This Thursday at 18:00 CET, I'll join the book presentation "Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Research", to which I contributed a chapter on remote collaborative ethnography, co-authored with Luxa Leoco. 🔗 Register here: eu.avcr.cz/en/news/Romisticke-utopie-15-May-2025/

The last two movies at #ASA2025 left us with a melancholic smile, reminding us of our shared human connections. #Anthropology

Delighted to see such high turnout at the #ASA2025 conference's second-day film programme – especially impressive for a lunch break at an anthropology conference!

Yesterday, we had the first session of the film programme I'm coordinating with @amartinsjr.bsky.social at the 2025 UK Association of Social Anthropologists (#ASA2025) conference.

Yesterday, I presented our latest @iclaimeu.bsky.social research on food delivery workers and digital borders in #Birmingham, examining the connections between emerging criminalisation narratives and evolving legal and policy frameworks regulating the UK platform economy. (🧵1/4)

After months of challenging work learning new methodology, I've produced what I believe is a valuable piece of research that shows how 'irregular migration' is narratively constructed in UK media, politics, and civil society. Full report: bit.ly/uk-migration.... Key findings and excerpts below👇

🚲 Bikes are crucial nodes in the #PlatformEconomy — the core machinery in the food delivery assembly line. Today as part of my fieldwork for @iclaimeu.bsky.social I started following their journey across workshops, from acquisition to repair and electric conversion, all the way into urban mobility.

Hello there! We are the IMISCOE Standing Committee „Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research“ or  “Meth@Mig” for short. We will use this profile to share news about our SC and members. Please follow us to stay up-to-date. Learn more about us: www.imiscoe.org/research/sta...

The advantages of qualitative research – fieldwork for @iclaimeu.bsky.social in the UK is clearly gaining momentum.

Wow, we’ve been publishing really good stuff at @irisbirmingham.bsky.social this year.

🪴 Application deadline for this amazing #IMISCOE summer school is in a couple of days! Please, share or apply if you haven't already done so.

"Co-authored with Luxa Leoco, this chapter marks a milestone in my journey of learning how to conduct collaborative research (and reflect on it) in settings characterised by strong power imbalances", says @stefano-piemontese.bsky.social bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap-o...

🍿 Hey folks! You’ve time until tonight at 23:59 GMT to submit your ethnographic film to #ASA2025. Thanks to those who already did!

And another @irisbirmingham.bsky.social member has reached us here!

Working on expanding my article's theoretical framework around #racial-imaginaries and #racial-landscapes. Found fascinating literature, though heavily US-centric (as usual). Can't decide whether to dive deep into these concepts or just observe them lazily from my imaginary inflatable sea mattres.

🧵 That’s a great piece, indeed! And we’re excited to announce at @irisbirmingham.bsky.social we’ve just started our collaborative #ethnography on platformisation of domestic work in the #WestMidlands! We look forward to joining the conversation and contribute bridging these knowledge gaps! (1/5)

With farm owners protesting today over the prospect of paying a highly discounted inheritence tax, I'm sure you've seen quotes about how they "feed the nation". But nobody is talking about the migrant workers who actually pick the crops on horticulture farms, so here's a short thread about them.

If you'd like to stay up to date with UK immigration issues on BlueSky, we've created this new Starter Pack! This is a list of excellent organisations and experts working at the forefront of immigration in the UK, so please follow them to stay up to date on these crucial issues: go.bsky.app/gzfKcc

Here we are!

This is super relevant to our ongoing research within the i-claim.eu project. We're now finalising our analysis of how irregular migration narratives are constructed in media, political, and civil society discourses across 🇳🇱🇩🇪🇵🇱🇫🇮🇮🇹🇬🇧. The next step is to launch a survey exploring public perceptions!

Learn about "Reimagining Knowledge Production Through #Collaborative and #Multimodal Approaches" with @BaracsiKitti and me! We're part of a beautiful training team at the next #IMISCOE PhD Summer School on "Developing a sensory methodology in migration studies" in #Lisbon.

Come and learn about "Reimagining Knowledge Production Through #Collaborative and #Multimodal Approaches" with Kitti Baracsi and me! We're part of a beautiful training team at the next #IMISCOE PhD Summer School on "Developing a sensory methodology in #migration studies" in #Lisbon.

Trump's mass deportation will face several legal challenges and many financial and logistical hurdles, but it is already spreading among millions of people, migrants and citizens alike. theconversation.com/what-a-trump...

New to Bluesky? If you want to understand the far right, violent extremists, White Supremacists, and Christian nationalists, these are the journalists, researchers, academics, and other experts that monitor, research, and provide analysis on all the flavors of the far right and extremist movements.

🎬 Calling all ethnographic filmmakers! Submit your films for the #ASA2025 conference “Critical Junctions: Anthropology on the Move” (Birmingham, 8-11 April 2025). 🦥 Deadline: Dec 2, 2024. 🐚 Info & submission: www.theasa.org/conferences/...

🎬 Calling all ethnographic filmmakers! Submit your films for the #ASA2025 conference “Critical Junctions: Anthropology on the Move” (@unibirmingham 8-11 April). 🦥 Deadline: Dec 2, 2024. 🐚 Info & submission: theasa.org/conferences/as…

The chapter (and the book) is available #OpenAccess at this link bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap-oa/…

I am grateful to Luxa for accepting the challenge of writing and doing it together, to the other contributors of this volume for their insights on early drafts and ideas, and to two fantastic editors, Martin Fotta and Paloma Gay y Blasco, for making this possible!

