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The cooperation with Libyan authorities was not necessary, because what they do cannot be qualified as “rescue”. 28 October 2024 by Chiara Denaro 5) Book Review: After Border Externalization: Migration, Race and Labour in Mauritania by Hassan Ould Moctar 6 June 2025 by Imen El Amouri 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) Sufism in Exile as Border Thinking (Part One) 14 July 2025 by Mujib Abid 10) AI for border control – a ‘geopolitical innovation race’ at the EU’s external borders 11 July 2025 by Stefka Schmid Julia Mahlberg With the support of Connect with us
‘Liquid Rights’: Negotiating Migration Frontiers in the Central Mediterranean 17 February 2023 by Antonella Patteri
‘Liquid Rights’: Negotiating Migration Frontiers in the Central Mediterranean 17 February 2023 by Antonella Patteri
Using Vulnerability-Centred Health Assessment as a Tool for the Differential (De)Valuing of Human Life: The Case of Italian ‘Illegal Decrees’ for Selective Sea Rescues 17 February 2023 by Chiara Denaro Francesca Esposito
Using Vulnerability-Centred Health Assessment as a Tool for the Differential (De)Valuing of Human Life: The Case of Italian ‘Illegal Decrees’ for Selective Sea Rescues 17 February 2023 by Chiara Denaro Francesca Esposito
The Ban-Opticon of Migration: Technologies at Maritime Borders and Extraterritorial Jurisdiction 11 May 2022
The Ban-Opticon of Migration: Technologies at Maritime Borders and Extraterritorial Jurisdiction 11 May 2022
Europe’s Border Crimes: Bridging the Impunity Gap for the Enforced Disappearance of Migrants in the Mediterranean Graveyard 27 April 2022
Europe’s Border Crimes: Bridging the Impunity Gap for the Enforced Disappearance of Migrants in the Mediterranean Graveyard 27 April 2022
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
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
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
