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An Interview with Professor Michele Lancione 28 April 2023 by Maurice Stierl Asylum? Maybe, But Outside The EU. The Externalization of the Responsibility to Protect 14 March 2023 by Ivana Belén Ruiz-Estramil Undoing the Migration Digital Black Box 28 September 2022 by Martina Tazzioli Lucrezia Canzutti Beyond Violent Raids, Sit-In Evictions and Arbitrary Detention in Tripoli (Libya): How Black Refugee Voices Refuse to be Silenced 17 March 2022 The European Union Humanitarian Aid Policy and Migration to Europe: New Challenges, New Commitments 9 March 2022 Double Book Review: Dictators as Gatekeepers for Europe: Outsourcing EU Border Controls to Africa and The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders 4 February 2022 Deconstructing Border Walls in the EU 12 January 2022 On its 70th Anniversary, the Refugee Convention Faces Unprecedented Threats Across Europe 22 July 2021 Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Next page Next › Top Blogs this Month 1) ‘3 Mexican Countries’: When All Latin American Migrants Become Mexicans 1 October 2019 2) Crotone court’s judging illegitimate the SOS-Humanity’s seizure. The cooperation with Libyan authorities was not necessary, because what they do cannot be qualified as “rescue”. 28 October 2024 by Chiara Denaro 3) The IOM and the Trump administration: a turning point in the organization’s history? 9 May 2025 by Sabine Dini Shoshana Fine Antoine Pécoud 4) Book Review: After Border Externalization: Migration, Race and Labour in Mauritania by Hassan Ould Moctar 6 June 2025 by Imen El Amouri 5) The duty to rescue refugees and migrants at sea 25 March 2020 6) Pakistan’s deportation policy: Questioning its adherence to non-refoulement 9 June 2025 by Hanna Gjelsvik Berg 7) From Invisibility to Vulnerability: Twenty Years After Menezes and the Ongoing Erasure and Criminalisation of Brazilians in the UK 4 July 2025 by Thi Bogossian 8) Resettlement as a Temporal Border 27 June 2025 by Laura Lambert 9) AI for border control – a ‘geopolitical innovation race’ at the EU’s external borders 11 July 2025 by Stefka Schmid Julia Mahlberg 10) Sufism in Exile as Border Thinking (Part One) 14 July 2025 by Mujib Abid With the support of Connect with us
The persisting challenges of the new European Commission's smuggling directive proposal 8 January 2024 by Federico Alagna Gabriella Sanchez
The persisting challenges of the new European Commission's smuggling directive proposal 8 January 2024 by Federico Alagna Gabriella Sanchez
Book Review: Policing Mobility Regimes: Frontex and the Production of the European Borderscape 18 May 2023 by Céline Hocquet
Book Review: Policing Mobility Regimes: Frontex and the Production of the European Borderscape 18 May 2023 by Céline Hocquet
Asylum? Maybe, But Outside The EU. The Externalization of the Responsibility to Protect 14 March 2023 by Ivana Belén Ruiz-Estramil
Asylum? Maybe, But Outside The EU. The Externalization of the Responsibility to Protect 14 March 2023 by Ivana Belén Ruiz-Estramil
Beyond Violent Raids, Sit-In Evictions and Arbitrary Detention in Tripoli (Libya): How Black Refugee Voices Refuse to be Silenced 17 March 2022
Beyond Violent Raids, Sit-In Evictions and Arbitrary Detention in Tripoli (Libya): How Black Refugee Voices Refuse to be Silenced 17 March 2022
The European Union Humanitarian Aid Policy and Migration to Europe: New Challenges, New Commitments 9 March 2022
The European Union Humanitarian Aid Policy and Migration to Europe: New Challenges, New Commitments 9 March 2022
Double Book Review: Dictators as Gatekeepers for Europe: Outsourcing EU Border Controls to Africa and The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders 4 February 2022
Double Book Review: Dictators as Gatekeepers for Europe: Outsourcing EU Border Controls to Africa and The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders 4 February 2022
On its 70th Anniversary, the Refugee Convention Faces Unprecedented Threats Across Europe 22 July 2021
On its 70th Anniversary, the Refugee Convention Faces Unprecedented Threats Across Europe 22 July 2021
Crotone court’s judging illegitimate the SOS-Humanity’s seizure. The cooperation with Libyan authorities was not necessary, because what they do cannot be qualified as “rescue”. 28 October 2024 by Chiara Denaro
Crotone court’s judging illegitimate the SOS-Humanity’s seizure. The cooperation with Libyan authorities was not necessary, because what they do cannot be qualified as “rescue”. 28 October 2024 by Chiara Denaro
The IOM and the Trump administration: a turning point in the organization’s history? 9 May 2025 by Sabine Dini Shoshana Fine Antoine Pécoud
The IOM and the Trump administration: a turning point in the organization’s history? 9 May 2025 by Sabine Dini Shoshana Fine Antoine Pécoud
Book Review: After Border Externalization: Migration, Race and Labour in Mauritania by Hassan Ould Moctar 6 June 2025 by Imen El Amouri
Book Review: After Border Externalization: Migration, Race and Labour in Mauritania by Hassan Ould Moctar 6 June 2025 by Imen El Amouri
Pakistan’s deportation policy: Questioning its adherence to non-refoulement 9 June 2025 by Hanna Gjelsvik Berg
Pakistan’s deportation policy: Questioning its adherence to non-refoulement 9 June 2025 by Hanna Gjelsvik Berg
From Invisibility to Vulnerability: Twenty Years After Menezes and the Ongoing Erasure and Criminalisation of Brazilians in the UK 4 July 2025 by Thi Bogossian
From Invisibility to Vulnerability: Twenty Years After Menezes and the Ongoing Erasure and Criminalisation of Brazilians in the UK 4 July 2025 by Thi Bogossian
AI for border control – a ‘geopolitical innovation race’ at the EU’s external borders 11 July 2025 by Stefka Schmid Julia Mahlberg
AI for border control – a ‘geopolitical innovation race’ at the EU’s external borders 11 July 2025 by Stefka Schmid Julia Mahlberg
