Tabea Scharrer
Anthropologist working on #migration, #inequality and #religion, regional focus on #Kenya and #Somalia; Uni Bayreuth & MPI for Social Anthropology, Editorial Board 'Comparative Migration Studies', researchgate.net/profile/Tabea-Scharrer
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerFun paper here
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerBIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerReece Jones, a v. good historian of US borders, wrote an excellent essay reminding that Border Patrol has its roots in the 1924 Johnson-Reed Immigration Act, patrolling racist politics, and the range of its inland incursions has been expanding for decades www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerEs wird langsam real: Im März erscheint das von mir und Frank Wolff herausgegebene Heft von @WerkstattGeschichte zum Thema "grenzen internalisieren" Hier schon mal die Vorankündigung bei transcript […] [Original post on h-net.social]
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerThis is incredible. Boris Johnson was in such a rush to deport people to Rwanda, he agreed the UK would pay Rwanda £290M with no real guarantees Then when Starmer came in, he triumphantly announced it dead, but forgot to actually cancel it and now owes another £100M www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerThere's a dollar "vibe shift" happening now that is different from past bouts of dollar pessimism. You might be skeptical. That's understandable since the de-dollarization narrative has been around for years now, and little has changed about the dollar's global position. 1/
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerFor the first time in history, middle-class Mexicans outnumber those in poverty. In Africa, only 4 (7.4%) of the countries have hit this milestone: Seychelles (90% middle class), Mauritius (80%), Tunisia (60%), Morocco (53%). In South America 42% have hit the milestone, and in Asia 35%.
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerHuman rights defenders in Tanzania say that armed forces may have killed up to 3000 people following protests during last years election. The leader of the opposition is still in jail as are many members of his party. Nary a peep from outside the country - for get outside the region.
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerMuseveni is trying to kill Bobi Wine for daring to run against him and there is no international community to speak up in his defence. The AU has already rolled over and congratulated Museveni on the sham election, and after years of enabling Europe and the US are now too distracted by their own
- Reposted by Tabea Scharrer"Up to 380 people may have drowned attempting to cross the Mediterranean last week". The West's normalisation of the mass death of black Africans (because that is predominantly who these people are) will never be less than devastating.
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- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerThere's a type of survey that is fueling talk of a young adult religious revival in the UK & the US. You should be concerned about this type of survey because it is increasingly common and it may produce misleading results on many topics other than religion. Read more:
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerDie AfD-Landtagsfraktion Thüringen hat heute Rechtsextremist Sellner in den Landtag eingeladen, um über seinen verfassungswidrigen “Remigrationsplan” zu referieren.
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerDespite the focus on small boats, most refugees stay in poor countries. I went to Sudan, where nearly 1/3 of the population has left their homes, to see how the UN is coping with Trump's cuts and the west's retreat. Sudan is a brutal, forgotten war. Please do read: as.ft.com/r/7db76b9a-8...
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerAn experimental finding sure to shock: white evangelicals are especially attuned to slights against Christians, but significantly less likely to view same actions as discriminatory when against a religious out-group. And this double-standard is unique to white evangelicals. doi.org/10.1111/jssr...
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerWhen they took my friend Jesús, a widower, they left his two US citizen kids alone in his truck and they are now wards of the state. He's now in Mexico where he was extorted for $18,000 to get out of jail so he could go live with his elderly mother who has cancer and to whom he had been sending $.
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerDu möchtest endlich wieder konstruktiv über Migration sprechen und die Themen nicht von der rechtsextremen AfD diktiert bekommen? Wir haben sechs Herausforderungen herausgearbeitet, die uns alle etwas angehen und an deren Lösung am Ende alle profitieren. www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/migr...
- Reposted by Tabea Scharrer🎥 Erklärvideo: Wie beeinflussen unsere Vorstellungen von morgen, was wir heute tun? Jens Beckerts These: Kredite, Innovationen, Investitionen basieren auf gesellschaftlich geteilten Vorstellungen. Diese „imaginierten Zukünfte“ werden real, wenn genug Menschen daran glauben und entsprechend handeln.
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerA couple things caught my eye here. First, the head of the ECB, WTO and IMF are all women, which I knew, but hadn't quite registered all at once. There's a reason for the Trump II backlash against women's advancement: It's real. 1/x
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerOnline opt-in polls suggest a young adult religious resurgence in the US. Based on their opt-in polls, Barna says, "Regular church attendance is on the rise for all young adults." Their chart is below. www.barna.com/trends/churc... But surveys using random samples do not support this narrative.
- Reposted by Tabea Scharrer1/ First, what is the problem? Europe has a formidable research and innovation system, but struggles to produce global tech champions. Over the past 50 years, it has produced only a handful of firms with a market cap > EUR 10 billion, compared to hundreds in the US.
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerWhat would it take to make #AnthroSky what #AnthroTwitter was?
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerA few months ago I was curious to know how much Anna's Archive was charging AI developers for access to their massive library of pirated works for training - so I emailed them saying I was interested in buying access. Here is their reply. 🧵 1/n
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerFemale scientists have to wait longer for their articles to be reviewed than their male colleagues. An analysis of 36.5 million papers in the life sciences shows that for females it took 115 days to reach a decision, compared to 101 days for men journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @plosbiology.org
- Reposted by Tabea Scharrer"Reformbedarf bei der Erbschaft- und Schenkungsteuer" Freue mich riesig über unseren gemeinsamen Beitrag von 4 SVR-Kolleg:innen im neuen Ifo-Schnelldienst!👇 www.ifo.de/publikatione... @martinwerding.bsky.social @monika-schnitzer.com @ifso.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social @svrwirtschaft.bsky.social
- Reposted by Tabea Scharrer“There will be more than enough jobs for the citizens of your nation, esp. those with vocational training,” said Karp. “I do think these trends really do make it hard to imagine why we should have large-scale immigration unless you have a very specialized skill.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerRising Inequality, Declining Mobility: The Evolution of Intergenerational Mobility in Germany Abstract: This paper is the first to show that intergenerational income mobility in Germany has decreased over time. We estimate intergenerational persistence for the birth cohorts 1968-1987 and find that…
- Reposted by Tabea Scharrer"Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is under pressure to reduce net migration to Britain as he attempts to fend off the populist threat from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party." The radical right has managed to destroy so many political, social, and economic achievements even without being in power.
- In any other context, requiring a high-productivity sector to offshore the production of its highest value-added exports would be seen as the economic illiteracy it so obviously is... www.ft.com/content/a23c...
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerFor today's newsletter, I wrote about Poland's arrest of Russian archaeologist Alexander Butyagin and his potential extradition to Ukraine, where he's wanted for continuing excavation work in post-annexation Crimea. Quite a tale of scholarly ethics and international law. meduza.io/en/brief/202...
- Reposted by Tabea Scharrer"I suspect the value of original or elegant theory will become more important. Good quant work is becoming cheap and plentiful; good theory remains hard. Perhaps ethnographic work will become more valuable, and original data collection that AI still cannot do."
- I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerWhen you combine today's announcement with the June and December travel bans, the Trump administration has now banned or indefinitely suspended immigrant visas* for 90 different countries, including 70% of African countries. *visas that provide a green card and a path to eventual citizenship
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerNeue Zahlen zu Geflüchteten in Arbeit: ▶️ Arbeitslosenquote geht zurück, mehr kommen in Jobs ▶️ Rund 800.000 arbeiten / Gesamt-Job-Quote 50,2 % ▶️ Arbeitslosenquote 27% (Vergleich: 7,4% in Bevölkerung) Mehr mediendienst-integration.de/arbeitsmarkt...
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerUAE removing its military from Bosaso after angry Somalia ends agreement - middleeasteye.net/news/uae-removing-i…
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerWas ist denn nun eigentlich Integration? Das kläre ich zusammen mit Judith Kohlenberger in open.spotify.com/episode/0Fi9...
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerMartin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
- Reposted by Tabea Scharrer„The costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.“ Überbordendes Antragswesen in der Wissenschaft - und die Folgen: Viel Geld für Bürokratie, wenig für Forschung. Interview mit Gerald Schweiger TU Wien. www.deutschlandfunk.de/buerokratie-... 1/2
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Tabea Scharrer"Mapping the Global North bias in forced migration studies: three decades of publication and citation trends." Open access at academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-...
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerDo you remember during the election, when it was “pet-eating” Haitians who were “destroying middle America”? And now the blame has suddenly shifted to “daycare-defrauding” Somalis? What could Haitians and Somalis possibly have in common that might lead Republicans to target them, I wonder
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerThe African origins of Cola: Long distance Trade in pre-colonial West Africa (ca. 1000-1900 CE) www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-africa...
- Reposted by Tabea Scharrer"If they [Russians] are promising you well-paying jobs in Russia, you are going to end up in the army." Ukrainian Defenders of the 63rd Mechanized Brigade captured a Ugandan named Richard Akantoran, who, according to him, was forced to fight on the Russian side.
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerTürkiye is building a space launch facility in Somalia, hoping to tap a growing market estimated to be worth $1.8 trillion by the mid-2030s.
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerSomalia data now reflects strikes over the holiday. The campaign has passed the 2010 peak in Pakistan by our data. Note multiple releases had unclear plural strikes so total may be higher. Our data includes 2 alleged unconfirmed strikes, 1 declared ground op. www.newamerica.org/future-secur...
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerHow Germany’s historical high mobility fell short of its reputation: Our data reveals that intergenerational income persistence sharply increased for recent cohorts, reaching levels comparable to the US and coinciding with increasingly class-dependent educational attainment.
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- Reposted by Tabea Scharrer📢 Weitersagen: Stellenausschreibung am IMIS: Für den Ausbau unserer internationalen Forschungsbeziehungen sucht das IMIS Verstärkung. Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Bewerbung! #Job #Stellenangebot #Karriere #Migration #Jobbörse #Wissenschaft #Migrationsforschung #Osnabrück #Bewerbung #MigrationResearch
- The years are flying by. Yet, 2020 seems to have been ages ago.
- Reposted by Tabea ScharrerOne of the diplomatic holds that Israel has struggled to break is African commitment to Palestinian liberation. African leaders happily take money from the Israeli government but only two countries on the entire continent have withheld recognition from the Palestinian state - Eritrea and Cameroon.
- Reposted by Tabea Scharrer#China, #Egypt, #Turkey, #Djibouti, #SaudiArabia and Islamic Organization condemn #Isreal's recognition for #Somaliland, reaffirmed their support to #Somalia's sovereignty, national unity & territorial integrity.
- #BREAKING The African Union rejects any recognition of #Somaliland, reaffirms the commission's unwavering commitment to the unity and sovereignty of #Somalia, per statement.
- Reposted by Tabea Scharrer'Brutal simplicity may be easier to sell than complex, long-term, multilateral engagement, but the latter produces more effective results.' @filippograndi.unhcr.org @unhcr.org (gift article/free @nytimes.com) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...
