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Living the Securitized Border: Testimonies from the Central Mediterranean Sea

Anna Marino — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:30:48 +0000

Europe’s borders are not just distant physical barriers but powerful forces shaping how we perceive and manage migration across the continent. “Thinking Outside the Border,” an illustrated booklet launched by doctoral researcher Anna Marino, focuses on this reality. Created with the activist Simone Gavazzi and illustrator Arianna Sisani, the project

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Mobile Resistance: The Rise of Digital Nomadism in COVID-19 China

Jinjin Zhang — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 07:29:17 +0000

In a world where state power is tightening its grip, how do we make sense of the desire for mobility? And what does digital nomadism look like in the Global South, especially in a country like China during the COVID-19 era? While the pandemic may feel like a thing of

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Can You Write a Paper in a Day?

Sara de Athouguia Filipe — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 06:00:50 +0000

In the spirit of a hackathon, we, a team of researchers, launched an ambitious project to write a complete academic paper in a day. While facing challenges such as time constraints as well as difficulties in collaborative simultaneous writing, by the end of the day, we kind of succeeded in

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Blind Spots and Uncertainties – Juggling Knowledge During the Pandemic

Petra Sidler — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 10:15:00 +0000

There are two kinds of uncertainties we as researchers are faced with: There are those things we are aware of that we do not know, but also those we are unaware of that we do not know. Dealing with this range of uncertainties can be demanding in ‘normal’ times and

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Fading Career Prospects of Mobility Researchers “Stuck” in Immobility?

Kerstin Martel — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 08:30:26 +0000

What happens when you are researching a topic that is suddenly suspended and prone to alter fundamentally in the future? How are the early career prospects of mobility researchers and their sense of purpose when getting “stuck” and isolated in an unfamiliar place? While the “new normal” and its implications

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Movies of Encampment – A Dialogue About Confined Spaces

Lisa Marie Borrelli — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 08:30:56 +0000

Imagine living in a confined space, without a feeling of being “home” and being controlled by institutional actors. With this in mind, three filmmakers tackled the theme of encampment. They joined our recent discussion after the first “On the Mov(i)e” event, sharing their reflections on the conceptualization of encampment and

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Family Affairs – An Intergenerational Dialogue on Diaspora

Silvia Wojczewski — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:30:26 +0000

Descendants of international migrants have differing relations and connections to the country of their parents’ origin. Through the portraits of Aminata and her father Lansana – both Germans of Guinean origin, I studied the shifting meaning of “diaspora” for subsequent generations. The diasporic identity could be seen as disentangled from

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“My Heart Is Still There”: Family Reunification of Refugees in Brazil

Patrícia Nabuco Martuscelli — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 08:30:30 +0000

Family reunification, a phenomenon often studied in developed countries, is necessary to guarantee the right to family life for refugees. Based on interviews of refugees living in São Paulo, my study highlights the different strategies refugees adopt in selecting a family member to join them in Brazil through the reunification

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Emigration: The Still Under-Explored Face of Mobility

Philippe Wanner — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 07:30:31 +0000

The analysis of migration in Western countries has long focused on arrival – or immigration – which undeniably represents a challenge for host societies in terms of planning, integration and social cohesion. However, as a common phenomenon with considerable impact, the departure – or emigration – of migrants also deserves our

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International Migration and Population Growth in Swiss Municipalities

Juan Galeano — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 07:30:39 +0000

International migrations have become the major driver of population growth and change in Western European societies, and Switzerland is no exception. A new Migration-Mobility Indicator evaluates population growth (and its components) during the period 2011-2017 for Swiss municipalities with over 10,000 inhabitants in 2017 (157 municipalities). Population living in these

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