Interested in migration policy externalization? Tomorrow we present this policy paper in this bilingual online event on the US-México relation. Register here to attend: ucla.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
This is leadership, especially in these dire times when migrants are used as an easy punchbag from all sides of the political spectrum.
📝 Lee la Nota #9 sobre Migración y Desigualdades, en la que Nancy Landa analiza, entre otras cosas, la brecha existente entre la norma y la prática en el reconocimiento de estudios de personas migrantes en México: migdep.colmex.mx/publicacione...
Mark Carney tells Davos the old world order is ‘not coming back’ as Trump heads to Switzerland
Radical right parties in Europe have not moderated. Their positions and rhetoric have entered the mainstream. They have become normalized and legitimized. Unless we understand this, we have little chance of countering their success.
This paper explores the multifaceted relationship between artificial intelligence (AI), programming languages, and ethical-political structures, emphasising how AI development both reflects and reshapes global power dynamics. When prompted about its participation in political discourse or its potential to function as a public intellectual (a hybrid human–nonhuman actor that redefines the link between technology, politics, and public reason), generative AI often expresses a willingness to engage with complex ideas, while simultaneously acknowledging its limitations in terms of original thought and its inability to advocate for social change. It tends to prioritise neutrality over taking definitive stances, which raises critical concerns. This neutrality may inadvertently contribute to inequality, particularly in the context of the divide between the Global North and the Global South. Moreover, the geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China, combined with AI’s growing role in decision-making processes, underscores its potential to privilege certain agendas – often those aimed at power maximisation and wealth accumulation. This paper argues that the promise of AI must be weighed against its risks, especially in high-stakes domains, and that meaningful accountability demands more than ethics-as-branding. By framing AI as a sociotechnical artifact embedded in ideology and power, the study highlights the need for global, pluralistic, and enforceable ethical frameworks in the face of accelerating digital transformation.
We have a new #OnlineFirst article out in Global Society: "Artificial Intelligence and the Algorithmic Discursive Sphere: Policymaking Dilemmas and the Rise of a New Public Intellectual" by Branislav Radeljić (@nebrija.bsky.social).
#AI #Power #Democracy
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
According to this Supreme Court:
❌ Using race conscious admissions in college to give minorities a fair shot
✅ Using race to profile people on the street to detain for immigration sweeps
✅ Using race to disenfranchise minorities in elecciones
The only consistency is white supremacy.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is making one last effort to push a bill ensuring a legal pathway to citizenship for child immigrants through Congress before his upcoming retirement.
Astronomers have fully tallied where the universe’s normal matter actually is, and most of it isn’t in galaxies.
It’s spread through the intergalactic “cosmic web,” solving a long-standing mystery 💫
buff.ly/0ZqV6rP
#space
This is so obvious to me when I see Yoli
What happens when a minority decides for the majority?
On Sunday, Swiss citizens head to the polls again. But Switzerland remains one of the most exclusionary democracies in the OECD.
In highly cosmopolitan places like Basel-Stadt, only 50.5% of all residents were entitled to vote (as of 2024)
People are losing faith in democracy’s ability to deliver social progress. But are democracies better than autocracies at promoting economic growth, alleviating poverty, and creating healthier, more educated, and more peaceful societies? On all counts, the answer is yes.
Cartoon showing how each time vehicles have gotten bigger, it’s led other people to think their vehicles need to be bigger too. The final panel shows people discussing that they’ll need to install whirling spike clubs, or else be destroyed by other drivers…
True story.
Via @xkcd.com
Mañana jueves por la mañana en el Seminario de estudios sobre el futuro Also Mandariaga dará esta charla sobre crecimiento verde en América Latina:
Finished the virtual dataset launch! 📊
Grateful to see that there was so much interest. Thanks to everyone who joined. 🙏
Special thanks to @luicypedroza.bsky.social and Antonio Spinelli for a very thoughtful discussion. 🙏
And big thanks my co-authors @sumpierrez.bsky.social & Rainer Bauböck. 🙏
Illustration of a fox facing right looking forward in a woodland with tall dark trees
Paula Mela, Finnish illustrator known for her fairytale-like works #WomensArt
✨🎉🫀
Dr. Ana Covarrubias is the new president of El Colegio de México for the period 2025-2030. An undisputed authority on the field of International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis, a fair and trustworthy colleague and a good person at heart. Looking forward!
Migraciones internacionales del Colef
Colonia Juárez!
Ich hab den Text so verstanden, dass diese gehobene Öko-Mittelklasse sich zu Barbies optimiert. Ideen, Gesprächsthemen bleiben auf sich selbst und auf Vergleiche zu Peers beschränkt. Auch dachte ich, dass sie vielleicht alle Cyborgs sind, die aus dem Internet die langweilig präzise Infos holen #tddl
No me alegra mucho haber acertado en mi predicción de que quizá países de la UE no criticaban las nefastas prácticas de EEUU porque potencialmente las querrían aplicar. Hoy el nvo gobierno alemán de Merz expulsa ilegalmente (vs. orden de juez) a solicitantes de asilo afuera la frontera con Polonia.
Hace unas semanas mis colegas Élodie Brun y Juan Olmeda me invitaron a participar en su podcast "Miradas sobre América Latina" p/hablar sobre políticas migratorias en la región: open.spotify.com/episode/1kez... El foco de la conversación cayó sobre las nefastas y variadas formas de externalización.
High-skill migration doesn't have to mean 'brain drain' or 'brain waste'. Those are policy decisions. There's a better way.
@cgdev.org maintains a great explainer and tracker of what Global Skill Partnerships are, and how they're working around the world
Confront the impossible with innovation.
"Chronopolítics: migration studies, decoloniality and the burden of looking forward". This is the suggestive topic for the talk by Kudakwashe Vanyoro that the Seminario de Estudios sobre el Futuro will host on April 30, 9 am, Mexico City time. Follow the talk on YouTube and send your questions!
No se pierdan la próxima sesión del Seminario de Estudios sobre el Futuro el 30 de abril, a las 9 am (CDMX). Kudakwashe Vanyoro hablará sobre cronopolítica, estudios de migración, decolonialidad y la carga de mirar hacia el futuro. ¡Se transmitirá vía YouTube en vivo y tomaremos sus preguntas!
Updated global #migration flow estimates to match new @UNDESA stock data
📄Bilateral: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
📄Bilateral by sex: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
🖥️Update details: guyabel.com/publication/...
📔Original @ScientificData papers: nature.com/articles/s41... & www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Preparando unas reflexiones para una charla que daré hoy para un colectivo estudiantil, me reencontré con este texto de 2019 sobre la promesa de una ciudadanía incluyente en las aglomeraciones urbanas y qué tanto esa promesa tiene que ver con la ciudad: globalcit.eu/cities-vs-st... Ojalá les guste.
Updating 🧵 on Trump's EO restricting birthright citizenship with link to Amicus Curiae brief arguing that EO "would create an ever-expanding underclass of undocumented U.S.-born children, to the detriment of American families, communities and indeed, the nation as a whole"
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