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MMC is a global network engaged in data collection, research, and analysis on mixed migration, with regional hubs in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Latin America #MixedMigration
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Now live: the Mixed Migration Review 2025 #MMR2025
The MMR2025 looks at how geopolitical turmoil is reshaping mixed migration — with extreme hardline measures becoming the new normal.
📘 Explore the MMR: https://f.mtr.cool/yyfizohvkl
Despite restrictive national policies aimed at curbing irregular entry, Italy’s industrial and agricultural sectors continue to experience persistent labour gaps. But what do we know about the realities of migrant workers in Italy? 👇(1/4)
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🎥 Did you miss the virtual launch of the Mixed Migration Review 2025?
The #MMR2025 recording is now available on YouTube:
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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"I feel a deep emotional pull and nostalgia for my homeland, but I also know I need to set aside emotions and think rationally," a #refugee from #Syria tells @mixedmigration.org.

Read more in the latest Mixed Migration Review #MMR2025.

mmr2025.mixedmigration.org/mmr/2025/syr...
Syrian refugees torn between staying or returning home - Mixed Migration Centre
A Syrian refugee weighs the pull of home against the realities of return, facing insecurity, loss and limited prospects in a region still marked by conflict.
mmr2025.mixedmigration.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Great time to return from maternity leave: the Mixed Migration Review 2025 is out!

This year, @mixedmigration.org's flagship report explores #migration in the context of geopolitical turmoil.

Happy reading!

#MMR2025
Now live: the Mixed Migration Review 2025 #MMR2025
The MMR2025 looks at how geopolitical turmoil is reshaping mixed migration — with extreme hardline measures becoming the new normal.
📘 Explore the MMR: https://f.mtr.cool/yyfizohvkl
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Catherine Woollard- Everyone has an obligation to do what they can in the face of hostile policies, be it the Danish model, the UK model, or the 1930s model; none of these is new. There was resistance before, and there will be resistance now and in the future, in all forms. #MMR2025
November 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
One thing the Trump regime has done is eliminate the oversight bodies where complaints could be lodged in case of abuse, so now the community agents are taking these stories of what is happening.- @pedroconsafos.bsky.social #MMR2025
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The work we do primarily is to inform people of their constitutional rights when interacting with state agents, and also to be able to share that information with other people in their circles.- @pedroconsafos.bsky.social

#MMR2025
November 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Economic realities play a major role, and we can expect governments to use migration as a response, but my question is whether this will change the narrative on migration. You can do that quietly while remaining very vocal against migration.- Carlos Vargas @cvar-sil.bsky.social #MMR2025
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Catherine Woollard- In Europe, we have every single state desperately trying to bring in people to meet labour shortages, but also hostility toward migrants and refugees and promises of anti-migrant policies. We have politicians making promises they cannot or do not intend to keep. #MMR2025
November 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Migration is often framed as a simple question of coming or going, but when you sit with people, you realize there are complex layers. As a storyteller, you need to understand the structure that leads people to make different choices. -Jacqueline Baylon
#MMR2025
November 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Roberto Forin asks: Can demographic realities and labour market needs in middle and high-income countries lead to policies that are more inclusive? What are the limits to this economic pragmatism? #MMR2025
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Catherine Woollard- I am not sure there is normalisation of the extreme. There was never a golden age. For example, in Europe, before Schengen, we had the '70s and '80s when there was open hostility to immigrants. #MMR2025
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Carlos Vargas from Oxford University- Some areas have become more extreme, but it is not uniform across all aspects of migration policies. There is an incentive from the political angle to make it look extreme, and some policies do this, to gain a political advantage @cvar-sil.bsky.social #MMR2025
November 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I'm coming at this from reporting and filmmaking. What was once seen as exceptional in migration content is now treated as routine, whether it's on the US-Mexico border or in documenting what happens in the Mediterranean. For example, deaths at sea, which created outrage, now hardly make the news.
November 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The extreme being normalised really depends on violence being normalised. The normalisation of the extreme from my perspective does get manifested on how narratives shape with a tendency of criminalising people, and these perspectives go unquestioned. @pedroconsafos.bsky.social #MMR2025
November 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Roberto Forin asks the panellists the question: are we really seeing a normalisation of the extreme in migration policy, or is it just the way it is covered publicly, in a sensationalist way? #MMR2025
November 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"Migrants and refugees are too often framed as security threats rather than as people with rights"- Jennifer Vallentine, MMR managing Editor, Mixed Migration Centre
November 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"Policy makers can fall prey to simplistic responses and populist narratives without these stories presented in the Mixed Migration Review"- Charlotte Slente, Secretary General, @drcngo.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Join our panel discussion livestream at 2pm CET on youtube:
“When the Extreme Becomes Normal – Rethinking Migration Governance in Times of Geopolitical Turmoil”   
🎥 https://f.mtr.cool/mlindawoqk
📘 Read the Review: https://f.mtr.cool/lnmydxcfgi
 #MMR2025
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Now live: the Mixed Migration Review 2025 #MMR2025
The MMR2025 looks at how geopolitical turmoil is reshaping mixed migration — with extreme hardline measures becoming the new normal.
📘 Explore the MMR: https://f.mtr.cool/yyfizohvkl
November 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
🚨 𝗗-𝟭: the #MMR2025 launch is 𝗼𝗻 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬!
Join us for an engaging session featuring debates on the normalisation of the extreme in migration governance, set against the backdrop of intensifying geopolitical turmoil. 
🔗Info and registration here: https://f.mtr.cool/gcznfxpewa
November 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
What surveys with 170 smugglers in the Puntland region of Somalia say about smuggling dynamics in the Horn of Africa. ⬇️⬇️
Read all: https://f.mtr.cool/omtzsloywz
November 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆’𝘀 “𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀” 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝘅𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮? We asked this question to @MaS1banda on the Mixed Migration Review 2025, where she invites us to rethink the very idea of “crisis” ⬇️
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Movement is not always an option. New article on climate (im)mobility in Middle East in  @fmreview.bsky.social  shows that many who need to move in Yemen, Iraq, & Syria are involuntarily entrapped.
 @bramfrouws.bsky.social 
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 : https://f.mtr.cool/zjwqaqvkkg
#COP30
November 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
𝗜𝗻 𝗮 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀’ 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀, 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲?Helena Maleno from Caminando Fronteras NGO shares her insights with us in her interview for the #MMR2025. 👇🧵(1/4)
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM