Maureen Eger
Political sociologist researching immigration, welfare states, (neo-)nationalism, democracy and more.
Associate Professor, University of Southern California
Posts my own.
maureeneger.com
- Reposted by Maureen EgerFlorida launches statewide book burning, with Intro to Sociology textbook as kindling. Their state education system is a farce, a system for destroying knowledge and ideas in order to prevent critical thinking.
- “Demonising migrants and refugees collectively as criminals, threats, or burdens on society—based on their origin, nationality or migration status—is inhuman, wrong…The U.S. has the obligation to comply with international human rights law and international refugee law.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
- Reposted by Maureen EgerMinnesota residents took to the streets of downtown Minneapolis to protest the federal government's immigration campaign in the state, after weeks of sustained resistance in their communities. Businesses across the region closed in solidarity.
- Western European far right parties are neo-nationalist doi.org/10.1093/esr/..., primarily concerned with perceived threats to national sovereignty—economic, political, and social. Of course they oppose Trump’s imperialism, even while sharing his opposition immigration www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
- Reposted by Maureen Eger2024-25 CASBS fellow @maureeneger.bsky.social heads into winter break in fine fashion w/yet another pub, this time as co-editor of the book "Anti-Colonial Global Scholarship" 🙌 About the book: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/anti-colonia... Open access options: chooser.crossref.org?doi=10.51952...
- The social mechanisms connecting identity & support for democracy NEW PUB coauthored by 2025 CASBS fellow @maureeneger.bsky.social in Int'l J of Comp Soc @sagepub.com sources data from 36 countries, focusing on mediating roles of civic beliefs & participation ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Maureen EgerThe social mechanisms connecting identity & support for democracy NEW PUB coauthored by 2025 CASBS fellow @maureeneger.bsky.social in Int'l J of Comp Soc @sagepub.com sources data from 36 countries, focusing on mediating roles of civic beliefs & participation ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- A good question.
- Trump calling Somali immigrants “garbage” shows that he sees little risk in open expressions of racism, @adamserwer.bsky.social argues.
- Reposted by Maureen EgerNew from me and @daralind.bsky.social for @immcouncil.org: If you want to know what happened with the huge pause on immigration benefit processing at USCIS, check out our explainer here! www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/trump-a...
- “USC already stands for academic excellence, and we do it without ideological loyalty oaths.” Professors @profmpastor.bsky.social & @jodyav.bsky.social grade the Compact (F) and urge leaders “to stand up for academic freedom, fiscal responsibility and just plain common sense.”
- Why Trump’s Compact for Higher Ed deserves an ‘F’ (hint: it’s not just for the facism . . .) www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
- Immigrants make up only 4% of the world’s population but they are more than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prize winners. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- What is the liberalizing potential of higher education? In this @bjsociology.bsky.social research, we show substantial variation in the association between field of study and anti-immigrant sentiment — a pattern most pronounced among those with tertiary degrees doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- Research supported by the Swedish Research Council @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social Grant No. 2019-02996. We also acknowledge the institutional support of Umeå University and @casbsstanford.bsky.social
- Reposted by Maureen EgerApply for a 2026-27 academic year CASBS residential fellowship. Deadline: Oct 31, 2025 Much more info & link to application portal: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-... Watch former fellows talk about it in their own words in a suite of 17 short, awesome videos: casbs.stanford.edu/apply-casbs-...
- Reposted by Maureen EgerImmigrants help keep California’s $4T economy running. Trump’s mass raids and stripping people of legal status risk tearing it apart — gutting our workforce and raising costs for everyone while separating American families. End these senseless policies now, Donald Trump.
- Reposted by Maureen EgerNEW PAPER! We look at immigrant criminality from the perspective of victims. Criminals tend to victimize the people in their community. If immigrants are setting off a crime wave, immigrants would be their 1st victims. Do we see that... no! Just the opposite... 🧵 www.cato.org/policy-analy...
- Reposted by Maureen EgerI debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
- Reposted by Maureen EgerTwo recently published studies show that individuals who studied humanities or art subjects are more socially liberal than those with degrees in other fields. 1) @maureeneger.bsky.social, @heypaolo.bsky.social &Mikael Hjerm (2025) in @bjsociology.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Maureen EgerDoes higher ed liberalize sentiments about immigrants? Using survey data across 32 countries, CASBS fellow @maureeneger.bsky.social & coauthors reveal substantial variation in the assoc b/w field of study & anti-immigrant prejudice 👉 @bjsociology.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Maureen EgerCalifornia, 17 other states challenge 'suspicionless' stops by masked ICE agents in L.A.
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- Reposted by Maureen EgerMe & @joanalker1.bsky.social on @npr.org's "It's Been a Minute" talking about the erroneous stereotypes that drive Medicaid cuts & the fundamental connections between all of us. When we harm those whom government deems "underserving," we ultimately harm everyone. www.npr.org/2025/07/04/1...
- @selcanmutgan.bsky.social et al. find that ethnic school segregation in Sweden is largely a downstream consequence of “the ethnic segregation of the housing market and the geographic distribution of schools.” @europeansocreview.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
- Europe’s neo-nationalist turn www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/w...
- I love when the radical right research robot @kai-arzheimer.com shares my brilliant Umeå University colleague’s work
- A. Bohman. “Who's Welcome and Who's Not? Opposition Towards Immigration in the Nordic Countries, 2002-2014”. In: Scandinavian Political Studies 41.3 (2018), pp. 283-306. dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9477.12120.
- Mine too! bsky.app/profile/rrre... Thanks @kai-arzheimer.com for sharing previous work
- M. A. Eger and S. Valdez. “Neo-nationalism in Western Europe”. In: European Sociological Review 31.1 (2015), pp. 115-130. dx.doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcu087.
- Reposted by Maureen Eger7. Bottom line: tactics matter but so do our own biases when observing and reacting to resistance. Worth approaching coverage with skepticism and holding media accountable. www.latimes.com/california/s...
- Reposted by Maureen EgerAn important piece from the @apsrjournal.bsky.social (by @devorahmanekin.bsky.social and @tmitts.bsky.social) to make sense of ongoing events: it matters not only which tactics are adopted by protesters but also who they are.
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- Reposted by Maureen EgerThe Trump administration is engaging on an all-out assault on the institutions, workers and standards that make learning and knowledge production possible, in the hopes of securing political dominance forever. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
- Reposted by Maureen EgerSo your research area has been politicized and your federal funding cancelled, what now? I try to give some answers in this opinion piece for @nature.com 1/ www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Maureen EgerCato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.
- “…branding marginalized communities and their political opponents ‘terrorists’ is a surefire way to delegitimize them and diminish their capacity to dissent—and even to exist” warns @ssinnar.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...
- Reposted by Maureen EgerSeparately, migration & climate change are among the most politically polarized issues. But they interrelate across a variety of contexts. This enabled @maureeneger.bsky.social to widen the scope of inquiry in her CASBS fellows seminar, including reappraising mechanisms underlying existing theories
- Is this what he meant by “protecting women”? NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Maureen EgerSo true. US universities are top notch, and magnets for talent that strengthen the US economy, *because* the US made a policy decision to invest in research. What the gov’t really does is run a competition to let university scientists compete for grant funding to do research that helps society.
- Beautiful visualization of social media data and trends largely comport with international migration scholarship www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- We theorized about such patterns in this open access article published online in 2020—arguing that these post-pandemic spikes in migration would increase anti-immigrant sentiment and mobilize political support for reintroducing restrictive migration policies doi.org/10.1177/0197...
- Reposted by Maureen EgerToday the NY Times posted an interview with Chris Rufo that anyone associated with universities — or anyone who benefits from advances in health care or any other aspect of the research taking place there — should listen to or read in transcript. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/p...?
- Reposted by Maureen EgerMore on the Harvard AAUP & Nat'l AAUP lawsuit filed last night to block the Trump admin's unlawful threats to use funding cuts as a cudgel to coerce Harvard University to restrict speech and allow government control over teaching and learning. 🧵 Lawsuit Here:
- Reposted by Maureen EgerAdolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
- A “chilling effect” is the discouragement of exercising a right or participation in an activity because of a fear of retaliatory or negative consequences
- Reposted by Maureen EgerA reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
- Reposted by Maureen EgerIt is nice to see the AGs in these states fighting back. #HigherEd abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/1...
- What is the ideology of Musk and other tech elite (which is distinct from Trump’s MAGA neo-nationalism)? Listen to @gilduran.com’s NPR interview www.kqed.org/forum/201010... And Jill Lepore’s NYT piece on the Musk family’s long history of support for technocracy www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...
- Reposted by Maureen EgerGroups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.
- Reposted by Maureen EgerAlmost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects. Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):
- Reposted by Maureen EgerWestern Europe supports retaliatory tax rates against the US. May this be the end of the US as the globe's super power? Even in academia I've been hearing how people are not going to the US on conferences and may reduce submitting to US journals.
- Reposted by Maureen Eger“Sociologists study society and group behavior. Consequently, we recognize that race and racial inequality are areas that warrant scientific analysis,” said American Sociological Association President Adia Harvey Wingfield. democracyforward.org/updates/dcl-...
