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Leila Hadj Abdou
@leilahadjabdou.bsky.social
Migration researcher, Political scientist, Dep. Head Policy Research & Migration Law at IOM, AT; Co-coordinating European Migration Network (EMN) Austria. Ex-EUI/Migration Policy Centre. On this platform in a private capacity. Reposting is not endorsement.
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Very happy that our article link.springer.com/article/10.1... with @andreapettrachin.bsky.social on Knowledge Formation in U.S. #migration #policy-making won the Laswell price for best article in Policy Science. Based on Migprosp project @andrewpgeddes.bsky.social @mpc-eui.bsky.social
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New GLOBALCIT study compares the conditions of the citizenship acquisition processes for first-generation immigrants and their descendants in 11 countries 🇦🇹🇧🇪🇩🇰🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇱🇻🇳🇱🇵🇹🇸🇪🇬🇧

📰 Summary and Key Findings: tinyurl.com/56sknbxw
📖 Full Report: tinyurl.com/yc6cdszx
November 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Our study on public immigration misperceptions is out! Prior research overstated their prevalence due to flawed measurement. Our new approach separates real misperceptions from uninformed guessing — showing they’re less common than widely assumed and ideologically motivated.
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
Beyond innumeracy: measuring public misperceptions about immigration | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Beyond innumeracy: measuring public misperceptions about immigration
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Children around the world lack the legal protections to safeguard them from the perils of #climatechange-related displacement, says @unicef.org’s Laura Healy on our podcast, Changing Climate, Changing Migration

Listen wherever you get your podcasts
November 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Are you an ABD needing help with your project? Interested in immigration, autocratization, & religion? Want to spend 2 weeks thinking deeply about interdisciplinary work? This summer school is for you. I'll be one of the instructors helping your think big and rigorously :-) More info below! (1/2)
Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences
www.tse-fr.eu
November 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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The public think people arriving by small boats make up not only the largest share of asylum seekers, but the largest share of *all* immigrants. In fact, it's just 4% of the total number, write @bobbyduffy.bsky.social & @elielcohen.bsky.social

➡️ blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsand...
November 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨

The Hannah-Arendt Institute in Dresden is looking for an Assistant Director. (In German)
October 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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We’re accepting applications for our Spring (Jan – April) research & communications internships

Submit your application by Nov. 1 to become a Demetrios G. Papademetriou Young Scholar: https://bit.ly/4mRGPXS
October 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Normal Times in Dire Times
Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.
frederickjoseph.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Die Erde hat jetzt ihren ersten Klimakipppunkt überschritten: bei den Warmwasser-Korallen.

Das zeigt der Global Tipping Points Report 2025. Auch weitere Kipppunkte rücken bedrohlich näher. Was sonst so im Bericht steht, hab ich hier zusammengefasst:

www.deutschlandfunk.de/klima-kipppu...
Global Tipping Points Report 2025 - Erster Klimakipppunkt überschritten
Der neue Global Tipping Points Report 2025 zeigt: Die Warmwasser-Korallen haben ihren Kipppunkt überschritten. Doch es sind auch positive Wendepunkte möglich.
www.deutschlandfunk.de
October 13, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Heute ist Mädchentag! Die kostenlosen „GirlPower“-Workshops vom Frauenservice Wien stärken Mädchen und junge Frauen. In Themen wie Gleichberechtigung im Job, Medienkompetenz und eigene Rechte kennen. Neu: Ein Workshop für sicheres Fortgehen. Alle Angebote: www.wien.gv.at/frauen/maedchen
October 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Interested in #migration research policy relations, and the role of evidence in policy making? Join us tomorrow 6 pm CET in person or online. nccr-onthemove.ch/news-events/ #UniversityofNeuchatel #NCCR
News + Events | nccr – on the move
Find the current news and events of nccr - on the move, as well as our newsletters and the archive regrouping past events, to stay informed on migration and mobility research
nccr-onthemove.ch
October 1, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Policy making should be responsive to the demos, but how do we know what people want. What do people think about migration policies? Which ones do they prefer? Great presentation by #martinruhs from @mpc-eui.bsky.social at @demigkrems.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Wie ist #Familienzusammenführung in Österreich geregelt, wie wird es gehandhabt, was sind Herausforderungen?

Eine neue EMN AT Studie liefert Antworten 👇

🌐 www.emn.at/de/publikati...
Studien – EMN.at
Die Nationalen Kontaktpunkte im Europäischen Migrationsnetzwerk (EMN) verfassen auf der Grundlage einer gemeinsamen Studienvorlage jährlich mehrere Studien zu migrations- und […]
www.emn.at
July 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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💼 2024 blieben 174.000 Stellen in Österreich unbesetzt.

Schon jetzt leisten Migrant:innen einen wichtigen Beitrag zum Arbeitskräfteangebot in Österreich.

Eine EMN Studie zeigt die wichtige Rolle von Arbeitsmigration bei der Deckung des Bedarfs:

👉 tinyurl.com/Arbeitsmigra...
August 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Skills Mobility Partnerships (SMPs):
Der Bericht zum 3. SMP-Dialogforum ist online!

Im Fokus: Wie lassen sich ausländische Qualifikationen schneller & einfacher anerkennen – ein Schlüssel gegen den Fachkräftemangel in Österreich.

@wko.at
@iv.at

austria.iom.int/de/skills-mo...
Skills-Mobilitätspartnerschaften (SMP) Dialogforum | IOM Austria
Dauer: laufend Skills-Mobilitätspartnerschaften (SMPs) sind ein innovatives Instrument, um die Vorteile von Migration und Mobilität zwischen Herkunfts- und
austria.iom.int
September 5, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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📅 Heute in Wien:

Bei den #EMN EU Migration Talks 2025 diskutierten Expert:innen über Migration & Flucht im Nahen Osten.

Themen des Austauschs waren:
Geopolitik, humanitäres und entwicklungspolitisches Engagement, Partnerschaften mit Staaten der Region & Diaspora.
September 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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@deeesharp.bsky.social & I are looking for a collaborator on a project w/ @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social on empathy-based interventions against affective polarization @uni-hamburg.de
j0b.de/veca

75% PhD position, 1st yr project funded & can be converted to a position w/ teaching afterwards
📆31/08
Ausschreibung
www.uni-hamburg.de
August 15, 2025 at 7:49 AM
New Study 📢 Family reunification of third country nationals in Austria. Check it out here 👉🏽 www.emn.at/wp-content/u... authored by our #EMN AT legal experts @annaammann.bsky.social and #MartinStiller @austria.iom.int #migration #asylum #familyreunification
July 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
What were asylum/migration policy trends in 2024? Check out this new EMN Austria / @austria.iom.int product to find it out. #EMNAsylumandMigrationOverview #EMN #migration www.emn.at/en/publicati...
July 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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📈 Fachkräftemangel, strengere Asylregelungen & neue Aufenthaltstitel für Vertriebene aus der Ukraine – was hat sich 2024 in Österreich getan?

Neuer Asyl- und Migrationsüberblick 2024 von #EMNMigration Österreich fasst zentrale Entwicklungen zusammen.

🔍 www.emn.at/de/publikationen/jahresberichte/
June 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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💼 Welche Herausforderungen und Chancen bestehen für Migrantinnen am österreichischen Arbeitsmarkt?

Das #EMNMigration Österreich Online-Event am 26.Juni beleuchtet Fragen rund um Gender, Migration & Arbeit.

📅 Infos & Anmeldung 👉 www.emn.at/de/trendbaro...
June 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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We are opening three full professor positions in beautiful Innsbruck!
June 6, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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”A Berlin court has said that Germany must adhere to the EU's Dublin procedure when turning back asylum-seekers at the border.” amp.dw.com/en/german-co...
German court rules turning away asylum-seekers unlawful – DW – 06/02/2025
A Berlin court has said that Germany must adhere to the EU's Dublin procedure when turning back asylum-seekers at the border. The ruling challenges a new migration policy, and the government says push...
amp.dw.com
June 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM