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DFG Research Group “Human Rights Discourse in Migration Societies” (MeDiMi) | Exploring the intersection of human rights and migration in law, politics, and everyday life | www.medimi.de/en
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🚨 Save the Date: #MeDiMiConference2026! 🚨

💥 We are thrilled to officially announce the final conference of MeDiMi's first research phase!

📅 May 7–8, 2026

📍 Justus Liebig University Giessen

👉 A detailed announcement and a call for papers will follow – stay tuned!
🚨 Publication alert!

📚 Anna Arden:

"Intersecting #EnforcedDisappearance and #Migration:
The Creation of a New Legal Tool against #Pushbacks within #WGEID and #CED"

👉 Key Results from our legal project on the EU's #BorderRegimes

👉 Published OA in NQHR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📢 Join us tomorrow for a discussion on #humanrightization in the professional everyday!
1/3) 📢 Event alert!

#MeDiMiImpulse: Human Rights Protection of Migrants: Between the Legal Profession and Social Work.

🗣️ Language: 🇩🇪

📆 4.11.2025

🕑 2-5:30 pm CET

📍Johannisplatz 26, 07743 Jena + online

Register by 28.10. via mtdm@eah-jena.de.

Live stream: www.youtube.com/live/y_8X6mT...
Live MeDiMi Impuls: Menschenrechtsschutz von Migrant:innen zwischen Anwaltschaft und Sozialer Arbeit
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November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
1/3) 📢 Event alert!

#MeDiMiImpulse: Human Rights Protection of Migrants: Between the Legal Profession and Social Work.

🗣️ Language: 🇩🇪

📆 4.11.2025

🕑 2-5:30 pm CET

📍Johannisplatz 26, 07743 Jena + online

Register by 28.10. via mtdm@eah-jena.de.

Live stream: www.youtube.com/live/y_8X6mT...
Live MeDiMi Impuls: Menschenrechtsschutz von Migrant:innen zwischen Anwaltschaft und Sozialer Arbeit
YouTube video by Research Group MeDiMi
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October 14, 2025 at 6:23 AM
1/2) 🚨 Publication alert!

📚 Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez / Slađana Branković:

"Common Futures for All. Refugee Activism Enacting #HumanRights between Negation of Rights and Rexistance in Germany"

👉 Key Results from our project on #Refugees' & #UndocumentedMigrants' protests movements
September 24, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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🚀 MeDiMi at the 2025 ICON•S Conference
@icon-s.bsky.social in Brasília!

🎓 MeDiMi's Sofía Reca Milanta presented her research from our project on the Inter-American and the European Court of Human Rights, led by ICON•S Co-President @mhailbronner.bsky.social at @uni-muenster.de.
September 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
New blog post by MeDiMi researchers on the incompatibility of restrictions on #refugees’ access to #healthcare with Germany’s #humanrights obligations 👇
Wieder will die Bundesregierung die ohnehin prekäre Gesundheitsversorgung von Geflüchteten weiter einschränken.

FREDERIK VON HARBOU, MICHAEL KNIPPER und MAIK PAAP zeigen, dass Deutschland damit seine grund- und menschenrechtlichen Pflichten verletzt.

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September 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Hear me talk about integration in this short snapshot video from the Vienna Centre for Migration & Law (VCML) @univie.ac.at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh6f...
Snapshot Dr. Schmalz
YouTube video by Vienna Centre for Migration and Law
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September 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Jetzt erschienen: das Jahrbuch des Migrationsrechts 2024/25 (Hrsg. Berlit/Hoppe/Kluth), in dem ich ein Kapitel zur Rechtsprechung des EGMR beisteuern durfte. www.nomos-shop.de/de/p/jahrbuc... @nomosverlag.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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📢 TraCe Annual Conference 2025

Join our fourth annual conference “Beyond the Spectacle: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Slow Violence and Political Harm”, from November 19–21 in Marburg @zfk-mr.bsky.social!

📝 Registration: eveeno.com/slow-violence
🔗 Program: www.trace-center.de/en/events/an...
September 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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I was honored to serve as a facilitator at the summer school CRITICAL TIMES 2025 DISRUPTIONS with a session on “Disrupting the Affective Work of Anti-Immigration Narratives and Images“. The Institute is offering Visitor Fellowships that one can apply for until 30 September 2025: lnkd.in/eBNEtynx.
August 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
📢 MeDiMi Working Paper No. 2 is out now!

📝 MeDiMi Coordination Unit: Humanrightization. Theses on a Theory of Discursive Practice in Migration Societies. Discussion Paper

👉 Available in German and English on the MeDiMi website: www.medimi.de/en/article/2... (1/2)
July 31, 2025 at 6:58 AM
🚨 Save the Date: #MeDiMiConference2026! 🚨

💥 We are thrilled to officially announce the final conference of MeDiMi's first research phase!

📅 May 7–8, 2026

📍 Justus Liebig University Giessen

👉 A detailed announcement and a call for papers will follow – stay tuned!
July 30, 2025 at 9:03 AM
👇 Spannendes Feature über die Geschichte des migrantischen #Feminismus in Deutschland - mit Beiträgen unserer Projektleiterin Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez: tinyurl.com/476fu7av
Feminismus: Die migrantische Frauenbewegung in Deutschland
Sie kamen als Gastarbeiterinnen und kämpften seit den 1970er-Jahren, für gleiche Rechte. Wie hat die migrantische Frauenbewegung den Feminismus geprägt?
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July 22, 2025 at 5:54 AM
🔥Last week, it was time for our biannual working meeting @jlugiessen.bsky.social ! 🔥

👏 Many thanks to everyone involved for 2 days of intense discussions on the theory of #humanrightization.

👉 Stay tuned for our forthcoming Working Paper No. 2!
July 17, 2025 at 8:26 AM
🎬 The next #MeDiMiInsights video is now online!

💡MeDiMi project leader Jürgen Bast on "Restricting the Free Movement of Asylum Seekers: Human Rights Limits of EU Border Policy"

👉 youtu.be/itEd4Z26K50
MeDiMi Insights | Jürgen Bast: Human Rights Limits of EU Border Policy
YouTube video by Research Group MeDiMi
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July 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM
🎙️ Our researcher Dr. Mina Ibrahim appeared on the “Justice Visions” Podcast, hosted by Eva Willems at #GhentUniversity.

💡 Topic is the role of #archives of Syrian, Sudanese, and Peruvian #diaspora communities in #TransitionalJustice processes.

👇 tinyurl.com/2n3pwu4n
Documentation and Archiving Practices in the contexts of Peru, Syria and Sudan – Justice Visions
In this new episode of the mini-series on documentation, we continue the conversation on documentation and archiving practices together with Eva Willems and Mina Ibrahim. ⁠Eva Willems⁠ is a post-docto...
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July 7, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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☀️ MeDiMi at #TheMigrationConference2025 in London (June 11-17, 2025)

🎓 Researchers from 4 MeDiMi projects presented their findings in a special session entitled "Human Rights Discourses in Migrant Societies."
June 18, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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☀️ MeDiMi at the 2025 Summer Event of the Giessen Graduate Centre for Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Law (GGS) on 11 June.

💡 Highlight: Talk by MeDiMi PI @greta-olson.org on "Trump 2.0: The Return & Resistance."
June 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
📢 New MeDiMi publication!

📝 Laura Borchert / Janina Schlüsselburg: 'Cover(ing) #Migration: The Visual #Narrativisation of Flight, #Asylum, and #Security Practices'

👉 Published Open Access in European Journal of English Studies: doi.org/10.1080/1382...
June 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
(1/2) 👨‍🏫 MeDiMi spokesperson Jürgen Bast contributed to the 2025 ADiM-IntoMe Migration Conference in Viterbo, 🇮🇹.

🔶 Book presentation with Hiroshi Motomura: “Borders and Belonging. Toward a Fair Immigration Policy”

🔶 Keynote in the session on the "The New Pact on Migration and Asylum"
June 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Looking forward to speaking at the GGS Summer Event 2025 on June 11. I will give a guest talk, titled "Trump 2.0: The Return & the Resistance," which will cover political pushback, activism, and hope. Register by June 4 via the QR code below or this link: shorturl.at/TSjFg. #TheReturn #TheResistance
June 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
(1/3) 🚨 MeDiMi goes conference!

👨‍🏫 Our PI Michael Knipper co-hosted the GTP conference on “Decolonizing Global #Child #Health: Critical Reflections and Dialogue to Ensure the Right to Health for All Children Worldwide,” at @jlugiessen.bsky.social from May 2-4, 2025.
May 30, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Congratulations to our colleagues!
FAU-Projekt „Transforming Human Rights” wird Exzellenzcluster 🏅

Heute hat die DFG und der Wissenschaftsrat die künftig geförderten Exzellenzcluster bekanntgegeben. Und die FAU darf jubeln: Das Projekt „Transforming Human Rights“ ist dabei! 🤩 #FAUproud (1/3)

www.fau.de/2025/05/news...
Exzellenzstrategie: Herausragend in der Menschenrechtsforschung
Große Freude an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU): Das Forschungsprojekt „Transforming Human Rights“ wird Exzellenzcluster. Am späten Donnerstagnachmittag gaben die Deutsche…
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May 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
📣 Our researcher @leonzue.bsky.social visited @feministconlaw.bsky.social's chair for #EU-Law at Europa-Universität #Flensburg for a #research stay.

🇪🇺 Together with Kilian Umbach & Anna Kompatscher, he co-organized an interdisciplinary workshop entitled ' #Border concepts 40 years after #Schengen'.
May 21, 2025 at 6:45 AM
🎬 Check out the next highlight from our #MeDiMiInsights series!

💡Our spokesperson Jürgen Bast on the discovery of migrants' #HumanRights in the long 1990s.

The talk was held in the colloquium of @kfguniversalism.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social.

👉 youtu.be/-HTkEnviAFg
MeDiMi Insights | Jürgen Bast: The Discovery of Migrants’ Human Rights in the Long 1990s
YouTube video by Research Group MeDiMi
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May 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM