Compared to 137 or so illegal and arbitrary executions that’s of course not the the main issue but wtf:
Once the men were on the patrol boat, the US personnel boarded the fishing boat and stole the crew’s food and the beer, Palacios said.
During Easter processions at Lake Atitlán, you’ll meet Maximón — originally a Maya deity who often takes on the role of Judas Iscariot. He also drinks, smokes, and has a thing for neckties.
Good MPI is setting an example with one position. Maybe, considering the pace at which things change in Germany, things will be better 30 years from now 😅
I like the new piñatas offered in Tijuana
Congratulations! I envy your students for the teacher and mentor they get wonderful news
Wow.
Very much looking forward to this very nice conference in Segovia next week
Do we already have a quiz show “satire or reality” based on trump quotes?
📢 2nd Junior Workshop Economics of Latin America - Call for Papers!
Aimed at PhD students & post-docs working on development economics with a regional focus on Latin America.
9-10 July 2026 in Berlin.
Submission deadline: Feb 28. (details below)
#EconConf #EconSky
Also: with so many terrible things happening in the world it feels really good to just see everybody having fun with simple things and not thinking about any of it for a while.
Berlin sledding season ❄️
Sleds spotted today include: traffic signs, Euro pallets, skateboards, drying racks, and garbage bags.
When it snows, Berlin improvises.
So hard these days to distinguish satire from reality 😢
Inaugural Workshop of the Standing Committee for Political Economy of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik e.V.), @vfsecon.bsky.social
Call for Papers below! Maik T. Schneider, @steinhardt.bsky.social @theocharisgr.bsky.social
and I hope to see you in Berlin, March 26-27!
Vielen Dank für eine der sachkundigsten Analysen die ich in deutschen Medien gesehen oder gelesen habe
“With the U.S. not just unwilling but unable to underwrite any order, it’s Trumpian anarchy. There is a sudden vacuum in the world order, while Trump wields diminished U.S. military and diplomatic power wildly, with no constraints.”
reminder if not evident: US backed coups in Latin America haven't usually led to periods of democratic transitions and stabiliy, and neither did they usually have that intention (e.g. Guatemala 1954; Brazil 1964; Dominican Rep. 1965; Chile 1973; etc.)
Back in Christmas mood
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📚 Why this matters:
Millions are affected by enforced return each year—yet data is fragmented.
The research note helps map the landscape and opens doors for research on the drivers & consequences of deportation.
#Research #MigrationStudies #DataForPolicy
9/🧩 Overall pattern:
Deportation risk is:
• highly uneven across countries
• extremely unequal across corridors
• shaped by politics, bureaucracy & international cooperation
#MigrationPolitics #ComparativeMigration #DeportationRegimes
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📏 Figure 7: Deportation risk relative to diaspora size & origin-country populations.
U.S.–Central America corridors dominate absolutely and relatively—but Europe–Albania and Spain–Morocco also show high relative risks.
🌍 Figure 6: Biggest enforced-return corridors (excluding the 4 U.S. giants to Mexico and Central America): Spain–Morocco, Greece–Albania, Colombia–Cuba, Germany–Albania. Lot of diversity below the Top 4.
#MigrationCorridors #MobilityData
⚖️ Figure 5: Enforcement gap = enforced returns ÷ orders to leave.
Variation is huge: Japan ~60%; others (BE, PT, BG, PL, CZ) <10%.
#DeportationGap #AdministrativeState
🔄 Figure 4: “Other returns” (assisted/voluntary/administrative).
Mexico and the U.S. dominate.
In many EU countries, “other returns” exceed enforced ones—showing how procedure & reporting shape the data.
#VoluntaryReturn #AVR #MigrationGovernance
📊 Figure 3: Annual enforced returns by country (2014–2022).
The U.S. is an outlier—several orders of magnitude above others.
Germany ranks 2nd, ~5% of U.S. levels.
#MigrationStats #ForcedReturn #ComparativePolitics
🛂 Figure 2: Refusals of entry, U.S. vs EU.
EU refusals collapse during COVID; U.S. do not—because of Title 42, which artificially inflated turnbacks.
Excluding Title 42 shows the “true” refusal trend.
#Borders #USBorder #EU #Title42 #MigrationControl
In the following: Seven graphs created from this data.
Figure 1: U.S. removals massively exceed those in Europe.
Four U.S.– Central America + Mexico corridors (MX, GT, HN, SV) dominate global return patterns.
New research note: Cross-Country Variation in Deportation Risk tinyurl.com/3x5ss4jk
We mapped ~7,200 deportation corridors using data from 42 deporting countries. Data available as an interactive #RShiny app 👉 www.deprisk.info
#DepRisk #Migration #Deportations #Data4Migration
My 11yo explained to me why the opportunity cost of spending less time with his friends isn’t worth the marginal improvement in grades.
I think he’s ready for an economics degree.
