:08 AM
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rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social
Patrice Lumumba wird als Tasumbu Tawosa in der damaligen Kolonie Belgisch-Kongo geboren. Er arbeitet als Postbeamter, engagiert er sich aber journalistisch und politisch für die Unabhängigkeitsbewegung.

#AnDiesemTag 🧵
Sharepic mit einem Foto von Patrice Lumumba und dem Zitat: „Wir werden die Massaker nicht vergessen, in denen so viele umgekommen sind.“ - Patrice Lumumba. Wird am 17. Januar 1961 ermordet.
January 17, 2026 at 7:31 AM
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smittermeier.bsky.social
The German Research Foundation, possibly the most important funding body for academic research in Germany, is now not only allowing the use of AI to write applications, they‘ll also allow it to evaluate said applications. Only prerequisite is that one makes this transparent. It‘s a farce.
January 11, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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ecdeisa.bsky.social
Dealing w/ academic precarity as an ECR?

👉🏽Mark your calendar for our upcoming online event!
🗓️ 22.01.2026 18:00-19:30 CET, Zoom
🔗 Description & registration: buff.ly/MWB1GbQ

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@europeanisa.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 8:07 AM
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lalehkhalili.bsky.social
Next Tuesday (13 Jan, 17-18.30 London time) Mona Damulji (UCSB) will present on "The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil in Iran and Iraq" to our virtual seminar series. For details and to register go to:
www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai...

The remainder of the presentations are scheduled as below.
January 7, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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bokarsangare.bsky.social
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Changez le regard sur l’Afrique. Soutenez Afrique XXI
FAIRE UN DON À AFRIQUE XXI C’EST SOUTENIR UNE INFORMATION LIBRE, CRITIQUE ET INDÉPENDANTE DES POUVOIRS POLITIQUE ET FINANCIER EN FRANCE ET SUR L’ENSEMBLE DU CONTINENT AFRICAIN. ET TOUJOURS EN (…)
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December 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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pollypw.bsky.social
Seriously if you’re European and you didn’t have the same robust defence of freedom of speech when Germany banned the entry of Ghassan Abu-Sittah because he was going to talk about Israel’s genocidal violence, then kindly sit this one out and reflect on your racially motivated selective outrage.
December 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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econgeo.bsky.social
What a line-up! An @antipodeonline.bsky.social first: a "longread" of 68 pages! Expect a splendid New Year's gift, when the issue goes to print early Jan!
@udadisi.bsky.social
@samar42.bsky.social @demonicgrounds.bsky.social
#geosky @darajapress.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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quilombo.bsky.social
Étude de @sciensano.be 🇧🇪 : Un décès sur cinq en Belgique est lié à la précarité . www.sciensano.be/fr/coin-pres...
December 20, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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abgeordnetenwatch.de
Im EU-Parlament wurde mit rechter Mehrheit eine Verschärfung des Asylrechts beschlossen. Zukünftig können Asylsuchende in Drittstaaten abgeschoben werden, zu denen sie keine Verbindung haben, um dort den Asylprozess zu durchlaufen. Wie wurde abgestimmt?👇
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Verschärfung des Asylrechts durch Aktualisierung der Vorschriften für sichere Drittstaaten | abgeordnetenwatch.de
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December 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
leoniefelicitas.bsky.social
This was long in the making. The new deportation rules will profoundly alter the CEAS & further undermine the right to asylum, reify a logic that treats humans as cargo,& bring about a new era of migration diplomacy, where non-EU countries cannot reject deportations of their citizens any longer.
borderline-europe.bsky.social borderline-europe @borderline-europe.bsky.social · Dec 19
The EU plans to ease deportations of asylum seekers, even to countries they’ve never lived in.
December 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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ecdeisa.bsky.social
In-between PhD and Postdoc? This may be for you👉🏽

The #PostdoctroalBridgeGrant is one of the ways @europeanisa.bsky.social supports its early career membership.

Apply by 19 March 2026💥All info below⤵️
europeanisa.bsky.social European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · Nov 28
📣 Calling all recently graduated or final year PhD students: applications for EISA's Postdoctoral Bridge Grants are now open!

💸 Up to 5 grants of €3,500 each

🗓️ Deadline: 19 March 2026

🔗 More information on eligibility and application details: buff.ly/9giEdNr
EISA Postdoctoral bridge grants will support recently graduated or final-year PhD students who have not secured an academic contract or fellowship.
December 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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maxpichl.bsky.social
„Ich habe nur eine einzige respektvolle Bitte: Töten Sie mich und meine Familie nicht auf diese schreckliche Weise. Rufen Sie mich und meine Familie in die angesehene 🇩🇪 Botschaft in Islamabad und beenden Sie mein Leben in einer Grube mit ein paar Kugeln, das ist alles.“

www.fr.de/politik/dobr...
Dobrindt entzieht Ortskräften Aufnahmezusage – „Warum zerstören Sie mich und meine Familie wissentlich?“
Dobrindt wollte nur noch Ortskräften aus Afghanistan ein Visa gewähren. Man habe eine politische Verantwortung für diese Menschen. Es kommt anders.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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jwgoudriaan.bsky.social
The @ec.europa.eu has gone berserk. It wants to open the EU water framework directive to allow mining corporations to pollute water and increase costs for all, the interests of the few before that of all of us

Out of control

Folks - please repost, inform, resist

@epsu.bsky.social
@politico.eu
December 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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corporateeurope.org
Findings #EUOmbudsman on 3 complaints concerning corporate sustainability due diligence (Omnibus I), the Common Agricultural Policy, and countering migrant smuggling. EU Better Regulation is to 'ensure law-making is evidence-based, transparent, and inclusive'.
Not #De-regulation
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’Our protection must not be sold for profit’ | Corporate Europe Observatory
Today, civil society, trade unions, and public interest groups delivered a clear message to Commission President von der Leyen, the European Commissioners, and EU Member States in a statement signed b...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
leoniefelicitas.bsky.social
the moment when you can fangirl your friends 😎🥰 way to go @johannatunn.bsky.social 🔥
geoopenaccess.bsky.social Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Nov 19
🏝️New in Geo!🏝️

'Epistemic violence in global climate governance: The case of climate finance in Vanuatu' by @johannatunn.bsky.social

This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Political Ecologies of Islands: Environmental & Climate (In)Justices'.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Johanna Tunn (2025) entitled: 'Epistemic Violence in Global Climate Governance: The Case of Climate Finance in Vanuatu' with an orange banner at the top. This paper explores mechanisms of epistemic violence enacted through the climate finance (access) industry in Vanuatu, shedding light on the colonial inflictions of multilateral green funds in global climate governance. While the climate crisis is a reality in Vanuatu, its access to direct climate finance remains constrained, as it is not an accredited entity to any of the major climate funds. This serves as a gateway for a growing climate finance (access) industry that has established itself across the Pacific and in Vanuatu. Using an action-theoretical perspective that centres acts of doing epistemic violence, this paper identifies four mechanisms of epistemic violence enacted through Vanuatu's climate finance (access) industry: distortion via the mistranslation of realities; imposition via rendering people and regions investable; devaluation via rendering people incapable and exploitation through the extraction of knowledges and exhaustion of resources. Rather than improving access and equity for frontline communities, this paper elaborates that epistemic violence remains the modus operandi of Vanuatu's climate finance (access) industry—and is thus complicit in the perpetration of physical violence in the form of losses and damages, ecocide and epistemicide. Dismantling this system would at least require the islanding of climate finance, emphasising local agency and self-determination over externally imposed, extractive models.
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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statewatch.bsky.social
In October 2024 the EU announced it would provide €30 million from its aid budget to Senegal.

Ultimately, the plans can be seen as contributing to a new era of carceral EU migration “management” in West Africa.

Read more in the latest article by Leonie Jegen:

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November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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matthimon.bsky.social
Es geht los: Seit gestern fliegt #Frontex mit dem Flugzeug #Eagle8 im Atlantik, um Migrantenboote zu entdecken die von Küsten in #Westafrika starten:
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Dass dort auch Drohnen der Agentur fliegen sollen, bestätigt sich bislang aber nicht.
November 18, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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europeanisa.bsky.social
📣 Mark your calendars for our next online event with ecdeisa.bsky.social ... Solidarity Across Uneven Terrains: Practising Care and Resistance within Neoliberal Academia

🗓️ 19 November, 16:15 – 17:45 CET (Zoom)

🔗 Register here ASAP to secure your spot: buff.ly/lzLPo33
Solidarity across uneven terrains: Practising care and resistance within neoliberal academia. 19 November 2025 16:15 CET, online roundtable discussion. Description: This event brings together four speakers to explore how solidarity, care, and resistance can be practiced within the neoliberal academy and across enduring divides of coloniality, gender, and class. Speakers: Aslı Vatansever, Bard College Berlin; Jan Orbie, University of Ghent; Agnieszka Marta Fal-Dutra Santos, Geneva Graduate Institute; Anahita Arian, Leiden University
November 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
leoniefelicitas.bsky.social
Looking forward to co-chairing this discussion w/ @francakappes.bsky.social and above all to the important contributions of Aslı Vatansever, Jan Orbie, Agnieszka Marta Fal-Dutra Santos, Anahita Arian.

Register here: eisa-net.org/online-event...
ecdeisa.bsky.social ECD Group/ EISA @ecdeisa.bsky.social · Nov 12
1/3 📢 Join us for the @europeanisa.bsky.social #ECD Group's online event:

➡️ #Solidarity Across Uneven Terrains: Practising Care and Resistance within #Neoliberal Academia.

🗓️ 19th November, 16:15–17:45 CET
🔗 Register: eisa-net.org/online-event...
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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leilaessai.bsky.social
no surprises here: a Berlin court has confirmed that the "political activity ban" on Ghassan Abu-Sittah 1,5years ago was against the law – I remember being on a train to Berlin when those news broke; infuriating like almost every encounter with the city in the last two years
isaliba.bsky.social Dr. Ilyas Saliba @isaliba.bsky.social · Nov 7
Laut Urteil hätte die Ausländerbehörde dem Chirurgen Ghassan Abu-Sittah die Einreise nicht verbieten dürfen.

Wie zu Erwarten stellt das OVG Urteil eine Verletzung der Meinungsfreiheit- und Versammlungsfreiheit fest.
Wird dafür jemand zur Verantwortung gezogen @kaiwegner.bsky.social?
Auftritts-Verbot bei "Palästina-Kongress" in Berlin war rechtswidrig
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November 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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pollypw.bsky.social
Please consider signing this in support of Farhana Sultana!
ctemenos.bsky.social Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · Oct 29
As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Letter of Support for Professor Farhana Sultana
As scholars within and beyond academia, we write in solidarity with academic freedom of expression with our colleague, Dr. Farhana Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar and tenured Full Profe...
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October 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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theecre.bsky.social
Cc @ec.europa.eu 👇
msfsea.bsky.social MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · Oct 29
@msf.ca was recently ordered, in a letter from the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to leave the country by November 9. No reason has been given to justify our expulsion, and the process remains unclear.
October 29, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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migreurop.bsky.social
📢 Migreurop exprime sa solidarité totale avec le FTDES, membre historique du réseau, dont les activités viennent d’être arbitrairement suspendues par les autorités tunisiennes.
⚠️Cette décision s’inscrit dans une offensive plus large contre les libertés associatives en #Tunisie.
Migreurop soutient le FTDES, dont les activités viennent d'être suspendues en Tunisie – MIGREUROP
Migreurop exprime sa solidarité totale avec le Forum tunisien pour les droits économiques et sociaux (FTDES), membre historique du réseau, dont les activités viennent d'être arbitrairement suspendues…
migreurop.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM