paolo novak
@terminalias.bsky.social
borders, migration, development sottovoce
Following insightful workshop at IWM Vienna and a more formal international conference in Istanbul in 2022, and much collective work since, our International Migration Special Issue on the "Entangled and Uneven Landscapes of Digitised Migration" is out.
join us for this exciting discussion and ask your library to buy this book www.routledge.com/The-City-as-... @MCRG_CRG =================== Please find the webinar registration link here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
When fencing is not possible, snakes and crocodiles might come to help!! or so the Border Security Force (BSF) is thinking 😱 Sourav Sarangi might have to update his great film Char - No man's land thewire.in/government/b...
BSF Floats Controversial Snake and Crocodile Idea for Bangladesh Border Policing
The communication was reportedly in line with Union home minister Amit Shah’s direction to achieve ‘operational’ successes along the border. Introducing dangerous wildlife would risk entire local…
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this is a generous review of my book! Thank you @Jasmin Lilian Diab www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @soasdevelopment.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social
Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure
Published in Journal of Borderlands Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Join us: 14 November 7pm SOAS BGLT A performance by Ice&Fire, specially scripted for CMDS and its conversation on "Return -an idea, practice, and contested horizon" Register at: www.eventbrite.com/e/on-the-way... @soasdevelopment.bsky.social @migrationscholars.bsky.social @soasanthro.bsky.social
On the way to the airport - A Theatre Performance by Ice&Fire
A specially curated script for CMDS and its "Return - a conversation" series of events - followed by Q&A
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"the border separates things and people precisely because they are already intertwined rather than preventing them from becoming intertwined" This is a very good way of phrasing it muse.jhu.edu/article/971352
Project MUSE - Border-as-Flesh: Towards a Theory of Border Reversibility
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HAPPENING TODAY at 5pm! Join us at SOAS (SWLT) or via Zoom as @terminalias.bsky.social offers fresh perspectives on the European migration crisis! @soasuni.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social @laurahammond.bsky.social
SOAS Global Development@soasdevelopment.bsky.social · 11mo agoJoin us this Thursday for @terminalias.bsky.social's book launch! Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure 📅30 Oct, 5pm, SWLT Register here➡️: shorturl.at/OGUoh @soasuni.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social
I had the honor of participating remotely in this powerful, extraordinarily timely and visionary event organized by Paolo and his colleagues, and look forward to continuing dialogue & collaboration!
paolo novak@terminalias.bsky.social · 12mo ago📌Return - a two-day workshop exploring the concept and practices of return 📅 Day 1: 17 October 2025, 5:30 pm, DLT, SOAS 📅 Day 2: 18 October 2025, 1:00–5:00 pm, SOAS Bar info and registration ➡️https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/return-workshop-idea-practice-and-contested-horizon
This discussion is part of the Global Teach In/out events organised by Migration_Scholars_Global_Network 📍Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square London 📆11 November 1pm Join us! and join the network www.instagram.com/migration_sc... www.facebook.com/profile.php?... @migrationscholars.bsky.social
📌Return - a two-day workshop exploring the concept and practices of return 📅 Day 1: 17 October 2025, 5:30 pm, DLT, SOAS 📅 Day 2: 18 October 2025, 1:00–5:00 pm, SOAS Bar info and registration ➡️https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/return-workshop-idea-practice-and-contested-horizon
The asylum accommodation “ problem” is about how the state organises inequality. Hotels, barracks, flats – all are political battlegrounds where the wider inequalities in our society are exposed. www.soas.ac.uk/about/blogs/...
Five lessons the UK can learn from Italy’s asylum accommodation crisis
Asylum accommodation is a political battleground: drawing on his research in Italy, Dr Paolo Novak shows how the UK’s case reveals that it is never just about housing, but about power, inequality, and...
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"The Nazis... imagined their targets would self-deport. Once the myth of self-deportation collapsed, they turned to more punitive measures. On Tuesday, Noem similarly noted the Everglades camp was meant to frighten immigrants into self-deporting. 'If you don’t,' she said, 'you may end up here.'"
Opinion | Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.
This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.
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0ut today! Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure is a carto-ethnography of the EU border machine told through the buildings that house it. @SOASDevelopment @soasdevtrac @SOAS_CMDS bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/buildings-of... a thread🧵
Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure
Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure; This book examines the buildings used as reception centres for asylum seekers in central Italy to reveal how they reflect the Euro...
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Drone spotted above the Madleen is believed to be Israeli Heron drone, operated by Greek coast guard. EU / Frontex pioneered maritime surveillance for targeting migrants, with multi-billion dollar contracts going to Israeli manufacturers. Fortress Europe & Zionist genocide are reinforcing violences.
"The forum moves beyond documenting destruction to consider how infrastructure is both a tool of domination and a terrain of struggle. it highlights how Palestinians resist infrastructural warfare and how international solidarity movements can intervene in the systems that enable it." 👇👌
@rafeefz.bsky.social · last yr.New forum in Geopolitics: Disruptive Geographies and the War on Gaza How is infrastructure weaponised in Israel's settler colonial warfare and how is it being disrupted by transnational solidarity? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I have been #nicotine_sober for 44 days and approximately 8 hours and 40 minutes, after roughly 40 years of joyful and committed addiction. Amongst many other contrasting feelings, I feel really sorry for those #academic colleagues whose contributions I have had to #peerreview in this period.
out in one month ebook at £27.99 or 21quid if you subscribe to the @BrisUniPress mailing list. info and marketing to follow Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/buildings-of...
Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure
Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure; This book examines the buildings used as reception centres for asylum seekers in central Italy to reveal how they reflect the Euro...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
🚨 Disturbing footage shows the brutal arrest of a terrified 16-year-old girl—sobbing, screaming as “ICE agents” abducted her mom without a warrant or ID. At least 4 grown men slammed her face into the pavement. This is child abuse. This is state terror. Worcester police are complicit.
very much looking forward to this talk, which will allow me to set in conversation my book with the idea of 'refugee heritage' (anooradha iyer siddiqi, alessandro petti, emilio distretti, and others)
"emerging jurisprudence of resistance and poetry of liberation provide us with a basis for the kind of critical reflection and engagement we need, from below, in response to the onslaught that seeks to erode and nullify our rights, and the channels through which we express them" 👇
Camilo Pérez-Bustillo@cperezbustillo.bsky.social · last yr.Please see below my latest article online at Truthout- please share widely!
Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...
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New insights for the #bordermanagement and conflict lecture
Mongabay@mongabay.com · last yr.A village on Nepal’s border with India has found a way to reduce conflicts with wild Asian elephants in recent years: By switching their crops from rice and maize, which elephants love to eat, to tea and lemon, the farmers of Bahundangi are now seeing fewer elephants devouring their harvest.. Read:
If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
The idea, the policies, and the practices associated with "return" are full of contradictions. Perhaps this is why "return" is such a fertile terrain of struggle migreurop.org/article3395....
Voluntary humanitarian refusal : a choice you cannot refuse – MIGREUROP
The signatory organizations, including Migreurop, denounce the instrumental and distorted use of voluntary assisted returns from transit countries, such as Libya and Tunisia, where the fundamental…
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