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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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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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Great panel today on 'Revisiting Humanity in Dark Times: Anthropological Dialogues With Hannah Arendt', with contributions by Thomas Schwarz Wentzer, Jonas Lykke Larsen, Paolo Gaibazzi, @judithbeyer.bsky.social, Ahmad Moradi, Aksana Ismailbekova, Aymon Kreil, Samuli Schielke, and me #dgska2025
Caravan with the inscription "The difference which is connecting us"
October 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Comparative Migration Studies has opened a new thematic call for special issues on ‘Regional perspectives on migration’, deadline 1 October 2025. Please spread widely. For more information on the journal (2024 IF 3,7; citescore 7,8): comparativemigrationstudies.springeropen.com
Call for Special Issues with the following text: Comparative Migration Studies (CMS) welcomes proposals for the Thematic Call special issue – 2025 with as thematic ‘Regional perspectives on migration’. Special issues can cover perspectives on migration and migration-related diversities from one specifical (global) region, compare various regions, focus on global-south perspectives on south-south migration. We are looking for articles that push present understandings of migration, integration, and race and ethnic relations in new conceptual, methodological, and empirical, directions. A special issue should include at least 4 original articles, plus an introduction. Proposals should provide an outline of the special issue, provisional titles and author names of contributors (who should have confirmed their participation), and at least 1 complete paper/draft paper. All articles for CMS should include an abstract of no more than 250 words and observe a word-limit of 9,000 words. All special issue proposals will be submitted to internal review by the editorial board CMS. If approved by the board, a clear deadline is agreed with the guest editors as for when all articles have to be submitted via the online submission portal of CMS (SNAPP). All individual articles can be submitted on a running basis and will be reviewed (double blind peer review) individually (reviewers will be notified that an article is part of a broader special issue). Guest editors will be informed on the progress of the review of individual articles. Guest editors are also responsible for the communication of deadlines to the contributors involved. The decision on acceptation of articles will be taken by the editorial board. Guest editors can be asked to suggest external reviewers. Deadline to submit SI proposals: 1 October 2025 (23:59). Please send your proposal directly via e-mail to: info@comparativemigrationstudies.org .
July 4, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Seriously? An AI wrote ...? Not rather put together, assembled, compiled? Anyway, probably a good time to leave Academia.edu.
A mail from Academia.edu, saying that "An AI wrote a review of your paper"
July 1, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Online presentation of the recently published book „Internationalised Constitution Making and State Formation. Negotiating Peace and Statehood in South Sudan and Somaliland“ by Katrin Seidel, organised by #WAKHVA , Thursday, 3 July 2025,18:00 CET, for registration see hornvonafrikaev.de
Cover of the book ”Internationalised Constitution Making and State Formation. Negotiating Peace and Statehood in South Sudan and Somaliland“ by Katrin Seidel, published by Routledge in 2025
June 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Online presentation on "Grazing Control, Pastoralists and Government ‘showdown’ on Marsabit Mountain in the late colonial era" by Hassan Kochore, this Thursday, 05 June 2025, 18:00 CET, as part of the Wakhva series, for registration see: hornvonafrikaev.de
Image of cattle grazing in the hilly area of Marsabit, East Africa
June 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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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
May 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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The same procedure as every year
A bowl of hand decorated easter eggs
April 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Online Presentation on 'The Madqà project in Djibouti – recognition for Afar traditional law as intangible heritage' by Saleh Mohamed Hassan (CERD – centre d’études et de recherches de Djibouti), organised by Wakhva, on 24 April 2025, 18:00 CET (registration at hornvonafrikaev.de) 1/3
Image showing a stone wall and the text Meqem-barà.
April 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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The European Commission has published new statistics on gender equality in Research and Innovation. According to the "She Figures Index", Germany is ranked an impressive 25th out of 27 member states. #IchbinHannah

projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/knowledge...
The She Figures Index 2024, a tool designed to assess the progress of European Union (EU) Member States in achieving gender equality in the field of research
March 20, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Weil nach Monaten der Hoffnung (ganz subjektiv betrachtet und vielleicht naiv), des Umbruchs und des Aufbruchs, das Wahlergebnis so aussah. Damit waren die Weichen in eine bestimmte Richtung gestellt.
Diagramm der Ergebnisse der letzten Volkskammerwahl in der DDR 1990
March 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Vielleicht sollten wir ja mehr über Abwanderung als über Zuwanderung sprechen/ Maybe we should talk more about outmigration instead of immigration ...
Karte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Veränderung der Bevölkerung (1990-2022) @Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung Karte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Anteil von Ausländerinnen und Ausländern (@Wahlatlas Bundeswahlleiterin) Karte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Stärkste Partei je Wahlkreis (@Wahlatlas Bundeswahlleiterin)
February 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Lichterkette Pankow zum Gedenktag an die Opfer des Holocaust. Montag, 27. Januar 2025, 18 Uhr Berliner Straße 121, 19 Uhr Andacht in der Alten Pfarrkirche Pankow. Organisiert vom VVN-BdA Pankow und der Ev. Kirchengemeinde Alt-Pankow @vvnbda.bsky.social
Lichterkette Pankow am Gedenktag an die Opfer des Holocaust. 27. Januar 2025, 18 Uhr Berliner Straße 121, 19 Uhr Andacht in der Alten Pfarrkirche Pankow. Organisiert vom VVN-BdA Pankow und der Ev. Kirchengemeinde Alt-Pankow
January 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Online WAKHVA talk tomorrow "Sudan Crisis Discussed: Anthropological Insights into Sudan’s Ongoing War and Displacement" by Mohamed Bakhit (University of Khartoum) & Valerie Hänsch, (LMU Munich/Ethnological Museum Berlin), 15 January 2025, 18:00 – 19:30 CET
hornvonafrikaev.de/sudan-crisis...
Image from 2021 shows Sudanese protesters marking second anniversary of army massacre, demand justice
January 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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All articles of the Special Issue on "Migration and Crime in a Divided World" (guest editors: Luigi Achilli, Antje Missbach & Soledad Álvarez Velasco) in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 709 (1), 2023, are free access currently: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
December 16, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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For my new followers, I am reposting some recent publications: Nr. 1 - this article on ransom smuggling in Northern Africa in which I argue that young Somali migrants used this dangerous form of smuggling because it was cheaper and easier to organize than other options 1/3
doi.org/10.1177/0002...
Image of abstract to article: Scharrer, T. (2023). Of Mukhalas and Magafe: Somali Migrants Navigating the Dangers of Ransom Smuggling in Northern Africa. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 709(1), 86-104.
December 11, 2024 at 10:04 AM
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Online Presentation about the independent private Yimtubezina Museum in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), opened in December 2022, by the museum's director and chief curator Abel Assefa; 12 December 2024, 18:00 CET; for registration see the WAKHVA website: hornvonafrikaev.de/online-prese...
Image showing the front of the Yimtubezina Museum in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), an independent private museum opened in December 2022
December 2, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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Benefizkonzert 'Celli für Sosenski' am 22.02. (Do) in der Wabe(Berlin, Danziger Str. 105), u.a. mit Guts Pie Earshot, kann gerne weiter geteilt werden ...
Celli für Sosenki ein Benefizkonzert der VVN-BdA Pankow zur Restaurierung der Gedenkstätte für die ermordeten Jüdinnen und Juden von Riwne, Ukraine. Wabe, Berlin, Danziger Str. 105, 22.02.24, 19 Uhr. Mit Guts Pie Earshot, der Musikschule Béla Bartók & Gastauftritt von André Herzberg mit Tobias Unterberg (Inchtabokatables) und Hans Rohe. Eintritt gegen Spende
February 20, 2024 at 9:39 AM
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Einladung zur Präsentation des Handbuches 'Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung' am 20.03.2024 in Wien am oiip oder online (18-20 Uhr). Mit den vier Herausgeber*innen sowie Veronika Bilger, @judithkohlenberger.bsky.social, @japvie81.bsky.social & Sieglinde Rosenberger: www.oiip.ac.at/events/einla...
February 13, 2024 at 9:26 AM
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PostDoc Stelle (3 Jahre) in Göttingen in einem Projekt zu Flucht und religiösem Wandel. Deadline 25.02.2024
January 31, 2024 at 9:02 AM
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And another short piece is out as well: "Buchvorstellung ›Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung. Ein Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium‹" jointly written by @bglorious.bsky.social, @jolafkleist.bsky.social, Marcel Berlinghoff and me, Z'Flucht 7(2), p. 413 - 419 (in German) doi.org/10.5771/2509...
December 20, 2023 at 4:06 PM
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A new text is out: "Silence, secrecy, ignorance, and the making of class and status across generations" written jointly by the research unit “Age and Generation” for the
@ZMO_Berlin Programmatic Texts series. doi.org/10.58144/202...
December 20, 2023 at 2:57 PM