🚨 New publication on our key concepts!
📚 Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Jürgen Bast & Laura Holderied:
“ #Humanrightization of Migration Discourses: A Conceptual Framework ”
👉 Published Open Access in Journal of Human Rights Practice, 18(1), 2026: doi.org/10.1093/jhum....
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Die Vortragsreihe „Konflikte in Gegenwart und Zukunft“ startet in das Sommersemester 2026 und lädt ein, aktuelle relevante Fragen rund um das Thema Frieden zu diskutieren.
Das Programm wird von Prof. Dr. Susanne Buckley-Zistel organisiert und moderiert.
@trace-center.de @unimarburg.bsky.social
🚨 Reminder: Registration for the #MeDiMiConference2026 is still open until April 12, 2026!
📖 The complete program with all panelists is now online: www.medimi.de/de/topic/106....
🤩 We are excited to discuss the conditions, forms, and consequences of #humanrightization with you!
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The masterclass is part of the #MeDiMiConference2026.
Register for the conference here: www.medimi.de/conference.
#MeDiMi #MigrationLaw #MigrationPolicy #MigrationEthics #Humanrightization
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📢 Masterclass with Prof. Hiroshi Motomura (@law.ucla.edu) for PhD Students in Migration Law, Politics, and Ethics
📆 06.05.2026, 2–6 p.m.
📍 JLU Giessen
⏰ Expression of interest via medimi@recht.uni-giessen.de by 19.04.2026.
Details below 👇
📢 Registration for the #MeDiMiConference2026 is now open!
➡️ Join us in exploring legal, political, and everyday struggles over the human rights of migrants in today’s societies.
🗓️ 7–8 May 2026
📍 @jlugiessen.bsky.social
⏰ Register by 12 April 2026!
👉 Details: www.medimi.de/conference
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This paper presents key findings from our legal research on the ECtHR’s case law in the field of migration. Take a look to prepare for the #MeDiMiConference2026!
#ECtHR #MigrationLaw #HumanRights #MeDiMi #Humanrightization
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🚨 MeDiMi Working Paper No. 3 is out now!
📚 Jürgen Bast & Janna Wessels:
“The Trajectory of the European Court of Human Rights in Migration Matters”
👉 Available on the MeDiMi website: www.medimi.de/de/article/2...
🚨 Reminder!
⏱️ Only one week left to submit your proposals for the #MeDiMiConference2026!
More info 👇
Die DFG-Forschungsgruppe „Menschenrechtsdiskurse in der Migrationsgesellschaft“ (MeDiMi) veranstaltet vom 7.–8. Mai 2026 in Gießen eine Konferenz mit dem Titel „Humanrightization in Migration Societies: Conditions, Forms, Consequences“.... https://www.theorieblog.de/?p=30455
📣 Call for Papers | DeZIM-Konferenz 2026
🗓 07.–09.10.2026 | 📍 Bielefeld
Unter dem Titel „Die umkämpfte Normalität der Migration“ lädt die DeZIM-Konferenz interdisziplinäre Beiträge aus Wissenschaft, Politik & Praxis ein.
🔗 www.dezim-institut.de/veranstaltun...
This talk works to contextualize events in Minneapolis within the current administration’s discursive strategy of attacking Renée Good and Alex Pretti and denying responsibility for their deaths after they were shot by ICE agents.
📣 Lecture alert!
👩🏫 👩🏫 Our researchers @greta-olson.org and Simona Adinolfi on “The Affective Resonances of Images of #Migration versus Migrants’ #HumanRights”
📅 29 January, 6 pm.
📍Institut für #Anglistik / #Amerikanistik, Universität #Osnabrück, Neuer Graben 29/Schloss, Raum 11/211
Details 👇
📣 Call for Papers!
▶️ #Humanrightization in #Migration Societies: Conditions, Forms, Consequences
📄 We look forward to your proposals for the #MeDiMiConference2026
📅 May 7–8, 2026
📍 Justus Liebig University Giessen
⏰ Deadline: 23 February 2026
Details: 👇
🚨 Reminder: #MeDiMiConference2026 is coming up in May 2026! 🚨
📅 May 7–8, 2026
📍 Justus Liebig University Giessen
👉 Stay tuned for the #CallforPapers coming up in January 2026!
👉 In case you missed it: Check out the MeDiMi Working Paper No. 2: www.medimi.de/de/article/2...
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👉 Check out @laura-holderied.bsky.social’s research on #VisualPolitics and representations of refugees after Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine 2022.
#MeDiMi #Migration #HumanRights #Borders #BorderPolitics
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🚨 Publication alert!
📚 Laura Holderied:
“Visual Politics of Flight and War. Imag(in)ing Deservingness and Agentic Victimhood of Ukrainian Refugees After Russia’s 2022 Invasion”
👉 Published in International Political Sociology, 19(4), 2025: academic.oup.com/ips/article-...
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The presentation was held at the #MeDiMi working meeting 2025 - many thanks to our Marburg-based team!
#Humanrightization #EverydayCulture #Sociology #HumanRights #Migration
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🎬Check out the next #MeDiMiInsights video!
💡Dariuš Zifonun, Tasnim Jabaly, and Sebastian Weste: “Reflections on the Everyday Culture of Human Rights”
👉 The talk presents key interim results from our sociological project on “doing human rights” in the everyday (🗣️ 🇩🇪).
👉 youtu.be/Hl9msPPsOQY
(3/3) ❗This article presents key findings from the #MeDiMi project "Human Rights Transformations of German Migration Law".
👉 For more information on this MeDiMi project, see www.medimi.de/en/article/6...
(2/3) 💡The article traces how actors made references to #humanrights relevant in the context of German #migration law. Assessing this #humanrightization serves to identify strategies for human rights argumentation and highlights promising, but yet underexplored arguments for future litigation.
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📝 Adriana Kessler and Frederik von Harbou (2025) #Menschenrechte im deutschen #Migrationsrecht. Argumente und Akteure, Asylmagazin, Issue 10–11, 17–24.
🚨 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/...
📢 Join us tomorrow for a discussion on #humanrightization in the professional everyday!
(3/3) 💬 Subsequent panel discussion with:
👩🏫 Hannah Franke (Promotionszentrum Soziale Arbeit Hessen)
👨🏫 Dr. Matthias Lehnert (Lawyer, Leipzig)
👨🏫 Dr. Benjamin Bunk (JLU Giessen)
👩🏫 Moderation: Adriana Kessler (EAH Jena)
#Migration #Humanrights #Socialwork #Sozialarbeit #Menschenrechte
(2/3) 🧑🏫 Introductory lecture by Prof. Nivedita Prasad (Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin): Commitment to Human Rights: Structural Changes in the Context of Social Work.
1/3) 📢 Event alert!
#MeDiMiImpulse: Human Rights Protection of Migrants: Between the Legal Profession and Social Work.
🗣️ Language: 🇩🇪
📆 4.11.2025
🕑 2-5:30 pm CET
📍Johannisplatz 26, 07743 Jena + online
Register by 28.10. via mtdm@eah-jena.de.
Live stream: www.youtube.com/live/y_8X6mT...
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📚 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
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🙏 Many thanks to the organizers and discussants for this excellent opportunity to present our research!