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- Reposted by Maureen EgerVery interesting data, but who cares about facts? #immigrants
- Reposted by Maureen EgerASA has joined with two dozen other organizations in a letter stating that the dismantling of the Department of Education will have catastrophic implications for students, faculty, communities, and the nation.
- Reposted by Maureen EgerDesignating neighborhoods with a large share of poor, “non-Western” residents as “hard ghetto areas” constitutes direct discrimination based on ethnic origin and hence a violation of the EU's Race Equality Directive. Seems a fair assessment to me.
- Denmark’s so-called ghetto law may be a violation of the EU’s Race and Equality Directive. SARAH GANTY (@sarahganty.bsky.social) and KARIN DE VRIES on the case’s potential to challenge harmful stereotypes embedded in integration policies and practices. verfassungsblog.de/denmark-ghet...
- Reposted by Maureen Eger"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
- Share with any family and friends living in a red state
- Congratulations to @breznaunate.bsky.social and collaborators for this excellent metascience! I learned a lot from participating in this project and I’m very happy to see this published @royalsocietypublishing.org
- “Every citizen and officeholder who cares about the strength of our country must also care about free speech, self-governing thought, and the untrammeled quest for knowledge.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
- Reposted by Maureen EgerThe Johns Hopkins University said it will slash over 2,000 jobs in the US and abroad after the administration of President Donald Trump terminated $800 million in grants to the renowned academic institution reut.rs/4iOAlGf
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- The Fulbright program started in the aftermath of WWII to help facilitate peace through academic and intercultural exchange. As an alum, I am especially sad to see the funding “paused” by the Trump administration www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...
- Reposted by Maureen EgerMy op-ed: "Colleges and universities ... seem to be hoping that their muted responses — and affirmative acquiescence — will spare them. ...This sort of acquiescence will not only fail to protect institutions, but will expose all of us to further repression." stanforddaily.com/2025/01/28/f...
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- Reposted by Maureen EgerThe ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.
- Reposted by Maureen Eger“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social. “This is direct censorship of scientific research.”
- This is how you do it www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i21...
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- Reposted by Maureen Eger"The universities control the knowledge in our society (...) We have to agressivly attack the universities (...). Fundamental lies that feminism is liberating (...) There is wisdom in what Nixon said, the professors are the enemy " bryanalexander.org/politics/the... www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FR6...
- After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Swedish public opinion was *still* split on joining NATO. After the government’s decision to apply for NATO membership, many changed their position. This was largely based on individuals’ party affiliation.
- How to explain changes in Swedish public opinion toward NATO membership after Russia's invasion of Ukraine? Mo knows. CASBS fellow @maureeneger.bsky.social & coauthors provide the definitive explanation in Acta Sociologica ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Maureen EgerJocker, Brug, and Rekker address the effects polarization has on partisan sorting in their recent article titled “Growing Up in a Polarized Party System: Ideological Divergence and Partisan Sorting Across Generations.” Click the link, it’s open access! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Maureen EgerThe modern gender gap is alive & well in #Germany: women were more likely to support the parties on the left (SPD, Greens, and well, Left), less likely to support the Christian Democrats & Liberals, and massively less likely (17% vs 24%) to vote for the #farright #AfD #btw25
- Reposted by Maureen EgerASA International Migration section is now on BlueSky! Please give us a follow :)
- Reposted by Maureen EgerMy comment on the present moment. I see a strong case for Canada and maybe Mexico joining the EU, or at least the European economic area in some way. The imperialistic bullying to which they are being subjected makes that at least worth thinking about. www.socialeurope.eu/trumps-trade...
- Own goal.
- Funding for science still frozen despite lawsuits www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Although there is a huge partisan divide, almost 1/3 of respondents favor ending birthright citizenship in this new @npr.org / @ipsosus.bsky.social poll: www.npr.org/2025/02/14/n...
- Unlike what Trump claims, the U.S. is not exceptional in this regard. Almost all North and South American countries have unconditional birthright citizenship. However, it is rare in other parts of the world. For example, no European country has unconditional birthright citizenship…
- If you care about “immigrant integration,” it seems strange and counterproductive not to give children growing up in a country a stake in that country. While an immigrant in Europe, I was told that such views on birthright citizenship were “very American,” which for me was a point of national pride.
- Reposted by Maureen EgerThe danger of continuing ordinary routines as if everything is normal, according to CASBS fellow @ssinnar.bsky.social...
- My op-ed: "Colleges and universities ... seem to be hoping that their muted responses — and affirmative acquiescence — will spare them. ...This sort of acquiescence will not only fail to protect institutions, but will expose all of us to further repression." stanforddaily.com/2025/01/28/f...
