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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
🚨 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
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
(1/3)

🚀 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
📢 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
🔥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
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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
(1/2)

☀️ 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
(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
📣 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
📣 Join our next #MeDiMiImpulse!

➡️ Human Rights Contestations: Activist Interventions into Current Discourse on Migration.

📅 9 Mai

📍 Goethe University Frankfurt a.M. | SH 4.102 | Max-Horkheimer-Str. 4, Frankfurt a.M.

🖥️ Stream ✅

Details & Registration: rb.gy/x6183m & ⬇️
April 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
🏰 Our Research Group held its General Assembly in #Rauischolzhausen.

🔎 After 2 years, it was time for an interim evaluation. Many thanks to our reviewers @andrealiese.bsky.social, @krajewskimarkus.bsky.social, @hschwenken.bsky.social & Boris Nieswand!

🔥 Stay tuned for more #MeDiMi content!
February 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
📣Publication alert

📕Our associated researcher Giulia Santomauro contributed the chapter 'European Court of Human Rights Jurisprudence and National Migration Policies: Exploring the Hermeneutic Tools of 'Proceduralisation' and Margin of Appreciation' to an edited volume.

👇Details: shorturl.at/0MmsW
January 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
📢 CfP for a workshop on "Reverse Strategic Litigation by Governments on Migrants' Rights" by #MeDiMi and #ACMRL!

Submissions from researchers at all career stages and various disciplines are welcome.

📅 27.-28.03.2025

📍 @vuamsterdam.bsky.social

⌛ Deadline: 20.12.2024

Details below 👇
December 12, 2024 at 11:24 AM
(2/3) 🌟Panel: "The Making of Human Rights Consciousness in Migration Societies" with Aghogho Akpome (University of Zululand), Andrea Fritsche (@IrksUibk, @uniinnsbruck) & Joachim Savelsberg (@JJSO31951, @UMNSociology), moderated by MeDiMi's @Greta_Olson_
February 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
(1/3) #MeDiMiConference2024 final day 3 - a 🧵!

🌟Keynote by Anuscheh Farahat (@team_farahat ), sketching an agenda for future research on human rights and migration, moderated by MeDiMi's Michael Knipper.
February 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
(5/5) And now: Good food and get together on our campus in Giessen 🥂
February 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
(4/5) 🌟Rountable on "What Does Democracy Mean in Migration Societies? Human Rights, Participation, and Solidarity" with E. Ngari (@women_in_exile), @klaas__mueller (@Verfassungsblog ), H. Nampiima & F. van der Vooren (Here to support), moderation: MeDiMi's A. Arden & M. Hartmann
February 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
(3/5) 🌟 Roundtable on "Human Rights Law in Migration Societies: Migrants' Rights before the Courts" with Hanna Hakiki (@ECCHRBerlin), @team_farahat, @masavino, moderated by MeDiMi's @wessels_janna, discussing the role of law and access to courts in migration-related conflicts.
February 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
(2/5) 🌟Roundtable on "HR Movements in Migration Societies" with Nele Allenberg (German Institute for Human Rights), Bernd Kasparek (@tudelft & @TSolidarities) & Michele LeVoy (@picum_ngo), chaired by MeDiMi's Jürgen Bast.
February 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
🚀#MeDiMiConference2024 day 1!

Kick-off: @MXPichl 's keynote on "The State of the #HumanRights of #Migrants in Europe", chaired by @S_BuckleyZistel.

💡Insights on legal struggles for human rights and authoritarian discourses.

🤓 Looking forward to 2 more conference days!
February 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
📢Registration for the MeDiMi Conference 2024 is now open!

➡️Join us in exploring the nexus of #HumanRights and #Migration. Researchers at all career stages and of all backgrounds are welcome!

🗓️18-20.09.2024

📍@jlugiessen

Details: https://www.medimi.de/conference 👇
February 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
📢MeDiMi meets FXB Center for #Health and #HumanRights at #Harvard University

💡Topic: Disentangling the different dimensions of the right to health with a focus on #border regions in #LatinAmerica and beyond

📅March 20
🕘6 PM
💡Registration: https://dir.lat/KDLPUI

Details👇
February 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM