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Tabea Scharrer
@tabeascharrer.bsky.social
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Anthropologist working on #migration, #inequality and #religion, regional focus on #Kenya and #Somalia; Uni Bayreuth & MPI for Social Anthropology, Editorial Board 'Comparative Migration Studies', https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tabea-Scharrer
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Tabea Scharrer @tabeascharrer.bsky.social · May 28
Ein neuer Text von mir zum Thema "Wie Migrationsabwehr und gefährliche Migrationsrouten zusammenhängen. Das Beispiel der Lösegeldschleusung in Libyen" ist heute im neuen "Report Globale Flucht 2025" (Fischer Verlag) erschienen: www.fischerverlage.de/buch/report-...
Bild der ersten Buchseite eines Textes zum Thema "Wie Migrationsabwehr und gefährliche Migrationsrouten zusammenhängen. Das Beispiel der Lösegeldschleusung in Libyen", erschienen im Report Globale Flucht 2025
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aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
OUT NOW: In this new blog post, Maddy Clark and I examine some of the steps that got us to one of the largest far-right marches in UK history. The expansion of target groups - eg via racist & anti-trans agitation - is one of them:
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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tabeascharrer.bsky.social
Online presentation on conflict and peace in Ethiopia’s Southern Lowlands, "Individual Accountability, Collective Punishment, and the Securitization of Development", by Lucie Buffavand, next Thursday 20.11.2025, 6pm (CET), organised by WAKHVA, more information and registration: hornvonafrikaev.de
Gathering in South Ethiopia
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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tomgardner18.bsky.social
A groundbreaking, eye-opening, and much needed investigation into Tigray's postwar goldrush: one of the most overlooked causes of the region's calamitous law and order breakdown—and its slide back to war.

www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
When Tigray became a ‘wild west’ of illegal gold mining, Canadian firms staked a claim
A postwar gold rush in Ethiopia razed the landscape and sowed seeds for conflict. The Globe looks into Canadian-licensed sites at the heart of it, and their ties to Beijing
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
tabeascharrer.bsky.social
Online presentation on conflict and peace in Ethiopia’s Southern Lowlands, "Individual Accountability, Collective Punishment, and the Securitization of Development", by Lucie Buffavand, next Thursday 20.11.2025, 6pm (CET), organised by WAKHVA, more information and registration: hornvonafrikaev.de
Gathering in South Ethiopia
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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rhaplord.bsky.social
Matriarchs of the East African coast
Power, Property and the changing status of Women in the Swahili world (1300-1900CE)

Many coastal societies followed matrilineal principles of descent and inheritance, and nearly all followed a matrilocal residence rule
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/matriarchs...
Matriarchs of the East African coast: Power, Property and the changing status of Women in the Swahili world (1300-1900 CE)
Historical traditions of several pre-colonial African societies are awash with stories of titled women who played prominent roles in the continent’s political history, such as the Candaces of ancient ...
www.africanhistoryextra.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
tabeascharrer.bsky.social
Danke für diese Leseempfehlung!
heinrichwefing.bsky.social Heinrich Wefing @heinrichwefing.bsky.social · 5d
"Das ist das Perfide an der Konstruktion des Doppelstaats: Er organisiert die Unterdrückung von Widerspruch, lässt aber die große Mehrheit der Bürger in Frieden.“ Habe noch einmal Fraenkels #Doppelstaat gelesen. Beklemmend aktuell für die Lage in den USA www.zeit.de/2025/47/der-...
"Der Doppelstaat": Wenn das Recht noch besteht, aber nicht mehr gilt
Unter dem Eindruck der NS-Diktatur verfasste der deutsch-jüdische Jurist Ernst Fraenkel seine hellsichtige Analyse "Der Doppelstaat". Heute ist sie wieder brandaktuell.
www.zeit.de
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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nanjala.bsky.social
The situation in Tanzania is worse than we realised. Some journalists have managed to smuggle information out of the country. Current death toll is close to 1,000 by some reports. A harshly enforced curfew is in place.
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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alicefereday.bsky.social
Pleased to share the GI-TOC's latest report on #humansmuggling in #Niger.

🇳🇪 In 2024, following the repeal of Law 2015-36, movements rebounded, but didn’t reach pre-2015 levels.

Read why here 👇

globalinitiative.net/analysis/hum...
Human smuggling and trafficking in North Africa and the Sahel
Since 2016, the GI-TOC has monitored the political economy of human smuggling and trafficking in North Africa and the Sahel. The 2025 series features country reports on Libya, Niger, Chad, Tunisia and...
globalinitiative.net
November 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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infectiousdz.bsky.social
As aid dries up in Kenya, millions are threatened by the climate-driven disease kala-azar. grist.org/health/kala-...
As aid dries up in Kenya, millions are threatened by the climate-driven disease kala-azar
Rising temperatures and erratic rainfall have supercharged the breeding of sandflies that spread the climate-driven disease kala-azar.
grist.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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nanjala.bsky.social
If you’re in Nairobi, displaced youth from Sudan are hosting a fundraiser for mutual aid groups in Darfur on Saturday November 8th. Lumin is a great community space ran by displaced youth from Sudan and Ethiopia and they have great coffee and tea. Tell your friends to tell their friends.
November 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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julianrademeyer.bsky.social
Tens of thousands of nationals from at least 77 countries have been trafficked into more than 100 scam compounds in Myanmar in recent years.Among them have been at least 75 South Africans.
ANALYSIS | Myanmar’s scam economy poses growing threats to African security | News24
Cyber scam operations in Southeast Asia are highly sophisticated, industrial-scale enterprises that pressgang unsuspecting job seekers into servitude in shockingly exploitative conditions where they f...
www.news24.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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wasserhoevel.de
ICE fährt durch die Straßen amerikanischer Städte, scannt die Gesichter und wenn die App behauptet, das seien keine US-Bürger, dann springen diese Gangster aus dem Wagen, weisen sich nicht aus und verschleppen die Betroffenen.

Dystopischer wird es kaum.
November 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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rhaplord.bsky.social
State building in pre-colonial Somalia: the Sultanate of Geledi (ca. 1750-1908)

www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/state-buil...
State building in pre-colonial Somalia: the Sultanate of Geledi (ca. 1750-1908)
For much of Somalia’s pre-colonial history, political organization was structured along clan and lineage divisions within largely acephalous societies.
www.africanhistoryextra.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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bildoperationen.bsky.social
«Die RSF wird schon seit Langem von Deutschland und der EU unterstützt – weil sie die ‹Festung Europa› aufrechterhalten soll. Der RSF-Anführer hat … wiederholt bekannt gegeben, dass er ‹die Arbeit der EU› machen würde und prahlte mit Zahlen von festgenommenen und abgeschobenen Migrant:innen.»
November 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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oliverdasgupta.bsky.social
Blick in den #Sudan 🇸🇩 In #Darfur massakriert die RSF-Miliz Frauen, Männer und Kinder - vor den Augen der Welt. Menschenrechtsermittler Nathaniel Raymond dokumentiert das Grauen seit Kriegsbeginn, unter anderem mithilfe von Satelliten.
Ein Interview von Fritz Schaap. www.spiegel.de/ausland/krie...
October 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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econgeo.bsky.social
The funny thing: Every aspect of the  internal social oorganisation of economics as a field proves some of the major assumptions of mainstream economics wrong! #econsky
www.theglobalcurrents.com/p/economics-...
Economics has an elitism problem
A handful of elite universities control the discipline. That’s not excellence — it’s monopoly.
www.theglobalcurrents.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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blaetter.bsky.social
Immer wieder hat es diplomatische Versuche gegeben, den Konflikt im #Sudan zu entschärfen. Warum sie bisher alle erfolglos waren, beleuchtet Andrea Böhm im »Blätter«-Podcast 👉 www.blaetter.de/podcast

Zu ihrem Text: www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...
»Es gab eine Reihe diplomatischer Initiativen. Das Problem: Es waren zu viele, sie waren nicht aufeinander abgestimmt und halbherzig.« Andrea Böhm, Blätter-Podcast, November 2025
October 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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laiabalcells.bsky.social
How easy is it to fudge your scientific rank? Meet Larry, the world’s most cited cat -- Science www.science.org/content/arti...
How easy is it to fudge your scientific rank? Meet Larry, the world’s most cited cat
“Exercise in absurdity” reveals flaws in Google Scholar’s productivity metrics
www.science.org
October 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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felixhaass.bsky.social
🚨 New article out!

“Right-Wing Terror, Media Backlash, and Voting Preferences for the Far Right” in @bjpols.bsky.social

👉 doi.org/10.1017/S000...

We (Alex De Juan, @juvoss.bsky.social & I) examine how right-wing attacks shape support for the far-right in Germany.

Short summary thread below 👇
Abstract for the article: How does right-wing terrorism affect electoral support for populist radical right parties (PRRPs)? Recent research has produced contrary answers to this question. We argue that only high-intensity attacks, whose motives and targets mirror PRRPs’ nativist agenda, are likely to generate a media backlash that dampens electoral support for PRRPs. We test this argument by combining high-frequency survey and social media data with a natural and survey experimental design. We find that right-wing terror reduced support for the radical right party Alternative für Deutschland after one of the most intense nativist attacks in recent German history. An analysis of all ninety-eight fatal right-wing attacks in Germany between 1990 and 2020 supports our argument. Our findings contribute to an understanding of how political violence triggers partisan detachment and have important implications for media responsibility in the aftermath of terrorist attacks.
October 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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iehs.bsky.social
New interview in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies between IEHS members Nancy Foner and Paul Statham:

"Re-thinking how people and societies change through migration: comparisons across boundaries"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Re-thinking how people and societies change through migration: comparisons across boundaries – Nancy Foner discusses her intellectual, career, and life journey with Paul Statham
Nancy Foner, an American scholar, recounts her intellectual journey in a career spanning almost five decades of influential research on migration, race and ethnicity. In a wide-ranging interview, F...
www.tandfonline.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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haakongjerlw.bsky.social
Online hate isn’t just virtual. Posts with Hindu nationalist hashtags on India’s Koo platform precede real-world attacks on Muslims & Christians.

When the internet shuts down, so does the violence.

Fresh research from colleague @sschutte.bsky.social et al

Read more 👉 www.prio.org/news/3644
Online speech drives real-world violence, new PRIO study finds – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
A new study from the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) represents one of the first large-scale investigations into how online discourse can both inc ...
www.prio.org
October 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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rhaplord.bsky.social
Matriarchs of the East African coast: Power, Property and the changing status of Women in the Swahili world (1300-1900 CE)

www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/matriarchs...
Matriarchs of the East African coast: Power, Property and the changing status of Women in the Swahili world (1300-1900 CE)
Historical traditions of several pre-colonial African societies are awash with stories of titled women who played prominent roles in the continent’s political history, such as the Candaces of ancient ...
www.africanhistoryextra.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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lwestheuser.bsky.social
Mit der @taz.de habe ich über die Krise der Klimapolitik gesprochen. Es ging darum, wie sich soziale Blockaden der Klimapolitik überwinden lassen, warum die derzeit dominante Weise, das Klima zu politisieren, in eine Sackgasse führt und wie Zohran Mamdani es besser macht.

taz.de/Soziologe-ue...
Soziologe über Klima als Klassenfrage: „Die Grünen haben Fehler gemacht“
Wenn Klimapolitik gesellschaftlich breiter akzeptiert werden soll, muss die Verteilungsfrage in den Fokus rücken, sagt der Soziologe Linus Westheuser.
taz.de
October 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM