Bologna against the genocide: today more than 60 000 took the street of Bologna and joined the national strike in support of the population in Gaza

Online first: Martina Tazzioli on value extraction through the debasement of migrant lives. Part of our Frontiers of Value in Migration Governance Special Issue (co-edited w/ @alibhagat.bsky.social & Julia Morris), forthcoming in EPA: Economy & Space.

"The making of migrants’ wageless life: Exploiting by debasing” is now out in @economyandspace.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... It investigates value extraction by debasing lives, which encapsulates psycho-physical debilitation and socio-economic devaluation

(1/2) Looking forward to our section with @smartitaz.bsky.social 'S17-Traces of Violence, Struggles and Power' with very promising panels and presentations at the #EISAPEC25 annual Conference in Bologna 🇮🇹 👇 @europeanisa.bsky.social @espol-lab.bsky.social #InternationalRelations

Glad to see the article “Which Data Am I?”. The Making of Migrants' Scattered Subjectivities and the Impossibility of Giving an Account of Oneself" now out in International Migration. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... special issue on The Digitized Migration

Join us at the Summer School "Dissonant memories: geographies of migration, colonialism and trauma" at the University of Bologna🎉 September 8-12, 2025 centri.unibo.it/memorylab/it... No fees- deadline June 9 MA and PhD students Memory Lab - Department of History & Cultures

Translated this crucial new piece by @veronicagago.bsky.social in @radical-philosophy.bsky.social that develops the concept of the "fascistisation of social reproduction": www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/the-...

In this article, @smartitaz.bsky.social & I discuss how some decolonial approaches to borders & migration conceptualise colonial legacies by reducing the complex ways in which the colonial past informs racialised bordering mechanisms in the present. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happy this article I co-authored with Martina Tazzioli is out & #openaccess! In it, we caution against a 'decolonial redux' in analyses of (Mediterranean) migration & (EU) border enforcement. @smartitaz.bsky.social @Scrmjems.bsky.social @imisosnabrueck.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@mauricestierl.bsky.social and I wrote a piece on "Mare nero? Undoing the decolonial redux, multiplying (post)colonial legacies and struggles" , now out in JEMS: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... The article intervenes in debates on Eurocentrism in migration studies and its oblivion of race

Doing a guest lecture on counter-mapping later this week. Adding this - public.tableau.com/app/profile/... - to my examples. Any other recent mapping projects that might help students think through how to counter-map the current moment?

EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: Fiction or Reality? Insights from the Canary Islands by Gustavo de la Orden. @bordercrim.bsky.social blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

🧵ECRE has published a comments paper on the Screening Regulation Find out all about the Regulation introducing the screening of third-country nationals at the external borders ⬇️

“When your only recourse is austerity, anti-migrant rhetoric begins to dominate politics as the only explanation for the nation’s self-inflicted economic wounds,” argues @smartitaz.bsky.social | https://buff.ly/3Qf0BO5 Tazzioli unpacks the false logic behind the migration crisis. #UKPolitics

"Bridled Labour and the Making of Migrants’ Route. Refugees’ Workers at the French-Italian Border" just came out in @journalpariss.bsky.social brill.com/view/journal... in the article I use Yann Moulier-Boutang's concept of "bridled labour" to politicise migrants' escapes

Recommended reading: Special Issue on "Intersectional Solidarities and Resistances in Face of Violent Migration Regimes" by Sarah Murru, Robin Vandevoordt, Naïké Garny, and A. Tancrède Pagès. www.digest.ugent.be/article/id/9...

Assembling traces of border violence. Counter-mapping as counter-archiving" is now out in EPD journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... The piece develops counter-mapping as counter-archiving to account for the continuum of violence that migrants experience drawing on traces