🇺🇦 During the 2013 anti-Russia protests in #Ukraine so many Lenin statues were toppled they had a name for it: “Leninopad” (“Leninfall” or “the falling of the Lenins” 🙂). From our NBP #database 🚀 launching later this year #AcademicSky #SovietUnion #Independence #NationBuilding

🇺🇦 Russians are the largest minority group in #Ukraine and until 2017, #Russian was a protected #MinorityLanguage. While minority languages still have protection, the situation has evolved... 🧐 From our NBP #database, 🚀 launching later this year. #Independence #NationBuilding

🇨🇦About 23% of Canadians are immigrants. While historically, emigration from #Canada to the #USA has exceeded immigration, there have been short periods when that has reversed. From our NBP #database, 🚀 launching later this year. #citizenship #immigration #NationBuilding

The EthnicGoods team is incredibly proud to celebrate Gülce Şafak ÖZDEMİR for being awarded the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship—on her first attempt! This is an outstanding achievement, and we can’t wait to see the impact of your #research! #MarieCurieFellowship

📄 This week our lead postdoc Emre Amasyali presented an insightful paper on "Anachronism in Political Science: Value-Based, Conceptual, & Methodological", co-authored with Harris Mylonas, at @ibei's Methods and Inference research cluster. Looking forward to seeing it in print!

🇬🇱 #Greenland: From 1975 – 2001 children in #Denmark (with parents) of foreign nationality had the right to Mother Tongue Instruction (MTI). However, municipalities are no longer obliged to offer MTI to children who come from non-EU/EEA member states. #NationBuilding

We’d like to thank the Quality of Government Institute for the opportunity to work with them last year. To find out more about the Institute's excellent work, their Annual Report is here: gu.se/sites/default/… #Governance #NationBuilding

We were impressed by this recent paper examining #StatePower and capacity. Good reading for anyone wishing to learn more about #governance, & the how and why of #NationBuilding. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Our congratulations to the authors: Anna Persson, Frida Boräng & Dr. Ruth Carlitz

🎉 Great news! IBEI Predoc Fellow Eva Fortes defends with excellence her PhD Thesis 'Integration or Quality of Life? A Capabilities Approach to Migration Policy'. Supervised by Matthias vom Hau (IBEI) - PhD Programme in Political and Social Sciences, UPF. Congratulations, Eva!🙌

The EthnicGoods team is proud to celebrate our Project Manager, Eva Fortes, for receiving top honours for her PhD thesis! Congratulations, Eva! #ResearchExcellence #MigrationPolicy

📄Last week our lead postdoc Emre Amasyali presented at the ASN World Convention, the largest international and inter-disciplinary scholarly gathering of its kind, at Columbia University University in NY — an exciting opportunity to exchange ideas with academics from around the world.

Last week, our Principle Investigator, Matthias vom Hau, was delighted to present a paper — “A war of words: Education, language status grievances, and civil war” — as part of the “Contestations of the Liberal Script” (SCRIPTS) conference at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Berlin. #ResearchExcellence

📄 We’re delighted to highlight a new paper by EthnicGoods Research Fellow, Andrei Tarasov. The media's role in public discourse has been much discussed recently, Andrei’s analysis considers diagnosis, prognostic, & motivational framing in the independence discourse. #Catalonia

📢#CallForPapers 8th Catalan Political Behavior & Public Opinion Workshop (6th November 2025) 📅 Submission deadline: July 4, 2025 🔗 Submission link: forms.gle/oVrfUsHSkcE1Vb…

Last week I attended the EUVALUES conference in Istanbul 🇹🇷 🎙 Talk: “Negotiating Diversity”—How EU accession shaped minority language education rights (NBP data, 1945–2020) 💬 Workshop: Academic mobility & EU funding opportunities for scholars from Turkey and the MENA region

Our project manager Eva Fortes was delighted to co-chair a panel at the Reflexivities in Migration Studies - IMISCOE SC IMISCOE Annual Conference last week. The panel discussed the need to decenter #migration research by making a shift in the object of study: how do we categorize migrants? And who benefits?

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