(1/3) 🥳 MeDiMi 2.0 here we go! 🤩 @dfg.de announced that our project will be renewed for a second funding period from 2027 to 2031. We are incredibly proud and happy that we can continue our research on the intersection of #HumanRights and #Migration!

🎬 Check out the next #MeDiMiInsights video! 💡 Jürgen Bast: Due Process, Underinclusive Legislation, and the #CourtOfJustice in EU #Asylum Procedures 👉 The talk emerges from our legal project on the EU’s #border regimes. 👉 youtu.be/v3h-36VSFcM

(1/3) 🚀 MeDiMi at the first #ACMRL Conference on Migration Law! Last week, several MeDiMi researchers presented their work at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. The conference brought together scholars working on #Asylum, #MigrationLaw, #Mobility, #HumanRights, and the #RuleOfLaw.

🚀 Day 2 of #MeDiMiConference2026 has wrapped up! Day 2 highlights: ➡️ Plenary on the “conditions of possibility” of #humanrightization (J. Bast, A. Kessler, @greta-olson.org). ➡️ Plenary on “consequences & ambivalences” ( @laura-holderied.bsky.social, E. Gutiérrez Rodríguez, B. Bunk). (1/3)

🚀 #MeDiMiConference2026 has launched in Giessen! After 4 years of research, 90+ scholars are here to engage with the theory of #humanrightization 🌐 Day 1 highlights: ➡️ Keynote on MeDiMi’s research agenda (J. Bast, L. Holderied). ➡️ Plenary session on the dynamics of humanrightization. (1/3)

📣 Masterclass for PhD students 📚 In the context of the #MeDiMiConference2026, we had the pleasure to host Prof. Hiroshi Motomura from #UCLA for a pre-conference event. 💡 We reflected on his recent book “ #Borders and #Belonging: Toward a Fair #ImmigrationPolicy.” 👏 Thanks to all participants!

🚨 New publication on our key concepts! 📚 Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Jürgen Bast & Laura Holderied: “ #Humanrightization of Migration Discourses: A Conceptual Framework ” 👉 Published Open Access in Journal of Human Rights Practice, 18(1), 2026: doi.org/10.1093/jhum....

🚨 Reminder: Registration for the #MeDiMiConference2026 is still open until April 12, 2026! 📖 The complete program with all panelists is now online: www.medimi.de/de/topic/106.... 🤩 We are excited to discuss the conditions, forms, and consequences of #humanrightization with you!

(1/2) 📢 Masterclass with Prof. Hiroshi Motomura (@law.ucla.edu) for PhD Students in Migration Law, Politics, and Ethics 📆 06.05.2026, 2–6 p.m. 📍 JLU Giessen ⏰ Expression of interest via medimi@recht.uni-giessen.de by 19.04.2026. Details below 👇

(1/2) 🚨 MeDiMi Working Paper No. 3 is out now! 📚 Jürgen Bast & Janna Wessels: “The Trajectory of the European Court of Human Rights in Migration Matters” 👉 Available on the MeDiMi website: www.medimi.de/de/article/2...

📣 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: 👇

(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

(1/3) 📢 Publication alert! 📝 Adriana Kessler and Frederik von Harbou (2025) #Menschenrechte im deutschen #Migrationsrecht. Argumente und Akteure, Asylmagazin, Issue 10–11, 17–24.

🚨 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/...

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

(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.

📢 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)

🚨 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!

🔥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!

(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."

(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."

📢 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"

(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.

📣 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'.

📣 Join our next #MeDiMiImpulse! ➡️ Human Rights Contestations: Activist Interventions into Current Discourse on Migration. 📅 9 Mai 📍 Goethe University Frankfurt a.M. | SH 4.102 | Max-Horkheimer-Str. 4, Frankfurt a.M. 🖥️ Stream ✅ Details & Registration: rb.gy/x6183m & ⬇️

🏰 Our Research Group held its General Assembly in #Rauischolzhausen. 🔎 After 2 years, it was time for an interim evaluation. Many thanks to our reviewers @andrealiese.bsky.social, @krajewskimarkus.bsky.social, @hschwenken.bsky.social & Boris Nieswand! 🔥 Stay tuned for more #MeDiMi content!

📣Publication alert 📕Our associated researcher Giulia Santomauro contributed the chapter 'European Court of Human Rights Jurisprudence and National Migration Policies: Exploring the Hermeneutic Tools of 'Proceduralisation' and Margin of Appreciation' to an edited volume. 👇Details: shorturl.at/0MmsW

📢 CfP for a workshop on "Reverse Strategic Litigation by Governments on Migrants' Rights" by #MeDiMi and #ACMRL! Submissions from researchers at all career stages and various disciplines are welcome. 📅 27.-28.03.2025 📍 @vuamsterdam.bsky.social ⌛ Deadline: 20.12.2024 Details below 👇