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Nils Witte
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Sociologist @Goethe-University Frankfurt and @Federal Institute for Population Research. www.nilswitte.com
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Nils Witte @niwitte.bsky.social · 28d
Are you from a high income country? Do you live abroad? Ever thought about taking up a new citizenship?

Then, check out my new paper with Floris Peters (Utrecht)

doi.org/10.1002/psp....

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Citizenship by Choice, Not Necessity: Political and Emotional Drivers of Naturalisation Intentions Among Migrants From High Income Countries
In the growing body of research on immigrant naturalisation, migrants from high income countries have received scant attention in their own right because of their relatively low baseline citizenship ....
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Andreas Genoni @genoni.bsky.social · 7d
New paper on educational inequalities in declining destination attachment among immigrants in @sfjournal.bsky.social (with Ruedin): doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

(1/3): Tertiary educated immigrants react particularly strong to unmet migration expectations, showing stronger declines emotional attachment
When expectations backfire: educational differences in declining destination attachment among recent immigrants
Abstract. Immigrants with higher levels of education tend to report more discrimination and a weaker attachment to their destination country than immigrant
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 9d
There is no world in which masked and armed agents of the state running down delivery drivers makes us safer. That our information environment and political leaders have convinced people otherwise is a massive failure.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 9d
ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
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Kat Chzhen @katchzhen.bsky.social · 20d
The next ECSR conference is brought to you by @tcdsociology.bsky.social and @esri.ie!

Trinity College Dublin, 15-16 June 2026
www.ecsr2026.net

#ECSR2026

Abstract submission deadline: 11 January 2026
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Nils Witte @niwitte.bsky.social · 15d
Guten Morgen Duisburg #DGS2025
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Emanuel Deutschmann @deutschmann.bsky.social · 16d
Mittwoch um 17 Uhr in LB 107 beim #DGS2025. Ich freue mich auf die Diskussion mit @katharinahppe.bsky.social und @lwestheuser.bsky.social zur #Exponentialgesellschaft

Danke @norawaitkus.bsky.social und Monika Eigmüller für die Organisation!
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Nils Witte @niwitte.bsky.social · 17d
Bei Lektüre von #Exponentialgesellschaft by @deutschmann.bsky.social
viel gelernt über Ökologie, Wachstum, Stabilisierung. Wichtige Denkanstöße. Vor allem bleibt die Frage: Wie soll ich leben? Welche Kompromisse muss ich und muss die Gesellschaft schließen?

See you in Duisburg #DGS2025 bei AmC3
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Nils Witte @niwitte.bsky.social · 17d
Bei Lektüre von #Exponentialgesellschaft by @deutschmann.bsky.social
viel gelernt über Ökologie, Wachstum, Stabilisierung. Wichtige Denkanstöße. Vor allem bleibt die Frage: Wie soll ich leben? Welche Kompromisse muss ich und muss die Gesellschaft schließen?

See you in Duisburg #DGS2025 bei AmC3
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Fabian Gülzau @fguelzau.bsky.social · 29d
Striking visualisation of the global mobility divide! Also chance to highlight some relevant research... 🧵
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 29d
There was lots of data to play with for #TidyTuesday this week where we're looking at the power of different passports! ✈️

I decided to try out the idea of using small multiples and highlighting to untangle a spaghetti chart with lots of lines 📊

#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2
Chart showing how rankings of passports have changed over time, split by region with top one in each highlighted. European are ranked high, and UAE has had a dramatic rise.
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Andreas Genoni @genoni.bsky.social · Sep 1
Working on the integration paradox? Join us at next year's IMISCOE conference! 👇
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Chloé Lavest @chlolv.bsky.social · Sep 1
📢 Call for abstracts - Disentangling the integration paradox
☀️ Destination: IMISCOE!

🧩 Join our panels at IMISCOE - with @sbvanoosten.bsky.social, @nellageurts.bsky.social & @genoni.bsky.social - to further our efforts in debunking, developing and driving studies on the integration paradox!

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 27d
Are you planning to attend IMISCOE 2026 in Girona and working on immigrant naturalization?

@ninaca.bsky.social and I are inviting abstracts to put together a panel. Sends us your paper abstract if you are interested to join!

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Nils Witte @niwitte.bsky.social · 28d
Are you from a high income country? Do you live abroad? Ever thought about taking up a new citizenship?

Then, check out my new paper with Floris Peters (Utrecht)

doi.org/10.1002/psp....

@migcitpol.bsky.social
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@populationeu.bsky.social
Citizenship by Choice, Not Necessity: Political and Emotional Drivers of Naturalisation Intentions Among Migrants From High Income Countries
In the growing body of research on immigrant naturalisation, migrants from high income countries have received scant attention in their own right because of their relatively low baseline citizenship ....
doi.org
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Emanuel Deutschmann @deutschmann.bsky.social · Sep 8
New JEMS #openaccess paper w/ @niwitte.bsky.social:

We show that EU citizens living abroad are less likely to vote in European elections due to bureaucratic obstacles such as early registration deadlines. This happens even for intra-EU movers who feel attached to the EU.

doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Casting votes or crossing borders? How living abroad reduces mobile Europeans’ likelihood to participate in European elections ABSTRACT Both freedom of movement and voting in European elections are fundamental citizenship rights at the heart of European integration. Ideally, EU citizens should be able to exercise both rights simultaneously. Yet, in practice, tensions exist between the two: Despite their strong emotional attachment to the European Union, EU citizens living outside their country of citizenship have a reduced likelihood to vote in European elections, even when they reside within the EU. This article demonstrates this pattern empirically for German emigrants in the 2019 European Parliament election, based on data from the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS). This survey is unique in that it covers both mobile German citizens who currently live abroad and those who have lived abroad, but have recently returned to Germany. Self-reported turnout was significantly reduced among those currently living abroad. Bureaucratic hurdles (including early opt-in registration deadlines, complex registration procedures, and tedious access to ballot) are identified as a key explanation for the decreased participation. These findings seem to contradict basic democratic principles and could have political implications: Since there are more than eleven million mobile EU citizens who are eligible to vote, reduced turnout among this group could affect election outcomes. Figure 1 shows the registration deadlines, based on official EU information, for mobile Europeans who wanted to vote in the 2024 EP election, for all member states that provided such information. It reveals several major obstacles: First, the registration options and deadlines varied widely between EU member states. For example, Swedish citizens residing in Belgium had two choices: register to vote in Sweden by 16 May or to vote in Belgium by 29 February. Among the 13 member states that listed a registration deadline for their own nationals residing abroad, there were no fewer than twelve different registration dates (Figure 1, Panel A). In the case of registration deadlines for non-nationals, there were even 20 unique dates among the 20 different countries that listed a specific deadline. 4This multiplicity of rules requires mobile Europeans to actively search for the conditions that apply in their particular case and thus complicates their situation. Crucially, many of these deadlines were very early. Several deadlines had already expired in March or earlier – multiple months before the election on 9 June 2024. The most extreme case concerns non-national EU citizens in Spain, who had to register more than four months before the election. This requirement creates a serious obstacle to participation in the election. Figure 2 displays the descriptive differences between the four groups under study. Among Germans who currently reside in other EU countries, the average self-reported turnout in the 2019 EP election was 54 percent (Panel A). This number is close to the actual average turnout of 51 percent in the European Union as a whole, but lower than the average turnout of 61 percent in the general German population (Swedish National Election Studies Program 2019). Moreover, past intra-EU migrants (i.e. Germans who have lived in other EU countries and have since returned to Germany), who are a more meaningful reference group since they have comparable socio-demographic characteristics (similar level of education, age, etc.; cf. Online Appendix, Table A2), feature a self-reported turnout of 81 percent. Thus it seems that the probability to vote for those currently residing abroad was suppressed by 28 percentage points compared with their counterparts who have returned to Germany. The turnout gap is even larger for global migrants: Germans who currently reside in a country outside the EU had only a 25 percent probability to vote in the past European election, compared with a turnout of 90 percent among past global migrants – a striking difference of 65 percentage points. Put differently, global migratory moves suppressed the turnout by 72 percent. Regression models corroborating the previous descriptive findings
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Nils Witte @niwitte.bsky.social · Sep 2
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Erdbeben Afghanistan: Dringender Spendenaufruf | Afghanischer Frauenverein e.V.
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Emanuel Deutschmann @deutschmann.bsky.social · Aug 18
Interesting call from the Sociological Association of Ukraine: "Sociology and Society in an Exponential World"

#Exponentialgesellschaft
From Olga Kutsenko (olga.kutsenko.ua28@gmail.com), August 1, 2025 A Call to Scholars: Navigating a World in Exponential Change Join the V Congress of the Sociological Association of Ukraine (SAU) At a time of unprecedented global turmoil, wars and rapid transformation, the Sociological Association of Ukraine invites you to a critical dialogue. We convene under the vital theme, "Sociology and Society in an Exponential World: Research Challenges, Opportunities, and Prospects", from the unique vantage point of Kharkiv, Ukraine. This is more than a conference; it is an act of intellectual resilience and a crucial opportunity for the global academic community to engage directly with Ukrainian scholars. We will delve into the most urgent sociological questions of our time, exploring everything from the nature of societal resilience in wartime to the future of a world grappling with chaos and exponential change. Join us to share your research, challenge existing paradigms, and contribute to a conversation that has never been more relevant. Be part of this vital conversation. • What: V Congress of the Sociological Association of Ukraine • When: November 20-21, 2025 • Where: V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine (with a fully accessible on-line format) • Call for abstracts and papers deadline: September 20, 2025 For submission guidelines and registration, please visit the official SAU website:https://sau.in.ua/opinion/the-v-congress-of-the-sociological-association-of-ukraine-2025/ We look forward to welcoming you, in person or online, to help shape the future of sociology.
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Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · Jul 6
“Don’t Complain. Adapt. Be Successful”: How Highly Educated, #MiddleClass #Germans of Polish, Turkish, and Sub-Saharan African Background Respond to #Racism

Author: Eunike Piwoni @piwoni.bsky.social

University of Passau

Coming soon!

#antiRacism #qualitativeInterviews
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Nils Witte @niwitte.bsky.social · Aug 12
www.swr.de/swrkultur/le...

Warum Menschen Auswandern (und häufig zurückkehren)

Darüber habe ich gesprochen mit Marion Theis (SWR), Meret Weber (ZEIT) und Arne Grätsch (Auswanderungscoach)

Zu hören heute um 17.05 live auf SWR Kultur oder ab sofort als Podcast
Zukunftsangst und Rentnerglück – Warum Deutsche auswandern
Marion Theis diskutiert mit Arne Grätsch, Einwanderungscoach Meret Weber, Autorin und Journalistin Nils Witte, Sozialwissenschaftler, Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung
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Katja Pomianowicz @kpomi.bsky.social · Aug 8
The next In_equality Conference is around the corner – you know what to do! Like in previous years, the event is not only an academic (inequality research) & personal (great & nice community) highlight; the venue by the beautiful lake makes it unforgettable!

ECRs are particularly welcome to apply!
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The Politics of Inequality @excinequality.bsky.social · Aug 8
📣 Call for Papers is open!
In_equality Conference 2026 | 15–17 April | Konstanz
We invite papers on the political causes & consequences of #inequality

Submit Aug 8–Oct 5 ➡️ inequality-conference.de
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Emanuel Deutschmann @deutschmann.bsky.social · Aug 8
Mit Marie Gundlach von der Süddeutschen Zeitung habe ich über mein Buch "Die #Exponentialgesellschaft", Wachstumskrisen und Stabilisierungsaufgaben gesprochen. Heute in der gedruckten Ausgabe am Kiosk & online hier mit zusätzlichen interaktiven Grafiken (Paywall): www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...
Artikel in der Süddeutschen Zeitung vom 8. August 2025, "Die längste Zeit gab es kein Wachstum", Interview von Marie Gundlach mit Emanuel Deutschmann
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Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · Jul 23
Ready to make plans for the academic year 2026/27? Why not visit us: www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/our-research...
Sociology Visitorships - Nuffield College Oxford University
The Nuffield College Sociology Group invites applications for a Visitorship at the College during the 2026-27 academic year (between early October 2026 and late June 2027).
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk
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Emanuel Deutschmann @deutschmann.bsky.social · Jul 22
What do student visas cost?

