Steffen Pötzschke

Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of attending the workshop “Fostering European Identity Through Mobility” at @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social. Many thanks to @nschwitter.bsky.social & A. Wenz for organizing this great event and for inviting me to participate in the panel discussion on Thursday.

Reminder: We are pleased to announce the upcoming BRISPO Lunch Seminar at VUB, where @stpoetzschke.bsky.social will share insights from a decade of meta advertisement-based survey recruitment. Join us tomorrow on December 9th for an engaging lunchtime session! brispo.research.vub.be/en/brispo-lu...

Lunch and Learn? - In the upcoming BRISPO Lunch Seminar @stpoetzschke.bsky.social takes us behind the methods, the applications, and the unexpected pitfalls that a decade of meta advertisement-based survey recruitment can teach us. Join us on December 9th ! brispo.research.vub.be/en/brispo-lu...

Good news for those still working on their submission for our 5th Annual Workshop ➡️ We have extended the submission deadline to November 18, 2025!
Find the call and additional info here:
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#MethAtMigWS #MigrationResearch #ResearchMethods @imiscoe.bsky.social

Don't miss out on Anna Hebel's webinar presentation:

The Role of Ad Design: Image Characteristics and Design Formats in Social Media Recruitment

is about to start on MS Teams:
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#SurveyMethodology
Learn more about Anna's research: doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Are you engaged in cross-national and/or cross-cultural (migration) research and have something to say about relevant methods? Then don't miss out on the Annual Meth@Mig Workshop 2026 in Doha!

Submit your abstract by Nov. 7, 2025!

Full call: t1p.de/ebe7f

Participatory Concept Calibration: How Quantitative Framing Can Help Elucidate Richer Data in Qualitative Interviews - Eva Fortes, 2025 This article provides new insights into the use of participatory research for concept formation. Specifically, I employ a unique approach that combines capabili...

Check out this highly interesting new #openaccess publication by METHatMIG member Eva Fortes:
Participatory Concept Calibration - How Quantitative Framing Can Help Elucidate Richer Data in Qualitative Interviews

doi.org/10.1177/1609...

#MigrationResearch #ResearchMethods

📣Deadline extension!

Submit your proposals to the 2026 IMISCOE Annual Conference by October 8, 2025!

… please do submit your methods-focused proposals and don’t forget to tag our SC during the submission process.

www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...

We wanted the piece to be easy to access — especially for young scholars and for teaching. We don’t cover every detail, but we hope our hints spark ideas and deeper dives for readers. Check it out and let us know what you think!

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This paper began as a conversation during my research stay at Western University (Canada, @westernu.ca) — and we kept that conversational structure. Hence, it’s not your usual journal article. We went for an unconventional, dialogue-style format and had a lot of fun doing it!

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While demand for timely data on migrants & refugees grows, recruiting them for surveys can be challenging. Could ads on #Facebook and #Instagram be part of the answer? In this piece, @somardrawoh.bsky.social & I unpack promises and the pitfalls.

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Magic bullet or questionable remedy? Discussing the use of Meta advertising to recruit hard-to-reach migrants for surveys Abstract. As the world sees an increase in global migration, it is paramount to collect real-time data on migrants to facilitate their settlement in new co

📣 Publication Alert! 📣

Interested in the pros and cons of Meta ad-based survey sampling (of hard-to-reach migrant populations) and looking for an accessible intro? Then this is for you:

doi.org/10.1093/jrs/...

#MigrationResearch #RefugeeStudies #SurveyResearch #OpenAccess #MetaSampling

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The new GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample offers for the second time the opportunity to submit studies: www.gesis.org/en/gesis-pan...

Accepted proposals will be fielded in 2026

This news is shocking, yet not entirely surprising. Free speech in the US is dead! Critical reflection is persecuted, while political propaganda is celebrated.

#JimmyKimmel

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Can we recruit a nonprobability emigrant sample via Facebook and Instagram advertising? Research by @stpoetzschke.bsky.social and @berndweiss.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1186/s408...

🚨It's time to submit your migration research methods papers, panels & workshops for the #IMISCOE 2026 Annual Conference! Please do not forget to “link” your relevant submissions to the Meth@Mig SC during submission.

Deadline: September 25, 2025

CfP: www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...

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📣 Vacancy for PhD position! 📣 I am looking for a qualitative PhD researcher (3 years, 30 hours/week) to join my ERC project #RESTATE (Refugees’ Political Participation and State-(Re)Making in Displacement), starting preferably on 1 January 2026.

Of course, we acknowledge the limitations of non-prob. sampling. This article is not meant to present an alternative. But: Our findings may be valuable to those seeking to conduct global surveys without a sampling frame or aiming to combine sampling techniques to offset their limitations.

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Furthermore, many of the emigrants in our sample would have been missed by the register-based sampling approach.

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Germany is special as its population registers enable probability-based sampling of emigrants. This gave us a rare benchmark to compare our Meta-based recruitment against. We also reached respondents in regions where the register-based sampling was less effective.

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We show that ads on Facebook and Instagram can be a low-cost, effective way to reach hard-to-access populations—like emigrants—around the world.

With a modest budget, we surveyed nearly 4,000 Germans who had moved to 148 countries & territories.

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📢Publication alert 📢 @berndweiss.bsky.social and my new OA article is out in Comparative Migration Studies: "Surveying Emigrants Worldwide – Using Facebook and Instagram to Recruit Respondents in Cross-National (E)Migration Research"

👉 rdcu.be/ezhZf

#MigrationResearch #SurveyResearch

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(c) The figure repeats a political rhetoric framing the de facto suspension of the Schengen Agreement as a measure of “refugee policy” without addressing the ongoing scientific discussion questioning this narrative.

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I find it unfortunate that the posted content focuses on a rather superficial level on the opinion of the general population towards a highly politicized issue that is partly driven by deliberate misinformation of the public instead of issues related to refugees’ struggle.

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World Refugee Day | UNHCR World Refugee Day is an international day to honour refugees. The event falls each year on June 20 and celebrates people forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution.

(b) #WorldrRefugeeDay “honours the strength and courage of people who have been forced to flee their home country to escape conflict or persecution.” (www.unhcr.org/get-involved...). In which way is this post contributing to this spirit?

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This post leaves me quite puzzled for so many reasons: (a) World refugee day is on June 20, not July 20, hence, why was this posted today with reference to #WorldRefugeeDay?

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Somewhat unexpected, yet for a history nerd, very welcome find in a Utrecht record store. Seems an appropriate conference souvenir to me.

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Today, I have the pleasure to share at #ESRA2025 some insights from our comparison of a Meta-recruited non-prob and a register-based probability sample of Ukrainian refugees in Germany. Joint work with fantastic GESIS, BIB, BAMF, DIW & IAB colleagues.

⏰ 11:00 - 12:30
🏢 Ruppert 002

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In the first session, our colleague @lenarembser.bsky.social will present her corresponding research on the @gesis-panel.bsky.social. Don't miss it!