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Maurice Stierl
@MauriceStierl
Researcher at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück University. Still convinced his football career is around the corner.
Feb 18 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Now that #Leggeri runs for the fascists in France, he’ll continue his anti-migration crusade with which he ran #Frontex for 7 years. Coming into office in 2015, he presided over a massive expansion of the EU border agency. 1/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02… Frontex’ budget was 142 million Euro when he came into office and grew to 754 million when he left. Also, its mandate expanded. In 2016, Frontex turned into the European Border and Coast Guard with a range of new competences. 2/
Oct 1, 2023 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Stop the pull-factor nonsense!

Media workers and others: Whenever you feel the impulse to use the term “pull factor” in the #migration and #Mediterranean context, take a sec and note that using it will show that you have no clue about the dynamics of migration. A 🧵 Image Push-pull theories of migration fail to capture the complexity and multiplicity of factors that underlie migration projects and dynamics. This has been demonstrated in research time and time again (see @smartitaz and Garelli, 2021). 2/17 academic.oup.com/migration/arti…
Nov 16, 2022 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
A little 🧵. There are approaches in Migration Studies that (still) believe governments can turn migration on and off like a tap. That they can simply ‘manage’ and neatly regulate migration through policy tools, usually depending on supposed market needs. 1/11 Copyright Lucas Vallerie Then there’s the Autonomy of Migration approach that focuses on migrant resistances & subjectivities ‘on the move’. Without downplaying the violence of borders and migration policy, it points us to the material struggles of migration and contestations over human mobility. 2/11
Aug 15, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Maria’s body has now been buried on the islet in the #Evros. She was killed not by a scorpion sting, but by Greek and EU border enforcement. Some initial (and unfinished) reflections on this horrible case and its wider significance. 1/9 Greek #pushbacks have clearly become systematic in the regions of the #Evros and the #Aegean. The group on the islet is among tens of thousands who have experienced these cruel practices over the past years, which include acts of abduction, torture and killing. 2/9