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Dr. Natalie Welfens
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Political Sociologist University Duisburg-Essen. Migration, refugee protection, EU external relations, IOs, gender, feminist approaches, practice theory. And cats. She/her.
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Dr. Natalie Welfens @nwelfens.bsky.social · Dec 19
I’m excited to share that my book “Unequal Access. Categorising refugees in European Resettlement and Humanitarian Admission Programmes”
will be published next year @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social! Pre-orders are now available tinyurl.com/b5kuxrj4

Looking forward to sharing this work with you all soon!
Unequal Access | McGill-Queen’s University Press
McGill-Queen’s University Press
www.mqup.ca
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columbaachilleos.bsky.social
💥 Explore the full Special Section #FeministForeignPolicy in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social. Thanks to all contributors! @tonihaastrup.bsky.social @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social @nwelfens.bsky.social @karolinefaerber.bsky.social @erdfraeuleinma.bsky.social @balnik.bsky.social @hlmuehlenhoff.bsky.social
Feminist Foreign Policy Without Migration? Examining Exclusions in Germany’s FFP Guidelines | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
Feminist Foreign Policy Without Migration? Examining Exclusions in Germany’s FFP Guidelines
www.cambridge.org
October 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
#OpenAccess from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social -

Feminist Foreign Policy Without Migration? Examining Exclusions in Germany’s FFP Guidelines - https://cup.org/4mQimRB

- @hlmuehlenhoff.bsky.social, Lara Sosa Popovic & @nwelfens.bsky.social

#FirstView
Logo of "Politics & Gender" with the hashtag "OpenAccess" on a yellow and teal background.
October 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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rsenninger.bsky.social
Very excited to share a new preprint.

@jesperasring.bsky.social and I study how politicians engage with evidence in the real world.

Link: osf.io/8zv9s
June 20, 2025 at 8:26 AM
nwelfens.bsky.social
Was kommuniziert ihr euren Studis zu #KI #LLMs und #chatgpt in der Lehre und mit Blick auf Hausarbeiten und Referate? Gibt es an euren Instituten schon Leitlinien dazu?
#askingforafriend #wissenschaft
May 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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vfeneberg.bsky.social
📖Buchvorstellung DIE HEIMAT DER ANDEREN. HERKUNFTSLANDINFORMATIONEN IN ASYLVERFAHREN

⚖️Wie wissen Richter:innen genug, um über Asylanträge zu entscheiden? Eine Analyse anhand der Beispiele #Syrien und #Afghanistan.

📆20. Mai 2025 @leuphana.bsky.social

www.leuphana.de/news/termine...
May 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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knatter.bsky.social
On 4 June I present my paper with @nwelfens.bsky.social on the impact of migration research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. @judithkohlenberger.bsky.social will act as discussant!

There will be lots of room for discussion, so please join!
The event is hybrid.
www.oeaw.ac.at/isr/institut...
Why has migration research so little impact?
www.oeaw.ac.at
May 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
nwelfens.bsky.social
Ist noch jemand beim @zeit.de #zia Kongress heute?
May 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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saskiabonjour.bsky.social
One more time for the folks in the back.
tabouchadi.bsky.social Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · May 2
3) Moving right on immigration normalizes the radical right, their positions and rhetoric. Normalization is a key precondition for electoral expansion of the radical right. Programmatic accommodation and collaboration normalize the radical right and open new segments of the electorate for it.
May 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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catherinedevries.bsky.social
🗳️ Populism is a warning sign.

English local elections show it again: People feel abandoned & look scapegoats.

Drawing on own research & others, I argue 👇🏽

💡 To counter populism: We need to reinvest in citizens, e.g. housing, health & dignity.

Short 🧵

📖 www.socialeurope.eu/to-counter-p...
To Counter Populism and Bolster Security, Europe Must Reinvest In Its Citizens
Facing security threats and rising populism, Europe needs state investment in citizens, not austerity that fuelled discontent.
www.socialeurope.eu
May 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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vfeneberg.bsky.social
#Asyl: Thym kritisiert Kritik an Abschaffung des #Amtsermittlungsgrundsatzes als konservativ bzw. innovationsresistent, prognostiziert allerdings nur ein "Mischmodell, dessen praktischer Mehrwert unklar bleibt". Wir warten gespannt auf den Gesetzesentwurf zum Mischmodell. @verfassungsblog.de
verfassungsblog.de Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · Apr 22
Die Themen Asyl und Migration haben den letzten Bundestagswahlkampf maßgeblich bestimmt.

Doch welche Forderungen schafften es in den Koalitionsvertrag? Und was davon ist juristisch umsetzbar?

DANIEL THYM über die migrationspolitischen Vorhaben von Schwarz-Rot:

verfassungsblog.de/migration-un...
Zitat: „Die 17 Vorhaben bergen so manche Überraschung und rechtspolitischen Sprengstoff, bewegen sich jedoch innerhalb des Spektrums, das die deutsche Asylpolitik seit 20 Jahren prägt: Liberalisierungen und Restriktionen wechseln sich ab, wobei das Pendel derzeit in Richtung der Strenge ausschlägt.“
April 28, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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tgammeltoft.bsky.social
Interested in maritime law and (im)mobility? check out the call for papers for our next international workshop 👇
itamann.bsky.social Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · Mar 12
Jessica Larsen and I are organizing a workshop in beautiful Copenhagen this coming Fall, come join us!

Special issue call for papers: Straits, Canals and Choke Points, September 15-16, 2025

mobilitylaw.ku.dk/news/2025/ca...

