📜 Gemma Pinyol-Jiménez presented a report on migration governance in Catalonia, which she co-authored as a member of CETIS. 👉 www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📃 New Publication by Zapata-Barrero, R. (2026) "Wicked problems in migration and diversity debates: the role of conceptual thinking in a contested narrative environment". 👉 www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📃 Think Med, a New Blog Series on Migration in the Mediterranean, is now online! 👉 www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

🎤 Ricard Zapata-Barrero was interviewed by El Punt Avui! 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📃 New EuroMedMig Working paper by Philippe Fargues published! 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

🎤 Ricard Zapata-Barrero was interviewed by IEMed about the connection between cinema and migrations in the Mediterranean. 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

🗓️ The second call for applications to the second round of Candidates for the Track "Migration Studies" in the Master of Governance has recently opened! 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

🗞️ Gemma Pinyol-Jiménez recently published an opinion article! 👉 www.upf.edu/web/gritim/n...

🎤 Ricard Zapata-Barrero released an interview for Revista Ateneus! 👉 www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

🗞️ Ricard Zapata-Barrero recently published three opinion articles on migration! 👉 www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📃 New Publication by Hellgren, Z. (2026). "Towards a common research agenda? Addressing political and epistemological tensions around scholarship on racial/ethnic discrimination" 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

🗓️ Lorenzo Gabrielli co-organises the workshop "Conflictes armats i (in)justicia ambiental / Armed conflict and environmental (in)justice". 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📚 Lorenzo Gabrielli published the chapter "Frontex y su propaganda audiovisual. La construcción imaginada del espectáculo fronterizo". 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📜 New Publication by Zapata-Barrero, R. (2026). "‘Ideological turn’, interculturalism and the making of diversity as a public culture". 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

🗓️ Session 3 of the Research "in Action" Seminar Series (2025-2026) “The Mediterranean's Atlantic route: the African-Canary Islands Necrocorridor” will be on 29 January! 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📃 New publication by Puig, O. (2026) "A climate of migration in the Sahel: between mobility and immobility" 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📚 We welcome our Visiting Researcher Simona Zavratnik, from the University of Ljubljana! 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

🗓️ New GRITIM-UPF Research Lab Session on 15 January! 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📃 Call for Papers: 2026 IMISCOE Forum — Promoting Afro-European Mediterranean Dialogue: Shifting Geographies of Migration. 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📃 The GRITIM-UPF Newsletter no. 66-67, Summer-Fall 2025 is now available! 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📜 New publication by Zapata-Barrero, R. (2025). "Urban resilience in Turkish refugee governance: Loyalty, adaptation, and continuity" 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

🎉 The EuroMedMig PhD Network, coordinated by GRITIM-UPF, kicked off its inaugural Icebreaker in Barcelona! 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

🗓️The EuroMedMig PhD Network, coordinated by GRITIM-UPF, will host its First Icebreaker Event in Barcelona! 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📚 A lecture on the contribution of Black African anticolonial authors to contemporary history was held by Dr. Saiba Bayo, from UPF and Blanquerna-URL 👉More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

🎉 The EUROMEDMIG Marie Curie Network, coordinated by GRITIM-UPF, has achieved significant competitive success. The Network has been selected to host the prestigious IMISCOE PhD School in Barcelona in 2027. 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📜 New publication by M. Despaux (2025) "La garantie du droit (individuel) d’asile de l’article 18 CDFUE aux frontières extérieures de l’Union européenne : Quels standards de protection dans la lutte contre l’« instrumentalisation » des migrations ?" 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

🗓️ Research Lab is back on 13 November! 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

🗓️ Session 2 of the Research "in Action" Seminar Series (2025-2026) “Racial capitalism and environmental colonialism: a dialogue” will be on 13 November. 👉More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📜 Oriol Puig is co-author of the article "Critical intervention points for European adaptation to cascading climate change impacts" in the journal Nature Climate Change. 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📑 Lorenzo Gabrielli co-organises with Servei Civil Internacional de Catalunya the 2025's edition of "Curs de conflictologia", an intensive 5 days training on "Extractivism: territories, natural resources and bodies". 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📺 The results of a recent publication on "Everyday Antigypsyism and Structural Discrimination: How the Normalisation of Racism Shapes Social Exclusion" , by Zenia Hellgren and Lorenzo Gabrielli, have been cited in a news by RTVE. 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📜 Gemma Pinyol-Jiménez (GRITIM-UPF) and Andreu Domingo (CED-UAB) presented the paper “¿Reflujo de la globalización? Implicaciones para las migraciones y su gobernanza en la Unión Europea” at the XI Congreso de Migraciones en España. 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📜 On October 24th, Zenia Hellgren and Camden Bowman will present their Paper at the Third International Conference on Aporophobia. 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

🗓️ On October 21st, the inaugural session of the 2025-2026 Research "in Action" Seminar Series will take place at Aula Mediterrània (IEMed)! 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📜 New publication by Camden, Bowman. (2025). Cooperation, competition, and survival strategies among Barcelona’s day Labourers. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. doi.org/10.1080/1369... 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📜 New publication by Hellgren, Zenia, Cristina Rodríguez-Reche, Lorenzo Gabrielli & Dan Rodríguez-García (2025). Special Issue: Theorising Race, Racialisation, and Racism in Spain. Migraciones, no. 64, revistas.comillas.edu/index.php/re... 👉 More info on: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📜 New book from Ricard ZAPATA-BARRERO, in Catalan: Memòria col·lectiva inclusiva i migracions a la Catalunya diversa d’ahir, d’avui i de demà. More info on: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

🔸 Ricard ZAPATA-BARRERO has been appointed Associate Editor of Diaspora Studies. More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

🎓 New research seminar series alert! 🤝 This seminar series is co-organised in partnership with the European Institute for the Mediterranean (IEMed) and is now linked to EuroMedMig. 👉 More info on these sessions: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📜 New publication by Puig-Cepero, Oriol. (2025). The central Sahel: climate change, migration and conflict. Revista de Estudios Globales. Análisis histórico y cambio social. 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

💡 Lorenzo Gabrielli, as PI of GRITIM-UPF, received funding for the project "Defensem la terra: articulant lluites juvenils de Catalunya, la Mediterrània i l’Abya Yala per una justícia climàtica global" for the period 2025-2026. 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📄New publication by Paul, Noa. (2025). "Detaining Asylum Seekers at the EU Borders: De Jure and De Facto Practices under the New Migration Pact". GRITIM-UPF Working Paper Series. DOI: 10.31009/gritim.2025.wp60 👉More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

🎓Maéva Despaux will present her PhD Thesis "The Right to Access International Protection in the European Union: a Study on the Impact of Article 18 EUCFR on Accessing a Territory and a Procedure" at Université Toulouse Capitole (France) on 10 July. 👉More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📜 New publication by Hellgren, Z., & Gabrielli, L. (2025). "Everyday Antigypsyism and Structural Discrimination: How the Normalisation of Racism Shapes Social Exclusion". Migraciones (Q1). 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

💡 Iván Martín was quoted in an article on EU’s externalization of migration policies published this May 30th in El Periódico de Catalunya. 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

🗣️ Lorenzo Gabrielli will give the lecture "From the Border Spectacle to the Pornography of Border Violence: The Visual Politics of a Contemporary State Ritual?" at University of Neuchâtel (and on WEBEX) on Thursday, 5 June 2025 from 18:00 to 19:30 (CET). 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📯Closing Session of Research "in Action" Seminar Series (2024-2025), “On cities and migration governance capacities: the rural-urban dichotomy” 📆3 June 2025 🕐15:00-17:00 📍Calsamiglia Room (Campus Ciutadella, UPF). 👉 More: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

🔸 Ricard Zapata-Barrero has just joined the editorial board of the journal Migration Studies, published by Oxford University Press. 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i... #MigrationStudies

⏰EuroMedMig PhD Call for 3 PhD Positions: Deadline Extended until May 25th! 👉More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i... #EuroMedMigPhDNetwork

🗣️ The next GRITIM-UPF Research Lab session will be held on 23 May 2025, 10:00-11:00 (CET), room 23.103, with a presentation "An immigrant neighborhood formation in Le Grand Tunis: Bhar Lazreg as a case study” by Rim Triki! 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...