📃 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...

📄The GRITIM-UPF Newsletter no. 64-65, Winter-Spring 2025, is now available! 👉More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

💡 The Barcelona City Council's Anti-Racist Advisory Council was constituted yesterday, 12/05/2025, with Zenia Hellgren and Eva Fortes as one of twenty experts recruited to elaborate the city's Anti-Racist Plan 2025-2035. 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📯 GRITIM-UPF co-coordinates the Horizon Europe project UNDETERRED: Unintentional discrimination detected and racism revealed and deactivated with Z. Hellgren as co-PI. Other team members are L. Gabrielli, C. Rodríguez Reche and T. Habimana. 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📜 New publication by R. Zapata-Barrero (2025) "Foreword - The Policy Implications of the Contact Hypothesis: Interculturalism as a Strategy for Citizenship Making in Diverse Schools". London: Routledge. 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

🎓 Eva Fortes will present her PhD Thesis "Integration or Quality of Life? A Capabilities Approach to Migration Policy" on 19 May 2025! 👉 More info and PhD thesis abstract here: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/n...

📯 A new call for three PhD positions within the EuroMedMig PhD Network has just been opened! 👉 Find more information here: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i... #EuroMedMigPhDNetwork

💡 The sixth session of the Research "in Action" Seminar Series (2024-25), “Migration Diplomacy as a Three-Level Game in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Case of Greece and Turkey,” with Gerasimos Tsourapas and Luisa Faustini as chair, was held yesterday at IEMed! 👉 More: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📯 Call for GRITIM-UPF Working Papers! 👉 More info on the call here: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📯 The sixth session of the Research "in Action" Seminar Series (2024-2025), “Migration Diplomacy as a Three-Level Game in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Case of Greece and Turkey,” will be held on Thursday, 8 May 2025, 18:30-20:00, Aula Mediterrània (IEMed). 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

💡Yesterday, the GRITIM-UPF Research "in Action" Seminar Series (2024-2025) continued with its 5th session: "Nativism and immigrant integration in Europe: from assimilation to exclusion?” with Christophe Bertossi as guest speaker and Cristina Rodrìguez as chair. 👉More: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📜 New publication by Gabrielli, L. (2025). El espectáculo fronterizo como prisma analítico de la crisis permanente y de la excepcionalidad en Ceuta y Melilla. Scripta Nova, 29(1),131–156. Special Issue:Geografías del control fronterizo. 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/n...

🗣️ Session 5 of the GRITIM-UPF Research "in Action" Seminar Series (2024-2025) "Nativism and immigrant integration in Europe: from assimilation to exclusion?” will be held on 10 April, 15:00-17:00, at Calsamiglia Room (UPF). 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📜 New publication by Durán Rodes, C. (2025). "What Role will Refugee Labour Mobility Play in the Future of Safe and Legal Pathways: A case study of the Spanish experience". GRITIM-UPF Working Papers Series. No. 59. 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

💡 GRITIM-UPF has been integrated into MiCoNet (Migration Corridors Network)! 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

🗣️ Session 5 of the GRITIM-UPF Research "in Action" Seminar Series (2024-2025) "Nativism and immigrant integration in Europe: from assimilation to exclusion?” will be held on 10 April, 15:00-17:00, at Calsamiglia Room (UPF). 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📄New publication by Lorenzo Gabrielli & Blanca Garcés Mascareñas. (2025). "The framing of migration as a hybrid military threat. Insights from the Ceuta’s 2021 ‘crisis’." Migration Studies. Volume 13, Issue 1. 👉More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📜 Iván Martín cited in the newspaper article "Trump's cut to humanitarian funding will trigger epidemics, migration pressure, violence, and economic crashes in Africa" by El Economista. 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...

📯 Session 4 of the Research "in Action" Seminar Series (2024-2025) "Women and Borders in the Mediterranean” will be held on 20 March from 18:30 to 20:00 h (CET) at IEMed. 👉 More info: www.upf.edu/web/gritim/i...