According to the latest count from the Lebanese Ministry of Health, released this morning, since March 2, Israeli bombings in Lebanon have killed at least 2,020 people, including 165 children, 248 women, and 85 health workers, and injured more than 6,000.
www.naharnet.com/stories/3194...
Thank you, Pontus!
Soccer diplomacy: “Part of Canada Soccer's new World Cup brand campaign, Our Game Now, the premise was simple: bring your Italy jersey, get a Canadian one”.
(In the end, those who got jerseys didn't have to give theirs up).
www.sportsnet.ca/fifa-world-c...
For decades, cinema has told powerful stories of migration.
The Migration Movies Database brings these stories together to support teaching, learning, and public discussions through a searchable archive of migration-related films.
migrationpolicycentre.eu/project/migr...
Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this.
"Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings."
ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas
While the rest of the world saw an average 4% rise in international tourism in 2025, the US experienced a 5.4% decline during the year. Will the football World Cup reverse the trend?
www.euronews.com/travel/2026/...
Is this compatible with EU law?
What does this tell us?
Citizenship in times of crisis is not straightforward: nationality alone does not guarantee protection.
Ultimately, citizenship in crisis is less about your nationality and more about where you are, what other legal statuses you hold, and how states choose to act.
4/4🧵
Some surprising findings:
➡️ In 20 countries, border closures even applied to their own nationals
➡️ Evacuation programmes often excluded dual citizens, but sometimes included non-national family members
➡️ Access to welfare was generally conditional to long-term residency
3/4🧵
We find that state protection during the pandemic was uneven.
Decisions on who received help was more complex than many assume. It was not just about nationality. Instead, access to protection also depended on residence status, personal circumstances, and states’ international commitments
2/4🧵
What is citizenship in times of crisis?
In a new #OpenAccess article with @jdzankic.bsky.social and @ashleymhollands.bsky.social, we analyse data from 204 countries & territories during COVID-19
1/4🧵
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Very effective video by @iclaimeu.bsky.social summarising three years of research on the living and working conditions of migrant workers with insecure legal status in Europe in 100 seconds.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1r7...
My article on the representation of migration in movies is the Editor’s Choice of the March 2026 issue of @migrationjrnl.bsky.social.
I am proud to contribute to a journal broadening the field beyond Euro/North American centrism and connecting scholars globally.
academic.oup.com/migration/ar...
The EU and Nigeria signed a new readmission deal for rejected asylum seekers in exchange of a €288 million funding package for Nigeria’s healthcare system.
audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/media/vid...
In a joint letter Italy’s PM Giorgia Meloni and Denmark’s PM Mette Frederiksen call for increased EU coordination on migration in response to the human tragedy caused by the war in the Middle East, portraying forced displacement as an issue of containment and security.
www.ansa.it/english/news...
Save the Children reports that more than 1.2 million people, a fifth of the population, have been displaced in Lebanon since 2 March due to Israeli airstrikes and forced displacement orders including 350,000 children.
www.savethechildren.net/news/one-fiv...
Today, the European parliament is likely to approve rules that would make it easier to deport rejected asylum seekers including to countries they have no connection to.
This reform of the Return Regulation is a compromise backed by the centre and far right.
Displaced families reinforce tents along Beirut's waterfront in Beirut, Lebanon, on March 14, 2026, as a storm brings strong winds and blowing sand that turns the sky yellow and tears at makeshift shelters amid ongoing displacement following the new escalation in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. Photo: picture-alliance
Heavy rain falls over tents sheltering people displaced by Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon and Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, along the Beirut waterfront in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, March 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
BEIRUT, LEBANON - MARCH 15: An aerial view shows Lebanese families who fled their homes in the Dahiye area in southern Beirut after the Israeli army forced residents to leave the area, as they spend their days in streets and parks and shelter in makeshift tents along the capital's coastal area despite harsh weather conditions on March 15, 2026. Houssam Shbaro / Anadolu
📷Displacement in the Middle East has reached ~4.2 million following the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, the UN said.
About 4.1 million of them are internally displaced, most in Iran (3.2 million) & Lebanon (~816,000).
Pictured: Displaced families in Beirut's regions, March 14/15.
Very happy that this article with Samir Negash and Lorenzo Piccoli has just been accepted at the European Political Science Review. In it we show that "welfare chauvinism" is much more nuanced than many assume.
The multiple wins at the #oscars for One Battle After Another, a film that is essentially about militants freeing detained migrants from an immigration detention center, show how central migration has become to contemporary cinema.
academic.oup.com/migration/ar...
Spain is set to expand free healthcare access to undocumented migrants.
The plan comes after the government announced earlier this year it would regularize some 500,000 irregular migrants — bucking the trend of tightening migration policies across Europe.
Excellent letter by @j-hagen-zanker.bsky.social and @clairekumar.bsky.social on the @financialtimes.com arguing that making development aid conditional on migration objectives makes for inefficient migration policy and bad aid policy.
www.ft.com/content/f071...
‘The war that has erupted between the US, Israel and Iran, engulfing the region, has already proved deadly to Filipino workers abroad’ - with 32-year-old Mary Ann De Vera killed by shrapnel on 28 February while escorting her employer, an older woman, to a shelter www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Following a change in policy last year, Germany has drastically cut the number of visas available for family reunification of refugees with limited protection, leaving many families separated for extended periods of time.
Why do some people want to migrate while others don’t—even in similar conditions?🌍
My new #openaccess article in IMR shows how psychology🧠—notably values, risk tolerance, and personality—predict both aspiration and irregularity willingness.🔎🔓
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/XEJZT...
94 civil society organisations call on EU lawmakers to reject the “Return Regulation”. They warn that it could turn public spaces, shelters, and even private homes into tools of immigration enforcement.
picum.org/blog/no-to-e...
Great blog post by @gelliottmorris.com which is backed by decades of academic research. How you ask a question impacts how people answer the question!
This has important consequences for how to think about puic opinion and how to treat opinion polls. Short 🧵
The 31st report by Fondazione ISMU: 5.9 million foreign nationals lived in Italy in 2025, including ~340k irregular migrants, in line with previous years. Sea arrivals were stable at 66k, but at least 1,342 people died or went missing in the Central Mediterranean.
www.ismu.org/comunicato-s...
Submit your essay by 31 March 2026 for the @globalcit.bsky.social – Rainer Bauböck Essay Award.
This award is sponsored by the funds of the City of Vienna 2023 Prize in Humanities and Social Sciences awarded to Rainer Bauböck for his work on citizenship and democratic theory.
How do institutions communicate about #migration?
With @jamesrdennison.bsky.social & @mcduarte.bsky.social, we built a database of migration communication campaigns in Europe.
We’re expanding it now. Do you know a campaign? Please take this 1-min survey.
eui.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
