Research Group MeDiMi
DFG Research Group “Human Rights Discourse in Migration Societies” (MeDiMi) | Exploring the intersection of human rights and migration in law, politics, and everyday life | www.medimi.de/en
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- 📣 Lecture alert! 👩🏫 👩🏫 Our researchers @greta-olson.org and Simona Adinolfi on “The Affective Resonances of Images of #Migration versus Migrants’ #HumanRights” 📅 29 January, 6 pm. 📍Institut für #Anglistik / #Amerikanistik, Universität #Osnabrück, Neuer Graben 29/Schloss, Raum 11/211 Details 👇
- 📣 Call for Papers! ▶️ #Humanrightization in #Migration Societies: Conditions, Forms, Consequences 📄 We look forward to your proposals for the #MeDiMiConference2026 📅 May 7–8, 2026 📍 Justus Liebig University Giessen ⏰ Deadline: 23 February 2026 Details: 👇
- 🚨 Reminder: #MeDiMiConference2026 is coming up in May 2026! 🚨 📅 May 7–8, 2026 📍 Justus Liebig University Giessen 👉 Stay tuned for the #CallforPapers coming up in January 2026! 👉 In case you missed it: Check out the MeDiMi Working Paper No. 2: www.medimi.de/de/article/2...
- (1/2) 🚨 Publication alert! 📚 Laura Holderied: “Visual Politics of Flight and War. Imag(in)ing Deservingness and Agentic Victimhood of Ukrainian Refugees After Russia’s 2022 Invasion” 👉 Published in International Political Sociology, 19(4), 2025: academic.oup.com/ips/article-...
- (2/2) 👉 Check out @laura-holderied.bsky.social’s research on #VisualPolitics and representations of refugees after Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine 2022. #MeDiMi #Migration #HumanRights #Borders #BorderPolitics
- (1/2) 🎬Check out the next #MeDiMiInsights video! 💡Dariuš Zifonun, Tasnim Jabaly, and Sebastian Weste: “Reflections on the Everyday Culture of Human Rights” 👉 The talk presents key interim results from our sociological project on “doing human rights” in the everyday (🗣️ 🇩🇪). 👉 youtu.be/Hl9msPPsOQY
- (2/2) The presentation was held at the #MeDiMi working meeting 2025 - many thanks to our Marburg-based team! #Humanrightization #EverydayCulture #Sociology #HumanRights #Migration
- (1/3) 📢 Publication alert! 📝 Adriana Kessler and Frederik von Harbou (2025) #Menschenrechte im deutschen #Migrationsrecht. Argumente und Akteure, Asylmagazin, Issue 10–11, 17–24.
- (2/3) 💡The article traces how actors made references to #humanrights relevant in the context of German #migration law. Assessing this #humanrightization serves to identify strategies for human rights argumentation and highlights promising, but yet underexplored arguments for future litigation.
- (3/3) ❗This article presents key findings from the #MeDiMi project "Human Rights Transformations of German Migration Law". 👉 For more information on this MeDiMi project, see www.medimi.de/en/article/6...
- 🚨 Publication alert! 📚 Anna Arden: "Intersecting #EnforcedDisappearance and #Migration: The Creation of a New Legal Tool against #Pushbacks within #WGEID and #CED" 👉 Key Results from our legal project on the EU's #BorderRegimes 👉 Published OA in NQHR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- 📢 Join us tomorrow for a discussion on #humanrightization in the professional everyday!
- 1/3) 📢 Event alert! #MeDiMiImpulse: Human Rights Protection of Migrants: Between the Legal Profession and Social Work. 🗣️ Language: 🇩🇪 📆 4.11.2025 🕑 2-5:30 pm CET 📍Johannisplatz 26, 07743 Jena + online Register by 28.10. via mtdm@eah-jena.de. Live stream: www.youtube.com/live/y_8X6mT...
- 1/3) 📢 Event alert! #MeDiMiImpulse: Human Rights Protection of Migrants: Between the Legal Profession and Social Work. 🗣️ Language: 🇩🇪 📆 4.11.2025 🕑 2-5:30 pm CET 📍Johannisplatz 26, 07743 Jena + online Register by 28.10. via mtdm@eah-jena.de. Live stream: www.youtube.com/live/y_8X6mT...
- (2/3) 🧑🏫 Introductory lecture by Prof. Nivedita Prasad (Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin): Commitment to Human Rights: Structural Changes in the Context of Social Work.
- (3/3) 💬 Subsequent panel discussion with: 👩🏫 Hannah Franke (Promotionszentrum Soziale Arbeit Hessen) 👨🏫 Dr. Matthias Lehnert (Lawyer, Leipzig) 👨🏫 Dr. Benjamin Bunk (JLU Giessen) 👩🏫 Moderation: Adriana Kessler (EAH Jena) #Migration #Humanrights #Socialwork #Sozialarbeit #Menschenrechte
- 1/2) 🚨 Publication alert! 📚 Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez / Slađana Branković: "Common Futures for All. Refugee Activism Enacting #HumanRights between Negation of Rights and Rexistance in Germany" 👉 Key Results from our project on #Refugees' & #UndocumentedMigrants' protests movements
- (2/2) Access via Journal für Entwicklungspolitik 👇 doi.org/10.20446/JEP...
- (1/3) 🚀 MeDiMi at the 2025 ICON•S Conference @icon-s.bsky.social in Brasília! 🎓 MeDiMi's Sofía Reca Milanta presented her research from our project on the Inter-American and the European Court of Human Rights, led by ICON•S Co-President @mhailbronner.bsky.social at @uni-muenster.de.
- (2/3) Sofía participated in a panel on “Structural Litigation in International and National Courts”. Her presentation explored how the Inter-American Court is moving from a structural litigation model toward a transformative social approach, especially in migration and environmental rights.
- (3/3) 🙏 Many thanks to the organizers and discussants for this excellent opportunity to present our research!
- New blog post by MeDiMi researchers on the incompatibility of restrictions on #refugees’ access to #healthcare with Germany’s #humanrights obligations 👇
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- 📢 MeDiMi Working Paper No. 2 is out now! 📝 MeDiMi Coordination Unit: Humanrightization. Theses on a Theory of Discursive Practice in Migration Societies. Discussion Paper 👉 Available in German and English on the MeDiMi website: www.medimi.de/en/article/2... (1/2)
- The paper synthesizes key results from three years of empirical research and theory development. It is an invitation to all scholars interested in our work to share your critical comments and creative observations - they're greatly appreciated! 🙏 (2/2)
- 🚨 Save the Date: #MeDiMiConference2026! 🚨 💥 We are thrilled to officially announce the final conference of MeDiMi's first research phase! 📅 May 7–8, 2026 📍 Justus Liebig University Giessen 👉 A detailed announcement and a call for papers will follow – stay tuned!
- 👇 Spannendes Feature über die Geschichte des migrantischen #Feminismus in Deutschland - mit Beiträgen unserer Projektleiterin Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez: tinyurl.com/476fu7av
- 🔥Last week, it was time for our biannual working meeting @jlugiessen.bsky.social ! 🔥 👏 Many thanks to everyone involved for 2 days of intense discussions on the theory of #humanrightization. 👉 Stay tuned for our forthcoming Working Paper No. 2!
- 🎬 The next #MeDiMiInsights video is now online! 💡MeDiMi project leader Jürgen Bast on "Restricting the Free Movement of Asylum Seekers: Human Rights Limits of EU Border Policy" 👉 youtu.be/itEd4Z26K50
- The talk was held in the context of the 2025 ADiM-IntoMe Migration Conference at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo. 🙏 Many thanks to the Accademia Diritto e Migrazioni and the other organizers for providing the video!
- 🎙️ Our researcher Dr. Mina Ibrahim appeared on the “Justice Visions” Podcast, hosted by Eva Willems at #GhentUniversity. 💡 Topic is the role of #archives of Syrian, Sudanese, and Peruvian #diaspora communities in #TransitionalJustice processes. 👇 tinyurl.com/2n3pwu4n
- (1/3) ☀️ MeDiMi at #TheMigrationConference2025 in London (June 11-17, 2025) 🎓 Researchers from 4 MeDiMi projects presented their findings in a special session entitled "Human Rights Discourses in Migrant Societies."