DAAD just published an English translation of my 2022 paper on this issue, which revealed huge inequalities: African and Asian students pay a lot more for visas than Europeans and North Americans.

doi.org/10.46685/DAA...

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Journal of Family Research @familyresearch.bsky.social · Jul 28
#Published: "Attitudes towards interethnic partnerships with refugees: Evidence from a factorial survey experiment in Germany" by Jana Kuhlemann, @stefanieheyne.bsky.social & Irena Kogan (doi.org/10.20377/jfr...). @parform.bsky.social #JFR #JFamRes #openaccess #openscience #sociology #demography
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · Jul 26
I'm excited to share pre-print of a ✨ new paper with the great @sumpierrez.bsky.social!

We study ’pathways of external citizenship’ across 194 countries 🌎 since 1960. We do so by building a sequence analysis of the timing and extent of dual citizenship acceptance and external voting rights.

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Title Pathways to External Citizenship: The Global Extension of Dual Citizenship and Voting From Abroad Authors Sebastian Umpierrez de Reguero and Maarten Vink Description The extension of dual citizenship and external voting rights over the past decades has been widely observed. Both trends contribute to the phenomenon of external citizenship, where citizens residing abroad hold rights to political participation irrespective of other transnational ties. Yet these trends have been studied in a disconnected manner. This is remarkable as the exercise of external voting requires nationals abroad to keep a legal link with the home country, while dual citizenship acceptance is high on the agenda of politically mobilized emigrant communities. In this paper, we make two original contributions. First, applying sequence analysis to a dataset covering 194 countries over 61 years (N=10,310), we identify five dominant pathways in extending rights to dual citizenship and external voting: 1) norm setters, 2) dual citizenship only, 3) external voting only, 4) latecomers, and 5) norm resisters. Second, we analyze the correlates of these pathways with a focus on the predominant political regime type. Democratic regimes are not more prone to be norm setters that adopt both forms of rights extension but are less likely to be norm resisters that do not adopt either. Partial norm extenders and latecomers are not significantly associated with a particular regime experience.
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Nadia Steiber 〽️ @nadiasteiber.bsky.social · Jul 18
⭐🎓The Department of Sociology in Vienna @univie.ac.at‬ invites applications for a Tenure Track Professor in Sociology with focus on Quantitative Social Science Research Methods | #Sociology | quant methods

Apply here (17 Sept 25): jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
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Sergi Vidal @svidal.bsky.social · Jul 22
📢New Publication with A Bernard & @pmcmullin.bsky.social
Individuals who moved during childhood are more likely to feel often lonely—especially with repeated moves. Siblings help. Duration matters. The impact is stronger in individualist societies.🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Internal Migration and Loneliness in Childhood: The Moderating Role of Family Structure and Cultural Individualism - European Journal of Population
The negative impact of childhood internal migration on diverse life outcomes is well documented. The main hypothesis to explain this association is the severance of social ties. However, empirical evi...
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Nils Witte @niwitte.bsky.social · Jul 8
ein wichtiges Thema, das mehr Aufmerksamkeit verdient.
sehr lesenswert

www.zeit.de/2025/28/kost...
Kosten der Unterkunft: Das Amt zahlt. Vonovia kassiert
Der Staat gibt unglaubliche Summen aus, um Bedürftigen die Miete zu finanzieren. Nicht wenig davon landet bei Wohnkonzernen. Wie eine wichtige Hilfe aus dem Ruder lief.
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Nils Witte @niwitte.bsky.social · Jul 7
Erfreuliche Post ♥️ Ich freue mich auf die Lektüre des neuen Buches von @deutschmann.bsky.social
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