#Migrat
🆕 Paying refugees to go home: Lessons from Afghanistan’s cash-for-return experiment

Today on VoxDev w/ @chriswblair.bsky.social (@princeton.edu), @packlesshepherd.bsky.social (University of Virginia) & @austinlw.bsky.social (@harrispolicy.bsky.social): voxdev.org/topic/migrat...
Paying refugees to go home: Lessons from Afghanistan’s cash-for-return experiment
In 2016, the UN doubled the cash it paid Afghan refugees to leave Pakistan, and 363,000 people went home in the middle of the fighting season. New research finds that policy-induced return reduced ins...
voxdev.org
October 8, 2026 at 9:10 AM
Among the clearest evidence for religious pluralism in medieval Africa comes from Eastern Africa,
where African traditional beliefs, Persian Zoroastrianism, and Islamic minority sects coexisted.
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-migrat...
The Migration of “Heretics” and Refugees To Africa During Late Antiquity
Africa was a haven for religious minorities (“heretics”), political exiles, and other refugees from beyond the continent during Late Antiquity.
www.africanhistoryextra.com
October 7, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Recent discoveries of Zoroastrian constructions in Madagascar and Ibadi mosques along the East African coast provide archaeological evidence for the presence of religious minorities, whose existence has until now been known primarily from written sources.
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-migrat...
The Migration of “Heretics” and Refugees To Africa During Late Antiquity
Africa was a haven for religious minorities (“heretics”), political exiles, and other refugees from beyond the continent during Late Antiquity.
www.africanhistoryextra.com
October 7, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Records by visiting Chinese, Arab, and Persian travellers from 700 to 1000 CE describe mixed religious communities; maritime links b'tn Madagascar, the Swahili coast, and Somalia; as well as persecutions in West Asia that forced many into exile in Africa
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-migrat...
The Migration of “Heretics” and Refugees To Africa During Late Antiquity
Africa was a haven for religious minorities (“heretics”), political exiles, and other refugees from beyond the continent during Late Antiquity.
www.africanhistoryextra.com
October 7, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Some of the strongest evidence for religious pluralism in medieval Africa comes from East African societies, which harbored religiously diverse populations and refugees from Arabia and the Gulf who fled during periods of political upheaval
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-migrat...
The Migration of “Heretics” and Refugees To Africa During Late Antiquity
Africa was a haven for religious minorities (“heretics”), political exiles, and other refugees from beyond the continent during Late Antiquity.
www.africanhistoryextra.com
October 7, 2026 at 2:45 PM
In the mid-11th century, Ghana, Tadmekka, and Gao became the target of the reformist Almoravids

While aspects of religious pluralism survived in the former territories of Ghana and Gao up to the late Middle Ages, Ibadism disappeared across West Africa.
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-migrat...
The Migration of “Heretics” and Refugees To Africa During Late Antiquity
Africa was a haven for religious minorities (“heretics”), political exiles, and other refugees from beyond the continent during Late Antiquity.
www.africanhistoryextra.com
October 7, 2026 at 2:35 PM
The historical and epigraphic record from medieval Gao and Essouk reveals the religious pluralism of medieval Mali, where “paganism,” “heresy,” and Islamic “orthodoxy” coexisted in the 9th century
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-migrat...
The Migration of “Heretics” and Refugees To Africa During Late Antiquity
Africa was a haven for religious minorities (“heretics”), political exiles, and other refugees from beyond the continent during Late Antiquity.
www.africanhistoryextra.com
October 7, 2026 at 2:26 PM
In North-West Africa, the independent Imazighen (Berbers) who were opposed to Umayyad authority and the mainstream Sunni doctrine adopted the “heretical” Ibadi and Sufri sects by 740 CE, which were considered relatively egalitarian.
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-migrat...
The Migration of “Heretics” and Refugees To Africa During Late Antiquity
Africa was a haven for religious minorities (“heretics”), political exiles, and other refugees from beyond the continent during Late Antiquity.
www.africanhistoryextra.com
October 7, 2026 at 2:22 PM
In the 7th century, a section of Umayyads known as the Hunayhín was reportedly sent to the medieval Ghana Empire (present-day Southern Mauritania), where they decided to settle and adopt “the religion of the people of Ghana.”
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-migrat...
The Migration of “Heretics” and Refugees To Africa During Late Antiquity
Africa was a haven for religious minorities (“heretics”), political exiles, and other refugees from beyond the continent during Late Antiquity.
www.africanhistoryextra.com
October 7, 2026 at 2:21 PM
In the 8th century, the Dahlak Islands off the coast of Eritrea were a haven for political exiles, independent merchants, and pirates.
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-migrat...
The Migration of “Heretics” and Refugees To Africa During Late Antiquity
Africa was a haven for religious minorities (“heretics”), political exiles, and other refugees from beyond the continent during Late Antiquity.
www.africanhistoryextra.com
October 7, 2026 at 2:14 PM
icymi

The Migration of “Heretics” and Refugees to Africa During Late Antiquity

Arabs at the court of the Ethiopian king, c. 1306⤵️
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-migrat...
October 7, 2026 at 2:04 PM
“Africa was a haven for religious minorities (heretics), political exiles, and other refugees from beyond the continent during Late Antiquity.”

www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-migrat...
The Migration of “Heretics” and Refugees To Africa During Late Antiquity
Africa was a haven for religious minorities (“heretics”), political exiles, and other refugees from beyond the continent during Late Antiquity.
www.africanhistoryextra.com
October 7, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Can viral social media rumors spark a real-world border crisis?

Hind Al-Subai Al-Idrissi explains how fake online claims sent tens of thousands rushing into Ceuta, triggering a humanitarian emergency.

🔗 Learn more here:
worldandnewworld.com/ceuta-migrat...
From Rumours To The Border: Ceuta’s Migration Crisis
European Borders on African Soil On Morocco’s northern coast, within the African continent, lie two cities administered by Spain: Ceuta, at the northern tip of
worldandnewworld.com
October 6, 2026 at 7:16 AM
First listen of the new Heron and Crane while walking the dogs this morning. Sounding lovely so far
🌞🍁🪶🍃

heronandcranemusic.bandcamp.com/album/migrat...
Migrations, by Heron & Crane
10 track album
heronandcranemusic.bandcamp.com
October 5, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Una mujer mexicana fue captada en video insultando y amenazando con deportación a un inmigrante colombiano dueño de un restaurante en California, además de referirse de forma despectiva a venezolanos y ecuatorianos. El video, grabado por la propia víctima, muestra a la mujer usando el estatus migrat
October 5, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Join us on 15 October for the first event in our 'Migration, Performance & Policy' series where speakers will explore the role of performance and pop culture in the politics around immigration in Nepal and the Philippines.

📍 Attend in-person in Oxford or online
www.compas.ox.ac.uk/event/migrat...
October 5, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Our new record Migrations is officially out today! You can check out the record here: heronandcranemusic.bandcamp.com/album/migrat... Hope you enjoy these new tunes as much as we enjoyed making them! Thanks for listening!
October 2, 2026 at 11:17 AM
A month after my switch from 1Password to Bitwarden, I wrote a little bit about my experience. The short version: it's fairly effortless and apart from some UX nits, it just works.

jola.dev/posts/migrat...
Migrating from 1Password to Bitwarden
After 1Password's recent political statement, I canceled my subscription and switched to Bitwarden.
jola.dev
October 2, 2026 at 10:40 AM
OVHcloud travaux: maintenance scheduled
[RBX4][Dedicated Servers] - Rack 46C10 migration notification
Service improvement : As part of our continuous improvement policy, we will be doing a migrat
https://bare-metal-servers.status-ovhcloud.com/incidents/stljdsx5ctzd #OVHcloud #OVH
October 1, 2026 at 9:06 PM
OVHcloud travaux: maintenance scheduled
[RBX4][Dedicated Servers] - Rack 46C10 migration notification
Service improvement : As part of our continuous improvement policy, we will be doing a migrat
https://bare-metal-servers.status-ovhcloud.com/incidents/stljdsx5ctzd #OVHcloud #OVH
October 1, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Please see the Migration guidelines that list all the breaking changes and include codemods to help you automate the migration:

mswjs.io/docs/migrat...
2.x → 3.x
Migration guidelines for version 3.0.
mswjs.io
September 30, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Can microbes in our gut really play an important role in the immune response after stroke? And most importantly: how does it work?

1000 congrats to first author Rosa Delgado Jiménez, the whole team and all my colleagues ! 🧠 💩 🤩

#Stroke #Microbiota #GutBrainAxis

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Gut microbiota primes stroke severity via the AHR in intestinal dendritic cells
Indole-producing Escherichia coli worsens ischemic stroke through the activation of aryl hydrocarbon receptor signaling in dendritic cells. Limiting AHR signaling in DCs promotes gut-derived DC migrat...
www.cell.com
September 30, 2026 at 7:31 AM