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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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Frontex’s Normalization of Crisis at the EU Borders

Eline Waerp — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 08:00:02 +0000

In 2015, more than a million refugees and migrants came to Europe during the so-called ‘migration crisis.’ This prompted a host of security-oriented responses to protect the EU’s external borders, spearheaded by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex). While the number of irregular border crossings has decreased substantially

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Lampedusa: Thinking Outside the Border

Anna Marino — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 05:05:52 +0000

Last summer, the Southern Mediterranean coast – and the Italian island of Lampedusa – gained significant media attention due to the arrival of numerous migrants on its shores. The Mediterranean Sea, seen as one of the most dangerous in the world, and Lampedusa are now recognized as Europe’s primary borders

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The Biopolitics of Fan Filtering : Qatar’s Post-Pandemic Mobility Regime

Jaafar Alloul — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 12:56:26 +0000

During the FIFA 2022 World Cup, Qatar devised several ad hoc migration policies to dramatically curb the total number of visitors in favor of a preferred type of soccer fan: well-off and depoliticized. Profiting from a global state of exception during the COVID-19 pandemic, Doha further refined its mobility regime

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COVID-19 and Migration: The Legacy of Economization

Marta Jaroszewicz — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 09:12:23 +0000

One of the tendencies observed when studying migration governance during the COVID-19 pandemic globally, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), has been a quick return to the pre-pandemic logic of the neoliberal state. This is remarkable when compared with the anti-immigrant rhetoric within official discourse and the rapid expansion

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Towards a Novel Mobility Regime? The Legacies of the COVID-19 Pandemic Regarding the Governance of Human Movement

Christin Achermann — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 08:30:11 +0000

Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, authorities deployed a myriad of “exceptional” measures that severely impacted the possibilities of human movement. States restricted, controlled and monitored people on the move at various social and spatial scales. The emerging “regime of (im)mobility” turned out to be highly differential and

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Race, Rootedness and the Geographies of Sanctuary During the Pandemic

Eloise Thompson — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 09:41:14 +0000

During a crisis, like the COVID-19 pandemic, there seems to be an instinctive turn towards sanctuary and roots. In 2020, repatriation flights and exceptions from travel restrictions allowed particular categories of travelers to return home. But our ideas about sanctuary are also restrictive, implicitly leaning on often racialized assumptions about

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EU Norms and Values Stopped in Melilla

Anna Marino — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 10:40:49 +0000

Over 23 migrants or more fleeing war zones in sub-Saharan Africa were crushed to death in the Spanish enclave of Melilla by the security forces, who should have protected them – accusations the Spanish government denies. How are we to interpret the responsibility of Spain, as well as the EU

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The Structurally Racist International Migration System: Four Case Studies

Anna Marino — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 08:30:21 +0000

The study of racism in international migration has been thus far ignored, as some claim that the letter of the law is now race-neutral, and others that racism should not be looked at because it has no biological foundation. Moreover, one strand of the academic debate has recently argued that

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Racial Bureaucracy Encountered by Foreign Students from Ukraine

Fazila Bhimji — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 07:30:40 +0000

International student refugees – students from countries outside the EU who were studying in Ukraine at the time when the war broke out, fled the same war as Ukrainian citizens. On arrival in Germany, however, they encountered differential treatment compared to Ukrainian refugees. Indeed, these third-country nationals have not been

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