Natasha Raheja (Cornell University) will present on ‘Mediating mobility: Migration and brokerage at the borders of the State’. Elizabeth Challinor (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) will act…
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Introduction José Reyes is a researcher and an activist. In his contribution here, he offers us an exercise of autoethnography (Adams et al.)[1], a…
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In the frenzied media coverage of Europe’s migration “crisis” in recent years, the borders of Europe have been depicted as under attack, desperately in…
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You guessed it: it’s yet again time for events! This month, we bring you a selection of exciting events addressing vulnerability, borders, spaces and…
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Porous borders What has happened on Libya’s borders in recent years? Here are some examples: During the insurgency and civil war in Mali in…
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Today we re-visit a post on the deportation conundrum by Barak Kalir. The post was first published in the spring of 2014 as a…
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In September 2015, an image of a three year old Syrian child, lying lifeless on a Turkish beach, travelled the world in a matter…
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Today we are very excited at Allegra – we continue our experimentation with serving you, dear readers, exotic and delicious slow food for thought….
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At the entrance of a mid-sized, freshly renovated office building stands a security check-up point. Manned with three guards and state of the art…
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The creation and maintenance of a national border is an act of political geography. The building of a wall or fence on that same…
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To continue our discussion on ‘borders’, Simone Maddanu offers an insight into the permanent liminal time-space in which migrants who left Tunisia after the…
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Two particularly significant types of borders divide the global world. There are the national borders separating different countries, and then there are the class…
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