migrants Migration Data Governance: A Critical Discussion on the Digital “Black Box” of Migration Digitalization of governance, transparency, accountability, as well as legal and socio-political implications of data-driven migration governance are among the topics addressed during the workshop “Migration data governance” hosted by the ⋙
Interviews Between borders, technologies, and databases: (in)visibilising emerging challenges in migration. A conversation with Niovi Vavoula Both at the external EU borders, such as Greece and Italy, and the internal ones amongst EU Member States, we have witnessed a dispersion of the border, through its digitalization. ⋙
migrants Ukraine, Afghanistan and Belarus: What EU emergency response to ongoing migration plights? In less than a year, three new scenarios of crisis emerged within the EU and at its external borders. The takeover by the Taliban in Afghanistan in August 2021 further ⋙
European Union Frontex’s evolution from the undisputable to the untenable EU border agency Fabrice Leggeri, the Executive Director of the European Union border agency "Frontex", resigned on 29th April 2022 following the release of the initial findings of an anti-fraud investigation. ⋙
migrants Landscapes of (in)security in Calais The people on the move in Calais are now 2.000, according to Human Rights Watch’s estimates, but they used to be at least 10.000. Their numbers have ⋙
migrants The Symbolic Wall: Notes from the Field In this piece, criminologist Ellen Van Damme, who is doing research on female migration from Honduras to the United States (USA), at the Center for the Study of International Migration ⋙
Covid-19 The Double Tragedy: Circular Migration in India During Pandemic Times Noise, shoving and chaotic people flows are nothing new in Delhi (India) where more than 16.5 million people are settled to date. Yet on 28 March 2020 something surprising ⋙
European Union A toothless enforcement? Operation Irini between arms embargo and migration management It was only after several rounds of heated discussions that, on the 25th of March, the Council of the European Union deliberated on the mandate of a new military operation ⋙
Mediterranean A liquid frontline: new war imaginaries in the Mediterranean Sea In the last few years, the Mediterranean area has witnessed at least three massive and unprecedented military operations that involve EU member states: the Italian Mare Nostrum (2013-2014), EUNAVFOR Med ⋙
Debate Contrasting agendas: EU’s migration governance vs. West African governments’ priorities In the aftermath of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’, the EU should take into consideration what the real interests of their partners in West Africa and the Sahel are and accept ⋙
conflict Causalities and casualties: the perpetuation of violence in conflict-management operations That peace operations and crisis response mechanisms can fail to restore security is not news. What is less known, is that in many cases they can also have harmful outcomes ⋙
Debate Death and rescue in the Central Mediterranean: overcoming the limits of private outsourcing The search-and-rescue operations in the Central Mediterranean were overall successful in saving thousands of lives in the years 2014-2017. Compared with the previous years, the rescues reduced and stabilised the ⋙
Field Visual impressions from a field trip to Niger In november 2018 Luca Raineri and Francesco Strazzari conducted field research in Niger, spending three weeks between the capital Niamey and Agadez, ‘la belle du desert’. Without any ambition to ⋙
Debate Migration management and the death of an Iraqi child in Bolzano: a conversation with senator Francesco Palermo By Mattia Farris, Beatrice Autelli, Claudia Knering, and Alessia Muzzin - The wealthy Italian province of Bolzano/South Tyrol was already known to the international community for the political division ⋙
asylum seeker Designating ‘vulnerability’: the asylum claims of women and sexual minorities The Refugee Convention was not designed with the persecution of women and sexual minorities in mind. But times change and today most would agree that women at risk of Female ⋙
migrants Europe as Terraferma: against the criminalisation of solidarity In recent years the EU institutions and most member states have criminalised not only the illegal entry into the EU territory, but also citizens' human solidarity with irregular migrants ⋙