I am finally the subject of an ethnographic piece, starring as an anthropologist. Now I can retire. jstor.org/stable/jj.9827…

Today we held the first UK @iclaimeu stakeholders' group meeting with over 15 civil society orgs. We had a fruitful discussion on way forwards and emerging issues in research with irregular migrants. Thx to everyone who participated for sharing their knowledge and time with us!

Insightful discussions from @AndrewPGeddes, Elspeth Guild & @nandosigona on "Migration Governance after #Brexit” at the first panels of the @_migzen_ project's final conference on “Migration, Coloniality and Belonging in Global Britain” (chairs @roxanabarbulesc).

Inspiring conversations yesterday at @NantesUniv during the #WorldCafé Workshop on “Epistemic Justice and Participatory Research” organised with Jonathan Ngeh for the @EUni_Well Summer School #madeineurope2

Travelling with the Eurostar to Nantes for the @EUni_Well 2023 Summer School on #Migration and #Diversity in European #Cities! Below a picture from the series “Humor at the Border”.

I finally managed to read it! Glad to have contributed to this always-timely conversation about compensating participants in collaborative projects! x.com/bjp1854/status…

Do you remember when the Italian football team beat England in the Euro final almost 2 years ago? Of course, you do! I was in #Birmingham and "Brothers of Italy? Young #Racialized #Italians Living the British Dream" is a short story about that joyful night bit.ly/42OxgO5

No selfie with @cboswelljones (next time!) but a sunny landscape to record today’s trip to London for the first in-person meeting between @JCWI_UK and @IRiS_Birmingham, partners in the @iclaimeu project on the living and labour conditions of irregularised migrants in Europe.

Glad to join such an animated protest against #roadviolence and #carculture today in KH. Let’s make it clear: individual responsibility is just one side of the coin. Most accountability lay in the hand of local councils. Things will not change unless we redesign our cities.

Thought-provoking presentation today by @a_papoutsi at @IRiS_Birmingham on her ongoing ethnographic work on border control and the weaponisation of #time in Greece, Germany and the UK … but also on time as a space of agency, resistance and #solidarity!

📢 Check out our new #OpenAccess publication on "Home, Migration, and Roma people in Europe"! Co-authored with my colleague, friend, and neighbor @Gaja_Maestri for the @ElgarPublishing Handbook on Home and Migration edited by Paolo Boccagni @erchoming bit.ly/3NBleU9

I truly enjoyed presentations, discussions, small talks, wines and cigarettes during the 2-day workshop organised by @NinaSahraoui and @ShahrokniShirin on race, migration & intersectionality. Looking forward to keep working with (and learning from) this fantastic group of people!

🍿 The third event in the #shootingstereotypes series on research-based short movies starring young migrants will take place next Wednesday, May 10. Screening and Q&A with authors of “@Becoming_Adult in another man’s land”! 🎟️@IRiS_Birmingham x.com/Centrala_space… eventbrite.com/e/549208797297

Looking forward to working together with @JCWI_UK as part of the @iclaimeu project, which aims to improve the living and working conditions of migrant households with precarious legal status in Europe. x.com/JCWI_UK/status…

Ottimo approfondimento di @IrpiMedia sui processi di sindacalizzazione nella #gigeconomy! Presto con il progetto @iclaimeu inizieremo a esaminare il ruolo delle piattaforme nello sfruttamento dei lavoratori #migranti in situazione di irregolarità in 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 🇮🇹 🇫🇮 🇵🇱 🇩🇪 🇪🇺 x.com/IrpiMedia/stat…

“Voices from Ipswich” will be screened next Wed, April 19 (6-8pm) as part of the #shootingstereotypes #participatory film series on #youth & #migration organised by @IRiS_Birmingham + @Centrala_space! Q&A with @MartinsJr_a & @MarronageModern. Join us! eventbrite.co.uk/e/voices-from-…

Hey, next Thursday I’ll be screening two collaborative short movies produced during the #RETRYproject at @Centrala_space! Alin, one of the co-authors, will also be there for Q&A. Come and join us for the first event of the #shootingstereotypes series! @MSCActions #MSCActions x.com/KaczmarekAlicj…

One of the two panel proposals submitted with @a_papoutsi & A. Sarli on #identity, #belonging and #citizenship practices of #young Europeans of #migrant heritage was accepted at the #IMISCOE2023 conference in #Warsaw. Another one is on the reserve list🤞See you there, folks?

Thanks, Martin & Paloma, for putting this together! You have been such wonderful, available and caring editors. Looking forward to seeing the finished book and reading all the other inspiring chapters that make it up. x.com/RomaniAtlantic…

It all started almost 10 years ago in this way ...Hopefully, with all the material we have collected so far and will be shooting in the future, we will be able to make a feature film! vimeo.com/174811251

This one, instead, is the first episode of this short series – "Lauren's video diary" (2021 youtu.be/cNtho2zfhSU

"Alin in the ghost town", the second collaborative movie produced by the #RETRYproject is almost ready! We're just getting crazy with subtitles, but it should be online as early as next week! Watch "Lauren's video diaryto get an idea of what it's about! youtu.be/cNtho2zfhSU