- (2/3) 💡 They talked about human rights discourses and resistance, the representation of migrants in the media, the influence of human rights on domestic migration law, and human rights and justice discourses among Syrian refugees.
- (3/3) 👏 Many thanks to the organizers for the opportunity to discuss our research in this inspiring context! #MeDiMi #Migration #HumanRights #MigrationLaw #Refugees #Discourse #Resistance #Migrants #Media #Diaspora
- (1/2) ☀️ MeDiMi at the 2025 Summer Event of the Giessen Graduate Centre for Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Law (GGS) on 11 June. 💡 Highlight: Talk by MeDiMi PI @greta-olson.org on "Trump 2.0: The Return & Resistance."
- (2/2) 🎓 Nice opportunity for @jlugiessen.bsky.social 's academic community incl. the leaders of the MeDiMi GGS section, to get together & exchange. 🙏 We are thankful for the GGS's work and look forward to continuing to engage with you! Foto: Katrina Friese
- 📢 New MeDiMi publication! 📝 Laura Borchert / Janina Schlüsselburg: 'Cover(ing) #Migration: The Visual #Narrativisation of Flight, #Asylum, and #Security Practices' 👉 Published Open Access in European Journal of English Studies: doi.org/10.1080/1382...
- (1/2) 👨🏫 MeDiMi spokesperson Jürgen Bast contributed to the 2025 ADiM-IntoMe Migration Conference in Viterbo, 🇮🇹. 🔶 Book presentation with Hiroshi Motomura: “Borders and Belonging. Toward a Fair Immigration Policy” 🔶 Keynote in the session on the "The New Pact on Migration and Asylum"
- (2/2) 🎬 Recordings of the plenary sessions are available at www.youtube.com/@intome2908 👏 Many thanks to the Accademia Diritto e Migrazioni and all the organizers for the invitation and hosting this fantastic conference! #MigrationLaw #MeDiMi #Borders #Belonging #Migration #Asylum #HumanRights
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- (1/3) 🚨 MeDiMi goes conference! 👨🏫 Our PI Michael Knipper co-hosted the GTP conference on “Decolonizing Global #Child #Health: Critical Reflections and Dialogue to Ensure the Right to Health for All Children Worldwide,” at @jlugiessen.bsky.social from May 2-4, 2025.
- (2/3) MeDiMi's @greta-olson.org and Simona Adinolfi contributed insights from their MeDiMi project “Dehumanizing, Victimizing, or Universalizing? How Images of Migration Interact with Human Rights Discourse”.
- (3/3) More information on Michael's, Greta's, and Simona's research can be found on the MeDiMi website: www.medimi.de/de/topic/3.t...
- Congratulations to our colleagues!
- 📣 Our researcher @leonzue.bsky.social visited @feministconlaw.bsky.social's chair for #EU-Law at Europa-Universität #Flensburg for a #research stay. 🇪🇺 Together with Kilian Umbach & Anna Kompatscher, he co-organized an interdisciplinary workshop entitled ' #Border concepts 40 years after #Schengen'.
- 🎬 Check out the next highlight from our #MeDiMiInsights series! 💡Our spokesperson Jürgen Bast on the discovery of migrants' #HumanRights in the long 1990s. The talk was held in the colloquium of @kfguniversalism.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social. 👉 youtu.be/-HTkEnviAFg
- Many thanks to our colleagues @kfguniversalism.bsky.social and @lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de for providing the video material!
- Join the upcoming lecture by MeDiMi's Janna Wessels 👇
- How do states use human rights law to push their migration agendas? This Thursday at 2pm, Dr Janna Wessels dives into this – and more – with her research on reverse strategic litigation. Join us in-person or via Zoom – see you there! ⬇️ mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...
- Spannende Veranstaltung mit unserer MeDiMi-Kollegin Adriana Kessler 👇
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- Reposted by Research Group MeDiMiTwo new guest researchers are joining us today! 👋 Tehseen Jäger (@sceus.bsky.social) 👋 Janna Wessels (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social) They’re digging into migrant challenges in Europe's labour market and how states use human rights law to push migration control. Big welcome!
- Reposted by Research Group MeDiMi📣New video @lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de @for-medimi.bsky.social Jürgen Bast (Giessen): The Discovery of Migrants' Human Rights in the Long 1990s: A Legal History