Thanks @mobileucph.bsky.social for hosting this project
April 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
nwelfens.bsky.social
Hi! Ich suche einen guten Einführungstext zum Asylsystem Deutschlands (auf deutsch) für BA Studierende. Hat jemand Ideen?
@maxpichl.bsky.social @ulrikekrause.bsky.social @marcusengler.bsky.social @judithkohlenberger.bsky.social @jolafkleist.bsky.social @tabeascharrer.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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iflscience.com
A new study has examined 8 million speeches from 140 years of Congress, showing a massive decline in evidence-based language since the 1970s.

www.iflscience.com/use-of-facts...
"Gut Feeling" Is Outweighing Evidence-Based Rhetoric In US Politics"
A new study has examined 8 million speeches from 140 years of Congress, showing a massive decline in evidence-based language since the 1970s.
www.iflscience.com
April 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
nwelfens.bsky.social
Ich forsche seit zehn Jahren zu Resettlement und finde die temporäre Aussetzung der Programme fatal - zumal sie für Personen mit besonderem Schutzbedarf gedacht sind.
juergenzimmerer.bsky.social Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · Apr 8
Deutschland, schäme Dich in Grund und Boden! Und dies zum 80. Jahrestag des Kriegsendes, mit seinen Fluchtbewegungen.....
Und Du, @spdde , machst mit....

web.de/magazine/pol...
April 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
nwelfens.bsky.social
Happy to see my article on IOM's role in refugee resettlement out in @ersjournal.com. How do IOM's pre-departure courses construe knowledge about resettlement as a pathways and host societies' norms and values? What are refugees' perspective on such courses?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
March 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
nwelfens.bsky.social
Looking forward to discussing writing practices and learning from colleagues! Thank you @ecdeisa.bsky.social for organising this important event! Co-writing is already one of the best tips I can offer ☺️
ecdeisa.bsky.social ECD Group/ EISA @ecdeisa.bsky.social · Mar 17
✍🏽👩🏽‍💻We invite ECRs to our first online #WritingRetreat on March 27, 2025 at 10:30 am CET.

➡️Starting off with practical writing advice by
@nwelfens.bsky.social, @samarjit.bsky.social, and #JoanaRicarte followed by a 2hr joint online writing session.

Sign up here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
March 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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ersjournal.com
Special Issue: Refugee Resettlement as an Institution

Unpacking ‘Expectation Management’: The International Organisation for Migration’s #PredepartureOrientation for #Resettling Refugees

Author: @nwelfens.bsky.social

University of Duisburg-Essen

Coming soon!

#expectationManagement
March 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
nwelfens.bsky.social
Exciting news! 🎉
I’ve been awarded a Change! Fellowship from the
@volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social and will lead a research group on 'Technological Transformation in Migration & Asylum Governance' @unidue.bsky.social for the next 5y.
Looking forward to this journey!
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March 12, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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emcke.bsky.social
Wie konnte es soweit kommen, dass die AfD mit ihren rassistischen, autoritären Positionen solchen Zuspruch bekommt? Alle befragen sich, was die eigenen Fehler waren. Nur in den Redaktionen der Medien gibt es anscheinend null Zweifel, null Selbstkritik. Alles weiter so. Das geht nicht.
February 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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tabouchadi.bsky.social
Just so people do not draw the wrong conclusions. Like other social democratic parties, the SPD has lost only very few voters to the far right. Today's AfD supporters are mostly not former social democrats. We outline this in detail here, for example: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/media/1awhrc...
February 25, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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sbvanoosten.bsky.social
I see it after all elections with wins for populist radical right parties (PRRPs), also now with AfD in Germany:

Weird wild stories about how much ethnic minorities vote for PRRPs, explained by stereotypes.

A lot of anecdata, not much actual data.

But, I recently published this paper about it:
sbvanoosten.bsky.social Dr. Sanne van Oosten @sbvanoosten.bsky.social · Feb 11
✨New publication in Populism & Politics✨

Do minority voters tend to vote for Populist Radical Right Parties (PRRPs)? And why?

Though Dutch Muslim minorities are much less likely to vote for the PVV, French and German Muslim minorities are actually just as likely to... 🧵
The Importance of In-group Favouritism in Explaining Voting for PRRPs: A Study of Minority and Majority Groups in France, Germany and the Netherlands - ECPS
Please cite as:
www.populismstudies.org
February 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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tabouchadi.bsky.social
Wir haben gestern lange darüber gesprochen was wir tun würden wenn Autoritäre und Faschisten die Macht übernehmen. Behält man Stellen in Bürokratie und Wissenschaft, wandert man aus, wie würde man Widerstand organisieren? Als Deutscher kennt man diese Fragen. Man hat sie häufig rückblickend ... 1/
February 23, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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chrischirp.bsky.social
It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science.

Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics".

Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about".

We need to sound the alarm.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded and what’s next
The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the administration’s policy changes has shocked researchers.
www.nature.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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ersjournal.com
Have you checked out our new #ERSSpecialIssue V.48, Issue 4? The issue explores how migration governance relies on categorization, shaping migrants' experiences, despite discrepancies between bureaucratic labels and lived realities. Articles: https://buff.ly/3ElIvak
February 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
THE RESIST LIST IS HERE.

Proud my team just started this @resistlist.bsky.social, which will list actions that happened and that are slated to happen.
Resist List They want us to think we’re alone. We are not. The Resistance is Everywhere. Hopescroll through stories of people’s noncooperation against Trump’s coup. Jump to databases of noncooperation or trackers of ligitation and impact. Follow our social media accounts to stay updated.
February 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM